New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23

cox will do as he pleases and Hitch
cock will have his share in advising
him.
On the committee is William l..
Ward. of New York, chief adviser to
Taft in the 1908 campaign and close
friend o. Hitchcock. These two men
practically directed the Taft fight.
Whitman Sees Hitchcock.
One Of IIitchcock's first callers after
his appointment was Governor Whit
man. who has been in town for the
last few days with his ear to the
ground. Whitman talked over the
Hughes campaign with Hitchcock and
then had talk with Wilcox. He
was told that more than 10000 sigma
lures had been obtained for his desig-
nation petition to the Republican pri-
maries and more than 1000 in the
Progressive primaries.
After having eased his mind con-
corning just who was in charge of af-
fairs. Mr.. Wilcox named the following
advisory committee:
K. Livingston Beeckman, Governor of
Rhode Island; Theodore +. Burton, ex-
Senator from Ohio; Charles G.. Dawes,
Chicago banker and politician; A. o.
Eberhardt, Ex-Governor of Minnesota;
Charles W. Fulton, ex-senator from
Oregon; Raymond Robbins, chairman
of the Chicago Progressive convention;
Victor Rosewater. of Omaha; John
Wanamaker. of Philadelphia; William
L. Ward, of New York. and James Will
son, of Iowa, eX-Secretary Of Agri-
culture.
The appointment of John Wanamaker
is intended to add business standing to
the personnel of the committee. He is
expected TO do much toward getting
the big business men in line, or, rather,
stir enthusiasm among them, which
has been wofully lacking. Charles G.
Dawes, of Illinois. is president Of the
Central Trust Company, of Illinois,
and a political opponent of Mayor
William Hale Thompson of Chicago.
Although he is national committeeman
from Illinois. he was not appointed on
the Republican campaign committee,
and for that reason he was selected as
one of the Wilcox advisers.
Lethargy 10 Disappear.
With the naming of the committee
the lethargy that has marked the cam
paign TO date is expected to disappear.
Three or four Of the committee mem
bers will be in this city all of the time.
Theodore Roosevelt has not been salts
fed with the way the campaign has
been going, and has advised getting on
the stump two or three men who have
walked up things in the past
II looks as if the Republicans were
ready at last 10 do business, and the
Roosevelt speech next week in Maine
will be the opening. Following Roose-
welt, Hughes will speak in Maine, and
efforts are being made to get ex-Presi-
dent Taft to make speech or two.
The Hughes Alliance also got busy
when Harold G. Arndt, the
secretary, left on tour of the state TO
organize branches of the alliance in all
Of the counties. So far organizations
have been effected only in Albany,
Warren, Onondaga and
Rockland counties.
To Organize Upstate.
Mr.. Arndt will 90 frts to Glens Falls,
where he will meet Progressive Demo
Gratis and Republicans interested in the
work and start organizations In Sara
toga, Essex, Washington and Rensselaer,
counties. Plans also have been perfected
for launching the alliance in Rochester
and Buffalo, where there was great IN
terest in the organization when Hughes
ran for Governor. According to Arndt,
the organization will be well under way
all over the state by September /.
All reports from Maine received at
both Republican and Democratic head
quarters indicate that the situation
there is perplexing and neither side has
any assurance of victory in the state
elections next month. 1t seems 70 be
up 10 a block Of 10000 Progressive vot-
ers who will swing the result one way
or the other.