The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-05-18

the republican convention. Out OF
the total of 9s5 delegates, over 70(
have now been chosen. They repre-
sent all the large republican states
except Pennsylvania; and the dele
gates yet to be named can hardly af-
feet the general temper and inclination
of the Chicago convention. 1t is al
ready clear that in its great majority
1t will be made up of republicans who
may be variously described as ''regu-
lar" safe" or moderate" and who
are plainly as at present advised,
against the wild adventure of nomin-
ating Roosevelt
So far as there has been an organ
lied campaign to force Roosevelt upon
the republican convention, the uniyer-
sal and justified opinion Is that 1t
passed It's danger point in the Massa-
chusetts primary. This is not simply
because the Roosevelt delegates were
soundly beaten, but that they were
able to muster so small total vote.
They did the only open fighting They
had plenty of money and made plenty
of noise Personal appeals by the
hundred thousand We're sent out to the
old Roosevelt following. Yet with the
primary open to them and with the
chance of showing the country that
the Roosevelt obsession still holds
Massachusetts, in its grip, scarcely
more than a quarter of those who vot-
ed for him in 1912 took the trouble to
stand by him on Tuesday If there
was anywhere to be a wild-fire Roose-
Welt movement, Massachusetts, was the
place to look for It, But 1t was only
flare of dry leaves.
or the result the colonel himself
refuses to comment. That Is his way,
In the very whrlwind OF his passion
for telling the public all about it, he
Is always able to beget a temperance
when 1t comes to events that do not
look we'll for him. But the impetuous
progressives who hang about oyster
Bay are not so disereetly silent. They
have little to say, 1t is true, about
Massachusetts, but they are shaking
their heads sagely and remarking that
1t looks as il there would have to be
a third party in the field again this
year. The reason is that the republic
cans are Joined to their idols. AL
though the republican leaders know
that Theodore Roosevelt is the most
popular man in the land, and that they
ought to nominate him, the progress.
sive general staff is making up its
mind that they will not. And so the
talk comes from the neighborhood of
Roosevelt that he will not put up with
another robbery" This Is a rather
absurd baked meat left over from the
funeral Of four years ago, inasmuch
as at present no one pretends that
anybody is taking from Roosevelt any
delegates to whom he has shadow
of claim. But the cry is raised as a
part of the lntimidatlng- tactics which
are all that the progressives now have
in reserve. AS they see their chance
OF wheedling, or stampeding the re-
publican convention disappearing, they
resort to threats and bullying, II you
don't take Roosevelt he will run a
ticket of his own and smash you again.
Perhaps they mean this seriously but
we much doubt II the colonel does.
It is good enough attempt at terror
sm until after the convention, but !,
hose who fancy that Mr., Roosevelt
has a hankering to lead another for
orn hope to defeat had better take
,loser look at the man, We, at least
10 not so read his character
Taking 1t as settled that the repub-
lean convention Is to be securely IN y
he hands of republican leaders and
delegates opposed to Roosevelt and {
Who are proof against the blare of the
progressive brass bands, political {
peculation centers on the question I
whom they are most likely to agree G
pon when the time comes to con- r
entrate, The early balloting will APP f
arently be indecisive. Several favorite Y
Cummins. Fairbanks, n
have to have their per- C
nnctory compliments paid them But v
he hour will arrive when 1t will be I
ecessary to come to grapples with the h
uestion who has the best chance of
eing elected II nominated. To say R
nat this question is already answered
ould be foolish; but it would be
lually foolish not to note the spread o
lg belief that the man will be Hughes o
his drift is everywhere observable. CT
very test one can make reveals II. N
ven the Tribune's washington dis te
atehes report the deepening convic- W
on OF republicans in congress that
lie nomination win go to Hughes. As sc
ne evidence of the general trend, W
olonel George Harvey comes out in m
days issue of the North American OF
eview with the positive prediction W
lat Hughes will be the republican al
lndidate. We are sometimes afraid p
Colonel Harvey when he mounts
e tripod for oracular deliverances, pl
1T in this case he is not far wrong of
hen he sums up the way In which w
'lltical opinion is manifesting itself: W,
ASK the man in the street, on the tn
n L.,