The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-17
HITCHCOCK IS A
POWER AS MANAGER
Has Set the Wheels in Great
Republican Machinery
With a lump.
WILL SWEEP EVERYTHING.
HAS STARTED SUCH A VIGOROUS
CAMPAIGN THAT AN OVER
fWHELMING VICTORY FOR RE
PUBLICANS is ASSURED.

Washington, July 17.-Frank II.
Hitchcock, national committe chair
man, has started the whole vast force
of the republican campaign machinery
moving with suddenness that has
amazed everybody. Dates for formal
openings of the fight against Bryan
might as well be wiped off the slate.
The campaign has already begun in
earenst and will be kept going until
November with all the resistless ener-
gy that Mr.. Hitchcock is capable of in
flsing into the undertaking.
The whole gospel of war, according
to the great Confederate leader, For
rest, was summed up in the doctrine
Cit thar fustest with the mostest
men," This is substantially the Hitch
cock doctrine, and on his return here
from New York he set out to apply
1t with a dispatch that amazed even
his immediate subordinates. He re-
fused to see any visitors during the
day He busted himself Gazing UP va
rious men in New York and elsewhere
over the long distance telephone. He
also called up Hot Springs and had
long talk with Mr.. Tart.
Chairman Will Work Rapidly.
1t is safe to predict that at the rate
Mr.. Hitchcock has set the battle
going, it will be practically over before
the opposition knows it has begun.
When Hitchcock took hold of the Taft
pre-convention campaign he worked
with a celebrity that surprised his OPP
ponents, and had state after state sur
rounded before the Allies" walked up.
He has set out to repeat his perform
ance in the prediction campaign.
The chairman departed for Chicago
at $40 o'clock yesterday afternoon, ac-
companied by James T. Williams, who
will assist him throughout the cam
paign. He will be in Chicago just long
enough to engage headquarters and
then will go to Colorado Springs where
next Monday and Tuesday he will con-
fer with republican leaders, including
national committeeman and state chair
men Of every state west of the Mis-
souri,.
Nothing is to be taken for granted.
This is rule that Mr.. Hitchcock has
laid down at the outset He is MAX
ing no predictions as TO results. The
first thing he wants to learn is 5itua-
tions. He is confident the victory will
be overwhelming both as to president
and the house, but he is making no
forecasts at this time, He recognizes
that the fight is to be in the west and
has determined to force the fighting
from the outset.
Chicago to Be Headquarters.
While not yet announced there is
good authority for stating that the ma
tional chairman will be in Chicago
during most of the campaign and will
personally direct the work from there
The Chicago headquarters will be un.
to accommodating large force of en-
ployes. Mr.. Hitchcock will urge the
state chairmen in every case to follow
up his conferences with them by state
conferences, at which the state chair
man will meet the county and local
leaders.
The national and congressional cam
paigns will be carried forward In uni
son as far as possible.
Chairman Hitchcock will follow the
plan of meeting the leaders personally
throughout the campaign when posi-
BILE. He believes in that system. Where
he can not meet hem he will talk with
them owes the long distance telephone,
as in the preservation campaign.
While he will spend most of his time
in Chicago, he will not neglect New
York headquarters, and will make fire.
quent trips between the two cities.