New Britain herald., 1916-05-13
ONLY A COMPLIMENT TOEX,SENAT0R ROOT
New York Delegation for Hughes
 on Second Ballot.

New York, May 13.-After giving
 Elihu Root their complimentary vote
 on the first ballot majority of the
 New York delegates to the Chicago
 convention, according to republican
 leaders in this city, will swing to Jus
 tice Hughes. Old Guard leaders who
 feel certain that they have Colonel
 Theodore Roosevelt stopped and who
 believe that they will be able to
 sidetrack Justice Hughes in the con-
 vention also, yesterday expressed the
 belief that the jurist would have 250 votes on the first ballot to less than 100 for Colonel Roosevelt.
 If this estimate is correct there is every likelihood that Justice Hughes will have the prestige of polling the greatest number of votes of any can- didate on the initial ballot, which should lend him an element of strength when the real test comes on the second and subsequent ballots. It is the opinion among republican lead CTS here that a candidate will be nom mated before half a dozen ballots have been taken in the convention.
 The Old Guard leaders read with pleasure the pacific statement from the progressive conference on We'd nesday. They are now in @ 'concilia- tory frame of mind and for the sake of harmony and cooperation to defeat President Wilson for reelection they are willing to make concessions, short of nominating Roosevelt.
 In the pre-convention stage of the fight they are looking to the colonel for valuable aid in their efforts to eliminate Justice Hughes as a pres- dential possibility and there is every indication that such aid will be forth coming from the colonel and his inn mediate following. The Bull Moose leaders. even though Justice Hughes is second choice with the progressive rank and file, as rule do not look on the justice with more friendly eyes than does the colonel. Among the republican Old Guard leaders there is pronounced impression that the colonel would support almost anyone among the bakers dozen of candidates who are in the field besides himself and Justice Hughes with more real satisfaction that he would lend his support to Hughes.
 1t was lntimated yesterday in Bull Moose circles that a number of broad SlueS from the COlOnel ana h1S fOllOW- CTS were due within the next three weeks, and that some of the fire would be directed against the justice Colonel Roosevelt has told some per sons who have talked with him re- gently that Justice Hughes owed it to the country, if he had any intention of accepting the presidential nomina- ton should it be rendered him, to come out and state his views On the l dominant issues with reference to which the colonel himself had been so Outspoken.
 The first of. the Bull Moose broad sides appeared yesterday when Wm. Hamlin Childs of Brooklyn a member of the national progressive executive committee, made public a statement in which he urged the republicans to nominate Colonel Roosevelt as the man of Americas critical hour. With this plea and the praise of Colonel 1 Roosevelt was coupled an attack on Justice Hughes. MT. Childs even inti- mated that the Bull Moose convention might not accept Justice Hughes as a compromise candidate.