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Show WEST IN FAVOR H Mil r Gil liHr Idaho and Wyoming Declare ror riughes Utah delegates dele-gates Said to Favor the Justice. Washington, Ma' 30. Interviews with senators and representatives from the Rocky mountain and Pacific northwest states Indicate that practically prac-tically all these states are likely t vote for the nomination of Justice Hughes In the Chicago convention after the preliminary first ballot Is taken. The vote of Oregon will be given Justice Hughes on the first and succeeding ballots. According to Senators Jones of Washington and Borah of Idaho the delegations from their respective states will vote for Hughes, if not on the first ballot, on succeeding ballots. Senator Smoot says that, while he has not had an opportunity to confer con-fer with all of the members of the Utah delegation to the convention, he believes the prevailing sentiment of the delegation is favorable to Justice Jus-tice Hughes. Wyoming for Hughes Senator Warren of Wyoming is not a delegate to the convention, all of the members of the Wyoming delegation delega-tion In congress having voluntarily stood aside to let the "home folks" attend as delegates. Tho senator said today: "Our state, I think, is for the nomination nom-ination of Justice Hughes. Had former for-mer Senator Root been an avowed candidate earlier in the day, I think our delegation would have favored, his nomination. While not formally pledged to anyone, and while all the candidates are well thought of In Wyoming, the sentiment of the state, I believe, has settled upon and will remain for Justice Hughes, provided, of course, he does not Indicate that he would not accept the nomination." A. M. Stevenson, Denver delegate to the convention, who Is hero today, says Colorado on the first ballot will give Roosevelt six or seven votes, Root three and Hughes two. How tho state will vote after the first bal-lott bal-lott Is uncertain, Stevenson, who helped run the Taft machine at Chicago Chi-cago four years ago, is now for Roosevelt. Roose-velt. oo |