Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-06-05
HUGHE s IS
GAINING At
CHICAGO
Old Guard Ready to Name
the Jurist if Assurance Is
Forthcoming That He will
Garry Support Of the Party

OuicAku, Suhu ~ AhN Vu kuhTu
made It's frat definite proiyer to the
progressiNes today. Secure In In own
belief that Il can control the votes Of
. majority OF the delegates. the dom
tnant forces OF republicanism want
Hughes. But they only want Hughes
ff they can BE- convinced he can be q
winner. Therefore. the preliminary
feeler TO the progressivcs was 10 as
certain n IN agreement would not be
possible with Hughss az q candidate,
running on any sort OF a platform
which the progressives might require.
The old guard Ia not belittiing the
power which II feels the progressives
can swing. and Its plan went further
than nero suGgertion that an agree
mont committee discnss Hughes. n
went no far as TO discuss n scheme hy
which the proEressives might later
assist In putting Hughes over
the scheme was 10 suggest thai
tho promessives meet waape~day
and not later than rhnrsdAy night to
nominate Hughes. Then By Friday
or Saturday the republican conven-
tion would choose the same standard
bearer. The progressives could
very well ''polnt with pride" TO the
fact that by their action In naming
Hughes they had forced the q. o. p.
into selecting the same leader.
The progressive leaders. who have
been waiting some sort Of an olive
branch suggestion. made Il known
today they were hrst for Roosevelt
and only for Hughes n some sort Of
q satisfactory" statement on prin-
ciples could be extracted from the
1nrist. Failing that. they Haunted
the big stick Of third ticket.
There appeared very little doubt
today that Hug;ies can be nominated
n the big three---Penrose. Barnes
and Crane--say so. But the big
three do not want to say 30 until
they oan be assured OF n united party
behind Hughes. They do not think
Roosevelt can possibly draw all the
votes Of q reunited party. They do
not think any OF the "favorlte sons"
is OF sufiicient potency to defeat
Wilson without progressive support,
In other words. the old guard is In
the position OF having control, hut
not knowing what to do with lts con-
troll.
One counter suggestion advanced
by tho uncompromising progressive
group was for the republicans 20 20
ahead and nominate Hughes and the
progressives to choose Roosevelt,
Then II the acceptance statement by
Hughes sufiiciently supports the
Rooseveltian brand Of preparedness,
Il is planned that Roosevelt will with
draw acceptance OF the progressive
nomination and throw support to
Hughes. n was pointed out today
that the colonel has all along main
tained that he Ia nghtlng for a corr
tain set OF principles Tor In his 81,
louis speech he said he accepted sup
port solely In the knowledge that this
support came through the approval
OF the principles for which he stands,
and not necessarily OF approval q
MIN personally, gR
Practically all leaders republican
and progressive have given up hope
OF penetrating Justice Hughes sill
ence before the balloting comes in
the @, o. p. meeting. The allies
hope Of defeating him In the ballot
ing comes through belief that II
the roll calls can be prolonged
through half q dozen or more bal
lots the Justice might formally with
draw. mn Ai 9tNN
n developcd today that the Fair
banks men are playing the vice.