The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-12
RUNNING MATES FOR TAFT ARE NUMEROUS Main Fight May Be Over
 Vice Presidency CELEBRATE BULL RUN Semi Centennial Will Be Observed July 12-Utah Is Proud of
 Her Senator's
 Records
CELEBRATE BULL RUN
By RALPH M. wHITEsfDE

Washington, June 1-(Special. l.)-The naming of prominent republicans as run ming mates for MT. Taft goes merrily on. Hardly day passes that the wise men of the capital do not pick some new name as the candidate for vice president. The latest name I have heard is that of Sec retary of War Henry l.. Simson. A list of the names mentioned would read like roster of republican statesmen and the supply is by no means exhausted. | It looks very much as though the main | fight at the republican national conven- l ton will be over the vice presidency, and perhaps the platform. While it is year or more before the convention the re- nomination of MT. Taft seems certain. Though the radical insurgents may make an attempt to defeat him, no careful stu dent of American politics believes now
 there is the vindest chance for the suc- cess of such fight.
 There is likely to be a pretty fight over have a strong influence on the vice pres dential nomination.
 The vice president makers are now fig uring on getting a strong progression to go on the ticket as MT. Tafts running mate and hedging on the platform so that the old liners will not be absolutely alien ated. It is going to take some mighty pretty figuring to balance the ticket and platform so as to prevent a split at the polls
 Whenever William Jennings Bgyan comes to town there is a recrudescence of the talk of him for the democratic nomi- nation. On his last visit here MT Bryan said 'I am not candidate and will not be. Leave me out of it.'
 This would seem to be emphatic and definite enough, but despite it all they will whenever a democratic prophet starts into prophecy the formula is something like this: "-- will surely be the nominee if Bryan doesn't step in and take it."
 There are lots of men high in demo- cratic councils who do not like MT. Bryan and even these admit privately at least that he is likely to be almost if not quite as potent figure in the next democratic convention as he was in the last.
 The semi-centennial anniversary of the Battle of Bull Run will be celebrated in a way to make any patriotic American go long way to see
 The first great battle of the civil war was fought July 21, 1861, as every school boy knows. On July 21 this year there will be military jubilee on the historic battlefield which gave his non-de-guerre Ito one of the worlds greatest fighting men, "Stonewall' Jackson, which will warm the heart of every American.
 Veterans of both great armies, includ- ing the Manassas Picket Post, Union Vet erans, and the General Ewell Camp of Confederate Veterans, will have charge of the proposed semi-centennial ceebra- tion, together with the, officers of both town and county, and the governor and other state officers will also take an ac- tive part
 A committee of 100, representing the veterans of both sides, has sent out a general invitation to all to attend this celebration, and special attention is called 10 Levitious, chapter 25, verses and 10.
 It is hoped by those interested to have President Taft present upon the suspicious occasion, and there will be present number of well known speakers from both great armies. Special music will be a feature of the programme
 The citizens of Manassas and the coun- ty of Prince Williams, Va, as well as many of the patriotic people throughout the country, are much interested in a bill before Congress providing for the pro lection of the monuments already erected on the battlefelds of Bull Run and any other monuments that may be erected In that historic locality. Measures propos- ing the purchase of the lands surround nor nd nhrao ofp ha battleflelds of the engagements known in history as the first and second Bull Run, are pending in both houses of Congress. An extremely rocky road leading dan gerously close to that institution known as the Senate's treaty graveyard, is being prepared for President Tafts general ar bitration agreements with Great Britain and other nations.
 Not only is an avalanche of protests against the ratification of the treaty roll ing down upon senators, but diligent in qury fails to locate any senator or group | of senators who will make a determined | fight for the adoption of the document. The onslaught of objections has found senators as a rule either totally ignorant l of the terms of the treaty as given out | in a digest by Secretary Knox, or already prejudiced against treaties in general, on
 
 mems arguments, and lightly swept aside when it becomes time to fight.
 | The remarkable volume of protest against the treaty which Is being filed daily with the Senate committee on for 1 eign relations seems in large measure inspired by Irish American sentiment, | which is distinctly averse to any truck | ling to Great Britain.
 "The people of Utah have cause to be nroud of the records of the two senators | from that state" said F. T Moore of Ogden. Senator Shoot has developed | into one of the most active and energetic members of the committee on finance, and his counsel is sought by every re- publican member of that body Whife not so eloquent on the floor as some of the