Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1908 — HITCHCOCK SAYS NOTHING [ARTICLE]

HITCHCOCK SAYS NOTHING

Others, However, Guess at What Was Done at Oyster Bay. . New York. Aug. 21.—N0 announcement has been made bj Chairman Hitchcock, of the Republican national committee, as to the sentiment developed at the Oyster Bay conference for er against the renomination of Governor Hughes. Hitchcock and James K, Sherman, the Republican candidate for vice president, liave returned to New York from the conference with the president. It was stated, however, that thesentLmentvolced jfie gathering at Oyster Bay was favorable to the renomination of Governor Hughes. One man who insisted that his name be not given as authority for the statement asserted as much. Hot Springs. Va.. Aug. 21.—“ After the first week of any speaking cam-

paign tins been gone "through with, and one finds hmself, as It were, talking withoutdifficulty on all of the various subjects of discussion, I do not think there Is anything more enjoyable than making at least one speech a day.” This utterance by Judge Taft presents his attitude toward campaigning. Judge D. D. Woodmansee, judge of the common pleas court at Cincinnati, and a cousin and old friend of Judge Taft, was an arrival and gave out an interview regtrdlng the decision of the Ohio state committee not to invite Senator Foraker to speak at the opening of the national campaign at Youngstown, Sept. 5, in which he said: “Aside from the fact that wo have had many campaign openings In Ohio without our senators taking part it can at once bo understood that a very Intj portant question of party policy arose this year. Everyone can appreciate that It was an einbarrasing situation. Senator Foraker, in his <’bamber of Commerce speech delivered in Cincinnati only a short time ago, made a severe attack upon the policies of President Roosevelt. How could the party which Intends to wage the fight standing squarely on these policies as declared in its platform consistently Invite him to take the most conspicuous part 1n the campaign? It was practically Impossible, and most of Senator Foraker’s friends see it that way.”