The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-06-09
PEACE COMMITTEE
HELD ALL NIGHT
SESSION
Only Result is to Create More
Uncertainty
REPUBLICANS ADOPT PLATFORM
Favors Woman Suffrage But Recos-
nizes Right of Each State to
Settle Question.
REPUBLICANS ADOPT PLATFORM

Chicago. June S.-The conference
committees of the Republican and Pro
gresive conventions began discussion
for peace plans at 1O;4O p. m, tonight
and Senator Borah, one of the Republi-
can conferees, predicted the session
would last al least three hours.
This was the situation as epitomized
by one of the conferees after the con
ference had been in session a little
more than an hour:
The utmost harmony had reigned in
the meeting.
Republican were impressed with
the apparent desire of the Progress.
sives to effect an agreement. No
name, except that of Colonel Roosevelt
had been mentioned. Progressiyes,
while showing a decided preference for
Colonel Roosevelt as the nominee, did
not say they would not support any
other man.
The name of Hughes had not been
mentioned.
Encouraged by the happy opening of
the conference, it was said there was
possibility that the conferees would re-
main in session most of the night or
until they had reached some tangible
agreement, or complete disagreement.
The Progressive conference commit
tee consists of George w. Perkins
Governor Hirman Johnson, Horace
Wilkinson, Charles j. Bonaparte and
John NJ Parker.
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, Sena
tor William E, Borah of Idaho, former
Senator w Murray Crane of Massa.
chusetts. Nicholas Murray Butler of
the New York delegation and former
Representative A. r. Johnson of Iron
ton, o., were appointed as the Repub
lican conference committee.
The Republican committee is com
posed of men who are regarded as op.
posed to the nomination of Colonel
Roosevelt but not opposed to the eli
| mination of Justice Hughes.
The Progressive conferees are gener-
ally regarded as men who will insist
on the colonels nomination.
The acceptance by both conventions
of the peace conference proposal threw
| the situation into a new uncertainty.
Hughes supporters and many other Re
publican leaders felt that 1t cannot pre-
| vent the nomination of the justice but
the development has had the effect Of
holding off expected crystallization up
on Justice Hughes in the Republican
| convention.
| Those who we're confident that some
| harmonious action would come out of
| the peace conferences, pointed out that
| the Progressives are in the position of
| having as yet adopted no platform and
that there was more than possibility
that if the conferees can reach an
agreement, the Republicans will meet
the situation by taking some of the
Progressive planks into their own plat
form. Some OF the Progressive lead.
ers professed to have word from the in
side OF the Republican convention that
this would be done.
The other principal developments in
the Republican convention were the
adoption of the platform as reported
by the resolutions committee, headed
by Senator Lodge; half minute OF
demonstration for Colonel Roosevelt
when his name was mentioned for the
first time in the convention; the per
fection of the permanent organization
and adjournment until II a. m tomor
row
Senator Lodge mentioned Colone
Rooseyelt's name in reading the philip
pines plank which declares for tn,
policy inaugurated by Mckinley ant
continued by Roosevelt. The demon
stration that followed was principal.
in the galleries, although il was joine,
by some delegates on the floor Senate
| Lodge, well identified as a persona
friend of the colonels, smiled an,
waited and it subsidized in less than
minute by the watch.
The outstanding incident OF tn
. days session came with Senate
, Lodges announcement of the woma
- suffrage plank.
"The Republican party, roailirmin
its faith in government of the people
by the people and for the people as
measure of justice to onehalf tn
adult people of this country. favors IN
y extention of suffrage to women" rea
the senator, and there he paused, viii
the suffragists began their demonstr
ton
II But continued Senator Lodl
when the noise subsidized. 1T recogniz,
the right of each state to settle tn
question for itself"
e There were roars of laughter at tn
t. qualifying phrase to what the suflra
lists had celebrated as a clear cut vi
tory, and the hall rang with the den