Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-05-15
FOR TAFT and PARTY'S Veal
REPUBLICAN LEADERS PLAN TO
slDETRAck ALL OTHERS.
Men Who Have Opposed Taft Now
Seek to Have Him Nominated
on the First Ballot.

Washington, d. C.-Republican lead
ers in congress are working ear
nestly on plan to prevent any break
at the Chicago convention that might
disrupt party harmony and endanger
defeat at the polls in November. Con-
ferences have been held at both ends
of the capitol among such men as
Senators Aldrich, Hale, Allison and
Crane, and Representatives Payne and
Sherman of New York, Tawney of
Minnesota, Jenkins of Wisconsin and
Smith of Iowa; in fact, meetings of
small groups from this list have been
of almost daily occurrence for more
than a week.
They have been directed to one
end-a nomination on the first ballot,
by which they mean William II. Taft.
Most of the men figuring promi-
nently in this movement were num-
bered against Taft early in the cam
paign, but party policy and the neces-
sity for harmony which have been
manifest in Republican ranks since
the disastrous results of the Blaine
Conkling feud, has awakened de-
mand that personal desires must be
subordinated to the will OF the ma
iority That the efforts of the lead
ers back of the harmony movement
have not been barren of results is in
dicated by the fact that to number
of conferences have been called such
men as Senators Hemenway, Penrose,
Cullom, Hopkins and Depew, and Rep
resentatives Parsons and Vreeland of
New York, Boutell and Mann of Illi-
nois, Burke and Dalzell of Pennsyl-
vania, Watson and Lands of Indiana.
and others who are backing the can
didacies of Fairbanks, Speaker Can
non, Senator Knox, or Gov. Hughes.
No attempt is made to disguise the
fact that the real impetus to such a
concerted movement in the interest of
Taft is the refusal of Roosevelt senti-
ment to be snuffed out and the danger
of such sentiment spreading to an ex-
tent that it might be difficult to con-
troll at Chicago. At the same time it
is said the movement is not hostile
to Roosevelt, who occupies the posi-
ton of command in the Taft forces.
He has made it plain that nothing can
come of the renewed calls for his re-
nomination which have been made in
Texas, Utah and California, as he is
prepared to reject any proffer of sup
port, no matter how extended.
Republican leaders concede that
their majority in the house is likely to
be largely reduced and they fear that
unless all factions are brought to-
gether before the Chicago convention
they might lose their majority alto
gether.
One of the plans being discussed
favorably is the denomination of Mr..
Fairbanks as vice president on the
ticket with Taft, which, they assert,
would remove Indiana from the doubt
full column and make it safely Repub-
lican. 1t is believed also that with
the Republican forces solidly aligned
Taft could easily carry Illinois and
the thermometers are willing to con-
cede Cannon reelection as speaker by
a Republican house. There is a move
ment on foot to bring about the re-
nomination of Hughes as governor of
New York, and an effort will be made
to bring Taft and Foraker together,
which it is thought would make Ohio
safe