Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1916 — T. R. TO BE GOOD IF WE GET RIGHT MAN [ARTICLE]

T. R. TO BE GOOD IF WE GET RIGHT MAN

Chairman Hill os Leys That Roosevelt Will Stay Out Under Conditions —Probable Planks. Chicago, 111., May 28.—Chairman Charles D. Hilles, of the republican national committee, today expressed the opinion that the platform which will be adopted iby the national convention next month would be unusually brief and deal only with the most vital public questions. From information obtained he believes that the principal planks in the platform will include the following: A statement on Americanism. A statement on preparedness for adequate military and naval defense. A declaration in favor of a protective tariff to be prepared by a non-partisan tariff commission created by congress, with special attention to the needs of the industries of this country after the close of the European war. A declaration in favor of a merchant marine. A statement dealing with the alleged shortcomings of the democratic administration. In speaking of the probable action of the progressive national cohvention called to be held June 7 in Chicago, simultaneously with the republican national convention, Mr. Hilles said:

“I imagine everybody assumes that the progressives will nominate Roosevelt for president. If the republican convention adopts a straight-forward, sincere, ringing declaration of the vital public questions now being discussed and nominates a man clearly equal to the important tasks that will confront the next president, Roosevelt might not think there would be any need of his entering the field. But if the republicans nominate a man who Mr. Roosevelt things is a misfortune and adopts a platform which he regards as ‘bunk,’ he may feel so enraged as to run and perhaps help reelect President Wilson.”

On the question of national woman suffrage Chairman Hilles said there was a difference of opinion among the party leaders and he did not know what action the convention would take on the subject. Chairman Hilles denied a report that the organization had ever thought of attempting to force the nomination of a candidate for president the first day of the convention. “This convention will be a truly deliberative body and it is pure speculation to attempt to say what it will do in the matter of nominating a candidate for president or when it will get through,” he said. Among the arrivals today was Harry S. New, republican nominee for senator in Indiana. John W. Wright, manager of the Elihu Root campaign, announced that his candidate would not come to Chicago for the convention. T. Coleman Dupont, of Delaware, is expected to arrive tomorrow and open headquarters.