The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-18

also talked with the president regard
1rg the congressional campaign. He
wants the fight to be waged along the
old lines.
"A straight cut Republican fight on
the Republican platform and the rec
ord of the party. including the tariff" !"
he puts it. At Mr.. Shermans solicita-
tion President Taft agreed to point the
way in the campaign by writing a let
ter which is to be made a ~"rt IF the
campaign text book of the Republican
committee.
While the fight apparently is to be
directed along the lines Of the past, 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 Vice
President Sherman, who is one of the
staunchest supporters the speaker ever
mao, mas become reconciled to the de-
c1sion that Mr.. Cannon must 60 A
statement is being prepared in quar-
ters close to the administration in which
the attitude recently taken by Mr.. Can
non in public interviews will be de-
plored and in which it will be made
PLAIN that there is no thought on the
part of many of his fc----or s.-,-orters
again to name Mr.. Cannon.
Representative Nicholas Longworth of
ONO Who has been called into nearly
all OF the recent conferences at the
presidents home, was at the interview
with Mr.. Sherman. Representative An
thony of Kansas, one of the two So
called "Standpatfers'' il. the Kansas del
egation who succeeded in stayins off
defeat by the insurgents in the recent
president Mr.. Anthony supported
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.
Taft to Write a Letter.
President Taf. will begin work at
once on the letter which is expected
to .bs the keynote of tie campaign. He
will address the communication to Rep
resentative w. B. Mckinley of Illinois.
chairman OF the Republican congress
E1onal campaign committee. Mr. Sher-
man urged the president to make the
tariff a prominent issue
"On the ground that it is the best
tariff bill ever enacted?'' was suggest
ed by an interviewer
IT have never said it was the hest
tariff bill ever passed. replied MT.
Sherman. Stability is the real fest
of tariff act. If the Payne law stands
longer than the Dingley law stood then
It will have proved itself better law.
If 1t does not stand as long then il
won't be as good a law
With regard to the New York situa-
ton and especially the action of the
state committee Mr.. Sherman said he
nao explained matters to the president
as far as he understood them
Did you explain the turn down of
Col. Roosevelt?'
Il don't know that Mr. Roosevelt was
turned down. I only know that anoth-
er man was selected as temporary chair
| man of the convention
Mr.. Sherman said he did NOT thinlr
the event would have a very serious
| effect upon the Republican camnaipn
although he could not say it exactly
| tended to harmony.
| 1T has been suggested that Won
| might withdraw in the interest of har-
! mony."
mo, I am going to serve in the in
terest of harmony"
President Taft has from the very
first endeavored to bring about har-
/. mony in New York state. He has fair
| ly pleaded with the leaders to "avoid
| a fight" but there is apparently a like
lihood that his advice will not be
| needed.
Platform Will Endorse Taft.
Vice President Sherman told the
president that the Republican state
platform will carry a warm endorse
ment of his administration and all Of
his acts. -------.---
'I have not digested Colonel Roose
Nelts statement as yet 1t will be a
clean cut Republican platform, how
ever, Cd1 lCn YOU LltcI IluCH.
Mr.. Sherman did not give the presi-
dent a very roseate view of the gem
eral situation. Mr.. Sherman holds the
reputation of never predicting Repub-
lican success unless he feels sure of it
himself He is not making any pre-
dictions this year This is what he did
have to say:
so far as one can judge at this time
there is ground for the belief that the
Republican party will be continued in
power"
Representative Anthony was not
very optimistic, either He thought the
| Kansas. He did not think this loss
would be due to insurgency, however
| for he felt the insurgents would stay
! in the party and work for the candi-
dates. Mr.. Anthony told the president
| that the Kansas platform which is
soon to be framed at a party council,
| would warmly endorse his administra-
| ton. He hoped the platform might
have something to say about the tariff.
] President Taft would not discuss Mr..
| Sherman's visit in any other way than
| to say the vice president came to talk
of the congressional campaign. He
seemed particularly anxious, however,
| that 1t should be made plain that
Sherman's visit was arranged for some
| time ago and was not the result of
! happenings at New York. The presi-
dent positively declined to be drawn
! into a discussion of the New York sit
uation further than to reiterate that he
| had tried to bring about harmony prio-
| to the meeting of the convention and
was still hopeful.
MD TunMhC lC W0RCE