The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-01-06
CAMPAIGN IS UNDER
u4Y TORE-6sIINAIE
PRESIDENT ". 1. TAFT
SELECT COMMITTEE TO BEGIN
WORK OF ROUNDING UP THE
STATE DELEGATIONS.
BIG POLlTiCs HAVE sIARTE.
TaftS Friends Want to Wait Until
the Republican National Committee
Is Failed Togther Next December to
Take Action In Matter.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-The cam.
paign for the denomination Of Prest.
a dent Taft is under way.
North Carolina's action, through
FNthe Republican State executive com.
mittee on Wednesday, points the way.
select committee of the Presidents
friends outside of official life will or.
ganizs shortly to undertake the work
of founding up the State delegations.
II Is planned to have States all
through the South follow the example
of North Carolina. lit will be O still
hunt for year yet, but in that time
it III hoped to accomplish some effec.
tive work for the President
As yet Mr. Taft has not even been
consulted, save in roundabout way
byIhis friends, who have simply urged
him to stand pat, make no declara-
tions Of any kind on the subject, and
reIy on his friends.
X This advice supplements the view
expressed by the President last Au-
gdkt, which he lately repeated, that
while he was willing to take up the
burden of another campaign IL his
party wanted him, he could not go
lpon the housetop and announce that
hA was candidate
a1n consequence big politics have be-
gnn In Washington, To-day came the
announcement that John w. Weeks,
of Massachusetts,, had been summoned
ny the President to assume the post
! ~ Republican National Chairman.
It can be said on the highest au-
fhority that the President has not
summoned Mr.. Weeks for any such
purpose, and that he knows nothing
about this particular item. Represen.
tatise John Dwight, of New York,
Senator Murray Crane, of Massachu-
Setts, and others have suggested Mr..
Weeks to the President for that po.
sition, but the President has not act.
ed. Mr.. Hitchcock is still national
chairman, not withstanding his blind
lof having resigned his command to
former Governor Hill, of Maine. The
Il Presidents friends are satisfied to
Z have Mr.. Hitchcock remain until they
8get ready to supplant him. 1t can be
Y said positively that no chairman to
succeed Hitchcock will be selected,
and no meeting of the Republican Ma
tional Committee will be called until
next December.
Taft's friends want until that time
to work quietly. 1t Is their belief and
the President agrees with them, that
to select a National Chairman now,
would look too much like making the
. National Committee vest pocket ad-
junct to the Administration.
With the national chairmanship in
abeyance, there are some sidelights
on the. situation that are immensely
z interesting. It will be recalled that
when Taft made Associate Justice
White Chief Justice Of the Supreme
! Court, that he had mortally offended
Jlistice Hughes and suggestions we're
rife that Hughes would re-enter poll
tics, or at least countenance Fresi-
Dental campaign conducted in his be-
half by his friends. 1t is positively
stated that the resident has direct
word from Justice Hughes deprccat-
Ing th2Atalk and assuring the Presi-
dent thXhe, Hughes, abandoned poll
| lies when he went upon the bench,
md Is determined under all eondi-
: tions to end his life amid the judicial
calm.