Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-29
Sherman Not Yet Decided on
as Taft's Running Mate.
TO VISIT NEW HAMPSHIRE.
President Also Hopes to Gain
Ground in Toledo and Chicago.
CORRESPONDENTS IS CHEERING
Change in Sentiment Among Wis
itors to White House Also En-
couraging to Administration.

1t became known at the White House
today that the question of renominating
Vice President Sherman upon the Taft
| ticket has not been considered by the
| President or Mr.. Sherman; that no cab
| met officer has ever stated that the ad-
minlstratiOn has decided upon Mr. Sher-
| man for another nomination, and that
William Barnes, jr., of New York did
not mention Mr.. Shermans name to the
| President
This semi official statement follows a
story that cabinet officer has declared
| that Mr. Sherman is again 10 be nom-
| mated at the behest of William Barnes,
republican state chairman and that Mr..
Barnes made this request when a guest
| of the President Tuesday night
| 1t has for some time been known that
! the matter of the vice presidency has
been left open. Mr.. Sherman himself sug-
costing this course. Mr.. Sherman saw
President Taft today, but refused to
| talk about the matter as he left the
White House.
| President Taft is again SO overwhelmed
with unanswered correspondence, much
of it political, that he was today COM
! pe.led to hang up the Nothing Doing
/ sign around the executive Offices and re-
| tire to the private rooms of the White
| House, where he spent the time reading
| and debating
Will Invade New Hampshire.
AS the campaign becomes warmer the
White House mail increases each day.
Four -fifths of it is answered by Secretary
Hilles and his assistants, but the other
| one-fifth is personal and must be cared
h~v 81, ho
time to do. Occasionally he must take a
day off and dig out of the big pile OF
letters around him.
| president taft is not unmindful OF the
| fact that to win his denomination he must
| fight, and this he Is willing to do. He is
perfectly wiling to face the people and
| the issues now current. Yesterday. at
the urgent request of Senators Gallfnger
and Burnham, the President agreed to go
to New Hampshire March y. following
his trip to Boston March 1s, where he
Will celebrate st. Patrick,s day with the
lfash and histoffeal eyKnt wfthp the
Boston people generally. The President
| will speak in both Concord and Nashua.
influence Of Gov. Bass. who is out for
/ Col. Roosevelt, and for nearly two years
| has been making trouble for the regular
republicans of that state.
I i. In going to Toledo and Chicago March
| s and 0, respectively, the President is
personally to get in touch with territory
! that needs his presence. Toledo and that
| section of Ohio has some Roosevelt senti-
/ ment, but Chicago has been put down as
a field that may be cultivated by the Taft
! people.
/ It Is unlikely that the President will go
! any farther west than Chicago before the
| national convention in June. Chicago is
| the center Of the Roosevelt campaign at
| present, and the Taft speeches there will
be designed for consumption farther west,
also.
Correspondence Is Encouraging.
The White House correspondents is
really encouraging. 1t turned tnat way
fast since the Columbus speech of
Roosevelt Policemen in the White
House grounds report the same thing
| among people they talk with every day.
Their reports are that most astonish,
! ing change of sentiment is noticed
among strangers from all parts Of the
country in the last week or ten days.
all favorable to Taft. Before that the
4 Roosevelt sentiment seemed to pre-
| dominate.
| A poll has been taken by Boyds Cafe.
on Pennsylvania avenue. two blocks from
| the White House. Yesterday at luncheon
the proprietor placed box at his desk
and above. y the sign. Who. TAFT at or or
Roosevelt The vote turned out lSS for
Taft. and 113 for Roosevelt. Democrats.
although unlimited by the sign. also
voted. Champ Clark receiving Il and
Woodrow Wilson 81, with scattering
votes for others. Among those who voted
were some of the judges and officials of
i the Court Of Appeals. many prominent
War Department officials and others.
| A western justice of the peace who has
| been writing the White House about
| political matters in his state carries upon
his letterheads this businesslike state
| ment: will baptize you. marry you,
| Jail you or bury you while you wait
| Former Gov. Myron Herrick of Ohio.
| who is to sail for, France in a short
time as ambassador from the United
States. was a guest of. President Taft
| at the White House last night.