New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-13
Delegation 10 TO 4 for
Hughes, but Goes to Chi
cago Unrestricted.
EX-PRESIDENT TAFT
DRAFTS PLATFORM
Moose Adopt Plank Declaring
They'll Follow Leader Who Has
Made Position Clear.
rpr Telegraph 70 III. Tribune ]

Hartford, Conn, April T. When
the Republican State Convention ad-
journcd to-day a survey showed that
Hughes delegation had been chosen 20
represent Connecticut at the Chicago
convention. platform plank written
by eX-President Taft urging q worlds
conference for international peace af-
ter the war had been adopted, and
that there was also plank in the
platform urging the national delegates
70 select as our candidate for President
a tried Republican.
Moreover, for the first time in more
than a decade, Charles +. Brooker,
once a power in Connecticut and ma
tional politics. ha&, like Barnes, of New
York, been shorn OF his power.
Delegation 10 TO ! for Hughes.
Connecticut's Chicago delegation is
as follows: Delegates-at-Large state
Committee Chairman John Henry Rora-
back of Canaan. chairman OF delega-
ton; Charles Hopkins Clark. editor
Of "The Hartford Courant," Fairfield
County; John +. King Of Bridgeport,
Colonel Francis I. Maxwell Of Vernon.
District delegates First, George
". Klett. OF New Britain. and Charles
Frank b. Weeks. Of Niddletown. and
Edwin W. Higgins. of Norwich. Third:
Colonel Isaac ~ Ullman, of New Haven.
and Rollin S. Woodruff. of New Haven.
Fourth: Oliver G.. Jennings. OF Pitts
field. and Schuyler Merritt. Of STAN
ford. Fifth: Irving II. Chase, Of Water
bury. and Edward H. Hotchkiss, Of
IorTngtOn.
Most of tho delegates refused TO in
innate their Presidential preferences.
but several estimates gave the dele
cation TO Justice Hughes by ten TO
four The four arc not only not for
Roosevelt. but they are not for Root.
the general belief being that Theodore
Burton Us the choice OF several Of the
delegates. All were unnstructed.
The Connecticut platform concurs
with the New York document in urg-
ing the nomination OF tried Re-
publican" who will guarantee wise
.tatesman hip in the management Of
foreign and domestic Affairs Colonel
Roosevelt. whose name was mentioned
without notice last night. was not
mentioned az 10 to-day. lie left the
city quietly ihis forenoon. a. the con
.cutiou was beginning IFS wrOk.
The Progressive state committee,
which has not met in several years.
turned out in force this afternoon at
the Heublen Hotel, seven Of the
thirty-nvc members being absent.
Colonel Roosevclt's nephew, Senator
Joseph W. Aleop, VINO. DO company
with Herber, Knox Smith. had dinner
last night with the Colonel. presided
as chairman Herbert Knox Smith and
Professor iandcll Henderson, Of Yale,
were among the members who dis
cussed the outlook as reflected by the
visit OF the Colonel and action Of the
Republican convention.
Adopt Roosevelt Platform.
L was voted that a state convention
20 elect seven delegates and seven
alternatcs 20 Chicago be held az Went
worth Han, New Haven. az ] p. M.
May g. Some of the members criticized
the Republican selection OF Oliver G..
Jennings, Of Fairfield. q director of
the Standard Oil Company, 20 be d
national convention delegate.
The following is the Roosevelt reso-
ton adopted by the Progressives:
THAT we indorse the action Of the
Progressive National Committee In de-
ining the dominant issues before the
country and On calling our national
convention az the same time and place
as the Republican national convention.
We hold tlat the Interests OF tho ua-
ton must now bc considered above
party advantage We further declare
that as progrcssiycs 81 Connect 'cHt
VIC will. in the face OF the present mo-