Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-07
Illinois Representative to Fl
nance Campaign.
c. G. DAWES ELIMINATED
Barred by Recent Criticism Of the
President.
CONFERENCES HELD WITH TAFT
Opposition to Hitchcock as Chairman
Of the Republican National Com
mittee Disappearing.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HOT SPRINGS. Va, July Tt is prac-
tically certain that the treasurership OF
the republican national committee will
be offered today to Representative Will
liam B. Mckinley of Champaign. Ill. Mr.
KcKinley, although not a candidate in
the sense that he is seeking the place
will accept. Mr.. Mckinley is now treasur-
er of the republican congressional COM
mittee. Said one of the politicians who
has taken part In conference here: You
can safely say that the place will be
offered to Mckinley. He is an ideal man
for the job
The only other candidate that has been
previously considered is Charles G. Dawes,
former controller of the currency, who
is also an Illinois banker. But Dawes 1t
is said, is an impossibility because Of a
recent speech which he made against
President Roosevelt in reference to the
cause of the late panic. Mr.. Roosevelt.
1t is understood. feels strongly against
Dawes and his appointment would be es-
pecially distasteful to him.
That the national treasurer Is going to
have mighty hard row to hoe. is the
positive opinion of all of the politicians
who have been here. Money. they say.
IL
from the meager responses that have
come to solicitations by the republican
congressional committee. The selection
Of Mr. Mckinley as national treasurer
will mean that a new man will have to
be put at the helm of the congressional
committees financial ship.
That place is second in Importance only
to the treasurership Of the national COM
mittee. and for that reason some of the
conferees here believe that Mckinley
ought to be left where he is and another
man made national treasurer.
Indiana Politicians on Hand.
Besides Mckinley Judge Taft is meet
ing today Senator Hemenway of Indiana
and Representative James A. Watson.
who is the republican nominee for gov
ernor in that state. Judge Taft had talk
yesterday with Senator Beveridge of In
diana, but Mr.. Beveridge is not so ia
miliar with the actual political conditions
as Mr.. Hemenway. From the latter Judge
Taft is learning exactly how the Fair
banks people feel over the steam roller
methods at Chicago. Senator Hemenway
was the head and front of the Fairbanks
boom. Although the Indiana men are
still smarting under the lash welded by
Frank H. Hitchcock at Chicago, it can be
SAID that they will fall in line with the
other allies and refrain from opposing any
wishes of Judge Taft in regard to the
craftsmanship. AS a matter of fact. the
Indiana people, 1t Is said, cannot afford to
foment any discord in the republican
ranks in their state. a republican legis-
lature has to be elected; also Mr.. Hemen-
ways own seat In the Senate and the
election of Watson as governor are at
stake. So that, however much the Indiana
politicians may resent the Hitchcock
methods. they have almost as much at
stake as Judge Taft in desiring complete
harmony.
Cannon Accepts Hitchcock.
Senator Hemenway conferred with
Speaker Cannon in Washington day or
two before he came here. but the infer
ences that have been drawn that they
were planning to oppose Hitchcock are
said to be erroneous. On the contrary. 1t
is declared they agreed on a harmony
program. 1t Is the general belief here
that Speaker Cannon fixed up the selec-
ton of Mckinley as treasurer when he