Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-31
OUTLOOK IS GLOOMY
Mr.. M0rehead Sees Taft Oh
North Carolina Situation.
DEMOCRATS ARE SATISFIED
Likely to Support Their Own Ticket
in All Districts.
URGED TO APPOINT WIMBESH
Delegation Asks President to Make
Atlanta Lawyer Member Of New
Commerce Court.

Representative Morehead, the North
Carolina republican who is leading a
fight to increase the strength of the re-
publican party in his state from among
white people, and has received much en-
couragement from the President. confer
red with Mr.. Taft today as to the situa-
ton
TIL, addition of white votes to the re-
publican party in North Carolina does not
look so bright now as it did some time
ago.
This is not because there is much in
dependent sentiment in that state among
business men and others who believe In
protection, but because the democrats in
the south and elsewhere infuse with hope
as to democratic success They have little
to be dissatisfied with in their own party
and are inclined to support their own
tickets all along the line next week.
While the reOrganized North Carolina re-
publlcanS profess to hope for some con-
gressional gains IN November, the demo
cratic leaders say that whatever gains
!, there are will be in favor Of the demo-
Gratis.
President Taft is popular in the south
and thousands of business men there are
disposed to uphold his policies when the
democratic party is at fault. 1t was to
cater to this element in the south tina,
reorganization Is being attempted In a
number of directions.
Wants to See Opposition.
The President desires to see an opposi-
ton party Of power in the south, but he
does not approve of some of the plans
that have been devised. He has shown
more consideration for the south in the
matter of negro appointments than any
other President in the history of the
country, yet he only recently refused 70
give his sanction to a lilly white. affair
in South Carolina.
Any. scheme which begins with the de-
liberate purpose Of strangling the negro S
right to suffrage, allowing him no voice
whatever in the country's politics, the
President will not stand for as the head
of the party. Any scheme that tends to
upbuild the party and give it new and
useful blood the President is for.
Representatives Livingston and Adam
son Of Georgia accompanied delegation
of Georgia lawyers to the White House
today. where the appointment Of William
A. Wimbesh, prominent Atlanta law
yer, as judge of the new interstate COM
merce court was urged. The members
of the delegation had a long talk with
the President. saying they hoped he
would appoint southern man to the
court, and declaring that Mr.. Wimbesh
was one of the best representatives of
that section to be found. The President
admitted that the recommendations back
of Mr. Wimbesh were exceedingly strong,
and he promised to give careful consid-
GRAFTON to the Atlanta mans name.
President Going Slow.
The President is acting with unusual
deliberation in the matter of commerce
a nd i'll .<,o r.
must make. He is obtaining all the in
formation it is possible to get as to the
men mentioned. He will try to make the
commerce court as representatives Of the
country generally as he can, consistent
with the selection Of men Of the highest
class.
The appointments to this court, as well
as to the United States Supreme Court,
will not be made until Congress as
sembles.
Former Representative Adam Bede of
Minnesota called on the President in be-
half Of former Judge Ira B. Mills of st.
Paul as a judge Of the commerce court.
Mr.. Mills has been head of the railway
commission in Minnesota for many years
and his appointment is being strongly
pushed by friends
Mr.. Bede has been making speeches in
behalf of republican congressional cam
didateS in different parts of the country.
He is hopeful, but makes no confident
predictions as to the republican prospects
anywhere.
Discuss Second-C1ass Rates.
President Taft and Postmaster General
Hitchcock conferred for some time today
over the annual report Of the Postmaster
General 1t is now well understood that
both the report of the Postmaster Cen
eral and the annual message Of the
President will renew recommendations
heretofore made that the postage rate
on second-class mail matter be increased
as far as magazines and periodicals are
In his last annual message the Presi-
dent asserted that the actual loss to the
government from the transmission of
second-class mail matter at ] cent a
pound was $63,O00,G00 a year. He said
that the average cost of transportation
of this matter was more than cents a
pound. while it paid only l cent Sec
ond-class matter, he declared. constituted
two-thirds Of the total weight of the
United States mails and yielded only
5. 10 per cent of the total revenue
There is said to be little doubt that