Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-06
BITTER FEELING
THREATENS UPSET
TO HARMONY PLAN
Rank and File in Rival
Camps Chafe Under
Secret Conferences
ROOSEVELT is REsENTFUL
BY JOHN EDWIN NEv1N

CHICAGO June 6-Constantly increas.
Ing bitter feeling between the Progressive
ana Republican camps today seriously
threatened the harmony program prepared
| by the leaders The rank and file OF the
delegates on both sides were chafing under
the strain Of inaction. The secret confer
ences of the leaders. especially those particle
| pated in by George w. Perkins and such
| notable Old Guard leaders Reed Smoot
| Boies Penrose and Murray Crane, were dis
| tasteful to the radical Progresslves, and
| they number nearly majority OF the dele
| gates to that partys convention. And the
| dyed.in.the.wool Republicans, who blame all
| of the troubles of the party on the Progress
| siNes, were openly asserting that they came
to Chicago to attend Republican conven.
tlon, and did not propose to have any other
organization control their actions.
The leaders were still cropping in the
/ dark in an effort to find a solution which
would unite the factions. Colonel Roose-
velt from oyster Bay, was directing a
fight from there for his own nomination
that was remarkable in the extreme. His
son, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.; his Secre
tary, John McGrath and other close lieu
tenants were in conversation with him al.
most continually. Roosevelt was said blt-
terly to resent the attitude of the Old
Guard leaders who had contemptuously
told his representatives that they would
name any Republican satisfactory to
Roosevelt but that he personally could |
not have the nomination He sharply told |
his lieutenants, including George w Per- |
klns, that they must quit open bargaining |
If that was contingent upon his own elm |
ination.
LEONARD WOOD AS COMPROMISE
a quiet runor was given circulation this
morning that may yet have n potent effect
on the deliberations of the convention. The
name of Major General Leonard Wood,
former Chief of staff of the Army and
very close friend of the Colonel, was being
suggested as ideal compromise can
dtdate. Roosevelt, II Is we'll known, would
enthusiastically support General Wood, and
would rally to his support every true-blue
Progressive in the country. Governor
Hiram johnson. of California, and Clifford
Pinchot, while declining to devate single
degree from their outspoien demand for
naming of Roosevelt, smiled when asked
whether they would stand for Wood and
asked whether he was not such man"
as the Colonel
But the Old Guard leaders evidenced no
so far as Wood was concerned
They declared that nominating him would
be as bad as accepting the Colonel himself
and that between the two evils they would
prefer Roosevelt. because at least they
knew where he stood on the question of |
and organization. {
HUGHES SPEECH AN ASSET.
The lineup, so far as the candidates '
we're concerned, was unchanged today. The '
speech of Justice Hughes, in Washington. {
vas eagerly seized upon by his followers
is proof that he was for an Americanism '
which would satisfy the people. The Pro- q
yressive leaders were asked to read 1t S
;arefully and accept it as an evidence of G
ust where Hughes stands.
But Victor Murdoch, George w. Perkins n
Henry Allen Johnson, Pinchot and others +
jcorned such a suggestion. They declared a
hat If the Justice could come through as \
ar as he had with veiled illusions there G
vas nothing in the way to prevent him set 4
ing his views before the convention, and | Il
hey declared with an emphasis that left | n
little to the imagination that they were d
opposed to the Justice as can
lidate.
Hughes still was the leading candidate.
Jnless the leaders shall be able to agree on
! single candidate to oppose him within the
lext 36 hours his nomination on the sec.
md or third ballot is a certainty.
Band wagon" delegates are ready to
ump. They are becoming convinced that | I
hughes is in the lead and are preparing L
o come out into the open for him The e
oregon Hughes delegates say they have =
ecured pledges from virtually all the Z
northwestern States, so that most of the
ninstructed Votes from that section will go ,
o Hughes on the first ballot. :
3ORAH RELEASES HIS. DELEGATES. :
Senator William f. Borah, of Idaho him z
elf candidate with his State delegation {
for him, released all of his dele
ates from their instructions today. He {
eclined to suggest whom they should vote c
or, telling the Idaho and Wyoming leaders &
'ho conferred with him that the delegates n
hould follow their own choice and that he
i'd not desire to embarrass any of the v
andldates by coming out for an individual. b
But the Borah voters are to go to Hughes c
light from the outset and while the Sena-
or declines 20 he interviewed II is known S
hal he considers the naming OF Hughes c
certainty 4
The Fairbanks followers stlll claimed that ii