The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-03
FAVORABLE NEWS
At White HOUSE
vice-President Sherman Declares
Situation Is Greatly
Improved.

Washington. February 2.-Taft PEG.
pie at the White House to-day showed
ginger and form. They Hooked to the
Presidents offices in largo numbers, too,
and between deses of business congrat-
ulated the President on the live lead
ership he Is showing and on tho as-
gressiveness of his speeches. Woe
President Sherman led off with con.
gratulatlons. He admitted that he
went TO the White House to talk poll.
tics and little else.
1.-THE situation for the nomination OF
the President has improved wonder.
fully in the last four weeks" declared
MIR. Sherman. 'Durlsg three weeks or
that time 1t WAS under the surface; IN
the last week the Improvement. which
has been especially gratifying. has been
above tho surface. 1 have never haa
doubt as to the ronomination OF Pros
ident Taft and II had possessed such
DOUBT II would have disappeared in
the last week under the greut improve
ment tnat has been SHOWN"
HOW about Novsmber7'. some one
asked
THE Republican party Wins its Vie
tories in November. and not IL Feb
ruury, replied Mr. Sherman, with a
Wig urous wave OF his hund. History
Will repeat itself this year"
Senator McL umuer. OF North Dakota,
the STATE where tho TAFT people con.
cede the Chicago ueiegates TO La toi.
lette, followed with high inuorse-
nent OF the President.
The people must admit that Pres
81 Il.b
said MIR. McCumber. and lnat he mas
done so with courage and absolute
tairn,ss. When the people begin TO
Understand this, as they are now DO
ing, tnere Will remain little doubt as
10 what they Will do ns to giving him
denomination and recollection. What
President, In all the history of TINS
country. has ever done as much. in less
than throe years, as Mr. TAFT! i think
the record Is remarkable
Oyster bay story Cuntrndlcted.
Ex-senator James Hemrnway, Of In
diana. came alo-g with u POSITIVE con-
tradiction of an oyster Bay dispatch
oil lust night saying tnat Colonel koose-
welt has Information from lnuiun,t ina
the results In the First inuiana Con-
srtssional District showed tnat there
"ou'u De an uninStructcd delegation
from ,nat State.
my own district" SAID air. Hemenwuy,
VINO Was present at the convention. 1T
adopted stronger TAFT RESOLUTIONS tha.,
did ANY other district IN inc State
Here are the resolutions which
snow That somebody 10 SuiEg or half
cooked. The resolutions. too, were
adopted unanimously. It's not good
business 10 attempt to deceive the
country this way. The truth wants to
vel
send to Chicago solid Taft delega
non. instructed to work for and sup
port him. Only one county In sixty
hve showed any Roosevelt sentiment"
III you havo any worries about Con-
necticut dismiss Them, WAS the tersc
message sent TO President Taft o-day
by Editor Clark. OF he Hartford Cour
ant. one OF the most influential papers
in the State
Taft Is sure to have the delegation
from Ohio" declared General j. War
rem YeIfer, Representative, at the
White House to-day. All that was
needed was the stirring the Republi-
cans have had by the speeches Of tho
President. Look out foa Tnft wave In
that State and all through the country.
II Is due now and can Geo |, coming .
booming of Guns February ~.
Lincoln's birthday Is TO witness the
booming of many big Republican guns.
The memories of the great President,
his career at time the most critical
In the country's history, Will all be
! invoked to arouse Republicans to the
necessity OF standing together at this
most important time in the life OF the
party. President Taft will lead off
with a speech in New York: Secretary
MacNeagh OF the treasury, Will talk
| before the Zach Chandler Club at
Lansing, Mich, on hat Is a Pro-
gressive?" and another Cabinet mem
her. Attorney General wlckersham.
! Will talk In Milwaukee. senator Town
, send, of Michigan. Is to unlimber Re-
, publican guns at Detroit, ana Repro
! sentative Mccall, of Massachusetts,
will sneak at Mlnnnapnlis.