The Washington times., 1911-12-11
REPUBLICAN PARTY
FUTURE STAKED ON
OHIO PRIMARY FEUD
Two Leaders Confer Here
to Decide Important
Question.
Continued from First Page,

COnVonttOn
was also asked on the ballot, Airport
per cent yes.
Say Vote Is Representative.
The Roosevelt boomers from Ohio d.
clare that this vote was fairly repre.
tentative of State opinion. and ins,s,
that everybody with any political sense
put there knows it. The crowd here
From Ohio today must be composed o,
sensible people, for about all OF them
egree to this proposition, even some
tration.
!. The interesting story was in circula.
the national committee had taken a
very confidential poll of real, inside,
closeup sentiment about the Presiden.
TAI situation, and that a majority OF
psf Judgment that Taft ought not to be
dominated. Maybe the poll was taken.
put among the people who talked edify.
tngiy about 1t. none could be seen who
could tell the exact result, name the
man who made the census, or be real
sure about the color of his hair, -
It sounded bit like a long g-stemmed
PIPE Yet, undeniably. 1t was not a
very gross exaggeratfon Of what such
Poll of inner consciousness would
demonstrate, II gentlemen would only
eubmlt to the surgical operation OF taxi
ing out and exposing their inner con-
> eciousnesses. :. ~. - :. -
Browns Personality.
This man Walter Brown interests
everybody hugely. He's a real polit-
tician; one Of the old-fashioned sort,
but modernized and with all the new
est improvements attached. He knows
the old stone-age machine game and
has played 1t successfully. but he adds
TO this q clear perception that the old
game is played out. and II you're going
20 DO business nowadays, you must do
1t to suit the people.
You can't drive or boss them; II you
Are smart enough to understand what
tney nsyo want want, and = can make yourself the
bounce their Intentions, you can pose as
p leader. But you'll not be q boss or a
beader-merely a sort Of central tele-
bcribing.
Brown says he knows he has the
folks all subscribing for his service and
pe proposes to get 'em what they want,
Rr hin Kinow Wny: That's about all there Is
Dan Hanna, Of Cleveland, is right at
the fore in this same fight. He looks to
s, q good many Of the old-timers like a
sal power Of his father; and, like Brown,
ne has this up-to- he-minute notion
ebout taking the people In and issuing
p i4f 35sn OF common mn s stock.all Of It voting
are partners In the enterprise. ="
He has been declaring that Roosevelt
!s the one man who means a chance 10
Sssn sseed a. "a decis1inx sfSTn tnst even hays e
Ene Oa1ot delegates are >selected" BY the
pid-dn1e cut-and-dried plan Of conyerl-
o'; Eio'ns; Tart will not get one north Of
The President and Mr. vorys hald a
PowswoW yesterday after the first con-
ference between Messrs Brown and
eumos tsa S sEer ra5t since mSt thst time the
before the convention has been getting
the August frost. A week ago plenty
vi %itbdsp people believed Taft might finally
~ iw'sndifhaW; enihns; today nine Of his opponents
Tor such q thing. The Taft backbone
mas come INTO action, and they all opine
mat ne 6 going to play the game ali
khe way.
Interested In Dinner.
Much interest attaches to the dinner
the President is giving tonight to the
national committee. There might be an
overt act probably in the form of
some public expressions by important
Eastern committeeman, concerning the
residents unavailability, II II were
pot that this would be unconscionabIv
cao cd &c form m on e, the eve Of being entertain
Hlli' Ward, Of New York, a poll
tlc1an SO big that he is national commit
teeman In his own right and not as the
SPOKESMAN OF anybody else. is the one
tend the White House dinner. II was
explained that Mr.. Ward has never COZ
over the feeling. that Mr.. Taft didn't
Ray Ray quite open in the affair of making
chairman of the New York State con-
vention last year. Wards friends think
that IN his part in making the Vice
PRESIDENT chair, Mr.. Ward did what he
"a done Later the President didn't
stick. and the New York people were
not pleased Moreover. Mr.. Ward is
roosevelt man nowadays. and he
DOESN'T think the President has been
very appreciative or grateful in his, at
utude toward Mr.. Roosevelt.
st. Louis Makes Noise.
The st. Louis people are making a big
noise today about getting the conven-
oon for their town. A bunch them
called on the President to tell him that
Chicago was the enemy's country, and
p would be bad to get the Taft cause
run over by the cars inside the loop
district Of the Windy burg. On the
other hand, they assured him st. Louis
Is the home Of friends, and there will
be no stampeding to Roosevelt Sr any
pooy oAoS, Wy Gil dHtl- dlt gallery, l
the convention goes to the metropolis
os "show me-dom." But the feeling
continues that Chicago is altogether
likely to win, and that the convention
will be placed in either the third or the
fourth week of June.
The Southern delegates had a meeting
to discuss the proposal to reduce South
ern representation In the 1916 conven-
tion. Gen. Powell Clayton, of Arkansas,
ana Cecil Lyon. Of Texas, led in getting
It up. To the Southern bosses, this no.
tion of cutting down their representa-
ton in proportion to their votes looks
like Involuntary political bankruptcy.
and they aren't going In If they can
help It.
General Clayton. who by the way is
the Nestor of the whole national COM
mittee. having represented Arkansas
on 1t since 1888, Is especial determin-
ed to prevent such a decision, and
the Southerners are planning every
possible use of their assured big
vote in the coming convention, to
purchase immunity from any such
business. They will be ready for all
the big trades necessary. II In return
they can gain pledges of enough
Northern and Western support to de-
feat once more the proposal to carve
their representation.
In the last convention, the majority
against this readjustment was only
about forty votes, and California,
which wasn't expected to do 1t, saved
the day for the South by Pumping