New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 27, 1916, Page 5

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, Progressives_ “ Wfangle Over Hughes Support G. O. P. Candidate Endorsed But Six Vote Against It and Nine Decline to Vote at Al —Many to Aid Wilson. Chicago, June 27.—The progre ve | party as a separate political organ- | ization died last night. Its demise | was far from peaceful. Mémbers of | the progressive national committee, at €n acrimonious meeting, indulged in | & discussion in which the word “liar’ pnd other disagreeable epithets were | freely used. Finally, after a day spent | in wrangling, the committee voted to | gorse Charles Evans Hughes for president. Thirty-two members of the commit- | tée supported the resolution indors- ing ex-Justice Hughes. which was of- | fered by James R. Garfield of Ohio. | Six members voted against it -and nine declined to vote. Several of the fifteen minority members. including Raymond Robins of Chicago, who | was chairman of the progressive na- | tional convention three weeks ago, an- nounced that probably they would support President Wilson. The indorsement of Hughes, in accordance with the wishes of | Theodore Roosevelt, as expressed in a letter to the committee, was regard- marking the demise of the pro- | ve party. While the national executive committee was instructed to coroperate in the Hughes campaign, ! It was admitted that the full national committee never would have another meeting. ++ The resolution indorsing Hughes, as finally adopted after seven hours of debate, follows: “Whereas, the statement issued by this committee in January and the platform adopted by the progressive national convention set forth that, gutting aside all partisan considera- tions, in view of existing world and mational conditions, we would work wth any man or party who saw the nation’s need and put forth a leader fit to meet it; and, “Whereas, we believe, with Colonel Roosevelt, that in nominating Charles 4+B. Hughes of New York, the repub- lican party has put forth such a leader we indorse and concur in the recom- mendation of Colonel Roosevelt that we support Mr. Hughes Vote on Indorsing Hughes. . The various states and territories, through their committeemen. as follows on the resolution Yeas—Alabama, Arizona, Arkan- sas, California, Colorado, Connecti- cut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Ii- “linois, Indiana, Towa. Kansas. Louis lana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, ew ! jampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Penn- sylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Ver- mont, Virginia, Wyoming and Hawaii —total, 32. | Nay—TIdaho, Kentucky, Montana, | North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Utah—total, 6. | Declining to vote—Florida, Massa- | ,chusetts, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Mis /“souri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, | Washington and West Virginia—to- tal, 9. ‘ The opponents of the proposal to | indorse Hughes put up a stubborn fight. Leaders on that side were Matthew Hale of Massachusetts, who presidéd as Vice Chairman of the committee, in the absence of Victor Murdock, the chairman; Bainbridge Colby of New York, who held the proxy of the committeeman from Flo- rida; John M. Parker of Louistana, ~who was nominated for vice presi dent by the progressives three weeks | ago, and Henry Cochems of Wiscon- sin. Mr. Garfield was the floor leader tor the Hughes forces. George W. > Perkins of New York and Chester H. Rowell of California, also urged the Indorsement of Hughes. John W. Mc- Grath, private secretary to Colonel | Roosevelt, held several proxies, and several times interrupted the proceed- | Ings to put in a word on the side of a Hughes indorsement. Harold L. Ickes, progressive na- tional committeeman from Illinois, rlso lined up for Hughes. A state- | ment made by him during the roll | call on the Garfield resolution was regarded as typical of the view of s the majority. Party Out of Existence. “Since the adjournment of the tional convention I have been much perplexed over the situation,” he said “I would prefer to Have gone down fighting with our own ticket. T do not | think it possible to ‘make a third tick- | et fight with any other presidential candidate than Roosevelt. I am very | gorry he declined to accept the nomi- | | | | | i made | lined up | ¥ na- nation, “We might as well face the facts. The progressive party has gone out of existence. You can't declare the party | alive by passing resolutions. The pro- greseive party is dead in my opinlon, beyond recell.” Raymond Robins sat in the commit- tee as proxy for the committeeman from Oklahoma. He made a stirring address in which he declared his pres- ent intention to support Wilson. “I talked with Theodore Roosevelt following the progressive national