New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-08
.DAUCHERTY OR SANDERS
MAY RUN TAFT CAMPAIGN
Choice for National Committee
Chairman Said to Lie Between
Ohio and Tennessee.
WILL BE DECIDED TO-DAY
Sub Committee to See Taft, and
President Will Receive Lead.
ers at White House
Plan Hot Campaign.

Washington, July THE real work Of
organizing the Republican campaign OF 1912
will be taken UP tomorrow when the sub
committee of the Republican National Com
mittee will meet and select a chairman All
the members of the subcommittee are in
Washington and they will be the guests OF
President Taft at a luncheon at the White
House at 80 o'clock tomorrow afternoon,
when the name OF the chairman probably
Will be announced. President Taft will ar
rive early tomorrow from his summer home
at Beverly. Mass. to meet the committee.
The subcommittee understood to-day that
the Presidents secretary. Charles -. Hilles,
who has been considered all along for the
place. would not accept the chalrma nshlp,
and general canvass OF men available
was made during the day. The sub-com-
mittee will meet at 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning. and will then consider the names
suggested and probably recommend some
one to the President for chairman.
Names considered include Harry A.
Daugherty and Carmi Thompson, of Ohio
Harry s. New and James A. Hemenway, OF
Indiana: Senator Newell Sanders. Of Ten
nessee, and William Barnes. Jr. Of New
York II was said tonight that either
Daugherty or Sanders was likely to be
chosen.
Nothing definite will be done. however,
until the committee consults with President
Taft and ascertains his wishes. There
seems to be an unanimous sentiment in the
committee that an experienced political
leader should manage the campaign, and
an effort will he made ITO name a man
p,,oit
teeman and county chairman in the United
States" as one member Of the committee
expressed IT.
Besides naming n chairman the COM
mittee will recommend that a campaign
committee of five. representing i've sub
divisions of the country. be appointed. to
constitute the chief advisers OF the ma
tional chairman and to be independent OF
the usual executive and advisory com
mittees.
The members Of the subcommittee are
General Powell Clayton, Arkansas: Roy
O. West. Illinois; John j Adams, Iowa;
Charles r. Warren Michigan: Thomas *
Niedringhaus. Missouri; L. w Estabrook.
New Hampshire: Senator Newell Sanders.
Tennessee; Alvah II. Martin. Virginia, and
sam" A Perkins, Washington.
Tomorrow night there will be large
reception at the White House. to which
President Taft has invited the members
OF the national committee, the Republican
members In both houses OF Congress. the
chairmen Of all the Republican state
central committees and other political
leaders
william II Hayward. OF New York. sec
rotary Of the national committee. who ar
rived here to-day. probably Will be re-
elected He said he VAS not a candidate
for reelection and n the committee de-
sired TO select some one else II would be
perfectly satisfactory to him.
william Barnes jr.. OF New York: Jo-
seph y Healing and ex-senator James A.
Hemenway. Of Indiana; Senators Crane
and Pcnrose. and ex-Spesker Cannon and
Representative Mann. OF Illinois, were
among the leaders who conferred with the
members OF the subcommittee to-day.
Plans for the campaign Will be pushed
vigorously from now on. Particular atten-
ton ls to I've paid TO the election In Yer
mont the fret to be held, on September ..