The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-14
NAMES MEN TO
 TAKE CENSUS Taft Announces Some
 of Officials. ALABAMA MEN SUPERVISORS Second District Man Not Yet
 Appointed. pre.ident Talks PoIitics With Hitch cock. NageI, Durand and Texan Leader-wouId Strengthen "solid south."

 ficers, a high official of the govern ment and several politicians of prom. inence-Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagel. Postmaster General Hitchcock and E. Dana Durand. Di- rectof of the Census. came down to look over the list of 330 census super visors with the President. Cecil Lyon of Texas, Republican national com- mitteeman came to talk Texas ap- pointments and to seek to have the President extend his trip through Tex as in October.
 Republican State Chairman Tucker of Little Rock. Ark, came also to talk appointments over.
 Mir. Hitchcock also took up with the President the appointment of several postmasters whose selection will be announced later.
 Col. Lyon does not think President Taft is going to see enough of Texas, according the present itinerary. which takes him to Fl Paso. San Antonio. Corpus Christi. Houston and Dallas. Furthermore the Presidents trip, as planned. carries him through three congressional districts where cattle raising Is the chief industry and free hides are not popular and through two districts devoted to lumber, which was reduced to S1.26 on the tartf list
 Succeeds "ROuGh Rider."
 President Taft today appointed Charles A. Overlook. of Douglas Ari- zona. as Uiited States marshal for that territory. MT. Overlook succeeds Ben r. Daniels, rough rider" appointed by President Roosevelt. Mir. Daniels has been appointed as a sort of sup erintendent or chief of police of the Indian reservation at Menominee, Wis.
 MT. Overlook. the new marshal is a business man. has mining interests in che territory and welI-to-do.
 Coincident with the appointment of the Arizona marshal, the President re- ceived an invitation to visit Douglas on his forthcoming trip.
 At an extended conference tonight with Secretary Nagel of the Depart ter General Hitchcock and E.. D. Du. rand, Director of the Census, Presi. dent Taft approved the appointment oi 300 supervisors of the thirteenth cen sus. The list had been prepared al Washington for the President. and the qualifications of every man inquired into. There were some vacant dis tricts in Kentucky, however when the cabinet officers and the Director of the Ing, and these were put up to the President for settlement.
 Republicans Discontented.
 There has been marked discomfort among some Southern Republicans over the decision of the President to divide the census patronage in the States of the Solid South.
 Colonel Cecil Lyon. Republican Ma tional Committeeman, came all the way from Texas to tell the President that he would rather have the state put in charge of one supervisor-a good Republican, Of course-than to have to divide the Congressional districts with the Democrats. Colonel Lyon said the declaration of this policy on his part held good for all of the States. Oklahoma, he declared, had been included with Tennessee. Ken lucky, North Carolina and Missouri in the list of nearly doubtful States thai had been set apart from the other States for full list of Republican su- pervisors.
 "If Oklahoma Is a Northern State declared Colonel Lyon today, "I am in favor of moving Mason and Dixon's' lins still further South to let Texas im'
 When 1t Is considered that each cen- sus supervisor will nave a tremendous force of enumerators under him, the census pattonagS~may be readily real ized. Each of the supervisors will res ceive a salary of $2,000, but their work will exend over eight or ten months The enuInerators will not have so long a service.
 Patronage is Divided.
 The States where the supervisors are divided equally between the Demo. crats and Republicans are Virginia. South Carolina, Georgia, Florida. Ala bama. Mississippi Arkansas. Louisiana and Texas.
 Director Durand said today that he hoped to have the supervisors actively at work by the middle of October. President Taft. 1t is said, laid down the rules. especially in states where a di- vision has been made between Demo- crats and Republicans, that super visors shall not be active partisans and that no attempt should be made to build up political machines out of the census patronage.
 Messrs. Nagel. Hitchcock and Durand were No have seen President Taft this afternoon. but in motoring to Beverly from Boston they took the wrong road. and were delayed at the Boston ferry terminals.
 > The conference at the Taft cottage did not begin until nearly g o'clock to- night and continued until a late hour.
 President Taft signed the commits sions of some sixty odd supervisors Tn dlHSTenL b6CIIOHS Ot klo COuuITy anu the names of these appointees were made public by MT Durand at the con- clusion of the conferences The task of going over the lists and making out the commi ssions of other supervisors will be continued tomorrow.
 Get Southern Plums.
 Those far Southern appointments an nounced tonight are as follows:
 New Mexico. Paul A. F. Waler.
 Arizona, Franklin F. Towle.
 Florida, first district, Henry W. Bis hop (Republican). second district. Le- suer Galden. (Republican); third dis thict, Thomas David Whit. (Demo- craO.
 Alabama. first district. Lawrence w. Locklin, (DecomraO; fourth district George w. Farrisons. (DemocratD fifth district, William P' Cobb, (Demo- craO; sixth district. Simeon T. Wright. (Republican); seventh district, James J. Curtis, (Republican): eighth district Thomas P. Wood. (Republican); ninth district. John T. McEniry. (RepubIican).
 Tennessee. first desirtc. Samuel Thompson; second district. Alfred Jeff ferson Agee; third district. John Fl. Early fourth district. Deese Q. Lillard: fifth district. John B. Strong! sixth district Harry A. Luck: seventh dis