New Britain herald., 1916-07-10
MAINE HOTBED 0F COMING CAMPAIGN
Both Parties to Make Every Ef-
 fort in Pine Tree State

bT1uSenalnpIOI, h. l., July IO.- Charles E. Hughes will be notified formally of his nomination for the presidency probably on the afternoon of Monday, July 31. at Carnegie hall, in New York City. It will be a large meeting, attended by representative men from all parts of the country and the progressives will play an import ant role. It will be the first general gathering of the clans and MT. Hughes hopes to make it a get-to- gether affair which will bring all fac tions solidly behind him. The meeting also will mark the real opening of the campaign, as plans are TOW being made to get MT. Hughes on the stump within a few days after he delivers his formal speech of accept ance. His first trip will include a swing to the Pacific Coast He had intended to start West about Aug IS, but the change in plans has been urged upon MT. Hughes because of the state election in Maine in Septem- Der. He will return in time to speak in Maine, where a governor and two United States senators are to be elected.
 It is probable also that both Colonel Roosevelt ad ex-President Taft will enter the Maine campaign and with this formidable array the republicans feel sure of a victory which they be- lieve will have an important effect on the national election in November. The democrats expect to have .Secre- tary of Commerce Redfeld, Secretary of the Interior Lane and possibly Resident Wilson in the Maine cam paign.
 There has been some talk of the notification being held on July "A, and while this is possible the later date is favored by most of the leaders.
 MT. Hughes will deliver a long, carefully prepared address in which he will cover all of the issues up to date and sound the keynote of the republican campaign. Probably only other speaker at the notification meet ing will be Senator Warren G. Hard ing, chairman of the notification com nittee.
 Moose Invited In. 1 The mem bers of the progressive party will be invited to turn out in 1 force at the meeting and reservations 1 will be made for them. The meeting will be followed by a series of con- ] ferences among republican and pro- gressive leaders, which it Is hoped will do much to pit an end to any feeling ! which may still exist. Tn fact if 1 MT. Hughes has his way it is to be not only notification meeting, but 1 political love feast as we'll which he hopes will start the campaign on a l basis of renewed friendship and har- mony.
 MT. Hughes consented to the plan to jump into active campaigning inn 1 mediately after the formal notifca- t1on ceremony without protest, when l the importance of victory in Maine 1 was submitted to him. By making an l early start for the Coast he will be able to get back just when the Maine
 fight is being brought to a close. l MT. Hughes now realizes that from l the time he starts west until election
 day he will have little opportunity
 for rest He may get a vacation of
 a few days in the Rockies, but after
 his return to Maine he will begin 1 shorter jumps to the doubtful states. One trip will carry him south where
 he will campaign in Tennessee, Mary
 land, Kentucky, West Virginia, North 1 Carolina, and possibly two or three
 other states.
 He also will devote much time to l New Jersey, Massa chusetts, and New l York, in the east, and to Ohio, h.
 diana, Illinois, and other states in the
 middle west.
 MT. Hughes hopes. as far as pos
 sible, to avoid rear platform speeches
 on his first swing to the Coast but
 he has no such illusion about the
 campaigns which must be made late
 in September and October, and has
 agreed to make the hardest fight he
 can.
 Today MT. Hughes gave some time
 to his speech of acceptance. He ! walked to church with Mrs. Hugh es
 and his daughte tors. His program for
 tomorrow calls for the abandonment
 of his usual two hours of golf be-
 cause of the mass of work which he