New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
Root and Taft Will Open Fire
For Hughes This Week
Former President to Address Interstate Fair in Trenton on
"Wednesday, and Former Senator Will Make First
Campaign Speech Thursday in Carnegie Hail.

Elihu Root will make his first speech
of the campaign for Hughes at the
Carnegie Hall mass meeting next
Thursday night. 1t will also be the
first speech Mr. Root has made since
the memorable address he delivered al
the Republican unofficial state conveh-
ton at Carnegie Hall last February
The Thursday night meeting Will be
under the auspices of the Republican
Club, cooperating with the Republican
National Committee. Chauncey NJ. De-
NOW. Otto T. Barnard and other prom
;ncnt Republicans are among the other
speakers.
Mr. Root has promised Chairman
Wilcox of the Republican National
Committee that he will make other
speeches for Hughes and Fairbanks
The places and dates are TO be deter
mined.
William II. Taft will begin his WORK
in the campaign in New Jersey next
Wednesday, where he will speak at the
Interstate Fair, in Trenton. MI Ian
will then make a series Of speeches IN
the Middle West. closing his camp sign
Speaking for Hughes in the East
Chairman Wilcox yesterday pre-
d,cted unequ.vocally that kepuo-
lican victory would result IN ONO
The national chairman said 1t was oh n
n matter Of how large majority Woulu
be rolled VI Tor N.ghes q" 'hat s'St'.
II r Brewster, secretary OF inc y"
tional Republican League, returned yssI
tcrdav from Ohi9, where NJ pr eslu. y
AZ the state convection 81 IN. ItSess
..'gbs a. Dayton. iEere arc w OF tne
league club in the state Mr' prev.
ster declared thc Ohio situate" was
very satisfact'if.
Reports received here yesterday IRON
Western Republican campaign heau
quarters i'm Chicago declared the "oIv,
from many of the Middle western anu
Far Western states showed tnat rom
- TO 90 per cent of former Bun Mos,
ers would be in lire for the nauVraI
Republican ticket IL November; Inc
reports from Kansas are that So per
cent Of the Progressives IN mat STATE
are in line. James r. GARFIELD Is no"
in. the West on a mission TO piacaNe
the differences between the PrsgreS-
sives and Republicans IN the states
where admittedly there stu exists some
bitterness.
A large army Of Princeton men are
in the Republican trenches hghtlng ior
Hughes. including Robert Harris Nc.
Carter. Princeton, 70, a classmate OIL
President Wilson. Mr.. McCsrter is IN
charge Of the branch Of the Hughes
National College League at Newark,
\. J.. according TO the announcement Oh
The he Yesterday. Professor Alex
and 81. Phillips, Princeton, 81. for
mer mayor Of Princeton, IS IN charge
of the Hughes work in that town. VIII
lam Marshall Bullitt, Princeton, "a, IS
chairman Of the branch at Louisville
Albert Wall, Princeton, '86, and hlth-
erto a Democrat, is in charge at Jersey
City.
Button. button, who's got the but
ton >" 49,.
The man with the button, on which
were to be the pictures Of the trlum-
virate- Hughes, Roosevelt and TAFT
could not be found at Republican Ma
tional Headquarters yesterday Chair
man Wilcox refused TO be drawn into
anv discussion Of the proposed distn-
buttons Of such buttons at the re-
ception to Mr.. Hughes at the Union
League Club on Tuesday, except 20
saw that no such buttons would
be made. Harmonious plans for the 80
ception, which Colonel Roosevelt and
Mr.. Taft will attend, have been com
pleted.
Edwin 4. Harris, chairman OF the
Democratic State Committee, declared
last night New York would 20 Demo
cratic by 10000 on November 7. Mr.
Harris offered nothing in way Of sub
sanitation of his claim except to say
that reports from all parts Of the state
showed that thousands of Republicans
were going to vote the Democratic
ticket. His claims we're laughed at by
Republicans.
Vance c. Mccormick, chairman Of
the Democratic. National Committee,