The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-07-21

IN SESSION
WESTERN MEN GATHER
WITH HITCHCOCK IN
COLORADO SPRINGS TO
PLAN CAMPAIGN-SOME
NEW IDEAS IN WORK.

COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo, July
2O.-When Frank Fl. Hitchcock.
chairman of the ..epubliacn national
committee, arrived here last evening
to consult with the members OF the
n ational committe and chairmen OF
western states and territories, he was
greeted by large number of politf-
cal leaders who had reached the
Springs during the day. He found
assurances from others which made
it certain that the two days confer
ence, which opened today. will be
success. The men who are here to
meet Chairman Hitchcock are as fol-
lows:
w. S. Sturges, Arizona Charles
Cayander, Colorado; Senator William
E. Borah, Idaho; David w. Mulvane.
Kansas; Thomas c. Marshall, Mon
tana: Victor Rosewater, Nebraska:
Solomon Luna, New Mexico; James
Kennedy, North Dakota Cash N.
Cade, Oklahoma; Ralph L. Williams.
Oregon; Thomas Thorson, South Da-
kota; Cecil A. Lyon, Texas; William
Spry, representing C. f. Loose, Utah;
Robert l.. Mccormick. Washington,
and George e. Pexton, Wyoming.
State Chairmen-Robert b. Ten
ney, Arizona; George Stone, Califor-
mia; John +. Vivian. Colorado;
James Z. Brady. Idaho; j. I. Mon
roe, Kansas; Fletcher Maddox, Mon
tana; William Hayward. Nebraska:
George F. Turrettin, Nevada; II. o.
Bursum. New Mexico; l.. b. Hanna.
North Dakota; Charles W. Hunter,
Oklahoma; w. M. Cake. Oregon; w.
C. Cook. South Dakota Cecil A.
| Lynn, Texas Wesley w. Walton,
Utah; A. F Statter, representing
Washington; and Vice Chairman
Gramm, representing Charles w.
Burdick, Wyoming.
The national committeeman from
California ard Nevada were unable to
come. Senator Warren of Wyoming
and a number of other Republicans.
not members of the committee, will
be here tomorrow.
Nothing of the kind now under
taken by Mr.. Hitchcock was ever be-
fore undertaken in the history of
campaign by either party. He an
nounced on his arrival here today
that it would be his purpose to have
states that are certainly Republican
| to assist in campaigning in neigh
boring states which may be doubt
full. To that end he is to bring the
western leaders together. Tomor-
row there will be general confer
ence, at which the various leaders
will exchange ideas and formulate a
system whereby one state can draw
upon the political resources of an
other. After that Mr.. Hitchcock will
hold individual conferences with the
representatives of each of the IT
states and territories which are send
ing men for the political gathering
According to Chairman Hitchcock
ther has been a lack of cohesion be-
tween western leaders in past cam
paigns,. the representatives of each
state doing their best to pile up Re
publican majorities, but not helping
other states which have more diff
cult political battles to fight. He said
today that he wanted to broaden the
responsibilities of each of the west
ern Republican leaders with a view
of carving the whole western region
for Teft and Sherman.
When asked what was the states
he regarded as safely Republican and
what ones he classed as doubtful,
Mr. Hitchcock said
81 hsve determined not to ankle
any predictions at any time. That
will be my policy throughout the
campsign. We won't neglect any
territc~v where there is a bare chance
of victory, north, south, east or west.
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