Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1916 — HUGHES LED ON FIRST TWO BALLOTS [ARTICLE]

HUGHES LED ON FIRST TWO BALLOTS

Root Second, Fairbanks Third Choice. A, Roosevelt Fails to Develop Expected Strength and Lags Behind in Fifth Place—Hughes, T. R. and Fairbanks Gain Strength on Second Ballot. A \ THE VOTE

First Ballot Hughes, 253%. Root, 103. Weeks, 105. Cummins, 85. Burton, 77%. Fairbanks, 74%. Sherman, 66. Rocsevelt, 65. Knox, 36. Ford, 32. Brumbaugh, 29. LaFollette, 25. Taft, 14. Dupont, 12. Willis, 4. Borah, 2. McCall, 1. Not voting, 2%. Total, 987. ,

**■ Second Ballot Hughes, 328%. Root, 98%. Fairbanks, 88%. Cummins, 85. Roosevelt, 81. Weeks, 79. Burton, 76%. Sherman, 65. Knox, 36? * LaFollette, 25. Dupont, 13. Wanamaker, 5. McCall, 1. Willis, 1. Wood, 1. Harding, 1. Not voting, 1. Total, 987.

Chicago, June 9. —On the two only ballots taken today in the republican national convention, Justice Hughes eld the field and gained strength. His supporters, confident that another ballot would give him a majority, resisted adjournment, but the convention, tired and worn with a continuous ten-hour session, was determine ! to rest until tomorrow morning at 1 1 o’clock and adjourned. It was the first time,since 1888 that a republican convention has taken more than one balot to choose a presidential nominee. On the first ballot Justice Hughes polled 253% votes. He got 42 from his own state and aside from Oregon and Florida, the remainder were largely scattering. On the second ballot he increased to 328% votes. It requires 494 votes to nominate. Col. Roosevelt’s topmost strength was 81 votes. Besides Justice Hughes, the Colonel and Charles W. Fairbanks of all the eighteen men who had votes on the first ballot alone made an increase on the second.

The expected demonstration for Col. Roosevelt when he,was nominated by Senator Fall, of New Mexico, lasted 41 minutes and broke the record for this convention. All observers agreed that it was largely a gallery demonstration and that the participation was scattering -from the delegate section. The Fairbanks demonstration ran next with 35 minutes, the Burton demonstration lasted 34 minutes and the Hughes demonstration lasted 20 minutes. On the first ballot the delegates followed their instructions, voting for favorite sons and primary choices. Senator Weeks got 105; Elihu Root 103; Cummins 85; Fairbanks 74%; Sherman 66; Roosevelt 65 and Knox 36. Henry Ford got Michigan’s 30 votes by instruction. Former President Taft got 14 from Texas, and the scattering - included complimentary votes for Borah, Willis and McCall and the instructed vote for other candidates. On the second ballot Michigan turned twenty-eight over to Hughes and gave Col. Roosevelt two; McCall, of Massachusetts, turned his vote to the justice amid great applause; Senator Lodge, who had nominated Senator Weeks, turned his vote to Col. Roosevelt; W. Murray Crane announced his vote for Hughes; Missouri gave the justice 22 of her 36; New Jersey gave him 16. The New Yov& delegation vote on the second ballot stood, Hughes 43; Root 42 and Roosevelt 2. Pennsylvania’s second ballot was, Knox 36; Roosevelt 22; John Wanamaker 5; Hughes 8; Dupont 2; Root 1 and one not voting. Before the second balk* was taken one of the favorite sons—Gov. Brum- - -i J u A 3*C*JP r *

baugh—withdrew and proposed the nomination of Col. Roosevelt. The ther favorite sons remained through the balloting. On the second ballot one vote was cast for Major General Leonard Wood and one for Chairman Harding. Tomorrow, the Hughes supporters predict, they will continue to draw strength and nominate their candidate. “We quite while we were growing,” declared the Hughes people. An analysis showing where the gain of Justice Hughes came from on the second ballot follows: In all Justice Hughes gained 75 votes on the second ballot. He gaiped one in Alabama, two in California, one in Georgia, one in Kentucky, two in Louisiana, two in Maine, eight in Massachusetts, twenty-eight in Michigan, four in Missouri, two n Nebraska, three in New Hampshire, four in New Jersey, one in New York, six in Pennsylvania, two in South Carolina, two in Texas, one in Utah, three in Virginia, three in West Virginia, one in Hawaii. He lost one vote in Arkansas and one in Tennessee.

Roosevelt gained sixteen votes on the second ballot. One of these came from Maine one from Massachusetts, two from Michigan, fifteen from Pennsylvania and one from Texas. He lost one vote in Idaho, one in South Carolina, one in Washington and one in Georgia. In ten continuous hours the delegates today sat through eleven nominating speeches which presented Justice Hughes, Elihu Root, Former Senator Burton, Senator Weeks, T. Coleman Dupont, Senator Sherman, Fommer Senator Fairbanks, Senator Cummins, Col. Roosevelt, Senator LaFotlette and Gov. Brumbaugh. There were a various number of seconding speeches. Ten had been planned for Col. Roosevelt and -although Chairman Harding agreed to recognize them all, they did not all appear.

During the uproar that greeted the nomination of Col. Roosevelt, the police had to be sent to the galleries to stop women tearing bunting from the railings. Otherwise the demonstrations, although noisy and prolonged, were good natured and orderly* Tomorrow the convention leaders expect to dispose of both presidential and vice-presidential nominations. When the delegates take their seats at 11 o'clock for the third ballot it. will be Hughes against the field. The total vote of the convention fixed by the credentials committee a: 989 was reduced to 987 because the two Porto Rican delegates failed to qualify. This reduced the number necessary for a nomination to 494 instead of 495 as previously had been announced.- ■ /