Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-01-06
OUT TO DEFEAT
7. R. AND TAFT
Heath on Sill Hunt Of
West for Delegates.

Washington. Jan. 6.-Psrry s. Heath
has added n new feature to the Repub-
iicsn presidential gossip. His depar-
tnre for tbs Pacific coast states. the
northwest and the middle west states
ia ia an effort to line up uninstructed
delegates to the convention In Chicago
In Juna.
Mi. Heath natd before caring town
that his tour was not In the Interest OF
President TAFT or Colone! Roosevelt.
but that be represented Republicans
who were inclined to bsiieye neither
could or should be slscted aud that the
nomination shoulA r. to . candidate
who could unite tie daacordant rte-
msnts In the party Atr. Hath referred
{ the present conditica % the Kepub
ticaa party In most sf the states which
In I namber ct campatgns had givtn
their slsctsyai vote to tbs ~Repubiican
presidential ktskeE He remarked that
the Republicans In maat ct these akste~
were torn By f.ctiouai dixputeA aud
that the Republican orKa mutations In
them had besn simest shss to yAeces
wit him the last several years. Mr.
Heath rsceuated the turmoil hetwe~n
the Tafs and anti-Taft men. the dis
turbances b<t ween the Roosevelt aud
anti-Koosevcif men and the friction
CRESTED By In Toilette and his follow
era and NO on down the list. Mr.. Heath
added that his tour waa not In the In
terest of any single Republican presi-
Dental possibility. but 1t represented a
hope that the delegations from the
states he Ia to visit will and IL agree
able TO leave themselves open to dis
In the convention city.
MIR. Heath lis best remembered as n
of the chief i~feutenants of the late
Marcus A. Hanna. 1t was Mr.. Heath
who In 1901 and 10S5 under the direc-
tion OF Mr.. Hanna Travelled broadcast
through the land sulidirysng delegates
to the national conversation Of lSsN; for
Mckinley. 1t Ii the belief OF many
Republicans that Mr.. Heath can orKan.
ize the q Of the old Hanna ma
chine Into u nucleus which mny Income
a cohesive power In detHrmininx the
selection of u Republican candidate In
Chicago In June.
rrae attitude ~ ito presidents sup
norters have net altered one jet. They
believe TINT II the president cannot win
In the approaching national struggle
no Republican u
There are very eminent Republicans
In this city who seriously tell you that
quite d number of their brethren have
been aware that In a quiet way q
boomiet for George w. Wickersham.
attorney general. has been started.
There In u ~vagueness. a haziness.
about this boomlet that Is rather mys-
t~erious. and yet there In no question
bn, that 1t has been discussed and Its
features remarked In some of the inner
circles OF Washington
Recurring to tie Roosevelt situation.
there are Roosevelt men who say the
colonel could no more prevent a move
menf In his favor than Bryan could
prevent the movement In his direction
IN 1906. 1900 and 1908. and these
Roosevelt men went on IL say that
even tn La Fallefte's eva state of Wis
eonsln Roosevelt was Infinitely mere
popular than La Toilette himself.
These Roosevelt adherents insiss that
Roosevelt could not prevent the selec-
ton of delegates Ia the middle west
ern states or 10 Michigan and perhaps
In New Jersey. even IL he deaared to