Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-24
ROOSEVELT WILL
"STAY HITCHED'
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he will do all in his power to pre-
vent the nomination of Hughes, be-
lieving that those who are not openly
in favor of the policies he has been
advocating must be regarded as
against such policies
AS an evidence of good faith, and to
show that he has no intention of try
ing to stampede the Republican con-
vention or force it to nominate him
against the will of a majority of the
delegates, the Colonel will refrain
from going to Chicago. but will keep
in touch with the situation from
| oyster Bay.
These facts became known to-day
as result of the Colonels visit to
| Washington. There were no political
conferences during the Colonel's visit,
but a dozen or more of his personal
| friends visited him at the home of his
son-in-law, Nicholas Longworth, early
yesterday morning, and they learned
for the first time that the former
for the Republican nomination, and
desiring to be the standard bearer,
nevertheless would not use the
methods which were adopted to force
his nomination in 1912.
The Colonel has even put his foot
down upon plan whereby Progress
sive leaders hoped to bring about his
nomination by the bold method of
naming him in the Progressive con-
Vention and then adjourning, leav-
ing the Republicans to choose between
rot 4sr,1-.
and a third party movement.
Moral Suasion Only
In plain words, the Colonel will per-
nit no methods other than those of
moral suasion" to bring about his
nomination. He doesn't want a split
Republican party. The only excuse
for such a split, he told his friends
will be the naming of a pacifist candi-
date by the Republican party and the
framing of a pacifist plank.
Word lately has reached the Colonel
that an effort will be made TO have a
plank inserted to please the pacifists,
the platform straddling on prepared
ness and the Nations foreign policy.
Nicholas Murray Butler, president
of the Columbia University, and Sen
ator Lodge, of Massachusetts, are both
at work upon drafts of the platform.
So far their efforts have been inde-
pendent, neither consulting the other.
There is some fear in the mind of the
Colonel that some of the "Old Guard"
may advocate "strict neutrality"
plank which Roosevelt would con-
slider a bid to the pacifists.
Neutrality the Fighting Word
This will be the fighting word, and
if the platform fight becomes hot, and
a pacifist candidate should be actually
nominated, the Colonel might then
change his plan to remain at oyster
Bay and take the first train to Chi
cage.
That neither Hughes nor Roosevelt
would be nominated was asserted by
a number of Republican leaders prior
10 their departure for Chicago. They
made it plain that this did not mean
that they personally would fight
against either nomination, but that
the tendency among the delegates
would be to find a man on whom both
the Roosevelt followers and the stall
wart Republicans might agree.
The political stock of Justice Hughes
declined somewhat, following the
statement made at oyster Bay by Col
onel Roosevelt that ANY man at this
time of crisis who is not aggressively,
openly and specifically for these prin-
ciples is against them, and every