New Britain herald., 1916-07-20
AND STILL THEN GO.

Charles k. Hughes the RepuD1Can nominee for Presidential honors is peeved at the way the boys are cutting up, and rightly so. Yesterday he told callers that dissension among his sup porters must cease. He practically commanded all the factions in the war; ious localities to get together, subordinate what he choose to call their petty differences, and work for the election of the ticket he heads.
 AS if in answer to that command the Indiana Progressives in cOnven- tion at Indianapolis laid plans to nominate a complete state ticket. At a meeting of delegates from various districts in the state last night presi- dential electors were chosen and to- day the convention is going full steam ahead away from the port of Repub- HCanism. And nothing can head them off. This is to be deplored, too, be- cause MT. Hughes will not like such gained for. He wants peace between the Old Guard and the Progressives of Indiana just as he wants tranquility to prevail between all the deserters of 1912 and the men of that year who still boss the Republican party in 1916. Otherwise, there can be no Hughes landslide
 Human nature is a strange thing
 
 The progressive ranks being made up in large part of human beings can not see the light as MT. Hughes does They do not see any difference between the Republican party in 1916 as dis tinguished from the Republican party in 1912. If there is anything new in the situati tiOn it merely has to do with the desertion of the gallant leader | the traces and on top of his stampede | sold out his followers for thirty pieces | of silver. And this will never do, will | never tend to bring the thinking men Republicanism. They would rather travel alone than be hitched to such a star.
 So it goes. Instead of things be- coming brighter as the days go on, the situation from a Republican point of view becomes more muddled Pro- gressives are fast flocking to their own banner and are spurning the offers of | Don ,1N1 T country. They even refuse to be com manded by that laudable gentleman Charles Evans Hughes. Yet it will never be written that Mr. Hughes did not do all in his power to bathe the wounds of the disgruntled Progress sives. He has pointed out to them the absolute necessity of their coming back into the fold if the ticket which | majority is to be set up in both houses of Congress. If he is put in the White | House he must have Congress with him, for according to his own words 8 President with even one House of Congress against him politically is gravely handicapped. And it looks now as if this would be the case were Hughes elected. He would have at least one House of Congress and pos sibly two against him; for if the Pro- gressives in many more states nominate their own tickets the Republicans will have a stiff time of it carrying votes enough to change the political com plexiOn of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Rather than see such a situation at a critical period in our national history there are many who will vote to keep Woodrow Wilson in the White House. It is in finitely better, in MT. Hughes own esti- mation, to have a President and Con- gress agreed politically than to have a President with even one House of Congress in opposition to him political ly Such a President must be grave Iy handicapped" and MT. Hughes, were he elected, would undoubtedly be such President. .'