The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-17
BURTON NOT
 FOR CABINET Offer of Portfolio is Withdrawn. RACE IN OHIO FOR SENATE Brother of President Elect is Con
 fident. Final Day in New York was Busy ons For Judge Taft, wAe wnl
 Go to Augusta,
 Georgia.
RACE IN OHIO FOR SENATE

New York. Dec. te.---It was author itatively announced here today that the offer of cabinat position to con' gressman Theodore Burton. of cisvs- land. had been withdrawn by Mr. Tart and would not be renewed.
 Mir Burton had been mentioned ai the probable Secretary of the Trsas- ury in MT. Tafts cabinet. and 1t sia said that the portfolio had been deft- niteIy offered to him.
 The statement followed the confer ence of Mir. Taft with several Repuh- Ifcan leaders from Ohio during the day, Mir. Burton. 1t is-believed. will now make an active contest in the Ohio Senatorial campaign.
 Mir. Taft held the most important po- litical conference of hiE stay In New York when late today he met five of the Republican State ieacers of Uhio and discussed with them the affairs of the State
 Brother Charles Satisfied.
 Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati was also present and when he wsa asked tonight as to what bearing, it any, the conference may have upon his car. didacy for the Senate to succeed Sen atcr Joseph B. Foraker, he replied: T am going to win. Everything fs favorable" z
 The President elects brother was apparently more than satisfied with the days developments and was fatriy bubbifng over with good humos. A" to the leaders who attended the cou- ference, the Senatorial candidate said.
 '@They came on for the dinner ef the Ohio Society tonight and to talk over Aa4 FhAxys here to see brother will, and after a long talk with him they ell went away in good shape"
 Tho conference was an extended ana earnest one, and made Mir. Taft and hls three brothers, Charles F., Henry W and Horace D., iata for the reception in honor of the President elect at the waldorf Astoria Hotel. preceding tle Ohio Society dinner.
 National Chairman Hitchcock. who is to be Postmaster General in Ar. Taft's cabinet paid the last of his dai- ly calls upon the President elect to- day. and took with him scsorge W. Perkins of J. P. Morgan and Co.
 Ralph Peters. President of the Long lsland Railroad was" late visitor dnr- ing the day, Senator Albert J. Bever- idge, of Indfann. had talk with Mr. Taft ovcr the telephone.
 Discusses the Canal.
 The Panama Canal and conditions in the canal zone came in for a large share of Mr. Taft's consideration te- day and in addition to it a long talk with Theodore F. Shonts, formerly lD charge Of the work on the canal. he received Col. John J. McCook, R. C. Morse, Secretary of the International Y. M. c. A.. and James B. Reynolds. all of whom discussed plans for the erection Of additional Y. M. c. A. club rooms on the isthmus. These rooms. it is said. have proved most populaH and beneficial to the employees.
 The President elect wifi leave toInor. row morning for Augusta. Ga.
 Mir. Taft sat for photographs this morning ar three different studios ana announced when he concluded his ex- periences before the camera that he had about fulfilled all such en9ageA ments that he cared to make at this time. The round of the studios was made in a fast automobile. which was preceded along crowded Fifth avenue and other thoroughfares by a bicycle policeman.
 ..TsaKt a sAEmmbIe PuppyR" Mir. Taft's last words to the news paper men tonight were concerning his reference to himself yesterday as 6 "Mumble puppy" in the game of golf. Laughingly he said:
 "Well. I see I have publicly called myself a humble ruppy.'"'
 "Is 1t Q humble puppy or a humble puppy?' was asked.
 'sMumbIe puppy. guess--one who plays whist very poorly"
 "tSo. Bill, it's humble puppy not humble puppy" put in Henry W. Taft.
 ''Oh, very well, then, I'm wrong, ana Q humble puppy"