The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-06-16
ALLIES TO
|. UNITE ON
incumbent Choice of Anti TAFT
Men for the Vice
Presidency
Hughes Refusal to Withdraw
Eliminates New Yorker
for Second Place
Attempt to Cast Votes for
Roosevelt Would Be Insult
to the President
Hardest Fight in Convention
Will Be on the Anti
Injunction Plank
By Raymond
SPECIAL DIsPATCH TO THE CALL

CHICAGO, June 15.-When
Chairman New bangs his gaveI
down somewhere about noon to-
morrow and calls to order the
fourteenth national convention
of the republican party the great
central episode, which is natu-
rally the nomination of a candi-
date for the presidency, will be
arranged in advance.
William Howard Taft viii be
chosen on the first ballot, with
margin of at least 200 votes over
the 491 necessary for choice in
a total membership of $50. His
selection is as certain now as
anything possible can be in poll
tics.
There is some vague talk of a
landslide for Roosevelt, but it IS
significant that it originates in
almost every case with anti
Roosevelt men.
Those who are really loyal to
the president know that he looks
with horror upon every vote that
NAV be cast for him in the Chr
cago convention. He has openly
declared and privately written
that mo friend" of his will use
his name in the balloting, and
this fact is so generally understood
among the delegates that it ought TO
put an end once and for all to any idle
talk of a third term landslide.
Senator Lodge or some other per-
sonal friend will surely have In his
possession, ready TO be brought out at
the PSYCHOLOGICAL moment. a ringing
letter from Theodore Roosevelt de-
nouncing the third term movement as
the work of his enemies who wish TO
injure his reputation in the future and
cast discredit upon his public declara-
tions-
FAIRBANKS OR DOLLIvER
With the presidential nomination
thus out of the way there are Just
three things which are now particular-
ly engaging the attention of the man
ayers on all sides First OF all there
is the vice presidency. That now seems
TO rest between Dolliver and Fair
banks. with Representative Sherman OF
New York as a bare possibility The
stand pat element in Iowa is vehement
in its declaration that the selection OF
Senator DOlliver as the vice presiden-
tial candidate viii precipitate bitter
partisan fight in the state and may
cost the legislature.
on the other hand the advance guard
of the Cummins contingent has reached
Chicago. and they are equally voci-
ferrous in insisting that DOlliver must
and shall be drafted for the national
ticket They declare that it is coward
Iy TO deprive him of the honor merely
because a minority in the state de-
mands it. They insist that the protest
of the stand patters shows that Cum
Minis has a majority OF his party
Iowa and would be elected senator
succeed Dolliver. Thus the Taft mani
ayers are in a peculiar position De-
cause whichever way they decide in
regard to Dolliver they will displease
an influential section OF the Iowa re-
publicans.
WOULD LAY DOLLIVER GHOST
Representatives of the Cummins ele-
ment have been in communication with
Washington all day IONS while the
stand pat crowd have fairly bombarded
the White House and the war Depart
ment with protests against the nomi-
nation and with demands that tire Dol
liver ghost should be laid forthwith
and some other man chosen as running
mate for the secretary OF war
AS matter of fact. the fear OF
partisan warfare in Iowa is largely
overdrawn. There is no reason IN the
world why Senator Dolliver should re-
sign his seat before the election IT
chosen vice president he would not
take the oath of Office until noon on the
fourth day Of next March 1t would
be in accordance with precedents for
him TO stay in the senate until the
conclusion of this congress- and then re-
sign and assume the duties OF the vice
presidency. II this course were for
Lowed the result would be that both