The Washington times., 1916-02-21
BULL MOOSE SILENT
AS DEMOCRATS AND
REPUBLICANS FIGHT
Taking No Part In Controversy
Over Recent Speech Of For
mer Senator Root.

While the echoes OF former scnat
Roots speech arraigninR the Dem,
cratic Administration aret heard where
ever Republicans gather. supporters OF
the Administration are preparing 10
sound within the next ten days several
big guns In reply.
! Former Gov. Martin II. Glynn. OF
New York. has been chosen to reply 10
Senator Roots speech when che Demo-
cratic convention assemblies at Syracuse
Prior to that time Senator william J.
Stone and other Democrats of the upper
chamber will answer here In Washing
ton the Root indictment of the Demo-
cratic party.
Senator Stone is preparing a speech
that not only will treat OF the entire
| foreign policy OF the Administration.
but will answer specifically Mr.. Roots
argument.
"Copy" For Record.
Indications are the Congressional
Record will be well loaded with cam
paign and political arguments during
the next few weeks.
Permission has been accorded in the
Senate to print Mr.. Roots speech In
| conjunction with the reply made by
Senator James Hamilton Lewis. and
this Ii but start In the rivalry for
the public eye of Democratic and Re
publican voters.
Meanwhile the Progressives appear
TO be marking time. and Color
Roosevelt remains silent In the We
Indies. There Ii under"surface no
in both the Republican and Progre
rive parties tfat a united front ma
be presented against Democracy aft
the June conventions.
In New York.
In New York. Governor Whitman
~ ~
Republican convention must be Jus
tice Hughes.
Tho governor says he is willing to
meet with the three other delegates
at-largo from New York. but he will
not Join wit them in indorsing Mr..
, Root,
William Barnes, so called boss Of
, the New York State Republican party,
D has put forward Mr.. Root as the most
. available Republican candidate, but
} there Is a growing impression that
| Mr. Barnes in reality seeks to kill
the Roosevelt and Hughes booms In
the Empire State, and to send to Chi
/, caRo a bunch of kand-picked dele
gates who can be swung into line at
!, the proper time "for any conserva-
I tive candidate"
e Governor whitman has developed
into tho most persistent boomer OF
Justice Hughes. He has given up any
Presidential ambitions he may have
I committed to the justice-who reiter-
ates that he Is not seeking the pomi-
: nation.
: Thorn For Democrats.
Z While the Republican governor OF
u New York Is taking an active inter-
a est In the national situation, Martin
II. Glynn, former Democratic govern
or, is grooming himself to make an
II swer to the Root speech-whic'
naina n thorn In the gid00 of III
n erage Democrat and is general
Il garded as the Republican keyn
n The Democratic State committI
y New York announces that Mr.. q
10 will be temporary chairman OF tc
Syracuse convention and Will del
the keynote address.
1t was the original intention OF the
a state committee to have the reply
to Mr.. Root delivered by Secretary
n OF State Lansing.
The Democratic leaders figured they
h could get a pretty strong punch into
J. tration IL Mr.. Lansing would agree to
7. make the address.
l. But the Secretary OF State informed
New York leaders that It was I'm
m possible for him to mix State De-
p partment affairs with political mat
ID ters. He thanked them and declined
the honor.
In Then Mr.. Glynn was selected and h,
has been hard at work on his speech
,e since. His big idea is to take the
10 edge off Mr.. Roots terrific attach
. against President Wilson and Il
a. policies OF the Democratic Admin
A. State Chairman Osborn has had con
n siderable correspondence with Mr.
Glynn as regards the matter OF thu
OF speech.
en- Glynn's Reply Outlined.
v" Mr.. Glynn will contend that Mr.
J. Root talked from a lawyers not
statesman's standpoint; that he as
X. sembled all of the charges that ha,
been made against the President ant
Il, dumped them in heap before hi
m. admiring Observation-Disclosures.
nj Mr.. Glynn will say that the speecl
u, was not constructive. that II was no
10 Illuminating, that II furnished no def
a. mite plan as to what Mr.. Root or tn
Republican party believes ought l.
Referring to two main points of Nj
p'- Roots speech, he will ask Mr.. Roo
what he would have had this countr
nd do as regards Belgium and MexIcC
,"s Would he have had the Government
81. issue an ultimatum to Germany whe
III the neutrality of Belgium was violat
m ed and would he have invaded Mexi
De- co to settle the affairs of that coun
ny try?
Governor Whitman made It plain this
he Is not unwilling to confer with HI
ert fellow-delegates at large, Senator Wadi
worth, Frederic c. Tanner. State chail
lg- man. and Elon r. Brown. State leade
but he says that he is too busy to me,
on them In New York, and II they wal
>o' to see him they can meet him in A
~, bany.
lie won't be budged from his suppo
of Justice Hughes and he doesn't belieN
that the other delegates at large wi
attempt even to voice ''preferenos
- for Mr.. Root.
ii The governor seems convinced thi
the New York delegation at Chical
will go unhampered; that Mr. Barn,
py VIII not succeed in his plan to tie l
% this delegation to keep II away fro
Roosevelt. or Hughes.