The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-02-27

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the same tii ISr delegates to dis
| trrct cohSCttIcX "a MAINLY ~ ~
seen thSt che stion thus raised IL
one AhtSA ? ppeal to the acute
and toreuOUS Gfmind since it sug-
sests the 49, NV OF COMPLICATIONS
uopnE @hleh Oittc arguments may
be based BhtffS crux of the pron-
| osition >tTSNhSNsfhNs senators, who are
lawyers tKSiSHSEe$ win claim that
the eiectfoR dtKif national delegates
in the malneT Fascribed MAS not In
/ conformity. with the edict or the ma
'tionar corfmf and that b6iaS win
be reQulred f6hdke decision. or
course. all d1SHht conventions con.
Quoted In; this manner will be called
together By Ma ton gressionai com
mittees, but Subsequent to the adj
journmeht Dr. sAch conventions, the
committees sM33 Ia, asked by the SEN
atoTs to SaIf S{hsf conventions, to
choose .de1egRtes In conformity with
their Interpretation of 'tKa national
committees cafiS '.'
Wherever t6iS request is made and
then denied nr iknored, it is'the plan
Of the senators$to organize popular
caucuses at. whtS6 delegates to co1t-
gressional conQentions are chosen,
and at these coRsentions it Is intend
ed that Foraker delegates to the ma
tional convention shall be- selected.
The latest information received, here
ik that the majority of the congres-
sional districts wf1l come within this
category. In the, others. the straight
issue between the secretary Of war
and the senior senator is expected to
be fought out I'm the regulation con-
ton. %.F
When the Senators attention. is
called to the uneq0ivocaI claim Of the
Taft people that they will carry thesej
districts, they resolutely reaffirm that
Mr.. Foraker win win in at least sew
en-, and probably eight. of them. Out
In Columbus the Taft managers redf-
sule this forecast, while here the|
senators retort that the secretary's
friends are counting their chickens
before they are Matched
When it was Suggested to them
yesterday that the Taft people might
attend the proposed popular cancaus
es heretofore msntioned and domi-
nate thSm by force, of numbers, and
thus re-4iect' Taft delegates, the SEN
ators said that tn eTaftits$ would
doubtless feel timpelled, in order tot
demonstrate their confidence in the
regularity OF ths5delegates previous
Iy elected, not t6Sparticipate in what
they would conafdgr rump conven-
tons. AS for thesscbeme to. name a.
rival, state big, -FOUR, - - which Sena-
tor Foraker prop9sad q few days ago.
the signs are multiplying that it may
not be- carried oat sitter all. Senator
Dick does not apprdTe of, it, and his
colleague may be persuaded. if he is
not already, to let the delegates at
large go by default Until the general
fight is made at Chieag5c It was,
indeed a radical proposition. and. as
has already been suggested, might
seem to bear the faint or irregularity,
the very thing which the senators
themselves are fighting against.
Power of AfriSafa Bishops.
The bishops of the African Meth
odist Episcopal church, who were in
terviewed in the Post yesterday, are
admittedly power with their extern
sive floeks and beifeYe they reflect
the sentiments of their race, particu-
larry in the south, which is becoming
the scene of a spectacfllaT contest for
delegates 10 the national convention
No doubt Senator FORAKER and his
friends will make the most OF this
sentiment The president and other
friends of Secretary Taft are cogni-
zant of it, and this ig one OF the rea-
sons Frank H. Hitchcock will soon
leave Washington to do some mis-
sionary work in that section Hitch
cock has selected Offices, it is under
stood, i'm the Union trust building
here, and these will be the eastern
headquarters of the Taft forces,
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