The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22
TAFT STANDS BY HITCHCOCK
WIRES CHAIRMAN EXPRESSION
OF FULL CONFIDENCE.

Tells Him He 10 In Supreme Control and
That Crane ls Merely TO Give Advice
Candidates Revised Itinerary
Real Work to Begin on October 1.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 2i.-Mr. Taft came
forward to-day in support OF National
Chairman Frank H, Hitchcock. He Q n
this telegram to the national chairman
at Chicago:
;SDo not be disturbed by publications
With reference TO your management OF
tbe campaign OF statements Of an inten-
tim to supplant you In control. The
presence Of Senator Crane here gave rise
toinferences which l attempted to depre-
cate.
81 have every confidence in you and in
the success Of your management. and l
welcome the assistance. as you do. OF
Senator Crane and Of the ancillary COM
mittee, but you are in supreme control.
WILLIAM H. TAFT"
Mr.. Taft's reference to the 'ancillary
COMMITTEES" bears out the information
T. obtained here yesterday that from now
on the Republican advisers and h ex-
ecutive committee Of the national COM
mittee are going to have something to
say about the management OF the cam
paign. Up to this time Chairman Hitch
cock has attempted TO run things in his
own way and according to his own ideas.
From now on the committees will take a
hand and Mr.. Hitchcock himself Is dis
posed to listen.
, There has been no friction between
~ - NJ. TafN a~I at M
time has there been IN talk among the
national leaders of ousting him. 1t was
merely a question OF getting him to change
his methods, and that has been brought
about.
Mr.. Hitchcock, while retaining his full
powers as chairman OF the committee. will
accept the guiding hands OF the two COM
mittees.
There are going to be changes also in
the office methods Of the national chair
man. The red tape that has been wound
around everything in the Offices up to
tho present is going to be discarded
and the Republicans are going to try and
run an open house both in New York
and Chicago,
Mr.. Taft spent practically the entire
day working on the speeches which he is
to deliver on the coming trip. The re-
here to-day. 1t follows:
September Is. Brook, Ind. Farmers
rally at George AIDES farm; %. Chicago;
~. Beloit. Wis; GAINESVILLE, Evansville,
Wis., Madison, Wis; Wa~tertown. Wis.
Wadkesha. Wis; Milwaukee. Wis; rs.
Clinton Ia; Burlington. Ia; Davenport,
Ia.;lDes Moines; 20. st. Paul, Mimi; 81
Sunday. Minneapolis; Is. Fargo. N. D.;
20, Mitchell, s. D.; 50. Fort Dodge. Ia.
and Omaha. Neh.; October 1. trip through
Nebraska; 2. Denver. COL; 8. Topeka.
Kan; 4 Sunday. Kansas City: 5, st.
Joseph, NO.; Q. st. Louis; I. Chicago and
.Galesburg, Ill. On the evening Of Octo-
Der I he will attend the Merchants Asso-
citation dinner in Chicago.
Delegates to the convention of the
National League Of Republican Clubs
msrrow began to arrive to-day. There
will be about 900 delegates, representing
every State in the Union. John Hays
Hammond. the mining engineer, is presi-
dent of the league and is devoting his
energies to organizing the young men
a special train will come from New
York bearing IFS delegates. Another
special train will be run from Pennsyl-
wanna. The Americus Club OF Pittsburg,
whose members have the gayest uniforms
will accompany the Pennsylvania dele
CATION. .
= Because Of the interest of Mr.. Hammond
In the organization there will be a special
turnout Of mining engineers at the Tues
day night meeting. Among others who
xvtl nttanl mill ha Sanafnr Sipapn G,tnnan-
helm OF Colorado and Thomas F. Walsh
Of the came State. There will be a great
parade before the rally tomorrow even
ing. This evenings meeting is the one
over which Senator Foraker was to have
presided. Mr.. Hammond will probably
tain, will not mention the Foraker episode
in his speech.
CHICAGO, Sept. 2l.-Plans for the Re-
publican national campaign mapped out
weeks ago will be carried out to the letter
and there will be activity enough for all
when it starts, was the promise made by
Chairman Frank H. Hitchcock.
Fractional difficulties and the lateness Of
State campaigns in many States were
asoribed by Mr.. Hitchcock as the reason
for the late national start. He said the
determination to launch the Taft cam
ference Of the party leaders, that criticism
of this determination was foreseen, but
that the progress of the campaign had
justified the decision.
Mr.. Taft will be joined on the stump
by Gov; Charles z. Hughes Of New York;
who will speak in Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois on September %, 20 and 80, aud
again in the transmississippi States dur
ing the week beginning October S. James
d. Sherman, the ce-PresidentiaD nominee
who speaks with Senator Beveridge in
Chicago on September rs, will thep pro-
coed eastward, while Senator Be1eridge
goes northwest on a long tour. With
these guns trained on the enemy and a
general onslaught on the Democratic
strongholds scheduled to begin October /
and continue TO election day, the Re-
publican leaders say they are confident
criticism Of their plans will cease.
Incidentally there are a number OF
Republican leaders who would like to
know who inspired the story that there
would be a change in the Republican
national campaign management. Mr..
Hitchcock said to-day that Senator Crane
had ;bIen one OF his chief advisers from
the inception Of the campaign and that
he would continue to advise him. Senator
Crane acquiesced in this statement. Mr..
Hitchcock sad he and the Senator would
20 to New York together tomorrow night.
THE Senator made the following state
ment:
81 came here at the especial request
of Chairman Hitchcock, with whom I am
a6atmsmber OF the advisory committee,
aaeociafnd and uho wiehad IN copault