The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-05-25
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Farley IN The Taft campaign Senator
Dick returned to Washington from a
visit to Ohio One OF his cronies is
said to have asked him:
"What was the best joke you heard
in Ohio?T
Dick replied:
'.Arthur Norys haa, sen chosen to
manage Secretary Taas campaign"
OF course Dick got his laugh Worry
a country lawyer. was utterly unknowa
ouiside Of Ohio inside OF Ohio be was
known 10 q comparatively limited cir.
Gle. SIiis selection as Taft manager IN
q fight in which the best political tai
eni in the country was solidly arrayed
against him seemed a precpnt OF mis-
fortune even 10 Mr. Tafts friends His
cuomies held that he had been deliY-
ereS into their hands. But ih 'he
month that have elapsed since then
Mr. Norys has risen from obscurity TO
cminence. He has won his spurs as
a politician Of more than ordinary
acGteness. and what is far more
rare las an absolutely uuseihsh man.
And now word comes from Chicago
that Mr. Norys Is actually to be The
next chairman OF tec republican ma
tionai committee an Is to manage the
campaign this summer
That Mr.. Talts nomination Is now
conceded. even by his rivals IS "a mat.
ter Of common knowledge, and a ereHi
part OF the credit for this fact must be
given "a Mr. V0rys He could not have
accomplished the results he has were
II not for fhe fact that his candidate is
a man OF compelling magnetism. OF
vast merit. and well lited by he peo
pie as distinguished from ihe poliu-
clans But other candidates in the pa
have had many OF these qualifications
and have hardly been heard OF in the
big race-thanks TO an error, sin Of
omission or commission. on the part o.
the men selected 10 handle their in
terests
II may be objected that Frank
Hitchcock, at Washington, Is known ia
the east as the manager Of Air, Taf,'s
campaign. To which d may be- repli ii
that, among other items that differcp-
tiate the Taft campaign from amy
other ever made IN the United States.
IS the fact that IL was a twO.hcaded
affair in tSe latter months. Mr. Hitch
cock had a certain part OF the United
AN'NtNhN = AN|t'AftAtLA
had the remainder. II a question OF
authority had arisen Mr. Vogy's word
would have been decisive But the
two men have worked together IN per
feet harmony, and neiiher ever has
encroachcd upon the others preserves
May Be National Chairman.
Norys. In his translation from man
utterly unknown in the wider SENSE 10
the successful manager OF q campaiga
Tor the nomination OF president. ID
accomplish his end- had had TO upset
the dynasues OF rore chan one state
He has ground senatorial curds into
the concrete He hSa made himself
probability for a sent IN the Unitsd
States scnatc. according 10 some oi
his well wishers. HIS name unhearl
year ago he now is regarded as a
possibility for the position OF chair
man OF the republican national COM
mittee. He has declined a state ol-
flee, in order to do his work, which
fait a short time ago he would have ra
Sarded as fitting reward for llfc
time OF faithful labor. And he has
done all this without entering int5 a
deal without the impfoper expeudl-
ture Of dollar and without permit.
ting his personal ambitions on desires
70 be even discussed By those nearesi
to him.
When Secretary TAFT nrst an.
nounced-a after many declinations and
manifest reluctance-ihat ne would Dr
a candidate for the highest office III
the peoples gift, he fronied an odd
situation. SO far as might be seen,
the people were with him. and VITA
his chief President Roosevelt Bat 81
practically every state in the East aud
south, and 10 some extent IN tho Wes',
the professional politicians were oii
posed to both as openly and as VIC
lently as they dared be- ln Mr. Taf's
own state OF Ohio there WAS NO qUas
tion as 10 the attitude of either pen
pie or politicians
Il was essential that some one no
selected 10 make he fight and afte,
much preliminary discussion Mr
Norys was selected Halt dozen men
OF known ability ia Ohio politics hai
offered themselves for he position
Norys had not He had been state
inanraicc commissionor- position
which did not enable him 20 get even
the tp OF his finger on ihe political
machine. Senator Dick. the chalrmar
OF the state executive committee. wa
against TAFT Senator Foraker was
moi only hostile but he had wanted
Tor Feafs iO bc "a candidate fn Tho
presidency hmsef Governor Harris
q shrewd old man, liked Taft, bar
didni want ID break with the senators
n Il could be helped George - Cox,
in Cincinnau had been lGmbasied 3Y
Tar from ihe stump and carri a
Southern Ohio on his shoulder people
said In Cleveland, Congressman
Burton WAS almost alone OF public
men, % declare his friendship for TAFT
But Burton aeyer has been polilioita
sind has been returned 10 congfess
term after icrm because Of his low
ahie personal qualities and his ad
nitied ability The Same thing with.
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