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Show WITHDRA WS CONDITION A LLY rri UNABLE TO CONTROL Booms of the Favorite Sons Blow Up Over Night and the Suggestion Sugges-tion of Colonel Roosevelt Roose-velt That Senator Lodge Be Named as a Candidate Falls Upon Deaf Ears. SELECTIONS MADE BY BIG MAJORITIES Expressions of Harmony Come From All Delegates Dele-gates When the Convention Con-vention Adjourns; Those Who Voted for the Colonel Professing Profess-ing Loyalty. For President: CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, NEW YORK. Tor Vice President: CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS, INDIANA. CHICAGO, June 10. Charles Evans Hughes, former governor of New York and until today justice of tho supremo court of tho United States, was today nominated for tho presidency by the Republican national convention. Charles Warren Fairbanks of Indiana, Indi-ana, elected vice president with Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt in 1904, again was chosen for second place on the Republican Repub-lican ticket. Both nominations, mado by overwhelming over-whelming majorities on the first ballot of the day tho third ballot of the convention con-vention were by acclamation mado unanimous. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, presented pre-sented by Roosevelt as a compromise candidate, received seven votes. Colonel Colo-nel Roosevelt himself recoived 18, scattered over several states. Tho nomination ballot showed this count: Hughes, 940 ; Roosevelt, lfe'Vd; Lodge, 7; Dupont, 5; La Follctte, 3; Weeks, 3; absent, 1; total, 087. Easy for Fairbanks. Despite the fact that Prank II. Hitchcock, Hitch-cock, leader of tho Hughes supporters, let it be known while tho presidential balloting was in progress that the Hughes men wanted Burton for second place, Ohio withdrew Burton 's name, leaving tho field to Mr. Fairbanks aud former Senator Burkctt of Nebraska. The ballot for vice president showed tli is count : Fairbanks. b'J3 ; liurkett, 108; Borah, 8; Burton, J; Johnson, 1; absent, scatering and not voting, 0; total, I'7. Mr. Hughes will be notified of his n oni ination officially at a date to 1: fixed later by a committee hea-led by Senator Warren (J. Harding of Ohio, chairman of the convention. M r. Fairbanks will be. nnt.if jed by a committee headed by Senator William E. Borali of Idaho. Expressions of Harmony. At. 2:01 p. m. tho convention adjourned. ad-journed. The re were ex press-ions of harmony from all the leaders and among the deleft fs. The delegations which on the final ballot had cast votes for others than Mr. Hughes, made statements state-ments declaring their joyaity to tho nominees ' ' Six months ago, ' ' said Chairman (Continued on Page Three.) HUGHES NAMED FOR PRESIDENT; FAIRBANKS FOR SECOND PLAGE Republican Convention Gets Down to Business and Puts Up a Ticket According to Wishes of Party. (Continued from Page One.) f'barles D. Hilles of the Republican national na-tional committee, "I said the uominee would bo born in the convention. And be was' ' ' I am very much pleased, of course," said Mr. Hitchcock. "Jt means a reunited Republican party and victory in November." The nomination of Mr. Hughes was made possible so soon by an overnight break-up of the allied favorite sons combination which early this morning released its delegates, practically all of whom were known to favor Mr. Hughes when freed from their instructions. Favorite Sons Withdraw. When the convention began business shortly before noon the withdrawal of j 1 he favorite sons was announced from the platform one after an another and votes began flopping into the Hughes column in solid blocks so rapidly that , the nomination plainly was assured before the roll rail had gone five states. When , it go to Colorado the drift was so appar- i r ent that a proposal to make It unanimous unani-mous or nominate him by acclamation was made, but Chairman Harding ruled that the balloting should take its regular course. Each addition to the Hughes column was greeted by yells of exultation from the rapidly accumulating Hughes delegates dele-gates and steadily, state by state, the vote plied up until New Jersety carried it past the required 494 and the remainder was only a formality. Deluge of Changes. In rapid succession, as the voting went on. Du Pont was withdrawn bv Delaware and his solid block was cast for Hughes; Illinois withdrew Sherman. Ohio withdrew with-drew Uufton. Iowa withdrew Cummins, New York withdrew Root and Massa-' Massa-' chusetts witlidrew Weeks. Practically all these new votes were cast for Hughes, only a few remaining in compliment to the favorite sons who brought them. j Then, one after the other. Senator ' Weeks and Senator Lodge took the platform, pledged loyalty to the nomi-T nomi-T nee and asked all their supporters to do 1 likewise. Similar announcements were made from all the favorite-on delega- i ttons. The final analysts of the nominating nominat-ing ballot showed that Hugncs had drawn Ids votes from every state in the union and every territory; that Roosevelt's had been scat tered over twelve states; that J3u Font's five had come from