Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-05
At THE WHITE HOUSE
Many Congressional Callers
Today.
RUM0R ABOUT BLISS
HAS NOT ACCEPTED NATIONAL
BLISS
HAS NOT ACCEPTED NATIONAL
COMMITTEE CHAIRMANSHIP.
District Delegates and Alternates Call
ON the President-Contest for
Alaska Judgeships.

senator's and representatives is plainly APP
parent at the White House, where the
congressional callers are becoming fewer
each day There was something like a
regular day for awhile today, Senators Bali
Burrows Proctor Fulton, Mitchell, Lodge
and Foster seeing the President IN success
sion and being followed by other callers.
There were no conferences on important
governmental or political subjects, now
ever the majority of the callers introducing
friends Brief political suggestions were
exchanged during the day with the Fresi-
dent but no gatherings were neiu TO oe-
eide upon any of the features OF the COMING
national convention or the campaign. MANY
of the details have already been arrahseu
and no further conferences upon them VIII
be necessary. =.
As outlined in The Star. it is now the IN
tention TO make Elihu Root of New YORK
preliminary chairman and Speaker Cahaoh
.crmanent chairman of the convention. Inc
nominating speech will, 1t is denmtsiy s'dl
ed be made by cX-GOv FRANK . BLACK VI
Nsw York one Of the four delegates at
large from the empire state. From diiier-
ent sections of the country the holliia ~ III, III,
will be seconded and some or thoSe WIZ "ii
Derform this duty have already been select-
a6 r. representative Bede of Minnesota, has
asked that constituent OF his nameu W.
ton be accorded the honor OF making one y.
the seconGing speeches and IL is unusIS Stoou
the request will be granted. Harry Stiweli
E,dyy,~ds of Macon Ga has been selected
tt repr ,sent the south III speeches secondlhs
the nomination
National Committee Chairmansn1p.
As % the Craftsmanship of the national
committee that remains among the unset
t1ed things There is revival of the talk
that Cornelius Bliss will accept the position
unon q hint conveyed 70 him that the Presl-
dent would like him to take the place, put
the hest information to be obtained is that
Mr.. Bliss physical condition will not per-
NIT him to do so. .
1t is frankly admitted by friends close 10
the President that Mr.. Bliss would make a
chairman In whom the whole party would
have confidence, but all of them DOUBT
whether the New York man would under-
take the work in view of his health.
The suggestion has been made and is now
,,ndar consideration that the work of the
committee be divided among say three
chairmen. One would have charge OF 'le
business in the east, with heaoquarters a.
New York; another at Cmcaso anu Pc
hans another would be ntrusted with the
Rocky mountain anu aeiio S
paign. c,+o. A1dr;cb is
very favorable to this plan OF DIVISION VI
the work He realizes 1t Is saIo' Ina. liie
duties of a national chairman have grown
so stupendously in the past 1eW years
that 1t is unfair to ask one man 70 ~ sts
tically abandon his own business lhteIes.s'
sacrifice his health and undergo the la'lsue
consequent upon the sole management
presidential campaign. III, o,,o tho
Ex-Gov. Black, who VIII man .e
sneech of nomination, is one OF the clas
sic orators of the country, man uasenna ua
earnestness and commanding presence.
IIa will demonstrate the fact tnat new
York is solidly arrayed FOR Koosevei,.
Mr. Black was governor OF Ne" III
n ura
for governor of that state he wanteo
the nomination himself, but condltlons III
the state we're such that the repup,i,oa,,i a.,
leaders foresaw the defeat OF Mr. blach
~ he was nominated for another term
and they united upon PRESIDENT hoose-
yelt. who carried the state.
Harry Stilweu Edwards, who will sec
ond the speech on the part OF the SOUTH
is the postmaster at Macon, Ga. He is a
writer and author of note and warm
friend of the President.
District Delegates Call.
pho President received a call today from
DIR. Reyburn and John F. Cook, delegates
and James l.. Turner and Edward s. Wes-
colt, alternates, from the District of Co
mmbia to the Chicago national convention.
who paid their respects to the President
end assured him of their intention to cor
Gially support him for the presidenuai
nomination
Rev. Richard Carroll, the manager of an
Industrial home for colored boys and girls
AZ Columbia s. c. paid his respects to the
President The institution Is especially de-
signed to educate. Christlanlze ana give
trades to orphan negro children, ana re-
ceives support from charitable people oi the
south and north.
Rev. George Douglas, missionary OF the
United Free Presbyterian Church OF Scot
land called on the President today. Mr.
Douglas has Just arrived here from Liza
wang. Manchuria where he is stationed as
a missionary of his church. He told the
President about some OF the things OF IN
terest in the section of country where the
Russians and Japanese are engaged IN
deadly combat. Much of the information
he did not care to divulge. being duty
bound. he says. to keep 1t to himself. Mr..
Douglas does not believe the war will end
for several years. He says the Russians
run many trains each day over the Siberian
railway and are not wholly dependent on
that for supplies for their army. He says
they secure much from the Chinese peas
antry Mr.. Douglas says that the Manchur-
ians are strongly favorable to the Japanese,
largely because the Japanese have always
acted we'll when seizing food stuffs from
the people.
Invited to Virginia Horse Show.
Representative Rixey of Virginia present.
ed to the President, r. N. Harper president
of the American National Bank of this city
and Of the Loudoun horse show, one Of the
events OF Virginia each year. The show
is to be held at Leesburg on the Sth and
9th of June, and Mr.. Harper extended the
President an invitation. The President said
he did not think such a temptation should
be placed in front of him, as he would like
to attend the best in the world, but he had
uniformly declined all invitations and must
do SO In this instance.
Therefore Roosevelt. jr. and Kermit Roose-
welt, who came home from their Groton,
Mass, school several weeks ago suffering
from mumps. will leave for the school this
afternoon. They have completely recovered.
in fact, they We're never seriously Ill.
They Want Alaska Judgeships
The terms of two United States judges in
Alaska expire June Q, and there is a scram-
BILE to secure these places IL any changes
are to be made. The judges whose four
years terms will expire are Melville c.
Brown and James Wickersham. There is
no indication that the Department of JUS
tiee contemplates making changes in the
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