Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-21
OHIO WORRIES IAFT
DISCRIMINATION Among State
Republicans Causes Re-
newed Activity
HITCHCOCK TAKES CHARGE
National Committee Will Push Cam
paian With Idea of Getting Out the
Vote - vorys Virtually Deposed
From Management in State Affairs
Official Statement Given Out.

Chicago, Oct. 21.-Following the rev.
Citations of republican Reorganization
In Ohio, the national committee took
action yesterday which virtually re-
moves Arthur L Vorys from the direc-
ton of the Taft campaign in that state.
National Chairman Hitchcock will take
personal charge of the Ohio field and
the committee will pour into the state
all the strong speakers at it's command
in an effort to insure republican sue
cess.
Mr.. Taft will speak in Cleveland at
noon on Nov. Q and in the evening at
Youngstown. Other speakers who have
the closing days of the campaign are:
Senator Robert NJ. La Toilette, Post
master General George Won l.. Meyer.
Secretary of the Interior James r.
Garfield, Secretary of Commerce Oscar
Strans, Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver,
Leslie NJ Shaw, General o. o. How
ard, Congressman Nicholas Longworth,
Congressman David Foster of Vermont,
Change Of Ohio Management.
Since the opening of the campaign
Ohio has constituted subject princi-
pality in the republican scheme of or
ganization Vorys was the prince on
the job the understanding being that
he should run the campaign in that
state to suit himself without the inter-
vention of the national committee. TINS
was the consolation prize he received
for his disappointment in not being
made chairman of the national COM
mittee.
But Prince Vorys failed to bring
peace to his principality. The republi-
can standing army in Ohio is split up
into numerous factions by personal and
public Issues. and Vorys was expected
to close the breaches and heal the
wounds A week or two ago reports
began to reach headquarters that the
situation in Ohio was growing worse
instead of better. Vorys was charged
with gross tactlessness in handling the
disgruntled factions, as a result or
which it was opined that republican
success was endangered.
The fact that the Vorys following
a few weeks ago attempted to discredit
Hitchcock did not help the Ohio man
ayers case when it was taken up by
the national committee. The story that
Hitchcock was to be superseded was
traced to the Vorys camp. At any rate
and decided to relieve Vorys of COM
mand The principality has been abol-
ished and Ohio formally reannexed to
the republican national organization.
official Statement Given Out.
The official announcement of the ac-
ton taken by the committee studiously
refrains from any mention of Vorys'
name, but none of the politicians
around the headquarters failed to put
the correct Interpretation upon it's con-
tents. The statement read:
.'F'rom now ON until the end of the
campaign the republican national COM
mittee will assume a greater share OF
the responsibility for the work in Ohio.
chairman Hitchcock informed Chi
cago headquarters that on account OF
the apprehension felt by some fepubln-
can leaders over the situation in Ohio
an apprehension not shared by him.
self-the national committee would
take charge more or less of the cam
paign there This does not mean, he
explained, the supplanting of the state
committee in Ohio, but merely the as
sumption of more responsibility on the
part of the national committee"
There now is good deal of uncer-
tainty about Tafts dates west of Ohio.
The big meeting scheduled for Gary,
Ind, next Saturday night may be de-
clared off on account of the candl-
dates inability to appear. His voice is
in extremely bad condition and his
physician has required him to limit his
speaking to once a day. 1t is possible
he will be compelled to cancel all his
dates previous to his New York speech.
AS evidence of the financial dis
quietude produced by any prospect of
the election of Bryan, the republican
national committee made public two
sample letters from a business con-
Germ. In one Banta Bros. & Co. of
Lowpoint, Ill, wrote the Moline Plow
company asking to "hold our contract
subject to cancellation in case of Bry-
ans election.
eve have been in business for twen-
ey years." said the letter, "and have
fought our way thru one financial de-
preston for four Or five years, and we
would rather not be loaded too heavy
in case as above mentioned"