Charles Evan Hughes as GOP compromise in 1912?

As the title says - could Taft and Roosevelt come to some compromise to avoid a split by backing a third candidate? Hughes is merely a suggestion.

Just as important could that candidate beat Wilson with the combination of the Taft machine and the Bull Moose behind them?
 
As the title says - could Taft and Roosevelt come to some compromise to avoid a split by backing a third candidate? Hughes is merely a suggestion.

Just as important could that candidate beat Wilson with the combination of the Taft machine and the Bull Moose behind them?


There was some talk of a compromise candiidate (iirc Governor Hadley of Missouri was also mentioned) but the divide beteen the two wings of the party simply ran too deep.

As for Mr Hughes, he couldn't quite manage it even in 1916, when the rift had had four years to heal. How much less in 1912 when it was still a raw wound.
 
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