Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-09
HOPES NOW BRIGHT
Optimism Animates Workers
at Republican Headquarters.
SEE TIDE TURNING TO TAFT
Hope for Democratic Votes in the
Departments-Proposed Noon
day Street Speeches.
see TIDE TURNING TO TAFT

Some one touched a button in tae local
republican campaign workers ranks TO-
day. for the whole outfit IS a. clipper
and bright if the election had already
gone 10 Taft and sherman. The person
who touched the button set a lot Of
electricity working through the local ma
chinery. and there is lot more ortim-
ism in the atmosphere than there was
TWO weeks ago.
At the same time the local workers be-
gan To see things in a brighter light.
Gus \. Schuldt, whose name has been
linked with local relublicanism for years.
got a personal letter from John Hays
Hammond. who is in New York With his
coat off working as presi lent of the
National Republican League This is an
ofshoot of the national republican COM
mittee, and its object is Ia form re
publican clubs in every ueighborhood in
the nited states
Mr.. Hammond sees a new light also.
To Judge from portion of his letter
which reads as follows:
The situation, politically. has changed
very much. and. in fact, is very different
from what it was at the time | wrote
You in September. We are not only
encouraged. but have reached the
stage of enthusiasm, and the club
movement is doing its part"
See Tide Turning to TAFT.
The republican workers here are
learning from men who have been
travelling On the neghboring states
recently that there is a great wave
of sentiment from the third termer To
| Taft. They say that many man who
jumped over the traces at the first
roar of the bull moose is now coming
back. The idea of cutting loose from
such big and powerful organization
as the q. O. l.. scares some of them
| after they have had their fling with
! the baby party.
| Not only that but reports at the Ma
tional Republican Club indicate that good
| business and good crops, with time
enough merely to attend 10 ones business.
| are having "A great effect upon the cries
| for agitation and a change.
Significant is the hope TAT many dem
ocrats in the departments will vote tor
Taft. This hope amounts to surety IN
| the opinions of some OF the republicans
| here, and they base their opinion on the
| fact that there is deep and lasting
gratitude in Washington for President
Tafts veto of the bill which carried the
offensive "seven-year tenure of office for
government clerks" Working along this
| line, the buttonhole politicians are plant
| ing ripe seeds in the democratic garden,
| and who knows but that the planting may
| bear fruit November >?
| Advisory Committee Appointed.
| The republican information bureau at
| 14th and CT streets northwest, took on an
added impetus today with the appoint
| ing of an advisory committee to assist
| T. Lincoln Townsend, treasurer of the
League of Republican Clubs, and direct
or of the bureau. The committee cons
sists of Edgar c. Snyder, John O..
CaperS and Gus \. Schuldt.
One of the dynamos in the local work
| ing campaign will be the National Re-
| publican Club. This organization about
| to start something on the streets of Wash
ington in the shape of short and snappy
addresses. but the plans have not been
worked out. 1t is possible that the plan
SO successfully used in previous CAM
paigns will be adopted again. The club
has always sent out speakers to address
| the department workers at the noon
hour, and the speakers have used touring
cars to get from place to place.