The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-10-02
Republicans Are Up In Arms
Against IncOnpGtGncy Of
the Chairman
ROOSEVELT WILL TRY TO
UNTANGLE THE SNARL
Methods of Hitchcock Seem to Be Too
Authoritative and Exclusive to Suit
the Men Who Are Trying
to Elect Taft.

Washington October 1-(Speeal)- )-Af-
fairs in the republican campaign manage
ment are again in a snarl. Chairman
Hitchcock is expected in Washington to-
morrow to discuss the matter with the
actual campaign manager-the President
Something like 100 prominent republican
politicians have protested against Hitch
cocks management. They want him
thrown out bodily. They say that the in
terests of the party would be better
served by dismissing the whole Hitchcock
outfit and building up a practically new
organization, even though there is but one
month left of the campaign.
There is some reason to doubt that the
President will publicly take the advice of
the really big men of the party. The
President is very fond of Hitchcock for
the reason that it was Hitchcock who
tickled unparalleled vanity of the Presi-
dent by diligently organizing the office
holders for third term. Then when the
President found he could not squirm out
of his election night statement, Hitchcock
obediently threw all the officeholders to
Taft.
Hitchcock's friends are claiming that
the real animus of the fight against him
is that the old liners want to get control
of the national committee and thus name
the republican candidate for President
four years hence. The President is in
clined to believe this, but still the pro-
tests against Hitchcock are coming in
from all over the country. 1t Is file
! kettle of fish for the great giver-out-ot-
statements to settle.
A prominent republican senator said to-
DAY; L cant get any information from
that sepulchre over there"-meaning the
Hitchcock layout in New York. 1t is also
complained that there is a general lack
of order and intelligent understanding of
affairs among the subordinates and en-
ployes in New York. A story illustrating
this was told few days ago by prom
inent republican, who said he knew the
facts fine looking man walked into
headquarters in New York and asked for
Hitchcock. He was told to sit down. lie
sat and sat and sat, getting more i'm
patient as the hours wore away In the
course of time clerk approached him and
said that Mr.. Hitchcock would be unable
to see him as he was going to Chicago
later in the day. Would he call in three
or four days upon the return of Mr..
Hitchcock? The visitor reached into his
pocket, pulled out check for 5000, which
he said he had intended handing to Mr..
Hitchcock, and tearing it into shreds,
walked away.
Similar complaints as to the general in
difference and nattention of subordinate
officials, together with the inaccessibility
of Mr.. Hitchcock himself even to men
higher up in the party, have filled the air
for months, and have grown louder with
the passing of time. Worshiping clerks
make every possible excuse to prevent Mr..
Hitchcock being seen, thus giving offense
to many influential men. Then, an odor-
Gus comparison between Hitchcock and
the late Senator Hanna is being made.
The latter was one of the most approach
/. able men of his day. Any one who had
the phost of an excuse could see him.
Hitchcock claims he has not time to see
everybody but Hanna had. The big po-
litical boss would get at his caller busi-
ness in half a minute and settle it in the
other half, for he knew at glance
whether his visitors proposition was
worth considering. Hitchcock simply
doesn't know.
The republican effort to land the farmer
vote by claiming to be the originator of
rural free delivery was enectually ex-
ploded today by former Congressman
Brookshire of Indiana.
Republican partlsans," he said ARE
attempting to prove that the republican
party inaugurated rural free delivery, and
it would seem that they are attempting
to obtain votes by the partisan insistence
that the republican parry has been more
friendly to this branch of the postal serv-
ice than the democratic party
THE rural free delivery service was in
augurated at the instance of the DEM
ocratc party during the administration
of William l.. Wilson as postmaster gem
eral"
Mr.. Brookshire then quoted from Mr..
Wilson'S report to Congress in 1896
statement that the first rural free delivery
route In the United States was estab-
lished October /, 1896, and the appropria-
tion was $40 900.
A special from New York tonight says:
Nathan Straus, the philanthropist.
walked into democratic headquarters to-
day and found Chairman Mack discussing
the campaign with a group of newspaper
men. Mr.. Straus Joined them and said:
Some of you ought to go down on the
East Side and see the women and chill
dren in distress down there on account Of
those bank failures. Yes, the banks were
small ones, but they had the money OF
the poor people, and it's always the poor
who are hit.
1.-The rich man can have his lawyers
and protect himself but the poor man has
not any chance at all. Now, those failures
wouldn't have happened If Bryan We're
President and his bank guarantee policy
in effect. Such a series of failures as
THESE couluH HdppSi III Euiope' II -
disgrace that they can happen in this
country.
Yes, | see that the American Bankers
association is against the guarantee plan.
of course, but the people are for it,
wish you could go down and hear those
unfortunates talk. You'd write better
stories about it than | can for YOU"
The fourteenth annual reunion of the
survivors of Col John S. Mosbys COM
mand of the Confederate army was held
at Hamilton, Va, yesterday The weather
being ideal a large crowd was In at
tendance. Only about 60 of the 175 remain
ing rangers were present. w. s.