The Irish standard., 1910-08-20
TAFT AND SHERMAN, IN CON.
FERENCE, DECIDE SPEAKER
MUST GO.
HIS HELP BELIEVED DANGEROUS
vice-President Not to Step Aside in
Favor Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
to Aid Campaign by Writing
Letter on Tariff.

DSVeTly, MdSS., Aug. lot AooAA1
three hours President Taft and Vice
President Serman talked over the de-
feat of Col. Theodore Roosevelt by the
New York state Republican commit
tee Tuesday and the selection of Mr..
Sherman over Mr.. Roosevelt as tenn
porary chairman Of the Saratoga con.
vention.
Mr.. Sherman said he had no inten-
ton of withdrawing in favor of Mr..
Roosevelt and he treated lightly the
story that there might be fight to
repudiate the action of the state COM
mittee in the convention.
The vice president also talked with
the president regarding the congress
sional campaign. He wants the fight
to be waged along the old lines. "A
straight out Republican fight on the
Republican platform and the record of
the party, including the tariff" he
put it.
At Mr.. Sherman's solicitation, Pres
ident Taft agreed to point the way in
the campaign by writing letter which
is to be made part Of the campaign
text book Of the Republican commit.
tee.
Cannon Must Go.
While the fight apparently is to be
directed along the lines of the past,
it can be said authoritatively that the
feature of the party reorganization
plans which calls for the retirement Of
Speaker Cannon will be strictly ad-
hered to. 1t is even said that Vice
President Sherman, one of the
staunchest supporters the speaker
ever had, has become reconciled to
the fact that Mr.. Cannon must go. A
statement Is being prepared in quar-
ters close to the administration, in
which the attitude recently taken by
Mr.. Cannon in public interviews will
be deplored and In which it will be
made plain that there is no thought on
the part Of many of his former sup
porters again to name Mr.. Cannon.
Representative Nicholas Longworth,
Of Ohio, who has been called into
nearly all of the recent conferences at
the presidents home, was at the in
terview with Mr.. Sherman. Represent
alive Anthony, Of Kansas, one Of the
two so-called stand-patters in the Kan
sas delegation, who succeeded in stav-
ing off defeat by the insurgents in the
recent primaries in that state, also
saw the president. Mr.. Anthony sup
ported. Speaker Cannon, but he, too,
said that he deplored the stand Mr..
Cannon is taking. Mr.. Anthony said
that Speaker Cannon had almost been
forgotten as an issue in Kansas until
he came into the campaign and made
himself one
Letter To Mckinley.
President Taft will begin work at
once on the letter which is expected
to be the keynote Of the congressional
campaign. He will address the COM
munication to Representative William
B. Mckinley, Of Illinois, chairman of
the Republican congressional commit
tee. Mr.. Sherman urged the president
to make the tariff prominent issue.
ION the ground that it is the best
tariff bill ever enacted?" was suggest
ed by an interviewer.
II have never said 1t was the best
tariff bill ever passed." replied Mr.
Sherman. Stability Us the real test
Of tariff act. II the Payne law
stands longer than the Dingley law
stood, then it will have proved itself
a better law. II it doesn't stand as
long, then It won't be as good a law"
With regard to the New York sit
uation and especially the action of the
state Republican committee Tuesday,
Mr.. Sherman said he had explaine/
matters to the president as far as he
understood them
did you explain the rundown Of
Col. ROOSEVELT"
II don't know that Mr.. Roosevelt
was turned down. I only know that
another man was selected as tempo.
rary chairman of the convention"
Vice President Sherman told the
president that the Republican state
platform will carry = warm endorse.
ment Of his administration and all Of
his acts.