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Show WILL SEE TEDDT AS IJH1PAP Chairman Hitchcock Off for Washington to Consult With Real Head of Party. SOME TROUBLE BREWING I ACCORDING TO REPORTS Men of Prominence in Councils of tho Party Said to Have Been Ignored. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. Chairman Hitchcock of the Republican national committco is expected in Washington tomorrow, and the general understanding understand-ing hero is that while in the city ho will call upon tho President for tho purpose of exchanging views with him regarding tho conduct of Iho campaign cam-paign on behalf of Secretary Taft. It was reported here today that the President had summoned Mr. Hitch-' cock for the purposo of requesting from him an explanation of many criticisms criti-cisms which havo recently come to the white house concerning tho management manage-ment of affairs both in New York aud Chicago, but Secretary Loob tonight denied tho portions of the report which attributed Mr. Hitchcock's coming in reply to a special request from tho President, There is, however, excellent authority for the statement that a number of complaints as to the management manage-ment of the campuign havo reached tho executive mansion and the understanding understand-ing is that, although he did not request re-quest tho presence of U10 chairman of tho national committee, President Roosevelt will welcome the opportunity to talk with him and to obtain from him such explanation of those criticisms criti-cisms as ho may bo ablo to make. Grounds of Consnrc. Tho ccnsiiro seems to point to tho fact that tho national committee has this year failed to co-operate as completely com-pletely and zealously with tho congressional con-gressional committee as in past years and it is understood that sonio oi the criticisms have come from the Republican Republi-can candidates for congress. On the other hand, it has been explained to tho President that the national chairman chair-man has been very busily engaged in urranging the details of lhe national campaign and has been inclined to give tho major portion of his attention to that subject rather than to the election of members of congress, because ho regarded re-garded that as his special work, while he was confident that the congressional committee would be abundantly able to look after tho interests of congressional congress-ional candidates without his particular assistance. Reports of discourteous conduct at the national committee headquarters toward somo Republicans of prominence havo also reached tho President, und, while probably it is hot his purposo to inquire into the details of tho office of-fice management of committco nffairs, he is so thoroughly impressed with the important of absolute party harmony that he fools no matter can bo too small for proper attention. These and ninny other subjects will doubtless be taken up with Mr. Hitchcock, Hitch-cock, largely if not entirely for tho purposo of obtaining from that gentleman gentle-man an explanation of tho situation from the chairman s standpoint. Naturally, Nat-urally, too, the President desires in formation from first hand as to tie progress of tho campaign that he, of course, gets from Air. Hitchcock. |
