The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-19
HUGHES ALL THE TIME.


 For the time being the Roosevelt candidacy may seem formidable on paper. but there is no real #ub-tan. 10 it
 The man who is master of th. R." publican situation is not Tnooi.r. Roosevelt. but Charles F. Hushy- Ten words from Hughes would com pletely wreck the Roosevelt camp& and drive the grand army of ca office-holders from the trenches.
 If Hughes were 70 rcsi-G iron the United States supreme court ;r morrow and announce his candida,. Roosevelt's campaign Cor the Re publican nomination would be ended Presenting h.s name to the conycu tion would be waste of time an& words This may be a humilia'irS position for the Only Patriotic Am erican to be placed in. but if is the .a,t nevertheless.
 Whatever progress the Roosevelt candidacy makes is due to general uncertain as 10 whether Hughy- would take the nomination Roose- vet may succeed in kl,irg osl Hughes. but he can succeed only with Hughes tacit consent Hugh,F need not be killed off unless he .t u-iIlsDU to ba Filled off
 The Roosevelt campaign fund IS mobilized and in action, but Boos"- welt is still considerably further from the White House than the Germans are from Paris The Re publicans who are so voCiferously announcing their allegiance to the colonel represent about one Notc apiece. provided they do not play sHlt oR elec,'@n day and tarEnt i. go to the polls. Practically non of them are delegates to the Chicago convention, and most of them could not carry their own election dis tricts A majority of them have acquired their prominence through appointive offices, never having been elected to anything.
 To the casual reader their devo. ton to Roosevelt may seem impres slve but not to the managers of the Republican party Four years ago Roosevelt had the Old Guard scared and if he had had a little II ore courage he might have been nominated But four years ago RoCse- velts support came from the rank a%d fife of the Republican party. Ills delegates were won in the prl- ma,ies, Now his support comes from the socially elect circles that seq no opportunity of return to place and power except through Roosevelt and from various corporation interest which confuse patriotism with dIyi- dends. The rank and file are not behind him. as every primary vote has shown.
 The Republican managers lIno \ this, and they know that Roosevelt knows it They are not the least bit fliektened by him. There is no more chance of the Republican cou- vention's stampeding to Roosevelt than to Bryan. Whatever Roose- welt gets at Chicago, if he gets anything. will be the result of cold hard, deliberate bargain. The World has always believed that the Old Guard could make a more advan- tageous deal with Roosevelt than with any other candidate He wants the nomination worse than anybody else and would give more for it. The only question is whether he would be an asset or a liability to the party and the common opinion is that he would be liability. Per haps before June he can convince the Republican managers that he + worth bidding in.
 There will be very little sentiment about the Chicago convention. but the man who can take charge of events is Charles E. Hughes provided he thinks that a Republican nomi- nation for President this year would not be a permanent blot on his record and reputation. One thing at least is certain. Of all the Re publicans whose names have hes9 mentioned in connection with the presidency, Hughes Is the only one who could have the nomination bv saying that he would take it-N. Y World
 If anyone in Fairbanks can guess any closer than did the New York World thirty days before the couven- tion, they can open up shop as seers or fortune tells with the req sonable assurance that they will have good patronage. This same paper now predicts that President Wilson will again be elected Pres dent of the United States. and if it comes as near the final outcome as it did in the above, everything is over but the shouting
 WILSON and Hughes, in the order named, will be the decision of the