South Carolina, Lodge's seven from North Carolina and the final three for Senator Weeks had come from Massachusetts and , Missouri. ! No Statement Asked. Although the convention when It nominated nomi-nated Mr. Hughes had not word that he would accept and no statement of his position, one came along soon afterward, but not until the convention had adjourned. ad-journed. The former Justice had kept to Ida determination to utter no word In his own behalf, to make no new announcement announce-ment of his position on Issues, and to say not lung which might he construed as becoming be-coming a candidate while he wore the robe of a justice In the world's greatest court. LJeforo the ballot was taken today. Senator Smoot of Utah announced the report of the lastest meeting of the Re- publican conferees with the conferees of the Progressive convention, disclosing that the Republicans had presented the name of Mr. Hughes for their consideration considera-tion as a candidate on which both conventions con-ventions could unite. He also read the reply of the progressive conferees, which merely was an acknowledgment of the receipt re-ceipt of the proposal. Then lie read Colonel Roosevelt's telegram to the Progressive Pro-gressive convention, which had been brought to the Coliseum1 by John W. Mc-Grath, Mc-Grath, the colonel's secretary, suggesting Senator Lodge. Came Out as Expected. Before he had finished the reading word came, and was announced in the Coliseum, "that the Progressive convention itself had not only tabled the Republican proposal of Mr. Hughes, but had tabled Colonel Roosevelt's own proposal of Senator Sena-tor Lodge as well. No one in the Republican Re-publican convention really expected Colonel Roosevelt's compromise to be accepted, neither did they feel the Progressives Pro-gressives would accept Mr. Hughes. There was a gallery demonstration, not so prolonged as yesterday's, at the announcement an-nouncement of Colonel Roosevelt's proposition, propo-sition, but the delegate section by its silence plainly showed its indifference, and if any of the Republican managers entertained the least fear of . stampede to Colonel Roosevelt it was dissipated at once by every outward indication that about the only message from Colonel Roosevelt that could have aroused t he delegates to any great degree of enthusl- asm would have been his acceptance of 'Hughes. With that the roll call of states began, and there never was a moment's doubt of the result from the time the clerk began. Favorite Sons Retire. Senator Weeks, who came to the convention con-vention with the greatest number of instructed in-structed delegates and who was of all the favorite sons considered a foremost possibility, pos-sibility, was received with tumultuous applause when he made a statement releasing re-leasing his delegates. Senator Lodge, known to all men in politics as a close personal friend of the colonel's, got a reception approaching an ovation when he made his speech seconding second-ing Hughes. With the end of the balloting for the presidential nomination and the official announcement by Chairman Harding, the balloting for vice president began- In view of Mr. Hitchcock's expressing preference pref-erence for former Senator Burton, there was some surprise when Governor Willis of Ohio withdrew Burton's name and cast the whole block of Ohio votes for Fairbanks. Fair-banks. That left Burkett as the only candidate with any pledged strength and he was , urged upon the convention as meeting the call of the west for representation repre-sentation on the ticket. All for Fairbanks. As the roll call proceeded, whole blocks of votes piled in for Fairbanks, and his nomination was such a foregone conclusion conclu-sion among the delegates themselves that ! they bepan leaving- the hail and causing- ; such confusion that the balloting was heard with difficulty. 1 After Chairman Harding had officially ; announced the nomination of Mr. Fair- ! banks, resolutions were passed thanking- j the officers of the convention and the en- I tertainment provided for delegates by the I city of Chicago; some national commit- 1 tee selections were announced and ratified rati-fied by the convention; Chairman Hilles called a meeting of the new national committee com-mittee for organization, and the convention conven-tion adjourned. The convention was notable in political politi-cal history for many things. A man who steadfastly had refused to seek the nomination nomi-nation had been chosen ; it loft a new milestone in the paths of both the Republican Re-publican and Progressive parties: it was the first Republican convention since 1SSS which had been forced to take more than one ballot to agree upon a candidate, and it lias been marked by a lack of riotous demonstration and nervous enthusiasm which hitherto has been a feature of such gatherings. It did not touch any of the existing records for sustained demonstrations, but despite the fact that in political vernacular ver-nacular it was wholly and der-ideillv "un-bopsed," "un-bopsed," it moved with a precision and quietness which has not been equaled since the McKinley convention in Philadelphia. |