The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-03
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WORRY NOW
Old Guard Plans Defense
Against I. r. Sentiment.
Sudden Adjournment After one
or Two Ballots.
BIG BUSINESS TO ROOSEVELT
Realization That Country Needs
a Leader in Chair.
Industrial Kings Are Dead Set
Against Hughes.

Chicago, Ill, June Sin all the pre-
convention pussyfooting the one oeti-
mite plan evolved so far by the Ola
Guard as the last line of defense
against a stampede for Roosevelt, is
sudden adjournment after one or two
ballots. 1t looks now as though the
nominating oratory will be spilled on
Friday.
The first roll call on presidential
nominee will come Immediately AFTER
ward. If T. r. and Hughes show big
at first and if either grows percept-
bIv in two or three ballots, Murray
crane is expected to suggest an ad-
journment.
Then in the watches OF the night
the final effort will be made to agree
Oh the vote the next day.
weeks Is stronger.
knowledge today that the Progres-
a. sives had served virtual ultlIllas I'M
Il that they would not accept mug me-,
since Roosevelt had made the issues
and set the pace, served TO accelera az
1,aTcentiblv the Weeks boom. His
sIDporters who originally claimed 10
votes on the first ballot, were asserting
175 today-and more on the way
Boomers for the other favorlte sons
Uere struck with the same optimism.
I'D drtv at the Root headquarters posi-
tivelv radiated enthusiasm today.
Tuesday Agreement.
An Old Guard lieutenant, close TO
the fount of information, was autnoi
ity today for the dope that tue DIE
ones in the convention probably
vvouldn't get to any sort OF even a
tentative agreement before Tuesday
The optimism of month aso-lndI
ANYBODY the Republicans noInlhdteu
could win in NoVember-has peen al
tered considerably in the thresh1ng out
Of oniDions by men from all over the
country now assem- bling here Ihe
old Guard has been three years on
the side lines now; some time Wltnln
the next four years the European war
will cease and there will come Amer
ica's biggest business opportunity
therefore. the Old Guard wants to win.
y 1t frankly hates Roosevelt; mlstrusts
Z Hughes because of his anti-organiza-
ton record in New YORK Hkes hopt'
but isn't sure he could win IN the
west. and with more or less favor re-
cards Fairbanks, Weeks, Burton and
the other favorite sons.
Big Business for L. r.
Sudden realization of the fact today
that Theodore Roosevelt has now gar
nered the support of a goodly portion
of Big Business-that portion from
which a sizeable share of the sinews
of war are usually collected-injected
a new problem in the pre-convent1on
log-rolling along Candidates Row to-
day.
The Old Guard contingent has here
tofore felt secure in it's stand that the
candidate they proffered would be
able to command a goodly bank roll
But the appearance of Herbert
L. Satterlee, brother-in-law of
J. p. Morgan, as an active Roosevelt
worker; word from New York that
Frank A. Vanderlip, credited with
considerable influence in the oil group
of Wall street had announced for L.
r. and knowledge that J. Ogden Ar
1nour, of packing house fame, was a
Roosevelt adherent, had the effect of
weakening the most potent argument
of the -patters-their ability to
back a candidate with money.
Against Hughes.
If the gossip along the Row is an
index, Big Business is dead set against
Hughes. Before the Old Guard came
to full realization that Roosevelt was
gradually accommodating business sup
port, its leaders started a backfire
movement against the justice, holding
that entire lack of knowledge as to his
position on the tariff, industrial well
fare, preparedness and other big prob
lens of the day made it problematical
whether he could command Big Bust
ness support. The plan to kill off
Hughes with Roosevelt, and then to
kill off Roosevelt with a combination
of AlHeS-the favor1te sonS-WaS in
the making last night. Today, how
ever, the pussy-footers weren't so sure
the program would hold water.
What Moose Will Do.
Meanwhile a small wedge of dissen-
sion showed today in the Progressive
ranks. The radical Progressives, of
the type of Governor Hiram Johnson,
of California, want the Progressives
- to meet on Wednesday and name their
3 candidate-which of course would be
4 Il 7. R.-within an hour or so. Then
! they would sit back and wait The