The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-07-17
TAFT TO OUTLINE
POLICIES
PRESIDENT is EXPECTED TO
DISCUSS IMPORTANT CUES
TIONS@OHN HAYS HAMMOND
WILL ACCOMPANY THE PARTY

WASHINGTON, July 16.-When
the final announcement of President
Taft's itinerary for his western and
southern trip this fall is made it will
have been materially extended over
the tentative list ofsstops he has con-
sidered. Already requests are pour
ing in for brief stops at the cities
through which the president will
pass in the daylight hours.
Many speeches pertaining to the
tariff and other live problems of in
terest to the people of the country
will be made. In them the president
Is expected to clearly outline the dis
tinctive policies of his administra-
ton. He will follow the Roosevelt
plan of making an appeal direct to
the people for their support. In the
rear car platform stumping John
Hays Hammond, who has been invit-
ed to accompany the president, will
assist in the speaking,
Because of Mr.. Hammond's long
experience in the west and his
prominent part in development of it's
minerals and other natural resources
few are considered by the president
to have a better understanding of the
men and problems of that section OF
the country. But it is more as a
personal friend that Jack" as the
president calls Mr.. Hammond, has
ncen invited to be n of the few out
side the official party who will ac-
company him.
Other members of the presidential
party besides Mr.. Hammond, If he
accepts the invitation, will be Capt.
Archibald Butt, the presidents mill
tary aid; Assistant Secretary Mis-
chler; Mai. Arthur Brooks, who, in
addition to being the presidents con-
idential messenger, is commanding
officer of the First Separate Battal-
ion of negro troops in the District of
Columbia, and two secret service
men, James Stone, who was with
President Roosevelt for seven years,
and Jack" Wheeler, who has ac-
companied Mr.. Taft since his election
to office. Stenographers, clerks and
telegraphers will also be carried,
During the trips he has made thus
far the president has adhered to the
policy of %journeying in a single
private car attached to regular
trains. On his far western trip,
however, where trains are run
heavier and long intervals is than in
the east, it is likely the president
will have to follow the policy of his
predecessors in chartering a special
train, especially if he stops at the
smaller places he will visit.
1t is a significant fact in connec-
tion with the policies of the Taft, adj
ministration that 500 after the last
campaign had been concluded so sue
cessfully by the Republican party,
the League of Republican clubs, of
which Mr.. Hammond is president,
with it's 1900 900 members and A.
900 clubs, adopted a plan of mark
ing time" After Mr.. Taft had been
installed in the White House a meet
ing of the representatives of the lea
que from all the representative OF
the league from all the states was
held in Washington and headgnar-
tiers were opened here in the Union
Trust building, with Smell Smith, Sec
rotary, in charge. Shortly afterward
it was announced that Mr.. Hammond
had leased the house formerly oc-
cupied by Mr.. Root when secretary
of state and that he would entertain
there exclusively next winter. These
facts and Mr.. Hammond's frequent
visits to the White House lent color
to the growing belief among polite
ians at the national capital hat Mr.,
Hammond had been selected as a
member of the Kitchen cabinet
The way the league has been dipping
into Ohio patrinage matters lately
has stirred the senator's n repre-
sentatives from that state quite a
little. s.
Quietly but persistently clubs are
being formed in the southern states
where appointments are being made
that are satisfactory to the people.
Southern officers for southern men
and not for carpet-baggers who have
become Republicans for the sake OF
the Offices" apparently is one If the
slogans of the Taft administration.
In this work of building up the party
in the south as it has never been
built before Mr.. Hammond is taking
a prominent part, at the solicitation
of the president. +
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