Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-05-16
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The confetsHce Of leaders Which
Promised Spectacular Results
HaB Been CallsdFoH.
FIGHT Still IN PROGRESS
Indications Are rkat EITHER senator
Foraker or Secretary Taft VIII
Be Retired to Private Life
Before IL Ends.

Columbus, O., May Is. = For thi
present, at least, the probability O
q spectacular pitched battle between
the Taft and Foraker Dick factions
in this state has passed, The fight Il
stu in progress, however, and the in
dications now are that It will termi
nate only with the reinforcement fHSrr
public life of either Senator Foraker
and Secretary Taft.
Tuesday Chairman Walter y
Brown, Of the republican state cen.
trail committee, called off the meet
ing Of that body which WIS to have
been held here Wednesday by the dis
patch Of the following telegram to
all members lot the Committee:
sowing to indefinite postponment
Of party conference by senator, call
for meeting state central committee
is hereby rescinded."
The meeting of the committe was
to have been an adjunct to the gen
eral conference Of party leaders.
scheduled for Wednesday and which
was so suddenly called off Monday
night by Senator Dick. The Foraker
people have all along claimed that
the control Of the party machinery
was in their hands and there was an
urgent desire among many Of the fol-
lowers Of Secretary Taft throughout
the state that the time had come to
prove the accuracy OF this assertion.
Telephone calls and telegraph mes
sages rained in all morning upon
Chairman Brown and Arthur | vorys,
the Taft campaign manager, urging
that the meeting Of the state central
committee be held despite the fact
that the larger conference was not to
meet 4
Chairman Brown, whose statement
Of Monday night that the conference,
II held, would have In his opinion,
unanimously endorsed Secretary Taft
for the presidency, placed him square
" In the secretarV's following, pro-
ceeded early Tuesday to hold confer
ences with prominent republicans,
His first visit was to the office Of
Governor Harris, with whom he re-
NAMED for an hour, From there he
visited the office Of Mr.. Vorys and
they conferred for two hours. 1t was
at this latter meeting that the de-
cisIon was finally reached to call off
the meeting Of the state central com
mittee. Chairman Brown declared
that the call for the committee had
been issued only in pursuance Of the
call for the general conference; that
having been called off by Senator
Dick, its original ad rate, the chair
man did not believe that he should
insist upon a meeting Of the com
nittee for any purpose other than
hat originally designed. II a special
meeting is desired later ne said, 1t
IAN be called at an. time.
In, the meantime the Taft forces are
bout to push matters. They are
bout to "smoke out" the leading Of
icers Of the state, and invite them to
Indicate where they Etahd-for Taft
n for Foraker. After this part Of the
programme has been carried out,
Meeting Of the state central commit
ee may be called and its members
viii be given an opportunity to de-
lare themselves.
The republican organization Of this
ounty Tuesday adopted Taft resolu-
ions. The county committee was
allied together for the purpose Of for
Instructions to the Column
us delegates to Senator Dicks con-
srence. When the conference was
allied off It was decided to endorse
aft anyhow.