Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-20
am Governor Hughes Of New
york Succeed in Downing
The Buckeye Glant7
cerVErARY TAFT IN THE LEAD
AN of virginia May Get Second
Place on Democratic
Ticket.

XIV york, Jan. 15.-New York Is Just
,be storm center Of at least two
.,sential booms. The friends OF
,A GOV Hughes and secy. Taft are
tanning their candidates from the
,,stops and in an endeavor to cap
The greatly coveted 73 electoral
,os NJ the Empire state are putting
"h overy effort in their power Thus
y, secv Taft would appear to have
N.s,derably the advantage of his OPP
Vont chiefly by reason of the fact
H., he has come out in the open and
.'' expression to his policies, where
=. Gov. Hughes continues to pursue
Sis nolicv of silence, a course not at all
y ,be liking of those who might other
,v,sa favor his candidacy. They argue
,hst II is high time the governor should
'uoke known what is to be expected
.,om him II he hopes to capture the
S,sqatps to the Republican national
Invention, and his retlcence in this
,sspect is regarded as only adding to
ne strength of Secy. Taft.
WOODRUFF FOR V. p.
Moreover. the latter made a very good
lmpression in his recent address at
Cooper Union in this city, especially
among the lGbpring classes, toward
whom he manifested a decidedly friend
N attitude, While here Secy. Taft
conferred with "A number of prominent
Republican politicians. among them
timothy L. Woodruff, head of the
Kings county Republican organization
and Republican state chairman, and II
is now said that one result of these
conferences viii be to place the for
mer lieutenant governor of this state in
nomination for the vice presidency. AS
matter Of fact, this is supposed to be
The program arranged by President
Roosevelt. who while determined not to
b. a candidate himself, is going to have
a great deal TO say as to the compost
ton OF the ticket to be voted upon next
fail The position of vice president is
one which Mr.. Woodruff is known to
have coveted for several years past, but
on several occasions he has stood aside
Al the behest of his party leaders, Now,
however. he has no intention of re-
naming longer In the background and
at the moment he would appear to
have an excellent chance of carrying
0ff second honors, especially as he has
very strong backing among the finan-
cial interests here and is also extreme
~ popular with the upstate element?
Since from all accounts, President
Roosevelt is satisfied that he has q
sufficient number of delegates to insure
the nomination of Taft on the first bal
lot he is supposed to be devoting his
attention to securing for Woodruff the
position which he has so long sought.
HUGHES FRIENDS ACTIVE.
Nothing daunted by the attitude Of
the president in openly endorsing Secy.
Taft's candidacy, the friends of Gov.
Hughes are going ahead making ex-
iensive preparations 10 push his boom
to the utmost. Several hundred thou
sand letters are being sent out to Re-
publicans in all parts Of the country by
the committee of rs OF the Republican
county committee, which was formed
for the purpose of aiding Hughes can
didacy, These letters set forth the ar
guments OF the governor and ii is hoped
that much good will come from them.
The slogan Of the governors adherents
Isl Nominate Hughes, for he is the
only Republican candidate who would
be sure to carry New York state in
the coming election" There are many,
however who are not quite so sure of
this and who feel that, particularly
with President Roosevelts endorse
ment, Secy. Taft would make an equal
B strong II not stronger candidate than
Gov Hughes. In recent editorial the
New York World said:
Since the secretary OF war returned
from the orient his candidacy has
shown a remarkable gain in strength.
This gain is likely TO be continuous.
Iatt Is the most convincing and win
ning personality among all the asplr-
ants for the Republican nomination.
me World questions whether any COM
Mhation of opposing candidates can
9fest the nomination from Taft unless
roosevelt loses his great popularity and
nus administration is more widely dis
credited than 1t has yet been"
DEMOCRATIC GUARDIANSHIP.
with the contest in the Republican
ranks apparently narrowed down to
iatt and Hughes, and with Bryan evil
GENTLY the spontaneous" choice of his
mily much speculation is being in
dulged In as to the probable makeup
OF the Democratic National committee.
Although IL is as yet to early to fore
til az % who win comprise this COM
nuNee, there can be no Bainsaying the
lacl that Bryan man WIN be made
CHAIRMAN There are those who would
eheckmate. n possible. the Aspirations
0 the Nebraskan, but realizing his
growing strength all over the country,
% wen as the fact that II would re-
I,uit q great deal of money to defeat
nm and not being able 10 control the
necessary capital for such a purpose.
efe going about very much after the
manner of a hen with It's head off.
helng AN out-and-out Bryan man, II Is
OF course practically foregone conclu-
son that Norman 70, Mack. the present
member " the national committee from
New York, viii be reelected to that
POSITION Now that the Chandler boom
lor president has collapsed, Demo-
cratic state Chairman "Fingy' Con-
hors the only man after national com-
innllleo Mock's job, is hopping around
llke q chicken with his head cut of
ehdedroring to crawl aboard the
bryan band wagon without doing the
stunt IN one jump.
- while II Is generally conceded that
blyan viii be nominated at Denver