New Britain herald., 1916-06-10
DELEGATES WEARIED BY CONSTANT FIGHT Party Leaders Crawl From Warm
 Beds With Many Groans
 ALL KINDS OF RUM 0RS
Veterans of Many Campaigns Unable to Bear Any Influence and Their Word Counted for Naught-Somc Expected Deadlock.


 Chicago, June 10-DelegateS to the republican and progressive national this morning entered upon the fourth day of their deliberations with un- certainty to impending events written large over the doorways of the Co., Eseum and the Auditorium, WI '1 the big gatherings are being held
 No one could say whether niGhtfan would witness result in consummat- ing the campaign being made for har- mony between the two conventions.
 Hughes, Root and Roosevelt were the names most often spoken as the dole- gates gathered, state by state, for the ordeal confronting them. The tense ness of the situation which has been gathering force for days, was acute and showed on every face. Party leaders and many delegates who had retired for two or three hours sleep after a hard day and long night, were out early this morning, eager for any scrap of news that seemed to indicate the slightest shifting of the political winds Many had not slept at all.
 From midnight until after dawn au- tom obiles continued to speed from ho- tel to club and back to hotel and various conferences broke up and others began. Rumors of every con- ceivable kind were heard. Some of them were simply wild others seemed to have some basis in fact, and one or two bore the mark of authenticity.
 An Electric Atmosphere.
 The atmosphere was electric with the feeling that the final day had arrived; that decision must come within a few hours, probably; that nothing could longer stay final re- suits.
 And in these last hours, veterans of many national campaigns found themselves powerless in their efforts to swing the situation one way or another Men who in days past have been powerful in party councils seemed to count for little in the prog ress of immediate events.
 Many went back into the history of the republican party to the days of it's founding in efforts to discover some sort of parallel for the ballot ing that now is under way. Ihe convention at Minneapolis in lS92' l and that of 1888 in Chicago were re- ] called. majority, however seemed l to feel confident that the conventions l would conclude their work by to- l night Some few declare that there 1 would result a deadlock in the ballot ] ing that would carry the republican convention into next week.
 A peculiar fact in connection with the fight over the head of the re- publican ticket is that up to this the question of a vice presi- 1 dential candidate has been given al- l most no consideration in the many l conferences
 'sLast Hope'' For Peace.
 The peace conferees from the two who held their second 1 m meeting late last night and early this m orning at the Chicago Club, met again at o'clock this morning in "a last hope" session regarding which Senator Borah of Idaho said:
 We will come to some agreement before We go into the conventions to- lay"
 Senator Shoot of Utah declared his belief that Hughes would be nominat- ed regardless of any eventualities
 Justice Hughes with the 32Sh Jotes, which he received on the sec- md ballot last night, started the day 1 ts the strongest probability. His op- l 'onents maintained that he adjourn nent of the convention at the conclu- ion of the second ballot spells defeat or the former New Yorker, but the 1 Hughes supporters insisted that they Llready had taken great advantage which last nights adjournment can lot affect in any degree. In addi- ion the Hughes managers say that | 10 matter what Col. Roosevelt says low, the colonel will get behind Hughes once the latter is nominated.