The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04
LUST FOR OFFICE
 THE MOST POTENT
 FACTOR IN TITANIC FIGHT AT CHICAGO

FACTOR IN TITANIC FIGHT AT CHICAGO
 Continued from Page one) office, a rare and almost unexplainable political astuteness.
 No one doubts for moment but that Hughes if nominated, will accept, Save for the fact that with grim determina- tion, he has withheld formal announce ment, he is a candidate. The one future development regarding which grave doubt is expressed is the action of Roosevelt should he be defeated, Would he bolt?
 RULE OR RUIN
 The Age-Herald correspondent was in formed tonight by member of the na- tional committee that much of Roosevelt sentimental strength is due to the doubt in the mind of the bosses regarding his course of procedure in the event of the nomination of Hughes.
 For the bosses want to win. If they were positive that Roosevelt would, With equanimity, accept the verdict, they would nominate Hughes it is declared. On the other hand, it is pointed out that than suffer Roosevelt again to split the republican party the office seek ing bosses would swallow their gorge and hail the colonel chief.
 It. is evident that Roosevelt-able to do so on account of the silence of Justice Hughes-is using the whip. He has failed to smoke the justice out. He is now at tempting to bullyrag his delegates Ana through it all, he has preached to the entire nation that while the people are crying for him, the bosses, in control of the convention compose the bulk of his opposition. In other words, if Hughes Is nominated, will the colonel not be able to exclaim: "The reactionary bosses, over and against the protests of the people, named the candidate of the party?" And, in that event, would he bolt?
 MONEY BOSSES ACTIVE
 There is in evidence another remark able fact In other years, that candidate supported by Wall street, ''nefarious agents of predatory wealth. as the mill lionaires were called, has almost inva- riaby maintained discreet silence.
 At the present time, the leutenants of are openly and with peculiar kind of pride, boasting that business, an- ticipating strenuous times with the con- clusion of the European war, is working day and night in the interest of the col onel.
 George von L. Meyer, in charge of the campaign of Roosevelt declares: Big business is for the colonel" And, as if to support that statement, it is pointed out by the willing and ubiquitous claque that at present in the camp are Herbert L.. Satterlee, son-in-law of the late J. P. Morgan: George W. Perkins of the Har- vester trust and J. Ogden Armour, spokesman of the packing interests, and others In this connection, delegates are recalling with apparent interest the din other multi -millionaires served during the winter in honor of the sage of Sagamore.
 CAFE FOR HITCHCOCK
 The Hughes boom-though in the hands of no constituted authority-is nurtured by Frank Hitchcock, former postmaster
 
 is not authorized to speak for the jus tice or to act for him. Nevertheless, his declaration that he will support the justice. and his contention that the jus tice will win the nomination, have caused to be visited on his head all the recr- imitation the brain of the allies could produce
 Hitchcock, however, is still in Chicago and declares that here he will remain. He adds that the attack of the allies is proof positive of the abnormal strength of Hughes, and that the country at large is aware of the truth of that deduction.
 Governor Whitman of New York, who will put Hughes in nomination, issues no statement, but it is said to be highly probable that on the floor of the con venton he will declare it to be a fact that if rendered the nomina ton of the party, the justice will resign from the supreme court and make the race.
 SONS" IN DISTRESS
 The "favorte sons''-and there is a large number of them-are lost in the shuffe They are avowedly presidential candidates, and their partisans. prepared to give them complimentary votes, keenly resent insinuations that they are stalking
 
 give the convention additional color.
 And yet, with every tongue expressing the name of Roosevelt or that of Hughes, the ''sons''-even Root, who has been seriously considered, it is said; Burton, regarded as an extraordinary figure, and Fairbanks and Weeks, dubbed, on ac- count of their alleged partnership the "Siamese twins''-are unable to pose for an instant in the glare of the calcium. Obviously they are in distress They present the appearance of turfmen, de- pendent on the success of a 10O-to-1 shot. They are soldiers of fortune, each trust ing that he will be struck by the light ming from the fast brewing storm.
 THE THREE CONVENTIONS
 And yet. it is true that not every one of the innumerabe visitors Is chiefly with the developments of the republican convention There are two side shows, each d complement to the big ringed circus: first, the convention Of the progressives, numbering as many dele gates as the convention of the stand patters;" second, the convention of the suffra gettes.
 The progressives will nominate the col one' and exert potent influence, through their proved ability to disrupt the old organization. in forcing the re- publicans to accept their candidate. The suffragettes will organize a woman s party, d sparty to be composed of the ''heroic" type of western femininity pos sessed of the right of suffrage. It will be the function of this party to impress the republican convention with an idea that the women of the west hold the bal ance of power and will be ready to act