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tional Committee, will henceforth devote
himself to Gov. Landon's cause as ma
tional organizer foreshadows an in
tensive drive for Cleveland convention
delegates pledged to the Kansan's sup
port It's always been understood that
Hamilton sooner or later would assume
this role in the interest of Landon, with
whom he has for years been on terms of
close friendship. His intimate contacts
with Republican leaders throughout the
country fit Hamilton ideally for the
mission he has undertaken. The gov
ernors supporters think the task will be
relatively easy because of latent Landon
sentiment, which they claim is only
waiting to be crystallized in many States,
particularly in the East. It's taken for
granted that Hamilton, in the event of
Landon'S nomination, will inherit the
Republican national Craftsmanship and
conduct the G. o. P. campaign. He will
bring youth, force and fighting red
head to the job.
When Gov. Phil La Toilette of Wis
consin was introduced at the recent ses-
sion of the Washington Town Hall, the
presiding officer. Huston Thompson. for
mer chairman of the Federal Trade
Commission, suggested that as Wisconsin
isn't likely to send two members of the
same family to the United States Senate,
the young Governor would probably next
be heard of as presidential candidate.
Mr.. Thompson having eulogized the late
senatorial and gubernatcrial brothers,
Bob" and Phil" the latter opened his
-emarks with the statement that no such
family compliments were complete with
out tribute to his late mother, long the
coadjutor Of Fighting Bob" In the pro-
gressive cause.
Latest addition to the mounting cam
paign literature Of 1896 is "You and L
And Roosevelt" little book by Charles
P. Taft, to be published this week. The
author is the elder son OF the late Presi-
dent and Chief Justice of the United
States, who now practices law in Gin
cinnati and is a former Republican pros
ecuting attorney of Hamilton County.
His brother, Robert A. Taft, has just been
designated by the Ohio G. o. p. organi-
zation to contest the State presidential
preference primary as "favorite son"
candidate against Senator Borah Of
idaho.
New Dealers are expecting that from
now on there will be more or less steady
and impressive procession toward the
Roosevelt bandwagon by prominent
Democrats who have hitherto been hos
tile to certain administration policies.
The recent declaration by Senator Ty-
dings of Maryland Of his intention to
support the President is regarded as the
first important move in the indicated
direction. Little or no alarm is visible
among the Democratic high command
over the anti Roosevelt candidacy of Col.
Henry Breckenridge in various State pri-
maries. But it revives the possibility that
o third party headed by Breckenridge or
some other "Jeffersonian" or "Constitu-
tional' Democrat may eventually take
the field and enhance Republican pros
poets in doubtful States No Roosevelt
tian comedies the renotest chance Of
party split, either by way of Republic
can-D Democratic coalition or an inde-
pendent ticket, that could conceivably
wreck the Presidents fortunes as the
Bull Moose insurrection within the Re-
publican camp ruined Taft in 1912.
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