con- vention,” said Mr. Robins. “It was ap- ™ parent his mind was made up to sup- port Hughes. In that judgment I dis- sented, and now I dissent. As I stand at this hour I would vote for Woodrow Wilson. I have not determined defi- nitely what I shall do. I came from the democratic party. “After talking with Roosevelt [ went to the next recognized leader of the party, Hiram Johnson of Califo nia. He said that under all the eir- | cumstances he thought he would have to go back to the republican party. I then went to Giffora Pinchot. He said the same thing. Mr. Garfleld talked similarly. “The Tllinnis progressives held a conference, at which the sentiment was about 70 te 30 in favor of going back | partie 1in { with Mr. Colby. | placed on the ticket for president | statement he sent to to the republican party. 1 came to the conclusion that it would be futile to run a third ticket. A third ticket in the present condition would mean a waste of political leadership and pow- er in a time of the nation’s crisis. If men like Johnson and Pinchot, how- ever, believed there should be a third ticket I would gladly pledge myself to speak for it each day of the campaign and to contribute $5,000. “But the people of the United States have decided whether for good or ill, that they are going to work out the destinies of the nation within the two , republican and democratic. I believe it is proper that the men who in the nature of things ought to work in the republican party should return to that party and that the men who in the nature of things ought to work the democratic party should return that party.” Colby Calls Robins Liar. Mr. Robins figured in a heated clash The latter had moved of Kansas be to fill the vacancy caused by the refusal of Colonel Roosevelt to accept the nomination. Mr. Robins, who, while leaning toward President Wilson, yet did not wish the progressives to put up a third ticket simply to aid Wilson, interrupted to declare that Mr. Colby to that Vietor Murdock | already had declared himself for Wil- son, “You're a lis shouted Mr. Colby. William Flinn of Pennsylvania, who was one of the strong Hughes men, sought to have Mr. Colby ejected from the meeting. Later in the day Mr. Colby apologized to Mr, Robins, and the two men parted friends. The Colby motion to put Murdock on the ticket was voted down, 31 to 15. After Mr. Garfield presented his reso- lution to support Mr. Hughes, Mr. Colby moved that action be postponed until August 5, the anniversary of the birth of the party. This motion was defeated, 13 to 34. Chairman Hale ruled that the Gar- field resolution was out of order inas- much as the committee had authority from the national convention merely to fill vacancies on the ticket and not | to indorse candidates of other parties. | On an appeal from the decision of the { chair this ruling was reversed by a vote of 14 to 33. Mr. Cochems offered as a substitute for the Garfield resolution a motion that the national committee go out of existence, and that action be left to the different state committees. This was tabled by a vote of 32 to 14, Mr. Cochems then offered as a sub- stitute a motion that, in view of the failure to nominate a candidate, the committee go out of existence, and re- fer the matter to the consciences of individual members of the party. This | was tabled by a vote of 32 to 15. To Co-operate in Campaign. Following the adoption of the Gar- fleld resolution a second resolution was presented by Mr. Garfield. This directed the national executive com- mittee to co-operate with the Hughes campaign managers, and recommend- ed that progressive state committees take action after conference with the national executive committee. This was adopted by a vote of 32 to 3, with eleven members not voting. Prevent Walkout. In order to satisfy the opponents of [ Hughes the majority members con- sented to the adoption of a resolu- tion providing that the action taken by the committee should in no way be binding upon the dissenting mem- bers. This kept the Wilson support- ers from walking out of the room. : Mr. Parker, whose vice president#" candidacy is thrown into the discard by the failure of the committee *o se- lect a new progressive nominee, made a vigorous plea third ticket. He said he cared noth- ing about his own candidacy. He said, however, that he had burned all his bridges, having come into the | progressive party from the democratic party. He said that he had declared he never would return to the demo- cratic party, and that he could not be delivered over to the party of Crane and Barnes. D. D. Nortoni of St. Louis, an- other who stood for a third ticket, pointed out that his own candidacy as the progressive primary nominee for United States senator from Missouri, was left high and dry as a resul: of the committee’s action. Mr. Hale said he was undecided whether to support Hughes or Wilson. Mr. Cochems