Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-24
Secretary Gaining in Favor as
the Choice of Republicans
For President
LOEB NOT TO MANAGE CAMPAIGN
Taft May Leave Cabinet and Loeb
May Quit Politics - Growth of Sec
retarys Campaign Likened to the
Mckinley Landslide = Friends Ex-
ceedinely Pleased.

Loeb in all probability, will be dele
gate to the republican national con-
vention from the Long Island district,
the party leaders there having asked
him if he would accept such an APP
pointment. He has replied that he
would be glad to go, provided 1t would
not be necessary to make a fight for
the place. 1t is understood that he will
be chosen without opposition.
The fact that the presidents secre-
tary is to go to the convention has
started the report that he may quit the
White House for the purpose of man.
aging the Taft candidacy. This report
politics for the president, or anybody
who is close to him, to assume any re-
sponsiblity for the direction of the
Taft movement. The president favors
Taft, and expects that he will be NOM
mated, but he wants it distinctly un-
derstood that Taft will manage his
OhA CGHlpdlSu, III Ills OWu way w I'LL
out even suggestions from the White
House.
Taft Candidacy FIourishine.
Friends of Secretary Taft are ex-
ceedingly pleased at the way his cam
paign is looking up They point out
with a good deal of satisfaction that
his candidacy today is much farther
advanced than was the candidacy of
Mckinley at the close of 1895, and ex
press the belief that before the first
of February his nomination will be
conceded. Just at this moment the
Taft candidacy Is in very fine condi-
ton. fer which several things are re-
sponsihle. The presidents repetition
of his election night statement has
cleared up the situation in the south
ern states, and matters there are now
in first-class condition, and improving
steadily. Another reason is the Hughes
fiasco in New York last week, when
the state committee failed to indorse
his candidacy. This showed that the
claim of the Roosevelt press in
New York that that state was fairly
burning up with enthusiasm for
HUGHES was uOL wen 1OuuOcu. "a I'LL
cause is the return home of Secretary
Taft, which of itself was sufficient to
bring his candidacy prominently be-
fore the country again
Loeb Will Resign Soon.
1t is the understanding here that
Secretary Cortelyou's candidacy is now
definitely a. thing of the past. When
he RECEIVERS from the grip it is said
he will take up his work in the treas
ury department without reference to
the presidency or any outside consid.
Grafton.
1t is reliably stated that Secretary
Loeb will, before the close of the
Roosevelt term. retire from the white
house and go into private business,
perhaps in New York, but possibly in
this city, as the head of one of its
street railway companies. He has no
taste for political career, and it is
believed that he would retire soon if
he could do so without embarrassing
the president. The prediction is made
that if the nomination of Taft should
seem fairly certain before the close of
the winter, he will resign before the
national convention meets.
Inc return VI OSCIeldIy AdLl AioS
revived the rumor that he will retire
from the cabinet in order to look
after his presidential campaign. The
president will not advise him one way
or the other, but will say to him that
if he cares to remain in the cabinet, it
will be entirely satisfactory all around.
1t is understood that a number of
Taft's friends are to say to him in
few days that his campaign will be
stronger if he gets out Of the cabinet.
The president does not think SO, but
will not undertake to interfere, or to
influence Taft's decision in this mat
ter in the slightest degree.
Like Mckinley Landslide.
Within the last week advices have
been received by the Taft people from
the party leaders in a number of
states that the delegation from those
states will be for him for the presi-
dental nomination. The states from
which these advices have come are.
Michigan, Minnesota, the Dakotas,
Washington, Oregon, Nebraska, Kan
sas, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee
and Arkansas. The Taft boom seems
to be catching on with most certainty
in the northwest states, as was the
case with the Mckinley boom in 1895.
The knowledge that Minnesota was to
be for Mckinley, which became known
during the winter of that year, is be-
lieyed to have had much to do with