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Show I ROOSEVELT ARTILLERY IN ACTION AT CHICAGO I Colonel Scores In Pre-Conventlon Bout; Effort Made to .'Smoke Out' Hughe. Chicago, May 31. Tlio Iiooscvclt heavy artillery went Into action today. to-day. Gcorgo Von L. Meyer, the colonel's col-onel's secretary o'f the navy for four fars, assumed command, lloosevclt headquarters were opened on half of a floor of the Congress hotel, noose-elt noose-elt pictures were hung out and lloosevclt Interviews wero handed out ns rapidly as stenographers could work. Trank H. Hitchcock handed out a boiling statement that blistered the ears of some of tho managers tor favorite fa-vorite sons. These- managers camo back with tbo suggestion, "not for publication" that Hitchcock is not sincere In his devotion to Hughes and Is really for Roosevelt. Meyer Repudiates Report. Mr. Meyer kicked this leport Into tho discard with tho flat statement that the Roosevelt people havo nothing noth-ing in common with Mr. Hitchcock and are willing to concede that he is. foi Hughes and has been all along. Senator John W. Weeks arrived announced an-nounced that ho Is a candidate with strings attached to nobody, and his backers put out tho claim for him at night that his candidacy has assumed great proportions. I From inside the camp of the com-' blnatlon, the "field" that must elim-j inato both Roosevelt and Hugnes bc- foro it can begin to count came the assuranco that its lines aro tighter than they were last Saturday, when the declaration a made that G2.". negates aro m an agreement to pick ho candidate from the five-Root, mrton, Sherman Fairbanks or Weeks In ring parlance, today was "Itooso-volt's "Itooso-volt's round.'- Mr. Meyer got tho spotlight and wns used effectively For the tlmo being the fuss over Hughes took a back scat whtlo tho coming of the Roosevelt boom was being exploited. ' The rank and file quit for the night convinced moro than ever word will .come from the lips of Justice Hughes ! prior to the first ballot and that the Hughes movement must riso or fall upon his declaration that he !s not a candidate. I One moro definite nttcmpi was started tonight to smoke out tho Justice Just-ice by the production in a dozen spots of tho Rabbi Wise Interview of 1912 at tho height of the Roosevelt-Taft contest, In which Justlco Hughes was quoted as having said: "The supreme sup-reme court must not be dragged Into politics and no man Is so essential to his country's well-being as Is tho unstained un-stained dignity of tho courts." Mr. Meyer, In taking possession of the Roosevelt camp, said definitely tiat Colonel Roosevelt will not bo In Chicago during convention week. Ho will be In Oyster Hay, but In constant communication with headquarters I here. John W. McQrath, tho colonel's secretary, will arrive tomorrow from ; St. Louis, where he left tho Roosevelt party. Gcorgo W. Perkins is on a Chicago-bound train from New York. Everything that can bo accomplished humanly to nominate the colonel at tho Coliseum will bo tried out when these two delegations combine with Mr. Meyer and his committee. "Colonel Roosevelt has tho platform In tho ono word. Americanism,' Mr. Meyer said. "Ho is tho one candidate candi-date that everybody knows can win a Republican victory. Wo make no excuse for him because none is needed. need-ed. The men who will sit In this convention con-vention know him nnd they will bo for him when tho time arrives to nominate the candidate." 1 |