The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-06-15
UNITED REPUBLICAN
PARTY SUPPORTED BY
COLONEL FACES FOE
News Flashed from Oyster Bay to
Chicago Brought Cheer to Repub-
licans and Gloom to Progressives
Hughes Statement on Ameri-
canism Converts Roosevelt

President Wilson, in his campaign for re-eleCtio
will be opposed by a reunited Republican Party, le
by Charles Evans Hughes, OF New York as the Re
publican candidate for President and Charles War
rem Fairbanks, of Indiana, as the candidate for Vic
President.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will give his fu
support to the Republican ticket This word, flash
ed over the wires to the friends of Roosevelt
brought cheer to the Republicans and gloom to tn
Progressives. There will be no third party move
ment. This is certain. There may be some attemp
to revise the remains of the party under the leader
ship of Hiram Johnson or Victor Murdoch, but
will be bob-tailed movement causing little if an
embarrassment in the regular Republicans.
Nominated unanimously by the Republican con
vention the close of the most eventu week in tn
National politics, Justice Hughes made certain tn
support of Colonel Roosevelt by the issuance of
statement taking firm stand on Amercansm ant
Preparedness.
The knowledge that Colonel Roosevelt will sup
port the ticket has wiped out the resentment which
the present convention demonstrated, has beer
smoulderng against him ever since he left the Re
publican Party in 1912. y firm and unfiinching sup
port of the Republican candidates without a doub
will restore Colonel Roosevelt to his dominant plac
in the Republican Party
For three days the conventions Of the Republi
can and Progressive parties labored through wind
and rains. Saturday they ended their deliberaton
amidst burst of glorious sunshine Each conven
ton has chosen to go its separate way, hence TO
the present least there are two sets of candidates
Here they are:
Republican nominations:
For President Charles Evans Hughes, of Ne,
York and of the Supreme Court of the United States
For Vice Observation-Disclosures Warren Fairbanks
OF Indiana, former Vice President of the Unite
States.
Progressive nominations:
For Observation-Disclosures Roosevelt
For Vice President-John NJ. Parker, of Louisi
ana.
Such IS the situation as presented by the two con
ventions but it is confidently predicted that the at
mosphere will clear before long and that the Roosc
yet ticket will disappear. After the Progressiv
convention had hurled-that is the word that fits tn
occasion-after the convention had hurled him int
the nomination. he got in touch with it. He CAV
the delegates to understand that if they expect hin
to accept otf-hand they would be disappointed H
would have to await developments He did not We
know the views of the Republican candidate on tn
issues of the day. IT, when Justice Hughes ha
spoken his position was not satisfactory to the Pro
gressive committee, then would be the time for ac
ton. He wanted his own letter to the convention +
be taken into consideration by the Progressive com
mittee. He wanted the statement of Hughes, whe
it should appear, also to be considered. Then tn
committee and Roosevelt himself would consult an
determine what to do.
This attitude Of Roosevelt is precisely what Re
publican leaders have assumed that it would be
They contend that Hughes has been nominated nc
by machine work. but as the result of his own popu
larity among the people. They point to their plat
form as one truly Made in America" The Re
publican leaders have believed all along that Hughe
would plant himself firmly, as he has done, upon
and meet every possible requirement of Roosevelt a
to Amercansm, preparedness and the problems tina
Roosevelt has made his own.
The nomination of Roosevelt was inevitable
The Progressives who have taken part in the con
vention know Roosevelt only. 1t is doubtful if h
could have swung them to any other man. Only
positive refusal to run could have prevented Their
from naming him.
And the nomination of Hughes, be it said, if nc
also inevitable, was virtually so. The Hughes move
ment was much stronger than Republican leader
who desired to nominate someone else realized befor
they arrived in Chicago. In a multiplicity of cand
dates there is division. From the start it has bee
the field of candidates against Hughes. Into thi
field Roosevelt could not have plunged had he see
fit to do So word from him that he would not &C
cept Hughes would have made much difference