The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1916-06-16


phlegmstic, unemotionsl mental attitude
that has marked with but few digressions
its deliberations, the Republican Nation
al Convention today nominated Charles
f. Hughes for President, and Charles
Warren Fairbanks for Vice President. I,
did more. Ii dispassionately disposed ol
the last effort Of Theodore Roosevelt to
direct and regulate its affairs, and pro-
ceeded to it, business as il there were NO
such per~op i'm It's existence.
The extinguishme Mt WAS complete AZ
last resort and through the agency ol
United States Senator Reed Smoot, oi
Utah, representing the really comicsl
Committee of Conference, he injected
she name OF United States Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge. of Massachusetts, who left
his colleague, Senator John w. Weeks,
70 vote for Roosevelt, a. the one of all
the Republican candidates he would ac-
cept-
But the heaviest blow to Roosevelt q
pride fell when Massachusetts Was reach
cd upon the roll call. Stately and xustere.
Governor samuel McOall declared that
the delegation had been surprised by the
report of the committee recommending
the nomination Of Hughes by both con-
ventio"s and had no opportunity To take
another ballot.
Still he could say that u Was proof
against temptations, and tii-reupon they
cast the hnal vote in ~hich no one sup
ported senator Lodge That statesman
himself made the lie iberate ignoring OF
the Oyster Bay master politician super
istiveiy efiectixe, when he asked for the
privilege, and was recognized, to second
the motion To make the nomination Of
Charles r. Hughes unanimous.
MURMUR OF ANGRY PROTEST.
From the Massachusetts seats there
came murmur Of angry protests against
koosevelts action IN embarrassing III, n
fellow deieg~t-. senator L<dge, by un-
~srraLtsdiy injesrting him into tie siIu-
alton after Il Was plain u him that the
convention had decIded t0 name IT, pr-r
ent Nominee Some, indeesi, said that
il was typicaily the not urtll~ughtiul
cruelty OF tie former President.
larry reports from the Committee on
Conference brought the intelligence that
the Republicans had offered ~ con,-
promise, Justice Hughes, and that tls
Progrrssives OF the radical type would
not accept him.
NOMINATION WAS ASSURED.
There Was some anus. m nt over ILL.,
offer Of the conferees ~ Il ~a- in thel
power % present no one else. Daring
the night the opposition ~ him had eo,.
lspsed and his nomination Was assure.
when the confsrees- tongue in cbs-ck
met the Progres-ives who knew the sItu
alton a. seIl - they did.
Az soon ~ the stage va cleared for
the rehesrsed performance, Sensloi
Smoot read the reports ~ the Represents
tive of the conferenees and al-o the lite
OF Col. Roosevelt, handed him by JohI
W. Mc,5rsth, secretary to the fOrme
President, Who was on the platform
Smoot read IL and IL length Of descript. I
Of the virtues Of senator Lodge caused
delegate sndibly 70 say that the state o
Roosevelt 10 nominating IL candidate. .
Massachusetts, cheered IL Lodge
name, but only in part When Smoo
announced that the Progressive con,tn
ton had laid Roosevelt's telegram an,
the Republican Recommendation q
Hughes on the tsl,le the convention boo<,
the execrst-d Bull Mos heartily
Calmly. - befitted the scene, ChairmsI
Harding grsvely discharged the commit
tee and thanked 10 for ~ alleged labor-
performance that csu-rd more smiling
Just o. the rustic Of the ball q sheet
being made ready Tor u-e ~ss texlnnin
senator John W. Weeks, Of Ms~schu
setts, bis and broad -houldered, worke.
his ~sy N the platform e. q clss.i
scholar recited: Hail, Cesar, We oh
are about to dle, salute you" He va
the chosen spokesman of the overthrow
fsvorise sons soon N be immolsted o.
tbe pyre Of defeat.
All, ANOTHER RETREAT,
Hardly had he Withdrawn himself an
relessed his delegates tnan Oonxressms
kodsnhsrR, of Illinois, made public Oh
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