Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-06-14
WILSON DESIRES
MARSHALL upon
/. TICKET WITH HIN
Baker Arrives at St. Louis with
Platform Drafted by President
and Direct Word He Wants
Hoosier as Mate. 1
M0REHEAD'S HAT IN THE RING
Nebraska Governor Announces He
+ Will Permit His Name to Go
I Before Convention.
M'COMBS PLEADS WITH MOOSE

~St. Louis, June l3.- Secretary
Baker arrived here late today from
Washington bringing a platform
drafted by President Wilson and di,
rect word from the president himself
that he desires the denomination oi
Vice President Marshall
After surveying the situation Gov.
ernor Morehead announced tonight
he would allow his name to go be.
fore the convention as candidate
for the vice presidential nomination
St. Louis, June l3.-National Chair
man McCombs sent the following
telegram today 10 cambridge Colby,
the progressive leader of New York,
in reply to a statement of Mr.. Colby
suggesting that the progressives
should go slowly in determining their
future course and to do every justice
to President Wilson in their consld-
Grafton.
Il have seen your statement. Col
onel Roosevelt appears 10 have sent
his former and enthusiastic followers
stumbling to destruction. The pro-
gressive democrats cordially and sim
cerely offer them safety"
Three names are under considera-
Z. ton today for the Craftsmanship.
I They are: United States Senator
Willard Salisbury of Delaware,
Homer H. Cummings of Connecticut,
vice chairman of the present COM
mittee, and Colonial E. M. House Of
New York.
President Wilson has indicated that
Many one of the three is agreeable to
him.
Wilbur w. Marsh, national COM
mitteeman from Iowa, is most likely
to be chosen as treasurer to succeed
Rolla Wells. Henry Morgenthau
probably will again be chairman Of
the finance committee. '
The new national committee. meets
on Saturday and expects to select the
( chairman at that time. The commit
} tee men generally agree that they
/ would prefer to name as leader one
of their own members. Mr.. Cum
mings is almost certain to be the
man if the chairman IS taken from
: within their own number. IS
Wilbur w. Marsh of Waterloo, Ia,
led the fight for the Clark forces
from Iowa and the middle western
states at the Baltimore convention
four years ago and his selection, il
was urged, would further heal any
scars that may remain from that
contest.
Marshall For Vice President.
Prospects of fight over a vice
presidential nominee diminished to-
day as incoming delegations lined up
! behind Vice President Marshall.
, Some of the candidates themselves
declared they would not attempt to
oppose him.
The situation as to the Roger
Sullivan boom, which neither Sullivan
himself nor his supporters took seri-
\ ously, is this:
y. Senator James Hamilton Lewis de.
clared that if Sullivan's friends per-
sisted he would take the field as a
vice presidential candidate with the
aVoWeu purpose OF alVldiIg tne liil-
nois delegation and thus aid in killing
off the Sullivan boom.
Governor Morehead of Nebraska,
another vice presidential candidate,
reached St. Louis today and said he
had started in to diagnose his own
case and find out whether his boom
was healthy. The governor said if he
found it waning in strength he would
Withdraw before nominations were
made.
Supporters of William ]. Bryan in
( the Nebraska delegation said today
that an effort made to have Judge w
y H. Thompson, Bryan member OF
the,delegation, make the speech nomi.
mating Governor Morehead, had
failed.
There was some talk today Of a
coalition OF western states to secure
the nomination Of western man.
~ Governor Stewart Of Montana, who
arrived today. disclaimed vice presi-
dental aspirations.