Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1916 — PAPERS SAY HUGHES WILL BE NOMINATED [ARTICLE]

PAPERS SAY HUGHES WILL BE NOMINATED

EARLY BALLOTS AT LEAST WILL PLACE HIM AT TOP—THEN THE GRIND WILL BEGIN.

Roosevelt Objects Noisy Moosers Defiant and In Continuous Noise-Making Parades Say Republicans Must Take “Teddy” or Third Party Will Again Eleot Wilson—Republicans Generally Pay Little Attention to Such Talk But Reply Calmly That This Is a Republican Convention and That It Is Proposed to “Stand by the Nominee of the Party—Rain Makes City it Scene of Distress and Taxicabs iHave Busy Period.

(Special to The Republican.) Chicago, June 6—Where are we at ? We don’t know. the ground and where the rumblings and thunderings of the convention are heard all day and all night, if one cares to remain up to listen, we admit that we don’t know. If one was to judge solely by the noise and the number of badges and the challenges issued by defiant champions they would say that the convention would name Roosevelt on first choice, but one only has to be here a short time to learn that the noise is not a barometer of the forthcoming convention. 1 In fact, the Roosevelt “rooters” are not any part of the republican convention. They came to attend the Bull M oose -convention and

their headquarters are at the Auditorium hotel just across Congress street from the Congress hotel. The lostleries are connected by a subway and the Roosevelt rooters remain at their own home only long enough to form a parade behind a band or to commit a yell or two and to learn the tune of a song and then they march over to the Congress lobby and'create what they apparently consider a big Doom for the colonel. Their appeals, however, fall on deaf ears for it is evident that the Republican convention has no though of nominating Roosevelt and will go no further than to consider his wish with reference to one of the fifteen or twenty men proposed as candidates. This means, if the marching Moosers speak with authority, that the third party will kick over the traces and run “Teddy” whether or no. The papers say that Hughes wiii be nominated and that Roosevelt will fight. Just what he has against the justice aside from the fact that ML Hughes has not pledged himself to a sufficient preparedness program is not apparent but his noise-makers and the newspapers say that he won’t stand for Hughes, and there you are. Eliminating Hughes there is probably no candidate that stands a better chance than Charles Warren Faii’banks. He is respected in every state in the union. Even the Moosers are very kindly in their expressions of him and two or three parades from the Auditorium to the congress were made in the interest of a Roosevelt and Fairbanks ticket. Evidently that sort of ticket would suit the Moosers mighty well.

The Sherman backers have been making a lot of noise. Bands and parades despite the rain have marched to the Congress and shouted for him at intervals during the day and evening. Cummins, of Iowa; Burton, of Ohio; Root, of New Yoik; Weeks, of Massachusetts; and Knox, of Pennsylvania, all have supporters, but Knox is not a candidate and there is some doubt" about what Pennsylvania with its big vote will do. Soipg say that Boise Penrose will swing ‘t to Roosevelt. Next to the Fairbanks headquarters in the Congress are the-headquar-ters of the woman suffrage committee. Mrs. W. S. Parks, of Rensselaer, has been a visitor at these headquarters and is wearing a Roosevelt badge. Through her the writer met one or two suffragettes of the pronounced uncompromising type. They issued a challenge immediately to the effect that if the Republican party fails to incorporate an equal suffrage plank in its plptform it will be defeated. If a person was to get frightened it eypry threat it would be just as well to abandon the convention and go home. Mrs. Parks and her friends are hoping to arrange for a woman's suffrage day at Fountain Park this year. The suffragettes have leased the Blckstone theatre and are holding sessions there each ofternoon and evening. Their parade is to take place this afternoon at 4 o’clocx, “rain or ; shine.” \ Peter Nomensen, of Dwight, 111.,

who owns land in Jasper county, is attending the convention. He is strong for Lawrence Y. Sherman, but Fairbanks would suit him mighty' weld I am stopping in the Y. M. C. A. hotel on Wabash Avenue near Bth street. The hotel has 1,823 rooms and is a model of cleanliness and good management. My room for four nights costs $1.60, or 40 cents a night. The rooms are small, have a single bed, small mirror and one clothes post, but there is not room for a chair. The toilets and baths, tub and shower, are handy and the hotel has made a great hit with convention visitors who found the big down town hotels all-taken by reservation. We can recommend the Y. M. C. A. hotel to any who are coming to Chicago for the convention or at any future tune. The rate is 40 cents for as nice a bed as you will want. The regulations provide that you vacate your room by 9 in the morning and don.’t enter it again before 4 irf the afternoon. r I will make my first visit to the Coliseum in the morning, going down with Chairman McLain and Sheriff McColly, who came up this, afternoon. Thursday and Friday look to be the big days. GEO. H. HEALEY.