The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1908-08-07
REPUBLICANS PLAN
TO CARRY ny.
Leaders Think there Is a
Good Prospect.
SeCetary Bennett Elated Over
Pr0SpeCtS--Fight in the
State.

Taft leaders in Kentucky after their
Chicago conference with National
Chairman Frank H. Hitchcock, are in-
clintd 10 believe that there is every
chance of Kentuckys going into me
Electoral College ins ructod for the
Ohioan. They place their reliance
chiefly on the Eleventh and Fifth dis
tricts and they declare that the ma
jorilies in these districts will run 50
nigh that they can meet the First. Sec
ond and Seventh with enough TO nose
Taft through in the State.
The Republican chiefs claim that
this is noe a speculation but that they
worked it out on paper for Hitchcock
and his associates and that they Con-
WINGED them that it was true. There
is no disposition on the part of the
Republican National Committee 10 re-
fuse Kentucky money for the cam
paign in the usual scheme of shutting
out the extreme Southern States. In
deed it is learned thai Hitchcock and
Sheldon, treasurer of the committee,
are prepared and willing 20 spend a
neat sum on this Sac 10 prove that
the representations Of r. II. VIM,
State Chairman and Campaign Man
ager and National Commit ,eeman, A.
r. Burnam can be worked OUT like a
problem in geometry.
1t is PLANNED 10 bring out all 1.-THE
Republican votes that there is in the
Eleventh district and TO swell The
vote there until 1t may register a ma
joriy as high as $4,000. Tnen the
Fifth district noted as an anti-Bryan
stronghold VIII be campaiSned cNase-
lessiy and with a perfect machine in
the hands of Charles l.. Scholl until
greater majority than that given the
last Republican ticket in jefferson
county may be secured. With this
lead, the complexion of the Third
district , the dissatisfaction in the
Sixth district where Joe Rninock will
be nomina ed and likely defeated, the
situation in the Ninth district, where
all the Republicans are united for J. B..
Bennett and the Democrats split be-
tween L. b. Hager and James y.
Kehoe, and the chances for
Congressman John Langley in
Tenth the Republicans believe that
enough votes can be mustered to de-
feat Bryan in Kentucky this lime.
Rhinock in the Sixth will he nomi-
mated it is believed because the ma
chine demands him lnversely as the
people do not want him the chances for
John Inguis seem especially good
as Rhinock is said 10 be hardly ever
in his seat at Washington and there
is muttering going on all over his dis
trict. Bennett in he Nin,h mas defeat
ed Kehoe before and IL is argued that
AS conditions have only grown worse
for the Democrats there that Bennett
can do il again. Talking the Third
Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleven
with proper majorities the Republican
plan 20 win out in the election totals.
Ii is asserted also that Congressman
A. o. Stanley in the Second District is
in danger and that John Worsham or
Henderson. is making a race tina, will
turn tables in the most surprising
fashion in hte State and land MIN in
Congress. The First with Ollie James
the Fourth with Ben Johnson, and The
Seventh, with W. p. Kimball or j.
Campbell Cantrill. are the only dis
tricts in The State where The Republic
cans admits that it does not look rosy
for them.
'Itc ould not be better in Kentucky
said Secretary Avis Bennett of the
State Central Committee. Under no
combination of political circumstances
that | can think of could prospects be
more rosy for six or seven Republican
Congressman and the electoral vote fol
Taft"