Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-06-02
TAFT AaAINsr rHE FrELp
National Committee in Session t.
settle Contests.

National Committee In Session to
Settle Contests.
CHICAGO, June What Will
probably be the only contest over the
republican nomination for president
will be fought out in Chicago this
week and next before the national
committee. Taft has a clear majori-
ty Of the delegates as elected and 1t
will be case Of the administration
candidate against the field. The hope
Of the allies is that a sufficient num-
Der Of contests may be decided
against Taft, by the national COM
mittee, so as to proIong the
fight beyond the first ballot.
From present appearances, there
Is little prospect for victory
for the allies. A little less than 200
contests are to be decided by the COM
mittee, but Taft Ia almost certain of
securing enough OF the contested
seats to assure his nomination with
out a struggle.
II is generally understood that
Harry s. New of Indiana, chairman
of the national committee, is a Taft
man, although the 10 congressional
districts Of his state OF Indiana have
declared solidly for vice-President
Fairbanks and have instructed for
Fairbanks. Mr.. Fairbanks and Mr..
New, however, have not hitched in
recent years, and for that matter the
tie between Senator Beveridge and
MIR. Fairbanks is not Of the stoutest
kind. Senator Hemmenway, Mr..
Beveridge's colleague, is sturdy in
his fidelity to the Vice-President.
While the Beveridge men say that
Fairbanks will get support from In
diana on the first ballot, they init
mate that It will be of the prefunct-
DRY I'VE expect to lose anyhow
kind. 1t is known that Mr.. Fair
banks il to have a bunch of delegates
from the Southern States and expects
support from other quarters.
Between now and convention time
the struggle will be to control the
national committee. In times past,
notably in 1884, the convention up
set recommendation of the national
committee, and in 1892 the anti-Har-
rison men at first controlled the ma
tional committee only to lose II, and
as a result scores of federal Office
holders were seated as delegates and
President Harrison as q result was
nominated on the first ballot, only
to be Overwhelmingly defeated at the
polls. The republicans who captur-
ed control Of the national committee
from Quay. Plat. Clarkson, Foraker
and Wolcott and their friends and
used this control to seat the federal
oficeholder contestants was John G.
New, Harrison's Consul~General to
London, and father Of Harry New.
Harry New went through this fight
with his father and he knows the
ropes.
Al st. Louis in 1895 Marcus A.
Hanna and his friends controlled the
national committee, and In the pre-
liminaries they bundled the Thomas
b. Reed delegates and all delegates
opposed to Mckinley out OF the win
dow with seant courtesy and with
scarcely a hearing, 1t was on that
occasion that the late Sam Fessenden
OF Connecticut had a wordy war with
Hanna and turned upon Joe Manley
OF Maine, who had forsaken Reed
with God Almighty hates gutter. =
For this fracas Fessenden to his last
day was practically on the shelf In
Connecticut politics. The scenes at
the sessions Of the national commit
tee and the credentials committees OF
the. two parties have in years gone
by been riotous and 1t 10 predicted
that similar scenes will be enacted
here during the next two weeks.
To Nominate Congressman.
SHELBYVILLEE Ind. June p