The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-07-06
REPUBLICAN MANAGERS CANNOT
AGREE ON LEADER.
HITCHCOCK worries JEALOUS
Candidate Taft Postponed Date for
Settlement Of Matter TO July 8.
voreys' Connection Win Boss
Cox Deal Against HIM.

/ Washington, u. c., july G-The re-.
/ publican managers are at war with
each other over the selection of a
] chairman of their national committee.
/ Candidate Taft seems loath 70 srt,le
| the matter and has postpone the
evil day until July Sth Whuayrr dc.
cision he arrives at will NO. adj to
thp era % good fceliaa thai is nee.
essary to get the brethren together
/ The trouble is the antipathy OF Hitch.
cock and Voreys. the two Taft mana
gers of the campaign for the nomina.
tion. Although NIr Hitchcock has
said that his health will not permit
! him To assume the arduous duties
| OF chairman, his friends are still
/ very actively st work in his behalf,
which would indicate that he wants
/ it, Hitchcock is here and Voreys
also, and there is no love lost between
these two, for both seem 10 imagine
7 they fixed things for Taft and are
entitled 90 the chai manship as a re-
ward Both of these ypractical politi-
clans know too much TO be neglect
/ ed by Mr. Taft, and both will have
to be taken care of politically and
no doubt will be. If the law com
PEELED publicity Of expenditures made
in securing nominations, there would
undoubtedly be nest of corruption
in the way OF money spent and OF
fices promised exposed to the Ameri-
can people whcl would ,stouni them
and perhaps defeat Mr.. Taft for
president
Rut the Re 1liCan eaders having
defeated the bill for publicity of cam;
paign contributions and expenditures,
and having rejected the LaFollette
plank to the platform which prom
ised legislation requiring publicity,
the republicans find themselves handi-
cappd at the beginning OF their
campaign by the jealousy of the two
managers, who having had taste
Ilf blood in the selection of the can
Ididate, now want to feed on the full
body of political corruption. II is
almost certain that \oreys will not
be selected as chairman, for although
he undoubtedly cleared the way in
Ohio for Taft, yet his appointment
would emphasize the deal that was
made with Boss Cox, allowing him
in return for supporting Taft to die
tate the nomination of very question.
able candidates for the principal state
officers in Ohio, which quite a large
faction of the republican party in
that state is refusing to support.
If the democrats adopt a plank in
their platform for publicity of cam
paign contributions and expenditures
both for the nomination of candidates
and for their election, that issue
will be quite prominent in the cam
paign and may affect enough voters
in the doubtful states to turn the
tide in favor of the democrats. II is
said that Mr.. Bryan favors such
a plank and will advise the new
chairman OF the democratic national
committee to publish the items of
all receipts and expenditures In this
campaign. If Mr.. Bryan should also
have the expense incurred by him.
self and his friends in his long cam.
paign for the nomination made pub,
lie, he would make it decidedly un.
comfortable for Mr.. Taft In whose
ney is reported to have been spent
by his brother and others, for 1t is
said that many such expenditures
would hardly look well in cold fig
ures
There will be no initiative and ref
erendum plank in the democratic
platform ! am assured upon high au
'hority, but the anti-iniunction decla
ration is TO be about as the labor
people desire, except that the word
ing will be much condensed. | an
also informed that whole platform
is now undergoing severe blue
penclling process at Lincoln and will
emerge from Mr.. Bryan's Sanctun
Sanctorum in an abbreviated form
that will contrast iayorably with
the verbose boastings OF the repub