Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-10

own SELF respect. At the same sine.
since Frank H. Hitchcock took hold OF
hits nomination campaign 3IearlY fouf
wears ago. Mr. Taft has learned a
good deal by experience. Nh. hlllcS
was not allwise in political ways
Wear ago but members Of tn" Nduohal
Committee say he has learned wisdom
livery RAPIDLY and that he is becoming
Ian expert IN reading the signs q the
times and Of the WaYside. The Ma
tional Committee will meet III WASH
Iington in December and they Will 'N-
pcct To hear from Mr.. iiiileS "a great
inanN things that will guild" them IN
Ithrn actions when they take ~ tue
| task of laying out the politiea! cant
lpaien. Collector Loeb still is favored
for the national chairmAnship l. he
| can be persuaded to take the place.
but politicians here do not believe
senator Smaot would have come out
into the open for Hilles if he had not
understood that the Loeb arrange
ment had missed fire.
CRANE As hDVISE7-IN-CIiiftF.
Hil1es IS working hard for the re-
election of President TAFT and IN
douhtedly will have charge Of the
campaiea prcliminaries. There are
oiher lnatt"rs of campaign leadership
nnder present consideration by men,
hers Of the Republican National COM
mittee, who while separated By great
distances. keep UP "A Correspondence
one with another which would he eX-
traofdinalilv interesting II \ toala
he made public In every presidentiaI
camDaica the candidate has several
paiitieal adviscrs-n-e chief Who Will
bear company with the chairman oi
tht national committee Is stan cap
tam Tor the President? month ago,
had this question been answered by
very national committeeman. ae pro
badly would have said Senator w
Murray Crane of Massachusetts,
senator Crane has been one If tie
chipf poiitical communicates of the
President eyer since Nh. Taft has been
in office. Last Year the senator Went
through \ part Of the West seeking
information in his persuasive Wy and
e,aftinp II. Senator Crane says little
ana listens great deal. although lls
can talk freely enough when he is Ia.
halin,. With Il statesman To get him tn
want 10 do. Mr.. Crane is ON terms 'of
personal friendship with the Wh'''
lrarld including tho leaders of ali tha
Republican factions: but men Ike the
hfasoue La Toilette listen 70 him pa
tientIv enough but refuse TO he con
,lnced In fact. Mr. Crane gaNf ur
la Toilette long ago as no eiess
case and neither he nor any o1hef
regular las any influence VIZ. tteNeI
with half l loZen other Repfoilcan
Insurgents. Fer this ana ethe fea
sons It may be that the Bas state
senator will not figure prominently II
The coming presidential cam r'aigE. Of
in iust the same way. at ies1st, as Ne
lid III the last.
HE MAY ELIMINATE. H5MStif.
senator Crane has lost no part ot
ms zeal for the Taft cause.. lie is iust
as good a Republican as IL eyer was
and as expert a pacifieatoi but like
seaot of I'tali-a very bic man-ht
| IL called A raaetionary- The factor
mai might possibly notify the rela
lions Of Senator Crane 10 tn cam,
naign would BE-. thefefot Z. not th3e JIG
| Is rs enthusiastic for Taft than he.
I fore hui that i6SSls'iE NV 49,
clas,.Tv idenihed WitJi headquarters
viii be selected from the middIe-oi
the-road Republicans who would no.
represent in themselves, and partru-
larlv in the senate, the forces "Eict
the Insurgents for several years haN'
been hqhtine 1t Is. Also NOR than
certain that Senate Crane himself
appreciates the situation and would
prefer that another stand before the
country as political adviser-in-eaief.
lRoOSENEI.T TO NOMINATE TAFT
Some Republicans may be buildins
dream fabrics -. q base of eob~eb
| but there is andeT discussion plan t
| induce Theodore Roosevelt TO go L
the Republican convention to place
William II. Taft in nomination. on
| of the Pacific coast this Republican
| thought and desire had birth. The'
lcslne hopefully travelling East an'
they have been adopted and fosteret
carefully by Eastern Republican, ad
lherents To the Taft cause. California
Republicans say that if the colone
will make the nominating speech tn