New Britain herald., 1916-08-18
HUGHES WARNED OF
 CALIFORNIA DANGER
PrOgreSsiVeS Resent InSinuating
 Attitude Of Old Guard

Ashland, Ore, Aug. 18.-As he was
 speeding toward California yesterday
 on a thirty-f1ve hour journey from
 Portland to open his California cam -
 paign at San Francisco, Charles F. | Hughes, republican nominee for pres 'ident, was told that there was i real danger of California going demo cratic unless something were done quickly to satisfy the progressives, who have been almost completely dis regarded by the Old Guard republi- cans in staging the fight.
 Chester H. Rowell, progressive, a member of the republican national campaign committee, who joined the Hughes party in Portland, had a long conference with the nominee on the train. Mr. Rowell told MT. Hughes
 that the fate of the republican na- t!onal ticket in California lay in the
 hands of the 500, ,OOO progressives
 who were being insulted and humili- ated by the old guard crowd
 Further, MT. Rowell said that be-
 cause of the situation Francis J. He
 ney, radical progressive, who came
 cut in support of President Wilson when Colonel Roosevelt refused the
 nomination in June, was doing effect | i've work. MT. Rowell was afraid that l Heney would be able to swing thou 1 sands of progressive votes to the dem 1 OCratiC column. MT. Rowell said he | was pretty well satisfied that Mr. 1 Hughes would carry the state but he 1 admitted that a dangerous situation | had developed
 As far as could be learned Mr. | Hughes took no definite stand as a re-
 suit of the conference with MT. Row 1 ell, and it is doubtful if he will med
 dle In the factional fight which up to | this point has put to rout all efforts | to get the republicans and progress
 slves of the state united behind him | MT. Hughes was told that the old
 guard republicans, headed by Nation al Committeeman w. H. Crocl<er, who
 Is also a mem Der of the campaign
 committed and State Chairman Fran { Cis s. Kessling, had taken complete
 charge of tho state situation and had l put local interests above the presi- 1 dential contest. Kess1ing, as state | chairman, had selected CrOcker to
 make arrangements for the reception l Of MT Hughes, and when the ar 1 rhngem ents for the various meetings
 were amounted it had been found that l Gov Hiram Johnson and MT Rowell
 had been eliminated and that the only | progressives who would have any part l in the meetings were members of a l committee selected by Crocker.
 "Hand-picked progressives' was the | term used.
 1 Such a situation has proved intol-
 era ble to Governor Johnson, he is a | candidate for the nomination of
 United States senator in the progres-
 sive and republican primaries, and
 his candidacy in the republican pri- | mary is being contested by Willis | Booth. Los Angeles banker, and | the choice of the old guard element.
 Mir. Powell, as a member of the | campaign committee, had suggested l that the arrangements for MT. Hughes tour of the state be placed In the hands of a joint committee of , republicans and prosressiyes. thus giving the progressives their due
 measure of prominence in the cam paign: but this proposition according
 10 MT. Rowe11, was turned down com Llete1y, those he termed the real lead- CTS of the progresstves in the state.