The Washington times., 1916-06-27
Nature of Campaigns
OF Both Candidates
Matter of Conjecture
Something Rather Different Is Expected, as Former
Methods Have Become Antiquated-Spell-
binding Which Prevailed Years
Ago, Is at Discount.
BY JUDSON C. WELLIvER.

Dy JoboSiN =
| A man who has been there and seen
| says that there are twenty-five names
on Charles r. Hughes list Of people
who have been seriously presented to
him as possibilities for chairman OF the
Republican National Committee. This
same man could not recall the entire
list. but he believed that 1t included all
! OF the following:
Charles d. Hilles. present chairman,
William G. Hayward. public commits
sioner Of New York. and former secre-
, tary of the committee.
co MisTr n OF w Ms% YORK ,GTmer service
Charles B. Warren. national commit
James r. Sheffield. president of the
James A. Hemenway. former Senator
George W. Perkins. chairman of the
executive COMMITTEES Of the Progressive
Frederick c. Tanner. of New York.
Hughes leader.
Herbert Parsons, national committee
Charles q. Dawes, Of Chicago. bust
ness man and Republican leader.
George B, cortelyou. chairman Of the
william Loeb. secretary to President
Reed smoot. Senator and national
committeeman from Utah.
William B. Mckinley. CONGRESSMAN
and manager Of Congressional CAM
William s. Bennett. Congressman from
Myren T. Herrick, of Ohio. former am
John wingate Weeks. Senator from
Massa chusetts.
John Dwight; former Congressman
| from New York.
Hughes Mind Not Made.
People who have very recently
talked with Mr.. Hughes do not be-
lieve II Is at all certain that any man
now on the list will be named: but
they admit that they have no infor-
the eandidatss MIND Is still h" open ."a'
The subcommittee OF the national
committee which was namsd , to son
ton. the campaign officers, and the new
executive committee. will be consulted:
but the extent to which its counsel will
be weighed 10 mere conjecture. This
Crane. John T. Adams OF Iowa. Ralph
Williams of oregon. Alvah II. Martin Of
Virginia. Chas. c. Warren Of Michigan.
Senator Smoot. Senator Penrose and ex-
| Senator Hemmenway.
The sort Of campaign that will be
waged this year Is necessarily uncer-
tain. The Democratic chairman, Vance
Mccormick, 10 an unknown quantity In
became known that Mr.. Mccormick was
to head the committee. a Democrat
commonly suspected Of long headedness
and excellent information. observed:
committee; know who will really run
"who. them" was demanded.
Reply Was Confident.
Norman Hapgood." was the confident
II thoroughly unexpected reply.
| 1t was a view Of deserving moro at
tention than at the moment It received
in the group that listened to II. Mr..
Hapgood has been very close to the Ad-
minist ration, a good deal moro Of an adj
reasons for believing he Will be in the
| Cabinet IL Wilson Is elected: and, fur
Their. that he will be Secretary Of tho
Interior and Secretary Lane will 80 to
| Mr.. Hapgood has been in Washington
much of the time in recent months. and
every once In a little while has been
discovered IN some very intimate rela-
Administration. The politicians assume
that his relation TO the national cam
paisn will be as a sort Of adviser emeri-
! tus: a prov!der of high moral tone and
intellectual quality Of the sort that the
ter sions, the gentlemen who ventured
to guess that he would really direct the
campaign. observed that Mr.. Hapgood
! as chairman Of the committee Of 100 In
the last municipal campaign In New
York conducted himself in a fashion
that considerably shocked people who
wanted to believe him merely a dream
/ err and highbrow.
Anyhow. the practical politicians opine
, that Mr.. Hapgood. for better or for
worse. will be right with them this CON-
Ing season.
! Different Campaign.
| As to the character of campaign that
! will be waged. there Is general belief
that something rather different will be
put on by both sides. Spellbnding of
the old-f fashioned kind that prevailed In
, 1896 and 1900 10 at a discount. The ap-
peal has In latter day campaigns been
| made more and more through printed
matter, and newspaper advertising has
been accounted the most productive
form. II is promised that fewer Congress
sional speeches will be franked out to the
voters than formerly, because they are
not looked upon as very productive ma
terial. Some experienced national cam
paigners express opinion that the peo-
| pie don't read 'em. The Government
Printing Office doesn't put them up In
very attractive form for popular con.
sumption, 1t seems to have a positive
distaste for qualities of paper, ink, type
and Typography that the reading com.
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