Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-07
Not to Resign From Congress
Before March a.
COMMITTEE NEEDS HIM
Expected He Will Retain Chairman
ship and Direct Campaign.
AMALGAMATI0N IS ASSURED
Campaign and Congressional Com
mittees to Unite for Economy
and Effective Work.

James S. Sherman, republican nominee
| for Vice President, will retain his sea,
in Congress from New York until March
next without respect to the result OF
the election next fall.
1t was at first believed Sherman would
resign shortly after he received the nom
| ination. There appears to him to be nc
good reason why he should do SO. 1t was
learned today at the headquarters of the
| republican congressional campaign COM
mittee, of which he is chairman, that he
| has decided to stick.
AS a member of the House Sherman
will naturally retain his membership on
the congressional committee. Pressure is
now being brought to bear on him from
high political circles to retain his post as
chairman of that committee.
Speaker Cannon and Senator Hemen-
way were both in this city yesterday. In
| the course of brief visits to the commit
tee headquarters they expressed them
personnel of the committee. 1t is generally
believed here that Sherman will not give
up the Craftsmanship.
Sherman to Remain Chairman.
Francis Curtis, director of the literary
| of the Office at the present time, said this
afternoon he was constantly in touch
with Sherman and with other members OF
the committee by wire, and is in a posi-
ton to state that the chances of Sher-
mans retaining the office are of the best
Representative Loudenslager of New
Jersey, secretary of the committee, is
scheduled to arrive in Utica, N. Y, to-
day to confer with Sherman on matters
nf he avpaft f0n
He will urge Sherman to remain leader.
There are several reasons why Sher-
man can easily remain chairman of the
congressional committee, and also take
the usual part of a vice presidential nomi-
nee In the national campaign. In the first
place he is on the best of terms with all
the leaders in the republican party
He is prime favorite not only among
his colleagues IT, the House, but among
all who know him.
This fact, it can easily be SEEM opens
the way for close relationship between
the national republican campaign commit
tee and the congressional committee.
There is no doubt that the two commit
tees will be practically merged this sum-
mer.
There is not exactly any precedent for
the merging of the two committees. Moth
ing appears to stand in the way. Be-
sides, plain. common business sense sug-
gests such thing right away. Time.
| money and campaign spell binders will be
| economical by this method and all sorts
OF confusion and clashing prevented, it is
pointed out.
Amalgamation Assured.
This arrangement will be made, no mat
ter who becomes chairman of the national
committee, for Sherman is a personal and
political friend of all Of the candidates.
Since it has become almost a certainty
that Hitchcock will be the chairman of
the national committee this arrangement
has been declared as good as settled. for
the latter is said to desire the aff1liation
William III. Taft. the presidential nomi-
nee. Is said to look with favor upon the
plan to merge the committees. He will
confer with Senator Hemenway at Hot
Springs, Va, probably this evening upon
the subject. The Indiana senator will rep
resent Sherman's views.
Hemenway was scheduled for the ma
lies had won at Chicago. Now, having
climbed aboard the republican band
wagon with the grace and enthusiasm of
all other good republicans, he is regarded
as the natural representative of the for
mer antl-Taft men in the campaign. Sher-
man is still too Ill to travel any distance
with impunity. and cannot, therefore, be
present in person at Hot Springs
Of course, the distinctive work of the
congressional committee will still be per-
| formed by that body-that is. the work OF
| helping the republican candidates for cleo
ton to the House in the doubtful districts
all over the country. To this work, as
well as the other work of the congress
sional committee. Sherman will not give
personal attention in all cases. Represent
alive Tawney of Minnesota, vice chairman
| of the committee is eminently qualified
| to take active charge and will doubtless
do so at the proper time.
1t will be in the distribution of cam.
paign literature and the sending out OF
| speakers that the national and congress
| sional committees will collaborate. This
| work will doubtless be done from one
office in each instance
To Move to New York
The entire force of the congressional
| committee will go to the fifteenth floor
| of the st. James building. in New York
| city. August 1. From there the serious
| work will be directed. The national COM
mittee will probably have Offices in the
| Metropolitan Life building, just across
the street. as heretofore. There will be
private telephone wires connecting the
two headquarters and officers and assist.
| ants will go back and forth.
| 1t is not improbable that Representative
| Mckinley of Ohio will be chosen treas
urer of the national committee. He will
| doubtless retain his post as treasurer OF
the congressional committee. This will
| bind the two committees together even
/ more closely.
| In other words, complete harmony will
apparently reign over the men who are
to run the republican campaign this sum-
| mer and faR
| One reason such an arrangement was
not made in the last campaign was that
| Chairman Babcock of the congressional
| committee was persona non grata with
| the national committee and preferred tc
| work as he pleased. The result was tina,
| the two committees did their work indie.
pendently of each other
UTAH FAvoRs NEwHousE