Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-06-08
REPUBLICANS
MEET PLAC|DLY
Hughes Still Seems to Be in
Lead For the Nomi-
nation
ROOSEVELT PHANTOM
Progressives Apparently Determined
to Support No Other Candidate
Than Colonel

Than C0l0nel
Coliseum, Chicago, June s.-Re-
publican leaders intimate the con-
yention work will be speeded up and
the nominations made tonight.
Rumors of this created big sem
sation. 1t indicates Hughes back
ers feel certain they will win.
Chicago, June S.-Peace talk filled
the air today, but peace is still re-
mote.
Like the European allies and the
central powers, each side is perfectly
willing to make peace on its own
terms.
The Republican leaders are willing
to compromise with Roosevelt if ne
will eliminate himself and name some
other candidate.I The Bull Moose
insist it must be Roosevelt, and they
declared anew today that their de-
cision to nominate him had not been
changed.
Chicago, III, June st is evident
to any disinterested observer that the
Republican party again has abandoned
itself to bitter contest of personali-
ties, and that it has lost its opportunl,
ty to give the country a demonstra-
tion of patriotic usefulness.
Once more the conflicting elements,
centering wholly around tile conflict
ing candidates., seem bent upon
suicidal course. They are split on nc
great issues. They are driven apart
by no vital questions Of policy. They
are testing their strength wholly upon
other lines-a circumstance which the
whole country must deplore.
In season like this, when the
American people are face to face with
the most serious problem, it would
seem that the historic Republican
party would have placed itself IN a
position either to contribute a strong
and forceful administration or al
least to have given US a minority,
which would have stood watch over
the majority party.
1t may not even yet be too late for
the Republicans and Progressives to
bury their differences and agree upon
program of construction rather thar
destruction. All signs last night, how
ever, discourage that hope and leac
10 the belief that the harmony plan:
are about to go up on the rocks.
The Progressives seem determined
to support no candidate but Roose
velt. The Republicans will not take
Roosevelt under any circumstances
and now have definitely decided t.
nominate Hughes. This means thirc
ticket and the overwhelming defea
of both factions.
There is still remote chance thai
Roosevelt will decline the Progressive
nomination once he finds that Hughe!
stands for all that he himself stand:
fer, but this chance is so remote tina
a split organization is about as certain
as ANYTHING can be in such situation
as this.
More political leaders were pre-
dicted the nominal tion of Justice Chas
Evans Hughes last night than at an.
time since the Republican Nationa
Convention began to assemble. The,
declare that unless the accumulatio
of overwhelming circumstantial evi
dence fails to reflect the situation
in it's true light, the nomination o
the Justice will come even sooner THAI
has been predicted. The men who tax
this view are practical politicians
whose estimates are based on care
full canvass of the delegates.
The situation is illustrated best b
the fact that conferences between
leaders to discuss the availability o
different candidates practically hav
ceased, Indicating their belief that
majority of the delegates alread
Ihave reached decision to name Jus
= tice Hughes.
DryJI IN G. HARD SHE'LL cRAR