Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-15
TAFT SAID TO HAVE PICKED
PROGRESSIVE CABINET MEM.
Der FOR TASK.
CONSIDERED POLITICAL BLUM.
DER BY THE WISE ONES
Fishers Appointment Would Be Con.
sidersd an Effort to Propitiats Pro.
aressivss, Who Are AIisnatsd From
Taft Beyond RseaIl-HiIIss Wants
Management.
especial correspondence

Washington, Jan. 15.-That Secre-
tary of the Interior Walter L. Fisher
is likely to be the next head OF the
republican national committee and the
manager of the election campaign
to seat President Taft again in the
White House is the story that persists
in well-lnformed quarters. In the last
DAY or TWO, the information that ne
viii manage the campaign ii President
Tart Is renomina1ed has come out from
sources ciose to the secretary himself
President TAFT selected Mr.. rlsaer
for the caoinel at time when tnc
progressive repu bucans OF the country
~ ere much aroused over the course OF
t.1chard A. Baliinger ana mucn
wrought up because President Iaft
INSISTED on keeping him i'll the caoi-
net. FROM pontlcal point OF VieW'
lne selection OF Fisher, an Illinois man
With a reputation for being progress
sive, was intended to propitlate the
progresslves. II is said to be the opln-
ION OF the Taft leaders that 1t will De
best to nave some man in charge OF
the campaign toi The re election OF the
president who will appeal TO the pro-
gressives, and in Mr.. Fisher they see
mat man, as they believe.
Progressive Support Gone.
So far as the campaign Tor the noml-
nation Is concerned, that is different
matter. The progressives can not be
won over to support the president 1or
denomination.
Secretary TO the President Hilles Is
the man who is actively in charge OF
the campaign for the denomination OF
the president. Many OF the friends OF
Mr.. HiIles think he is the man who Is
entitled To be made chairman OF the
republican national committee II Mr..
Taft gets the nomination again. 1t Is
true, this would put up to the president
the difficult job Of once more selecting
q secretary and this, as experience has
shown, is not an easy matter.
Move Open 70 Criticism.
Gossip about the interior depart
ment. il is learned today. is that Sec
rotary Fisher Is going to manage the
campaign. Did not this information
come from well-informed quarters. IT
would not ne taken seriously here.
Politicians who discuss the prospec-
tive selection OF Mr.. Fisher to manage
the campaign point out that 1t Will be
a blunder to make him national chair
man. If Mr.. Fisher takes the manage
ment of the campaign. with the pre-
sumption in favor of his returning to
the cabinet again in case Mr. Taft IL
elected, the opponents Of the president
will raise a storm of criticism for max
ing the interior department. with end
less natural resources belonging to the
public under its control, sort Of foot
ball of politics. Many politicians mere
foresee criticism that will be quite as
serious for the administration as the
criticism that grew out of the course
followed by Ballinger. For the reason
that this criticism will inevitably fol-
low, there has been much slowness
here TO accept as true the reports con-
corning Fishers management of the
campaign. Wise old campaigners think
it would be an expensive way to try to
corral the progressive vote.