Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-21
sEvENTEEN STATES AND TER
RiToRIEs REPRESENTED AT
MEETING IN COLORADO
SPRINGS BEGUN TODAY.
TO ORGANIZE FOR
CAMPAIGN IN WEST
EFFORT WILL BE. BROUGHT TO
BEAR TO STRENGTHEN oRGANi-
ZATIoNs IN WEAK STATES BY
REINFORCING ATTACK.

ColoTdQO springs, 4COlO., July ~
Seventeen states and ten territories
are represented here today by the
Republican national committeeman
and state chairmen at conference
called by Frank H. Hitchcock chair
man of the Republican national COM
mittee, for the purpose of devising
systematic methods for carrying on
the campaign in the west for Taft
and Sherman. The leaders are very
enthusiastic over the plans made by
Hitchcock to bring them together so
that by the exchange of ideas. up-to-
date methods may be employed in all
the western states to get out the Re
publican vote The conference is ex-
pected to extend over two days and
will be executive.
First Step in Organization.
The conference which will be divid-
ed into one general conference and a
series of smaller ones, is the first step
Mr.. Hitchcock has taken to organize
the Republican campaign. Its scope
is wide, embracing every state west
Of the Missouri river The. men who
arrived to take part in the conference
are.
Colorado Charles Cavender, ma
tional committeeman, and John F.
/; Vivian, state chairman.
Kansas-David w. Mulvane, ma
tional committeeman, and ]. T. Moore,
state chairman.
Montana-Thomas G. Marshall ma
tional committeeman, and Fletcher
Maddox, state chairman
Nebraska Rosewater, ma
tional committeeman, and William
Hayward, state chairman.
North Dakota-James Kennedy, ma
tional committeeman, and L. B. Han
ma, state chairman.
Oklahoma Cash NJ Cade, national
committeeman, and Charles r. Hun
ter, state chairman.
Oregan-Ralph E. Williams, nation
al committeeman, and w. M. Calee,
state chairman.
Texas Cecil A. Lyon, national com
mitteeman, and state chairman.
Other Committeeman Coming
The men who have accepted the in
vitation to be present are:
Arizona-W. S. Sturges, national
committeeman; H. B. Tenney chair
man.
California.-G. A. Knight, nationa
committeeman; George Stone, state
chairman.
W. =.
mitteeman; James N. Brady, statl
chairman.
Nevada L. Flanagan, nationa
committeeman; G. f. Turritin, stat
chairman.
New Mexico-Solomon Luna. nation.
al committeeman HI. o. Bursum, stat
chairman.
South Dakota-T. T. Horoson, ma.
tional committeeman; w. C. Cook
state chairman.
Utah-W. Sparv fsub), nationa
committeeman; w. K. Walton stat;
chairman.
Washington-R. L. Mccormick, ma
tional committeeman; A. F. Slater
(sub) state chairman
Wyoming-G. E. Pexton, nationa
committeeman V. Chm. Gramm, stat,
chairman.
The conference marks a new era ii
republican politics. Four years ago
under the teaching of George Il
Cortelyou, Mr.. Hitchcock was initiate.
ed to his sense of system and organ
ization then was the lack of coherenc
in the party campaign. The prim
purpose of this meeting is to attain
high state of unity among the part
workers in the states representa-
here. Mr.. Hitchcock first ants TIL
leaders to meet each other. Ire ma
jority of them know little of eacl
others system of state management.
The secondary object is to perfec
an organization in these seventeel
states whereby the weakness of on
will be known to the leaders in IN
other states and all the leaders wor
for the region instead of their ow
state exclusively. Mr.. Hitchcock think
1t is of little use for the various star
leaders to pile UP huge republican ma
jorities in states that are admitted,
republican. He wants the men wfl
can do this in one state to swim
over into neighhoring states wit
their spellbinders and "hot off tn
girddle'' literature, when the peculia
local conditions make it desirable
Mr.. Hitchcock, who is known PEI
sonally to the political leaders j
every western state, will first talk .
them in Il general way, outlining tn
great scheme of cooperation. The
he will go into details with the ren
resentatives of ecch state He wi
get the leaders to exchange ideas an
seek to inbue them with ginger an
enthusiasm for the success of TIL
party ticket In the whole region
Throw off state lines is the keyno,
of the conference.