The Washington herald., 1908-08-13

Hot Springs. Va, Aug 12-Mr- Taft an
nounced after a conference here to-day
with National Chairman Frank Hitchcock
and arthur I Vorys that ne would re-
fuse throughout the campaign 10 take
sides in any Of the State facuonaI rows.
This. Of course. includes the New York
State situation 8Ir- Taft intends 10
leave It entirely to the national commit
tee II there IS any need for intervention
IN behalf Of the national ticket Just
what difference there would De between
intervention by the national coumittee
and Mr.. Taft himself was not made plain
except that in the former case the ca1di-
date would be relieved Of personal re-
sponsibnity-
ar. Taft and the national chairman
ton, but the results Of M HItchcocks
observations up 10 this tine are 50 nebu-
lous that he could give 8Ir. Taft 10
definite opinion on il The national chair
man himself said that he was not med
ding II any way with the New York
situation; that he had only been listening
70 what both sides ha5 TO say
viii speak Only in Cincinnati.
NJ Hitchcock announced further that
0Ir- Taft would not make any speeches
outside Of Cincinnati his home city. in
The campaign Hundreds Of invitations
have been received by the candidate. and
before definitely declining them he had
.
national chairman In making a front
porch campaign. 8I-- Taft wiu be follow
ing the precedent set by both Harrison
and Mckinley He VIII open his had
Z quarters in Cincinnati on September /
The candidate teok Up with tae national
/ chairman a lot Of other running details
I Of me campaign Il was the first time
I M Taft had seen Hitchcock since uoti6-
cation day, and on that occasion he had
only a few minutes conversation with
T him Mr. Hitchcock reported on h-s re-
Z cent trip through the West gave the
candidate q general review OF what had
/ been done by the national committee Up
I TO date.
After his conference with Mr. Taft the
I CHARM met some OF the West Virginia
/ fac1ionists- No formal announcement was
I made OF a settlement Of the West Virginia
question. but il Is practically certain that
/ the national committee VIII recognize the
( organization headed bE Charles Swisher
/ for governor. Il was the Swisher crowd
I that saw Mr.. Hitchcock to-day They had
/ been waiting for him for three days The
Z supporters OF Arnold C SChe1r. the other
/ nominee, who boItsd the regular couvea-
7 ton failed 10 show up. and Z they have
I any representations 20 make 10 the na-
tonal chairman IL viii be done somewhere
/ else
! The Plan Agreed Upon
/ The plan agreed upon at the conference
/ to-day IS that the Svisher State commit
I tee shall make q formal application TO
1 the national committee for literature or
money or any other old thing. and that
/ VIII bring the matter OF the organizations
regularity formally before TIE national
committee
The West virginians agreed with 8Ir.
Hitchcock that the question was q mat
ter for the national committee 70 settle.
The Swisher people conIended IN their
conference with the national chairman
that they were the only regular Repub-
] ucan organization in the State Scher-
bolted the convention with 1o5 delegates
because his delegates from one county
were not seated The vacant seats in the
convention were filed in a regular man
ner, and Swisher got more than 5o0 OF
the s0a odd votes Scherr could not have
won, It IS said. If ell of his delegates had
been seated
United States Senator's Nathan 3.
Scott and Stephen EIkins. Swisher. and
about half 2 dozen others attended the
conference AIr. Taft was pulled into the
West Virginia situation 70 the extent Of
later the Swisher men cOrrsl.ed Hitch
cock and got him to pose with them Un-
der the shade OF a shelteTing elm. II
those pictures don't settle the question
OF who's who in West Virginia, nothing
Will
/ Reports Of dissension between Taft and
Hitchcock were N circulation. but they
seemed 10 emanate from persons who had
axes TO grind against the national chair-
man-Tnen who had been turned down by
Hitchcock and had sought consolation
from Taft. The candidate himself de-
clared the reports were utterly false.
I Mr. Hitchcock announced that the
campaign textbook would be ready for
distribution in a short time He said that
he had Just about decided 10 get out an
abbreviated edition OF the textbook
which could be used to better advantaga
fer mailing purposes. Mr.. Hitchcock left
al go o CLOCK I0-niSilL 1or NllCag0-
vOrys still in Game.
Persons who think that Arthur 7 vorys
Is to BE merely a hgUrehead IN this cam
paign have another think coming De
velopments here to-day snow that he Is
% be consulted on most OF the fnportaa;
moves that are 10 be made in the cam
paign He was present both at the con-
ference between Hitchcock and Mr. TAT.
and later az the West Virginia meeting
FTe and Hitchcock also had a loag taIs
: over the Ohio situation. II which the de-
tails for tie caupalga IN that State wers
Il arranged.
John Hays Hammond. the mining eagi-
] neer who had aspirations 20 run on the
ticket with Mr.. Taft. is another visitor
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