Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-21
NOT DISCUSS HYPHENATE
ISSUE UNTIL AFTER BEING
FORMALLY NOTIFIED.
DILAToRY TACTICS OF
COMMITTEES HANDICAP
Candidate Trifie Disconnected by Fall
ure to Be Prompt With Red Tape
Duty - Delay Gratifies Wilson and
His Managers Make Most Of oppor-
tunities-Hushes to Rip Lid OF.

washington, June I'LL the COM
mittee to notify the presidential nomi.
nee of the republican party will place
itself in touch with Charles Evans
Hughes at once it undoubtedly will
confer a great favor on the republican
candidate.
On the other hand, if it will delay
this important function and p%ussyfoot
along for a few weeks 1t will greatly
crafty not only President Wilson. but
the democratic chieftains who will
have charge of the administrations
campaign for ~"vindication."
That Mr.. Hughes is a little dis
turbed V e the failure of notification
people to emulate his example and get
busy at once is reliably asserted here
by his close friends.
Dilatory Tactics discomfort Hughes.
He is a trife disconnected over the
fact that men charged with the con-
duct of the party's affairs in this
campaign have failed to properly ap-
p~rec:ate the fact that he lost only
about ten minutes Of precious time in
pulling his coat after the roll was
NaiENN Al AK Nli3Naco Soils 4
For the full week he was working
like a dynamic leviathan early and
late. sunmoning Saides and placing
leaders, indicating the scope of the
campaign and laying down the gen
eral program to be followed. In fact
he had practically disposed of the
preliminary work in New York before
the end of the week.
! Hughes Out Only to Win.
The old style party leaders don't
seem yet to understand this man
Hughes. He has no club. no week
ends. no business affairs to ngage his
attention now-only the purposeful
obligation to win the battle of the re-
publican party.
II can be stated without fear of a
serious reprimand. according 10 re-
liable information, that the notitica-
ton committee would have received
warm congratulation OF its up and do
ing attitude If it had taken the pains
to get into communication with Mr..
j Hughes before departing from Chi
icago.
These are precious days, as the
Hughes men see it. and every day of
delay adds a little JOY to the admins
tration general.
Delay Gratifies Wilson.
From men close to President Wilson
the information was obtained today
that official Washington hopes the
notification of Mr.. Hughes will be de-
layed as long as possible in order that
the Wilson forces may dig deep with
their charges hat Hughes is a
hyphenate candidate.
They are making the best Of this is
sue-until MI. Hughes is notified
formally of his nomination his lips are
sealed. He is forced daily and hourly
to maintain his silence while the Will
son press and the non-partisan wood
Shed auxiliary, headed by Jacob Schiff
and Norman Hapgood. are laundering
for Wilson and by implication putting
Hughes in the class of ~straddlers, OPP
p%ortunists and weaklings.
With each new charge that his
silence may be construed as a species
of acquiescence in the pro-German
propaganda, ne is forced to silence be-
cause the great republican convention
got all tuckered out nominating him
then thought it time for it to take a
long time breathing spell before go
ing TO work.
Democrats Utilizing Every Second.
Wilson and his men are utilizing
every second. They're in power; they
can affect public opinion, perhaps, by
official actions as emergencies arise
as Hughes close friends see it.
The call for the mobilization Of the
national guard is TO the point. Hughes
feels deeply on the administrations
record on Mexico. He emphasized il
in his telegram of acceptance. But to.
day he has q paddock on his lips.
No one in all of the party but
Hughes seems to appreciate the
gravity of the situation, inasmuch as
he almost has been put in the class OF
"watchful Misunderstanding for the
generals to report for duty.
To Rip Lid OF Hyphen Issue.
That Mr.. Hughes will rip the ld
off the hyphen issue and will do 1t in
such a manner as to create something
of a sensation Is the promise of his
friends.
This p~ronouncement. one Of the first
that will engage his attention as soon
as he is at liberty to talk, will be
built around the plank in the repub-
lican platform that commits the party
to the belief that peace and neu-
s~trality, as well as the dignity and in
fuence of the United States, can no;
be preserved by shifty expedients, by
phrase making, by performance in
language.
Sample Of Democratic Tactics.
How the Wilson forces are i'm.