New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10
powell Charges That
Educator Guided
Crocker Wrongly
DECLARES ADVICE
ALIENATED WEST
Desire to Beat Johnson
Real Reason, Visitor
Asserts

p.,,opsibil.ty for the defeat OF
Charles Z. Hughes in California was
,b,rred directly to Dr. Nicholas Mur-
-.v Butler last night by Chester h.
Rorsn. Republican chairman Of that
,s,s. NJ. Rowell declared that DR..
Butler bad 8 hand in the hssco here
=. vel as in the West, but that the
Greatest harm 20 the Hughes cause was
accomplished BY the Columbia presi-
d.Bt's sdvice 70 William II. Croker,
national committeeman Of California,
IN The ethics 70 be observed by the
y.pubNcan organization when Hughes
visited the state.
81. nay stsrtle New Workers. said
Nj, Rowell in an interview with re-
porter for The Tribune, "to learn that
DR. Nicholas Murray Butler was re-
,,ons.bls at both ends for the Cali.
,orDis situation II is nevertheless
,rus ! have hesitated TO ssy anything
sbout this before, but recently vss
able 10 gather substsntiating evidence
o. what before that was largely belief.
aDr. Butler Was in California before
Hughes came out there or his first
Western campaign tour in August. lie
vent out to play golf. and was guest
q Willism H. Croker, st the latter's
county house at Burlingame. Crocker
told the reporters who covered the
Hughes train in Los Angeles that be-
cause he was inexperienced in pol
tiles and realized the Importance Of the
situation presented in California at
that time, be had decided to be guided
and TO act On the advice Of his house
guest Dr.. Butler, who had advised
him Of the ethics Of the situation
Says Butler Opposed Johnson
81 have since learned that DR.. But
ler told Croker two things:
First that Il was immoral for q
nan 10 run as the nominee OF two par
ties. Johnson would be running as
such if he won the Republican pri-
mary tight, and that, therefore, 1t Was
the duty Of the Republican organizs-
ton in California to rescue the Califor-
nis organization from that immortality.
Second. that Dr. Butler had figured
out beforehand that the next United
States Senate would present tie be-
tween tie Democrats and the Repuo-
hcsns: that California would cast the
deciding vote in that tie, and that Cali
fonis owed Il 20 the Republican party
that Hiram Johnson should not have
the privilege Of casting that vote
$50 mueh for the California end.
Further t.an that. understand that
Dr. Butler then came East day or
two before hughes arrived in Ca!ifoT'
ria, and. according to my information
Al the time that we were franticaliy
tslsgr1phing to national Headquarters
that California was doubtful durins
September and October and cr!ihs
and shrieking for speakers and otner
assistance 70 save the state Tot
Hughes, that Dr. Butler told the peo-
PIE here that California Tas per1ec'lS
certain.
"He told them 50. understand, but
that was not hisopini m when he spoke
TO me before he left California TO re-
turn TO New York.'
RoSell Busy in New York
Mr. Rowell came 20 New York few
days ago 20 remain for perhaps week
HIS visit has a twofold political oblect
besides his personal mission 20 ma
out something about the price OF white
paper. First Of all. Mr.. Rowell came
70 tell the facts about the California
election when il is fresh In the minds
o. the people. and 70 remove any idea
70 the public mind thSt Hiram John-
son 'laid down" on the Republican
residential nominee. in spite OF the
iaei that Johnson won his Senatorial
ight b. 100000 votes and Hughes lost
hs state by 5000.
In the second place. MI Rowell is in
NE East In the interest Of the reorgani-
tlon Of The Republican party from the
aside. That move, as The Tribune
stated on Friday, was the real signih-
s,anee Of the meeting Of Rowell, Glford
f'aeho;, Harold Ickes. james Z. Gar
he'd. William Allen White and Ray
nond Robins in Chicago a few days
,ge
Fans FOR carrying out q definite
onprehensive programme along thls
hhs already have been perfected, and
WI soon be taking effect quietly
htoeghout the country.
The FIRST thing, however" said Mr..
Aovell. "is 20 let people know the
r,eth about the California situation.
s.ehnson made more speeches for
Hughes and 20 more people than any
e'her man in the United States, and
n,s campaign made by the Progressive
Republican committee was the only
campaign that was made for Hughes IN
california.
The Progressive Republican State
Committee neglected Johnson alto
rether, and let him run his own cam
yalgn and pay for Il himself, while we
fought for Hughes. We were not able
J" DO much, though. 70 Offset the worst
ana most idiotic campaign that was
conducted for Hughes during the three
Gays that he was in the state.
When Hughes Lost State
You may not know il in the East,
put before Hughes came out 20 Cali
''fnia, Croker and ] joined in tele-