The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-08

Chairman James q. sherman Goes 10 wash.
InKtOn Expressly 10 Talk Win the
President IN Regard 10 the Campaign
In New York state and Elsewhere.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.-Representative
James s. Sherman Of New York, chairman
Of the Republican Congressional campaign
committee, had a conference to-day with
President Roosevelt at the White House
in regard to the campaign, having come
to Washington for that purpose. Mr.. sher-
man expects to consult the President sew
eraI times before election day. He will
return to New York tomorrow.
There has been no suggestion In any
responsible quarter hat h President
make speeches in the New York campaign
said he. 1T would be unprecedented. No
one in authority has ever thought OF ask
ing the President to speak
In discussing the situation in New York
State and elsewhere with Mr.. Sherman
the President is following out the wishes
of the party leaders that the benefit OF his
advice in the conduct OF their ~electioneer-
ing work be given them. In the talk that he
had with Charles Z. Hughes on October !,
while the Presidents train was running
between Jersey City and Trenton. the Presi-
dent made several suggestions to MIR.
Hughes, and he will not hesitate to indi-
cate his views az to the course that the Re
publicans should pursue in State and Con-
gress contests.
As Mr.. Sherman declared tonight, how
ever, the President has not been asked,
and there ia no thought Of asking him. to
speak in the New York campaign. But the
belief. which 10 generally entertained, that
it would be contrary to all precedent for a
President Of the United States during his
term Of Office to go on on a speechmaking
trip to help some party candidate Is not
entirely sound.
When Ben iamin Harrison was President
and a candidate for reelection on the Re-
publican ticket with Whitelaw Reid in
1892 he made arrangements to stump New
York State. Gen. Harrison came down
from Loon Lake in h Adirondaoks, where
Mrs. Harrison was i'll, to Mr.. Reds place
in Westchester county with the intention
10 start out on his campaign tour from
there. Al Ophir Farm he had q C5nsulta-
ton lasting all day with Thomas Q. Platt'
Nelson W. Aldrich, Thomas H.. Carter, chair
man Of the Republican national committee;
James s. GARRISON, former chairman OF
that committee. and other party managers,
for the purpose Of mapping out his cam
While the conference was in progress
news was received that the steamship Nor
mandie, with cholera on board, had arrived
, at the Staten Island quarant inc. There
was great alarm throug hout the country,
and Gen. Harrison abandoned his pro-
posed trip and went to Washington to
devise means for preventing the plague
from getting into the United States, 1t
was arranged that the stump speaking
tour should take place later, but on account
of the dangerous turn which Mrs. Harri-
sons illness assumed the President was
obliged to give up the idea Of participating
in the campaign.
| from making any public utterance OF a
political character. In the speeches which
| he delivered at Harrisburg and York on
Thursday he avoided any partisan utter
word from him would have been mighty
welcome TO the party leaders. There
is a split among the Pennsylvania Repub-
leans and the candidate for Governor OF the
boiling faction has been Endorsed by the
Democrats. But even this condition was
not sufficient to induce Mr.. Roosevelt to say
| something that would help the Republican
ticket. Representative ID. r. Lafean, the
Congress member from the York district,
is a Republican, but the district il normally
Democratic. At York the President was
introduced by Mr.. Lafean, but there was
nothing said by the President In his speech
TO indicate that he would like to see Mr..
Lafean returned.
These things serve 10 show the P Presidents
attitude in this years campaign. Blu he
has demonstrated in many ways his great
interest in the candidacy of Mr.. Hughes.
IL is the matter nearest his heart. He wants
to see Mr.. Hughes elected, not only for
rarity reasons, but because he firmly be-
lieves that he will give an administration
that will be Of the greatest benefit to the
people of New York.
Chairman Sherman's conference with
the President was ~protracted. It was de-
voted exclusively to political matters, and
in the course Of their talk Mr.. Sherman
brought up the matter Of demands made
upon him as chairman Of the Congress
that Congress should order an investiga-
ton Of the Government Printing ONCE.
These demands are the outgrowth Of
troubles with the Bookbinders' Union over
new rules in the big printery for expediting
the work in the bookbinding department
and making il Of better quality. The first
case was that Of a ~bookbinder who wal
censured by the acting foreman Of the
bindery for failing to conform to the new
rules and the dispute that followed resulted
in his suspension. The Bookbinders'
Union protested against the suspension,
but Public Printer Stillings sustained the
action OF the acting foreman.
More rec ntly another binder wal sus-
pended by the Public Printer, the charge |
being tina his work was Inferior. Presi- |
dent Feeny Of the local Bookbinders' Union
vent to New York to ak with Mr.. Sher-
man about the demand Of the union for an
gress, and it was his phase OF the matter
which Mr.. sherman brought 20 the Presi- |
dents attention tonight. While the details
OF the discussion between the President
and Mr.. sherman have not been disclosed
1t il understood that there was no conclu- |
sion reached.