The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-24
ROOSEVELT LIKELY TO DECLARE HIS CANDIDACY
 SOON AND FIGHT FIELD
T. R. Sees Boom Rising and Hughes Stock Saq-Admirers Believe Rough Rider Will Put Up Third Root Hughes Lands

Washington May Z4-Ihe Republ1- can politicians are getting on the nerves of Supreme Court Justice Hughes; to provide an even balance. Colonel Roosevelt is disturbing the peace of mind of the, politicians. The Presidents who lay violent siege to him; the Colonel is chasing them up.
 Both men figured prominently yes fterday in the calculations of RepubH- can leaders in and out of Congress- the Colonel voluntarily and with manifest pleasure. the Justice much against his will and obviously dis pleased.
 Neither, although -monopolizing the attention of the leaders of the party -or parties-wou1d talk politics. But the Colonel crowded a great amount of political action into four hour stay at the national capital that earned for him a wild demonstration in a court house, where he appeared as a witness. and the p1audits of the representatives, of "big business. whose interests he championed.
 Working at top speed over cases which are engaging the attention of the supreme court, the justice declin- ed to depart from his established rule against granting interviews on po- 1itfcaI subjects. He made it unmis- takab1y clear that he does not pur- pose to do so. It is the i'm mpressioH gained during a few minutes con versation with the justice that his at titude toward those persons who vol untarily are trying to force his nom ination for the Presidency is as fol- lows:
 He is engaged in the consideration of the work of his office as 2 member of the supreme court. l. He has no time to talk politics. He has not discussed politics with any one, and particularly has not expressed any k opinion regarding the prospective re- suits of the Chicago convention.
 He has not expressed any opinion as to the qualifications of any of the gentlemen who have been mentioned in connection with the Presidential nomination. He has no comm ent men who are working to bring about his own pomination nor any answer to make to crit cisrns of his course in ignoring questions concerning his views on current political mattersl
 It is admitted by even the most ardent admirers of the Justice that the opposition of the Colonel would make it unwise to fns1st upon the se- lection of the Justice, as he would then become the target not only for the Democratic party, but for the Progressive faction of the Republ1- . .-
 The Colonel has convinced the leaders of both factions that he is in sympathy with the men who arc op- posing his own nomination in at least one respect. This is that he sympathfzes with the straight goods The Coloneps statement to the von Meyer delegation at Oyster Boy is in- terpreted by the leaders to mean that the supporters of Hughes are not jus hfed in assuming the Colonel will fin ally get behind the plan to nominate the Justice.
 The existence of this belief has had the effect of depressing the stock Of the Justice and inflating that of the Colonel. The declaration of the latter that he will accept the support of the Republican combination now authorized to promote his Presidential Espirations has strengthened the be- rSf that he will come out into the open speedily and actively fight for the nomination, and that if he does not get it the fur and feathers will be flying around Chicago in a couple of weeks.
 During the last three or four days the Justice has been subjected to a great deal of annoyance at the hands of persons who have refused to be discouraged from making attempts to probe his state of mind regarding his political views and plans He ex- pressed the desire today to be left alone to conduct the business of his office without-the intrusion of dis turbing considerations for which he has neither time nor inclination.
 Persons who are familiar with the source and extent of these efforts to smoke out'' the Justice are convinc- ed it is not his purpose to express himself one way or another regarding the Presidential nomination either before the Republican Convention meets or until some concrete action