New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Hughes Men Force Ad-
iOurnment Before
Vote to IndOrSe.
POLICE CALLED
TO KEEP ORDER
Friends of Ex-Justice IN
sist Result Was a Victory
for Their Nominee.

From q star Correspondent Of The Trbunel
Syracuse. July 22.-After one of the
most boisterous gatherings recorded ir
New York political history, during
which the police were called in TO pre-
serve order, the Progressive State Com
mittee adjourned tonight, without in.
dorsing the candidacy Of ex-Justics
Hughes for the Presidency. The Hughes
men undoubtedly had the votes TO put
through their resolution, but the tactics
of the anti-Hughes men prevented the
resolution from coming up for passage
William H. Hotchkiss, the Hughes
leader in the committee, made the mo-
tion to adjourn, and he prefaced II
with the statement that any indorse-
ment from a committee which had
acted as it had during the day would
be an insult to any sel'-respecting man
Mr.. Hotchkiss also said that he would
not attend another meeting Of the
Progressive State Committee this year
He said he was through with this par
ticular brand of Progressivism entirely
Hughes Men Quit Struggle.
The Hughes men will not bring the
question of the Endorsement Of the
nominee before another meeting OF the
committee. 1t is their intention to is
sue a letter supporting Mr.. Hughes,
and they are confident that they will
have the names of 10 of the $50 state
committeeman signed to it. No action
was taken by the committee on the IN
dorsement of Justice Seabury for Gov
ernor. His name was not even men
toned.
Mr.. Hotchkiss introduced his reso-
luton to adjourn after conference OF
the Hughes men. 1t was agreed that
Mr.. Hughes in justice TO himself could
not accept an Endorsement under the
circumstances.
While Mr.. Hotchkiss was prefacing
the introduction Of his resolution with
a statement of his views on the gen
eral behavior of the meeting, two po-
licemen with drawn nightsticks stood
at the back Of the hall. looking threat
eningly at August Sehwarzler, Of The
Bronx. who insisted on demanding a
vote on a motion he had introduced
lust before adjournment Schwarzler
was so persistent that the policemen
started for him. but number of COM
mitteemen interfered.
O'Connell Stills the Tumult.
Schwarzler subsided, and then
dozen OF the anti-Hughes committee
men thought they ought to say some
thing. In vain Walter Johnson, chair
nan OF the committee, raped for or
der and tried TO explain that a motion
10 adjourn was not debatable. This
made no difference. The anti-Hughes
Progressives were there to prevent the
Endorsement of Mr.. Hughes, and they
apparently did not know they were ac-
complishing it through the Hotchkiss
resolution until John J. O'Connell,
chairman Of the New York County
Progressive Committee, and leader OF
the anti-Hughes forces, gained the
floor long enough to say that the mo-
tion to adjourn was all right.
Then there was another wrangle over
the rolcall. Finally Bainbridge
Colby suggested to Mr.. Hotchkiss that
if he withdrew the statements he had
made previously to introducing the
resolution to adjourn the motion would
20 through. This Mr.. Hotchkiss did
and the adjournment was taken with
practical unanimity, with a few OF the
irreconcilables still looking for a fight.
The anti-Hughes men claimed the
failure of the meeting TO indorse Mr..
Hughes as a victory. cambridge Colby
said that by doing so the committee had
the action of the Progress
sive National Committee and had
placed itself in the column with New
Jersey and other states which had done
the same thing.
MIR. Hotchkiss Explains.
Late tonight Mr.. Hochklss issued !,
statement in which he said that poll
taken unoficially showed S6 votes for
Huohes 70 so for the snti-Hughes men.
discussing the adjournment Of the
meeting, he said: -.
~ moved the adjournment after this
n afternoons stormy session, because !
am satisfied that even though friends OF
Mr.. Hughes had the majority of votes
an Endorsement by the meeting would
not nc have been worthy of him and the E
great gre Progressive cause. The effect Of
tb;s meeting and the action OF those
..ho favored an invitation TO Judge Sea-
buTy % to enter the Progressive primaries
pas % been to make the Whitman forces
in iaI the e Progressive party stronger. The
result of this meeting will be that tnede E
viii be no Progressive Presidential
sinctoYs on the national ticket, and
probably there will be no state ticket
On which Progressives appear
when Mr.. O'Connell heard OF MI