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Show HARRY JOSEPH SHIS SMODT IS FOR ROOSEVELT Also That Nomination of the i Colonel by Republicans Is Necessary to Save Sutherland Suth-erland and Spry. PROGRESSIVES TO - NAME CANDIDATE Lesser Political Lights Gather in Chicago and Are Interviewed; Vermont Ver-mont for Hughes. MONTPELIER, Vt., May 26. The Vermont delegation to the national na-tional Republican convention will go to Chicago instructed for Justice Jus-tice Charles S. Hughes. A resolution resolu-tion to this effect was adopted when the state convention opened today. The delegation elected to the national na-tional convention is headed by Theodora N. Vail of Lyndonville, president of the American Telephone Tele-phone & Telegraph company. By WILLIS J. ABBOTT. By International News Service. CHICAGO, May 26. Not one of the men who will really control delegations in the Republican national convention is here as yet, though a good many of the lesser lights arc opening headquarters head-quarters and giving out optimistic estimates esti-mates of the strength of their various candidates. Among these gentlemen the day was one of distinct depression. They had suddenly been awakened to realization of the fact that tho Progressive party is not altogether in a mood of meek and lowly acquiescence in whatever action the Republican convention may take. Progressives who returned today from the conference of their executive committee com-mittee in New York were in a decidedly defiant mood. They immediately set about correcting the idea that their party would indorse whomsoever the Republicans nominated. They dispelled with a rude gust of denial tho Republican Republi-can theory that, if given the political atmosphere, they would accept any probable prob-able nominee. Will Nominate Candidate. "The candidate," said Harold Lickes, the Progressive national committeeman for this state, "means more for us than the platform. We mean to have a candidate can-didate who will stand for performance. Mere promises alone will not satisfy us. "We have been frank enough in our utterances heretofore. Wo have always insisted that our convention was called to nominate a candidate, and we will nominate one. ' He may bo the man whom the Republicans will nominate, but he must be a man to our liking." i In the last three or four weclts the Republicans have settled down to a comfortable expectation that the Pro-1 Pro-1 gressives would accept anybody. The boomers of even such notorious rcaction-! rcaction-! aries as Weeks, Root or Burton, have 'had the audacity to advance this theory land expect intelligent people to accopt lit. Will Name the Colonel. Weeks ago I stated, with high authority, au-thority, that Colonel Roosevelt did not want to run on a Progressive ticket. That is still the fact. But the Progressives Progres-sives intend that the colonel shall run j unless a Republican of Progressive ideals j shall be nominated. Hughes does not meet that demand. He may be as reactionary reac-tionary as Joe Cannon for all that is known of him. Weeks. Burton, Sherman, Fairbanks would all fail of Progressive support, though the last has some friends in that party owing to his conciliatory attitude in the 1912 convention. None of the dark horses, so fnr as I can judge, would meet the occasion unless it might be Borah or McCall. Now, whether the eoloned wants to run or not on the Progressive tinker, the Progressives are very liable (o force him to run if thpy feel their cause isnorod In the Republican, convention. And if he dops run the result In 1912 will be duplicated. dupli-cated. Attack on Roosevelt. Tn the last fnw days tliR Roosevelt sentiment has materially increased. Today To-day "Dave" Mulvane of Kansas deluded the newspapers Into printing a long attack at-tack on the. colonel, winding up wilh the assertion that he would get no delegates from the Sunflower state. The newspapers newspa-pers neglected lo point out that Jlsilvane, though once Republican boss of Kansas. Is today utterly discredited. Ho was (Continued on Pago Four.) Hf JOSEPH SAYS SMOOT IS FOR T. Fl. (Continued from Page One.) beaten for a delegate s place find repre-6e.niB repre-6e.niB litenilly nothing in his state. While the Kansas delegates are uninsiruciecl, a moderate estimate would give Roosevelt half the delegation. Xo new headquarters were opened today. to-day. Chairman llilles arrived in the city, but at once mysteriously disappeared. Frank Hitrhcock is momentarily expected. expect-ed. The bitter antagonism existing between these two men precludes the possibility of their both serving the same I candidate. Accordingly, though the II i 11 e s activities have been underground and mysterious, the apparent commitment of Hitchcock to Hu-'hes ma kes U im-prnbabie im-prnbabie that, the justice is to have the support of the chairman of the Republican Repub-lican committee as well. !!. S. Joseph, a rtcleale from Utah, declared publicly tnJay that the nomination nomina-tion of Roosevelt is necessary, mt only to carry that strife, for the national ticket, hut to 'assure the re-election of Governor Spry and Senator Sutherland. He asserts : that Senator Smoot holds the same opin ion, and I have .much corroboration on the part of Kmnot. This actinn on the part of nno of the two Taft states in is perhaps offset by the news today that the other, Vermont, Ver-mont, lias instructed its delegates for H us ues. |