said he probably would vote for Hughes, although he would do “in sackcloth and ashes.” Dr. B. . Lewis of Rhode Island said the progressives of his state would sup- port Wilson, In order that the progressive na- tional executive committee should not deliver its mailing list over solely to the republicans, Mr. Colby put through a motion giving all progres- sive committeemen access to the par- ty records. The executive committee organized following the adjournment of the na- tional committee. Mr. Perkins w re-elected chairman, O. K. Davls sec- s0 | retary, and Elon H. Hocker treasurer. The executi New e committee will meet in York within ten days to confer with Mr. Hughes regarding campaign plans. Hughes Hopes For Intervicw. New York, June 27—Colonel Roose- velt made his position known in a long the mnational committee of the progressive party, in session at Chicago during the after- noon. “A horse! My kingdom for a horse,’’ cried the motorist who thought any old gas was good enough. STasnaRD Oit Co=KY| to support Hughes, and the commit- tee, as a result, indorsed the repub- lican nominee. Mr. Hughes, on recelving this word, sent a special messenger to Oyster Bay with a letter to Colonel Roos velt, indorsing the principles enunci- ated by the colonel in his pre-con- vention campaign. In the letter he also took the first step toward a com- plete reconciliation by closing with the words, “I hope I may have the pleasure of seeing you at an early day.” Letter to Colonel Roosevelt. ‘“‘Hotel Astor “New York City, June 26, 1916, “My dear Colonel Roosevelt: “I warmly appreciate the cordial letter of indorsement which you have sent to the progressive committee. No one is more sensible than I of the lasting indebtedness of the nation to you for the quickening of the national spirit, for the demand for an out-and- out—100 per cent.—Americanism, and | for the insistence upon the immedi- | ate necessity of a thoroughgoing pre- paredness, spiritual, military, and eco- nomic. “I am in this campaign because of my conviction that we must not only frame but execute a broad construc- tive program, and that for this pur- pose we must have a united party, a party inspired by its great traditions | terprise have heen destroyed or ren- HETTY GREEN, THE WORLD’S GREATEST WOMAN FINANCIER | "MRS.HETTY GREEN Mrs. Hetty financier of. America the entire world, was born years ago, on November 21, 1835. not entirely, sometime be- lieved a ‘silf made woman,” for her father, who died in 1865, left a large fortune to her. She hs however, increased it many times by her skill and judgment a financier- “Who's Who in Amer sa Mrs. Green ‘‘is aid to be the richest woman in Amer- | ica and probably the greatest woman financier in the world; interested in nearly every large corporation and enterprise of magnitude all over the world; personally manages her large property in ocks, bonds and al estate in Chicago, New York and else- where.” Mrs. Green‘'s husband died in 1902 leaving a son and daughter besides his widow. The son is Edward Howland Robinson Green, unmarried, of Texas and New York; the daughter is the wife of Matthew A. Wilks of New York. ireen, ablest woman probably in eighty She and as is dered non-productive; bandits have been permitted to roam at will through territory contiguous without and reconstructed to its loftiest ideals. I know that you have been guided in this emergency by the sole desire to be of the largest service to the United States. You have sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat. And T want you to feel that T wish to have all the aid that you are able and willing to give. I want the most ef- fective co-operation with ali those | who have been fighting by vour side. | Let us work together for our national security and for the peace of right- eousness and justice. “T inclose a copy of my telegram to the committee, in which T have sot forth my attitude. T shall later un- dertake a full discussion of the is- sues of the campaign. i “Hoping that T may have the pleas- ure of seeing yvou at an early day, T | am, my dear Colonel Roosevelt, with | cordial regards, “Faithfully yours, “CHARLES E. HUGHES. “Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster “Bay, Long Island, N. Y. The telegram to the progressive na- tional committee, to which® Mr. Hughes devoted much thought; while the committee was holding a stormy sesslon in Chicago, was looked upon by many as a notice to Old Guard leaders that Mr. Hughes would work with them only on the same basis that he would work with the progres- sives and Roosevelt republicans. He received a full report of the commit- tee's action by wire at the Hotel As- tor, and released the telegram upon hearing of his indorsement, although the committee had adjourned without indorsing his running mate, Mr. Fair- banks. Here is the telegram: Telegram to Committee. “Hotel