The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-06

Therefore, We have no second choice.
Go to It,"
Perkins was asked il this means
he had no second choice now or
from now on"
Now, or any time was the re-
SPONGE
Added Significance was seen In the
statement. coming as 1t did after the
progresstves had determind to CON.
slider the address made by Justice
Charles e. Hughes yesterday as no
at all.
u am amazed at the construction
placed upon Hughes address to
school GIRLS said Perkins. 1T is, OF
course, an attempt to place him in .
perfectly insincere position"
Perkins agreed with Oscar Straus,
former ambassador to Turkey, thai
the address was merely q talk that
any one would make In presenting a
flag and did not partake in the least
of platform. The Hughes speech
was generally branded as too much
Like Wilson
Floods of spread-eagle Roosevelt
oratory will be turned loose this af-
ternoon at a mass meeting In the
lFlorentine room Of the Auditorium,
headed by leaders Of the belligerent
factions.
This meeting, expected to be led
by former Governor Hiram Johnson
of California, will be attended by all
delegates who are standing pat On no
compromise with the republicans.
1T is going to be hard to control
our convention" Victor Murdoch, Of
Kansas, chairman Of the progressive
national committee. admitted. 1T Is
just a question of how long we can
keep the bunch from nominating
Roosevelt, regardless Of what the re-
publicans do. I am not republican
and do not intend to be. I think
that is the sentiment of most Of our
delegates"
Murdoch said all he could figure
from Hughes speech was that
Hughes Is the last one to come out
for the flag and now everybody's out"
The progressives seized upon re-
ports of the loss OF Lord Kitchener
and his stan on a torpedoed worship
as further necessity for naming
strong man, Roosevelt" In Chicago.
Perkins issued a statement along
these lines. saying the world was
rapidly approaching q cataclysm that
must be prevented by American guild
'ance.
Would Support Wood.
NEW YORK, June 6.-That Theo.
Leonard Wood for the republican
nomination if his name comes ser
iously before the convention. was the
news that reached here today from
Oyster Bay. 1t came from two Of
the colonel's visitors. He made the
statement to them, they said. In the
course Of a general conversation.
According to the colonel's visitors,
who asked that their names be with
held. Roosevelt believes General
Wood a man eminently fitted for the
labors that will devolve upon the next
president OF the United States. The
colonel's visitors said that in the
event of the nomination Of Wood he
would have the continued and ardent
support Of Roosevelt. Their CONVEX
sation did not indicate that the col
onel will jump out in the support OF
Wood Immediately, but that rather,
if the convention balloting drags and
Wood climbs up in the list, Roosevelt
would then hurl his entire strength
into the Wood camp in an effort to
jam him through.
Roosevelt declined to say a word
on the speech Supreme Court Justice
Hughes. = After receiving his visitors
at Oyster Bay. Roosevelt came to
New York. going first to the Offices
of Scribner's magazine and later to
his dentist This afternoon he will
be in his offices at the Metropolitan
Magazine and later to the Harvard
club to see friends on business, but
not On political business.
He intends to return to Oyster Bay
and his private telephone line at five
o'clock.
Until this morning. Roosevelt has
been at the telephone line constantly
since the installation several days
ago. A secretary took up the vigil
when Roosevelt left home and