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Show HUGHES SILENT ON OREGON VOTE; FRIENDSREJOIGE Republican Leaden Say Victory Makes Justice First Candidate In the Field Washington, D. C, May 23. Jus-tlco Jus-tlco Hughes today received without apparent excitement news ot his overwhelming triumph In the presidential presi-dential primaries In Oregon. His secretary announced, when tho returns re-turns wero rend to him thnt thero would bo no expression from the Jus-tlcc, Jus-tlcc, and that It could not even bo said ho was Interested. Republican leaders who believe thnt they havo control of tho coming Republican convention, however, took nn entirely different vlow of the situation. sit-uation. Hughes ngnlnst tho field, was (bo expression of ono prominent senator, sen-ator, nnd ho declared tho only figure in the Held, who could bo regarded as moro than a fnvorlto son since tho beating given Cummins and Ihir ton In Oregon, is Colonel Roosovolt. Huahet Cefore Roosevelt' Decauso of tho fnlluro of tho forces friendly to Roosevelt In Tflnnsylvn-nln Tflnnsylvn-nln to do better than break oven, It that well, with Penrose, the Justice waa declared n loader over tho colonel. col-onel. In tho faco of Incomplete returns re-turns in Oregon, Cummins nnd Burton Bur-ton followers mado no formnl statements. state-ments. It is known, however, both hnd determined to Btnko almost all on u chanco of becoming a nntlonal rather than a local candldato by a defeat of Justlco Hughes In a contest where popular sentiment had full play. What appealed to tho party leaders hero was that tho voters of Oregon hnd plainly preferred Hughes to cither cith-er tho Progressive Cummins or tho conservative Uurton. They regarded this symptom ns bearing out their own convictions that Hughes Is tho most available mlildlo ground candldato. candl-dato. Hughcfl strength In tho Vermont primaries, where his name wns writ-ten writ-ten on bnllols moro than twlco ns often of-ten ns any other candldato, indicated to tho leaders, that his strength Is not confined to tho Progressive states of tho west. |