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Show LOVE FEAST 15 HELD BY HUGHES 10 ROOSEVELT The Republican Presidential Candidate and Former President in "Complete "Com-plete Accord." ALL FACTIONS ARE PULLING TOGETHER William H. Taft Announces Willingness to Speak From Same Platform With Oyster Bay Leader. NEW YORK, June 28. Charles E. Hughes, Republican presidential nominee, nomi-nee, announced tonight at the end of an interview with Theodore Roosevelt, which lasted for more than two hours and a half, that he and the former president were in "complete accord." Mr. Hughes issued the following statement: state-ment: "I was very much pleased with Colonel Colo-nel Roosevelt's letter of indorsement and he has expressed himself in a very kindly way with respect to my telegram to the Progressive committee. I wanted want-ed to talk with Colonel Roosevelt fully with respect to the issues of the campaign cam-paign and asked him to dine with me so that we might have that opportunity. He dined with me tonight and we had a very delightful interview. We talked very fully over all matters and are in complete accord. The evening has been a very pleasant one." It is understood that Colonel Roosevelt Roose-velt told Mr. Hughes he would co-operate heartily with him in any of his plans, even to tho extent of making a speaking tour if Mr. Hughes so desired. de-sired. Crowd in the Lobby. Colonel Roosevelt called on Mr. Hughes at the nominee's invitation and they remained together for more than two and a half hours. A crowd had gathered in the lobby of the hotel where Mr. Hughes is staying when Colonel Roosevelt arrived. The former president lifted his hat and bowed, and hurried into an elevator which took him to Mr. Hughes's apartment, the parlor of which had been fitted up as a dining room. The Republican nominee and CoTonel Roosevelt dined alone. The waiter who served them was .barred from tho room except when summoned by a call button. but-ton. After the interview- Mr. Hughes emerged with Colonel Roosevelt, escorting escort-ing the former president to his automobile automo-bile and warmly shaking his hand as he bade him good-bye. When the automobile auto-mobile moved away, Mr. Roosevelt looked around and, waving his hand to Mr. Hughes, said: t "Good-bye, and the best possible luck." Roosevelt Pleased. Colonel Roosevelt when seen later before his departure for his home, at Oyster Bay said that ho and Mr. Hughes had had a most satisfactory talk and that he was really greatly pleased. The former president made it plain that he agrees with the attitude Mr. Hughes has taken toward the questions at issue is-sue in the campaign, and he assured the nominee that he would support him with the utmost heartiness. Colonel Roosevelt said that Mr. Hughes stated he much desired the colonel colo-nel to aid in the campaign and it was agreed that in the fall Mr. Roosevelt should make three or four speeches for Mr. Hughes. Former President William II. Taft sntd tonight that he was willing to work side by side with Mr. Roosevelt to aid in the election of Mr. Hughes. Asked if he would be willing to speak from t he same platform as Roosevelt, he said: ''I am for Hughes. T would not let (Continued on Page Three.) LOVE FEAST HELD BY TOO GREAT LEADERS (Continued from Pago One.) my personal feelings interfere. If such speaking arrangements were made I wouM act as a private in the ranks and obev oniers. ' ' . Mr. Hughe? conferred today with William Wil-liam R. Wilk-ox, the new national a chairman. The Republican national committee's subcommittee on organization met during dur-ing the forenoon to consider the selection selec-tion of a new national secretary, a treasurer, two vice chairmen, one each for the middle west and the Pacific coast, and an executive committee. Frank II. Hitchcock, one of the leaders lead-ers of the Hughes forces at the Chicago Chi-cago convention, was among today's callers. The subcommittee, it was expected, ! probably would reappoint J. B. Reyu- olds secretary of the committee. k Mr. Willcox, who attended the meeting, meet-ing, will be chairman ex officio of the committee, which will consist of ten men cbosen from among the fifty members mem-bers of the national committee. The appointment of (4ordon Auchin-closs, Auchin-closs, a lawyer of this city, as assistant treasurer of the Democratic, -national committee, was announced here today by Vance MoCormick. chairman of the committee. Mr. Auchiueloss is a son-in-law of Colonel K. M. House, a close personal friend of President Wilson. |