New' York City, June 26, 1916 “0. K. Davis, Progressive | National Committee, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, IlL.: welcome the support of progres- We make common cause in interest of national honor, of | national security, of national efficien- cy. We unite in the demand for an | undivided and unwavering lovalty to our country, for a whole-hearted pa- triotic devotion overriding all racial differences. We want a revival of the American spirit—a nation restored. | We insist upon prompt and adequate | provision for the common defense; upon the steadfast maintenance all the rights of our citizens. and upon the integrity of international law. “The most serious difficulties the present administration has encoun- tered have been due to its own weak- | ness and incertitude I am profound- Iy convinced that by prompt and de- cisive action, which existing condi- tions manifestly called for, the Lusi- tania tragedy would have been pre- vented. We strongly denounce the | use of our soil as a base for alien in- | trigues, menting of disorders in the interest of any foreign nation, but the respon- sibility lies at the door of the admin- istration.: The moment notice is ad- mitted responsibility is affixed. For | that sort of thing could not continue if the administration took proper measures to stop it. That respon- sibility the administration cannot | evade by condemning others. “It was officially stated by the secretary of state in the Mexican note of June 20, 1916, that or threo | vears the Mexican republic has been torn with civil strife; the lives of Americans and other allens have Astor, Secretary He called on all proxrelsh‘e.l been sacrificed; vast properties de- veped by American capital and en-! | of the United States who ventured to | still | American | guarded. for conspiracies and the fo- | * punishment or without effective at- tempt at punishment, the property of Americans, while the lives of citizens or to re- interests remain in Mexican territory turn there to protect their have been taken, in some cases bar- barously taken, and the murderers have neither been apprehended nor ! brought to justice. Unpardonable Neglect. “What an indictment by the admin- istration of its Mexican policy! And we are unprepared. That un- preparedness in the midst of perils, and after the experience of three vears, is a demonstration of an un- pardonable neglect for which the adminis ion is responsible. & “The government now has and must have most emphatically the unstinted and patriotic support of every citizen in the existing exigency. But un- questioning, loyal and patriotic sup- port of the government is one thing; approval of the fatuous course which the administration has followed is quite another. I cannot in this me sage adequately review that course that T shall do later. “No intelligent ynan is the temporary pr-sperity normal preciate the g problems with which we shall be faced when the war ends. We are alive to the imperative necessity of assuring the bascs of honest business. I am in deep sympathy with the efl- fort to improve the conditions of labor; to mrevent exploitation; to safeguard thes future of the nation by protecting gursawomen and children. T believe in wgrkmeff compensation laws; in whe gonsertation of our na- tional resogkees so_that“they may be protected, Mevelqbed, and used to the utmost public a®yantage. ~ But under- lying every endéfvor to promote justice is thg indispensable con- dition that theré shall be a stable foundation for hbnorable enterprise. industrs must have proper if labor to Dbe safe- degeived by | dlie to ab- | ity of the protection is instrumental- foreign com- merce, our transportation facilities, from unshow that he know how to protect the public without destroying or crippling our productive energies. “Our “To what the essential which our security imust depend? It is vain to expect it -om the democratic party. That party has not the national outloolk. Both its traditions and dominating in- fuences are fatal handicaps. I have no sectional word to utter. We are; te elect a president of the whole country, not af a part. The south, as well as the north, east, and west, will be the gainers from our en- deavors. But it sober truth as I see it that as we go forward must ke the republican party the in- rument of aur advance. We want not words; far-reaching na- tional policies. The progressives pave insisted on responsibile, not in- visible, government; an efficient ad- ministration I yleld to no one in that demand. T am eager to call the Lest ability of the country to our aid. Far the conduct of the great depart- ments the executive is directly sponsible and there is no excuse whatever for the toleration of in- competence in order to satisfy par- tisan obligations, “I am deeply appreciative of your indorsement. 