Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-19
CANNON To Be
REGULAR ISSUE
TAFT AND SHERMAN, IN COM
FERENCE, DECIDE SPEAKER
MUST GO.
HIS HELP BELIEVED DANGEROUS
Not to Step Aside Ir
Favor of RooseveIt.-Presiden
to Aid Campaign by Writing
Letter on Tariff.

| LGIISF OF
Beverly. Mass. Aug. 1S.-For nearly
! 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 a 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 a 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 adj
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-
| tiers 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,
!
nearly all of the recent conferences at
the presidents home, was at the in
terview with Mr.. Sherman. Represent
ative Anthony, of Kansas, one of the
two so-called stand-patters in the Kan
| sas delegation, who succeeded in STAY
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.
81 have never said it was the best
tariff bill ever passed" replied Mr..
Sherman Stability is the real test
of a tariff act If the Payne law
stands longer than the Dingley law
stood, then it will have proved itself
a better law If 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 explainc<
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. ! 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.