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Campaign for Taft's Reelection
Launched in New York
Yesterday.
CONFIDENCE IN CANDIDATES
Progress with Order Good Doc
trine for Republican Party
Now AS Always-Plat
forms Contrasted.

| Washington, July 3.-Thc campaign fN
the reelection Of President Taft will bs
formally launched Tomorrow in New
| hoTk. James II. Reynolds of Massachu.
sets, who to-day was named as secre
tary of the republican national commit
| tee. VIII do the launching and G. D. Hilles
President Taft's secretary, who was Sc
lected for chairman Of the national com.
! mittee, will join him In New York Mon.
: day.
Mr.. Iiilles issued statement tonight
declaring the confidence OF the Republi-
can party in its cause and its candidates.
/, follows " part:
THE Republican party approa chos the
presidential campaign with confidence ir
the solemnlty of its cause and in the In
tegrity and ability OF the candidates who
represent that cause. Progress with or
der is good doctrine for the Republican
party to-day as It has been since the day
Of its birth.
"a distinct line Of demarcation be-
tween the Republican party and the
Democratic party is revealed in the
platforms adopted at Chicago and Bal
timore. one is an earnest Of future
progress through a record of achieve
ment. the other is promise contain
ing a denial of the good that has been
done
Upon tho solid rock Of the rights
of the Individual as granted by the
! constitution. the Republican party
| builds its structure of optimism. The
| Democratic party. on the other hand.
: In the opening sentence of It's 1dress
/ to the electorate. hetraYs Its recess
sional quality by denying the right OF
/ Congress, a right again and again con-
ilrmed by the Supreme Court. to es-
tablish protective duties for the BEN
! eft of American industries.
LIBERTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL
1T declares false the vital issue
Of the constitutional liberties Of the
! Individual Such liberties are now as
sailed by those who advocate tho over-
throw of the independence of the ju1i-
cary 1t would leave tha Individual
defenseless in the protection of those
rights declared inallenable under the
| constitution"
The subcommittee Of the national COM
mittee announced the selection OF Mr..
Hilles and Mr.. REYNOLDS to-day after a
/
the White House and a few minutes in
| difference In a downtown hotel Both
men were chosen unanimously.
The subcommittee adjourned until
July 10. when it will meet IN New York.
! Members of the committee proceeded
to organized Mr.. Taft's campaign I'M
disturbed by the report that a number
: of progressive republicans were going to
! ,,,- -.fata f,.,,- -lf I,ir,, n
draw from the ticket None of the COM
mitteenen regarded that movement ser.
iously in view of the fact that it was
being proposed entirely by men who had
lost out at Chicago They admitted that
the campaign would be bitterly fought
but among them there We're many ex.
pressions OF confidence in the re-elec ton
OF Mr.. Taft.
BAY STATE NOT DEMOCRATIC.
a statement from Representative
Gardner of Massachusetts runs as fol-
lows: The situation in Massachusetts
Is long days journey from iustifyng
tn, eXuberant hilarty Of the democratic
prophets. Fundamentally .Iassachusett.
foil. believe that President Taft Is as
, straight and sound as one of ~ New
England pines UnluckTIy = mt enough
of Il mountehank to catch mons fancies
1t Is true that some very thoughtful peo-
pie at home mean to follow Colonel
Roosevelt into his now political organiza-
ton | trust that his followers will not
be numerous, but. whether they be few
or many, it exasporates me 10 know that
the Republican party is being purged a,
the wrong end,
I'VE could spare some of our reaction
airy leaders good deal better than we
can spare the people who believe that a
thri party is essential or those who have
been heEuilod by the colonies uuhal-
nnCed wilfulnoss. Ny friends believe that
President Taft Is an admirable candidate
and that the republican platform is
true EXPIRE sion of the best modern lib
raj thought, but they also agree with
me in the conviction that many Of our
leaders are suffering from mental arterio
sclerosis. Personally, | hope To partci-
pate in a REORGANIZATION of the Republic
can party which shall exclude the ox-
trenists OF both wings from leadership
WHO WILL SUCCEED ilil.LES.
President Taft has not Yet selected
man to succeed Mr.. llilles a. secretary.
He has had Carml Thompson of Ohio.
assistant secretary If tive interior. in his
mind. Mr. Thompson WIS talked or as
one of the men who might be selected
as chairman of the national committee.
Harry NJ. paugherty of ohio. until last
night i'm the front list of eligibes for
chairman, Is also being considered as Mr..
liillcss successor
A conference of the President and Sen
ator. crane. Root. penrose and William
barnes last night really paved the way
to the naming of Mr. Iilles. These lead
ers. whilc clAssed as roactonary men,
hcrs of the party, insisted to the Presl-
dent that the man to head the national
committee must be a progressive, a young
man with political acumon and a "hust-
Ter" President TAFT replied that such
man was his secretary. Then other con-
ference~ followed, with the result that
Mr. Hilles was the selection
4 Washington special SAYS that one of
the principal reasons for the rupture be-
tween A. Piatt Andrew and Secretary
MacNeagh centorod about last years $50.
100000 Panama canal bond issue. After
the White House had made arrangements
for the sale of bonds. Secretary Mac
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