The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1916-06-09
More Political Leaders Now
Predict Nomination of Justice
Hughes-Managers Claim
800 Votes on First
Ballot.

Chicago, June THE Republican
national convention held session of
exactly two hours at the Coliseum
here today, listened for one hour and
70 minutes to carefully prepared
keynote speech by Senator Warren G.
Harding, the temporary chairman,
perfected its organization and ad-
journed until IL o'clock tomorrow.
The initial session was brief, event
less and precise.
A mile away at the Auditorium the
atre the national Progressive conven-
ton met in tumultuous session. Fired
by Temporary Chairman Raymond
Robins, at the first mention of Theo-
dore Roosevelt's name the Pro-
gressives broke loose in a demonstra-
for one hour and 33 minutes in6ulged
in a cheering, flag waving march
around the hall. The chairman and
the sergeant-at-arms surrendered
helplessly to the tide and let the dele
gates have their way.
When Robins finished his speech an
organization was effected, and an ad-
journment taken until o'clock to-
morrow.
A cold wind-driven rain, that has
fallen ceaselessly since yesterday,
placed vehicles at a premium, and
scores were compelled to make their
way on foot to the convention hall.
This dampened any attempt at out
door demonstration, except for the wo-
men. Five thousand of them trudged
for two hours through the downpour
to the sound of bands.
Hotel corridors reeked with wet
raincoats and umbrellas, bunting hung
draggled and stained from stats and
walls and booster clubs and booster
bands quit discouraged with nightfall.
Look TO Hughes.
More political leaders are predict
ingthe nomination Of Jefferson Hughes
: tonight -thaA-at- anytime since the
Republican national convention began
to assemble. They declare that un-
less the accumulation Of overwhelm-
ing circumstantial evidence fails to re-
fleet the situation in it's true light,
the nomination of the justice will
come even sooner than has been pre-
dicted. The men who take this view
are practical politicians who do not
make estimates unless they are based
on careful canvass of the delegates.
The situation is illustrated best by
+he fact that conferences between
leaders to discuss the availability of
different candidates practically have
ceased, indicating their belief that a
majority of the delegates already have
reached decision to nominate JUS
tice Hughes.
Convention observers find it impos-
sible not to be impressed by the con-
iident predictions of these leaders, who
say that the Hughes boom now has
grown up to such formidable proper
tions that Col. Roosevelt no longer
holds the veto power which until this
time has been conceded to him as part
of the program to bring the Re-
publican and Progressive parties into
accord.
Parties Still Apart.
-Four days of constant and persist
ent effort to bring the parties togeth-
err, in which the personality of the
nominee was subordinated to harmony,
failed to bring the results desired and
the trend from the outset was def
nitely towards the nomination of JUS
tice Hughes. Had Col. Roosevelt an
.nounced during this period that he
would not support the justice the lead
ers were prepared to turn to any
one of the regular Republican candi-
dates. The colonel remained silent,
however, and because the managers of
other candidates had fostered the
Hughes boom for the purpose of
eliminating Roosevelt as possibility
it grew prodigiously and even a COM
bination of the favorite sons strength
was powerless to check it. The rea-
son for this was that the candidacy
of no other Republican made any
progress and delegates pledged to
favorite sons found no other presi-
dental possibility but Justice HUGHES
to whom they could turn thei"
strength. Justice Hughes thus nat
urally became the choice of practi-
cally all delegates instructed FOR 9th
ers. They became eager to 20 TO
him as soon as they could get re-
leases from their pledges.
To Nominate Colonel.
1t seems practically certain that the
. Progressive national convention will
again nominate Col. Roosevelt as their
standard bearer and it is not at all
, unlikely that Gov. Hiram Johnson
also will be drafted, so that their
ticket will be the same as in 1872
Roosevelt and Johnson.
Many of the Progressive leaders
argue that they have no course other
than to name their former ticket, as
efforts to reach an agreement with
the Republicans for a return to the
older party have failed. The more