Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-22
OUTLOOK FOR HUGHES
NATIONAL SECRETARY CONF1-
DENT OF VICTORY.

NATIONAL SECRETARY CONF
DENT OF VICTORY.
NEW YORK. February 22.-AndreW l.
Humphrey. secretary of the Hughes Ma
tional League. went to Chicago to arrahs
for the opening of the Hughes western
headquarters. perfect arrangements 10
the convention. and. incidentally. see ina
important people are brought into toucl
with the governor when he makes III
speech there tomorrow evening.
THE storm center" said Mr.. Humphrey
as he stepped aboard the train at t4
Grand Central. 'is no longer in the south
The west is now center stage. There will
be the field of our activities for the mex
few weeks.
New England is Won for Hughes. There
is not a single state delegation there tina
will be instructed for Mr.. Taft. and. Il
you excep; Senator Lodge. his son-in- law
Mr.. Gardiner. and possibly Senator Frye
Of Maine. l do not know single strong
congressional leader who is today mo-
in line against the third term. whether II
takes the form of Taft or Roosevelt.
Will hOunO Up O1Alc.
"What about the south? The battle
there is won. We gobbled up another
district in Alabama yesterday-the sixth
although not line appeared in the pa
pers about it this morning. because fol-
the moment Mr.. Taft seems to have a cal
on the local correspondent there. Outside
of Tennessee. where we are going t.
have a hot fight on account of the Skillfu
L
present enemy, Gen. Clay Evans. we shall
round up Dixie without serious difficulty
There is not money enough in Wall street
nor patronage enough in the federal gov
eminent, to bring delegations from the
south unfriendly to Senator Foraker. He
is a veritable hero from the Virginias tC
Texas.
almost the only places in the cas-
where we have trouble ahead are New
Jersey and Maryland. New Jersey ha!
been organized in the interest of TAT
from the top downfall is to say, the
leaders. possessed with the idea that Gov
Fort may capture the vice presidency
have endeavored to deliver the state Il
the administration. We are going Il
organize it from the bottom up. and wher
We get through we don't believe tina
there will be quite SO much confidence OF
the part of Brother Barber and his friend:
as to the solidity Of Jersey on the third
term proposition.
Only Started at Maryland.
Eve have only started in at Maryland
With the colored vote, there and the pros
out all right. 1 think. 1t has gone TAT
THIS far by default.
Virginia? Why, that was supposed t,
be signed, sealed and delivered to the ad
ninistration But We shall carry three
districts. and I am inclined to think, from
our reports this morning, even more. Blu
our Washington headquarters are looking
after that. and are on the job"
I'm establishing western headquarter
in Chicago are you not intruding OIL
Speaker Cannon's preserVes?'
''Oh. no. We scrupulously respect tn,
boundaries of every state having a favor
lite son. We have been importuned to &,
into Pennsylvania again and again. blu
we have resolutely refrained from en-
couragng any work there. directly or in
directly. while Senator Knox remains IL
the field.
Plans in Ohio.
Il am not going to do thing in Illinois
except to hire offices in Chicago and d,
our western. northwestern and southwest
ern work from there OF course, I an
going to see Brother Sam Raymond ant
try to persuade him not to allow .Uncl,
out of the convention galleries. but be
yond that, Illinois is a sealed volume Il
the Hughes people, as 1t is to Mr.. Fair
banks, Senator Foraker and the represent
atives of the other competitors"
Anything to say about Ohio?''
Il am glad you mentioned Ohio be
cause the popular conception of thing:
there Is simply ridiculous. 1t is true tina
the Taft people carried the primaries
They couldn't do anything else. Senator
IN.vn lyAr cod
result is that at the Taft state conven
ton four delegates-at-large were nomi
mated. A lot of silly stuff was printed
east and west that the state would b.
solid for Taft. This is nonsense Fiv,
district conventions have been held since
and of the five two have been carried
easily for Senator Foraker-that is to say
outside of the delegates-atlarge he ha.
carried 40 per cent of the districts thu:
far. Does that look as if Ohio was to b'
held solid for the Secretary of War?
President Woodford will go into New
England next week and into the soutl
next month. The national headuuarter:
will remain under Chairman Milholland
direction. He has decided to give hi.
whole time and attention to it, You know
he has been withdrawing from bushes.
for the last year and Is prepared to Civ,
his entire attention to the governors cam
paign until his election to the presidency
which. to my mind. is as certain as any
thing can be in American politics.
wall street? Yes: l know Wall stree
is said to be against us, but we can't hell
that. We must stagger along as best ",
can under such Affections. You remem
| Der what Billy Mason said to Mckinley
Nobody is for you but the people, Tina
is the case with Hughes"
DETROIT. February 22.-Lynn C. L.ul
of Los Angeles, Cal, head of large auto
mobile plant in that city. and also presi
dent of the Lull Carriage Company o
Kalama zoo. Mich. died in an ambuIanc,
on the way to hospital yesterday. Fl,