Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-09
At THE WHITE HOUSE
President Gets Some Political
Information.
TAWNEY AND CARTER CALL
Former Believes Republicans Will
Have Good Majority.
MAY GAIN ONE IN MISSOURI
Carter Thinks Montana Will Be All
Right-Hopkins Satisfied as
to Illinois.

! The Presidents most important political
caller today was Representative Tawney
| of Minnesota, chairman Of the House COM
| mittee on appropriations and vice chair
| man of the republican congressional COM
mittee, with headquarters in Chicago. Mr..
| Tawney had charge of the western work
| Of the republican national committe in the
! last presidential campaign. and was the
| first man to predict that Missouri would go
| republican Some of his predictions today
will be watched with interest, especially as
| to Missouri.
II believe we will hold every seat we
have in the House now from Missouri"
said Mr. Tawney, "and we may gain one.
| 1t is practically certain that we will not
| lose more than one seat anyhow, and the
chances are mighty good that we will make
| gain of one from that state. Representa-
tive De Almond one of the principal demo-
Gratis in the House. may not be a member
Of the next. House" The inference was
| that De Almond might be beaten. De Ar
mond was elected two years ago by about
900 majority
AS to Minnesota, his own state, Mr..
Tawney said: I'VE will elect a republican
| in every congressional district and our
party will elect a governor, defeating
| the present democratic governor, who was
elected two years ago. and has again oeen
nominated by his party
Mr.. Tawney talked for half an hour with
the President about the congressional out
look He is confident the republicans will
have large majority in the House. The
President made some suggestions to Mr..
Tawney, as he did to Representative Sher-
man yesterday, as to the conduct of the
campaign.
Says Will Win in Arkansas.
Representative Tawney declared that the
republicapS int he solid
south this year by winning one district in
Arkansas. When the newspaper men
smiled at this assertion Mr.. Tawney said:
You boys may laugh, but watch my pre-
diction." So far as Mr.. Tawney is able to
predict, that will be the only gain the re-
rublicans will make in the south this
year.
The Prospects in Montana,
Senator Carter of Montana. who has been
attending a meeting of the postal COM
mission in New York, paid his respects to
the chief executive and talked about poll
tics in the west. The republicans and
democrats are well organized in my state"
said the Montana senator, and are putting
up a stiff fight ali along the line. There is
every prospect that the republicans will
WIN The democrats have a strong and
popular candidate for the United States
Senate in Governor Toole. Senator Clark
has announced that he does not wish to re-
turn to the Senate at the expiration Of his
term. The legislature. therefore, is one
of the prizes being fought for this year
and the republicans feel they will win
despite the fact that so able and wise a
man as Governor Toole Is making the race
for the Senate"
Montona Is ordinarily close state, but
Governor Toole has managed to win as
governor twice when the republicans car
rfed the state for all other Offices
Hopkins Favors Cannon.
Senator Hopkins Of Illinois again talked
politics with the President today Iney
talked along these lines Sunday Senator
Hopkins thinks the republicans will have
an easy time all around in Illinois this
year by reason of bitter divisions among
the democrats, caused by the Bryan-SuIli-
van fued. He admits, however, that one
or two democrats may come to the House
from Chicago districts, which two years ago
unexpectedly elected republicans in the
Roosevelt landslide.
Senator Hopkins continued to boom
Uncle Joe" Cannon for the republican
nomination for the presidency. That was
one subject he did not take up with the
inent republicans who were standing with
him in the Presidents room that Speaker
Cannon was the real thing two years from
now and would be nominated. Illinois will
otdAiu NY lHC opCdhcl, llS Sdiu, " the Iuil-
est limit
Bishop ]. w. Bashford. in charge of the
Methodist Episcopal Church work in China
called on the President and afterward went
to the State Department to see Secretary
Root.
National Geographic Association.
President Roosevelt will be asked to at
tend the dinner given in honor of the men,
bers of the National Geographic Associa-
fiOn w In Wao IN Do-
cember. The gathering will be an unusu-
ally important one and prominent geogra-
piers are expected from Canada and other
parts of the world For these reasons the
local members desire that the President at
tend the dinner Today a committee con-
sisting of John Joy Edison, Admiral Ches-
ter, who is in charge of the naval observa-
tory, and Col. Henry F. Blount called at
the White House for the purpose of invit-
ing the President, but because of the cab
met meeting they were unable to see him.
Secretary Foster. however, promised to
make an appointment for them with the
President at later date
Mr.. Schwab at the White House.
Charles M schwab of the Bethlehem
Steel Company was one of President
Roosevelt's callers yesterday. His call
was brief, and Mr.. Schwab said related
to personal matters of which he was not
at liberty to speak. He afterward went
over to the Navy Department. where he
paid his respects to Admiral Mason chief
of the bureau of ordnance. This bureau
buys large quantity of supplies from
the concern with which Mr. Schwab is
connected. but this visit had nothing to
do with these supplies, for all contracts
for armor plate. guns and gun forgings
have been awarded
The Cabinet Meeting.
Three members of the cabinet remained
today with the President from II O'Clock
In the morning until o'clock in the after
noon. They were Secretaries Root and
Bonaparte and Attorney General Moody. /
The other members of the cabinet quickly
concluded their work and departed from
the White House. As the three men men
toned are the legal lights of the adminis-
tration. Secretary Taft being another, It Is
believed that the long conference related to
some OF the legal problems about to be un-