1 find no difference in your piatform or in aim Wwhich pre- ‘““We must ities of inte: rescue our ate and ause.’” we 1o program and prosperity Common ( gency shall 'k for | constructive on is we deeds, 1 v within the party that the liberalizing | may cludes the most hearty co-operation and the most complete unity, It is 1918. spirit you invoke can have the wid ana effective influence colicit your carnest effart for common cause. “CHARLES most HUGH Bolt. statement circles i garded bolt of the New New York New York, political Moose May June 27.—A which in as foreshadowing York to the county committee Woodrow progr © Wilson was iss from progressive county head- Fifth avenue last signed John J. count® chairman, and w about the first official action taken by kim after sctting up separate keeping for the county organiz away from the bolting progres- sives generally refer to these days as the “Perkins crowd.” In his statement Chairman nell sharply atta Calonel dore Rooscvelt warmly dc President Wilson. After statir the Colone; is intent upon picting the ruin of progressive party by drivi its if he can, inta the republican party,” he up the financial panic of 1907 ains the Colonel, and refers to the Wilson currency legislation in an ap- rarent attempt to create a contrast | not to the advantage of Colonel { Roosevelt to whose ‘“evident hatred of our president,” Mr. O'Connell makes reference in the opening para- eraph of his statement “Some of the Colonel's critics have been so unkind as to s that, per- haps, the enactment of that law (the Federa] Reserve act) was the cause of the extreme virulence displayed against Mr. Wilson by some of the Colonel's advisers, Mr. O'Con- nell Deliberate deception of the dele- e to the progressive national con- vention, elther by Colonel Roosevelt or his campaign managers, is charged by Mr. O'Connell, who declares that he was assured on “their sacred word of ' that the Colonel would head a third ticket even if Mr. Hughes nominated Mr. O'Connell thin, “The ued new auarters at 50 night. It O’Connell, was by hause- tion, what O’Con- Theo- fends that | com- cks nd the members, ri kes in hono was says among other impressions one Colonel Roosevelt's letter to the gressive national committee are disingenuousness, its sophistry, then | its labored attempt at ification, | and, finally, the very evident hatred of our president. “And he totally fails to real cause of anguish of the progres- sives who were delegates and alter- nates to the convention, namely, that they have now come to the helief that the Colonel never intended to accept their nomination alone; that they were being used as a club to force the republican convention to nominate him, and that if the club was ineffective it could go into the woodpile for all the Colonel cared. “If our crusade for the last four vears has forced the other parties to enact many of our most important principles into law, why not continue our organization and our crusade so that the remainder of our principles he enacted into law? here are many of pro- its gets meet the | progressives who believe that since the defeat of 1912 the Colonel has heen anxious to get the progressive party off his shoulders and they would jnstance his attempts to influence the nomination of Mr. Whitman for mayor in 1913, his at- | tempts to support Mr. Whitman for governor early in 1914, and his sub- sequent attempt to hand us Mr. Hin- man of Binghamton. Indeed, the events of convention week at Chi- cago, coupled with those earlier facts, lend gome plausibility to the charges. “I do not believe that the county will go to political or other damna- tion if Mr. Wilson should be re-elect- ed. This nation has many times shown its ability to recuperate from even worse things than those of which the Colonel accuses Mr. Wiison. Be- side which, if the Colonel will take the pains to examine the record, he will find that Mr. Wilson has to his credit in the four years of h imin- istration pretty nearly as much pro- gressive legislation as the Colonel has 1o his seven years. “During the seven Colonel’s incumbency . of the office, nothing was done toward reforming the archaic banking artd currency sys- | tem under which we lived. Mr. Wil- son has to his credit the enactment of a law which gives us the kind of banking and currency we require and which will make it impossible to have a recurrence of a financial panic like that of -1907. of the Colonel’s critiés have been unkind to say that, perhaps, the enact- ment of that law was the cause of the extreme virulence displayed against Mr. Wilson by some of the | Colonel's advisor: The progressive party will live. Tts are ht and are indestruct- 1t now in straits, but its loyal adherents have learned the | lesson that the fathers of the nation | were more than prophetic when they said that this should be a government of laws and not of man. 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