Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-08-28
REPUBLICANS
To INVADE
SOUTH
.PLAN TO WIN SEVERAL
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
Effort Will Be Made to Garry
Three Districts in Virginia.
Louisiana Offers Opening for
Fight.
IBy Morning journal Special Leased wirel

BY Morning Journal Special Leased Wirel
New York. Aug. 27.--SOme of the
plans republican politicians in the
south are making to increase the re-
publican representation in congress
from their states were made known
to Chairman Frank II. Hitchcock to-
day by visitors from Virginia, Ala
bama and Louisiana. The plan for the
invasion of the south" was outlined
by MIR. Taft, the republican candidate
for president, in recent speeches and
interviews in Hot Springs, Va. He
expressed the opinion that the repub-
lican national campaign managers
ought to try to carry close districts
ami Mr. Hitchcock concurs in that
view
Alvah II. Martin, member of the ma
tional committee from Virginia, and
Representative Slemp. the state chair
man, conferred with Mr.. Hitchcock
and urged that an effort should be
made to carry three districts at least
| in Virginia. These are the Ninth.
which Mr., Slemp represents in con-
lgress; the Fifth, which was democrat
| ic by only about a hundred votes at
the last congressional election. and
the Richmond district Major p. ID.
! Barker. the national committeeman
! from Alabama, declared that there Is
a good chance to carry some of the
mountain or northern districts OF his
state, and +. h. Williams. state chair
man for Louisiana, urged that fight
be made in certain Louisiana districts.
Secretary Straus of the department
of commerce and labor, held a con-
ference with Mr. Hitchcock today, He
lis just returning from a fishing trip
to Lake Morgantic, Maine. where Mrs
Straus, William Loeb, jr, secretary to
the president, and a number of Others
in otilaial life at Washington. have
been spendf.,f j their vacations
Mr.. Straus is scheduled to deliver
two or three speeches later during the
campaign. one of them in New York
city. 1t has been suggested that he
lshould be used to reply to arguments
made in favor of Mr.. Bryan by Presl-
dent Gompers of the American Fed
l,eration of Labor, but no plans have
yet been made.
Senator p. J. McCumber and Ma
tional Committeeman Kennedy of
North Dakota, talked with Mr.. Hitch
cock about affairs in the western
states They predicted that North Da-
kota and adjoining states would cast
as strong a vote for Mr. Taft as was
received by Mr.. Roosevelt four years
ago. Senator McCumber declared that
the factlonal differences in Dakota
and adjoining states have been elm
mated so far as the national ticket
is concerned.
II. f. Alexander, president of the
| Alaska Pacifc Steamship company,
called at the republican headquarters
today and expressed the opinion that
there would be a landslide on the Pa
cific coast for Taft and Sherman. He
ldeclared that the democratic plank In
regard to AsiatIc labor was not prov
ing a sufficient argument to change
voters who have been republicans.
f. e. Stotesbury of Philadelphia
has been appointed to organize repub-
lican finance committees in Pennsyl-
vania, and Joseph w. Congdon Of Pat
erson, N. j., to perform similar service
In New Jersey.