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Show DEMOCRATS TO opei cipra IT EAHLY DATE Wilson Holds Conference With McCormick and Cummings and Decides Against Waiting. PRESIDENT WILL MAKE SPEECHES W. J. Bryan Also Slated to Take an Active Part; No Hope for Suffrage This Session. WASHINGTON'. Auk. 7. A decision to launch the Denioi-ratic campaign soon aftt-r September 1, reunnileH of whether congress still Is In se'on then, a. reached at n conference today between rresidont Wilson. Vance C. Mci'ornik-k, chairman of the Pemociatlc national committee, com-mittee, and Homer S. Cummlnps, the committee's vice chairman. The two Democratic leaders took luiK-h with the president and remained with him four hours, goinp over minutely the camp.ilun plans. While no date was set for the notification ceremonies. Chairman McCormick McCor-mick iaid tonight that If congress remained re-mained In session after September 1 notiilcation micht take p'.ace before adjournment. ad-journment. I'nder su.h circumstances the president w 111 go to Shadow Lawn, j N. J., for the occasion and return Ini- , mediately afterward to Washington. Wilson to Speak. Invitations sent to t'-'.o president to speak in various parts of the country were considered at the conference today. Mr. Wilson will make no deiinlie engage- i ments, however, until a date frr ti e ad- journment of congress Is agreed ui'on. He i already has promised to go to Hodgens- ville. Ky., September i. to sreak at Lincoln Lin-coln memorial exercises, and has m yle a tentative engagement to visit St. Louis September 19. or ?1 to addres:ian organization or-ganization of underwriters. The Hlsens-vl Hlsens-vl lie speech, however, will be of a ncn-poiitical ncn-poiitical character. Chairman McCormick safd he planned to have the Democratic campaign In full swing by September 15. Mr. Cummings. who is chairman of the speakers bureau at Democratic national headquarters, told the president of the progress made In as-sigiiir.g as-sigiiir.g speakers to the various states. Bryan to Take Part. It was definitely determined that the president would not speak in Maine, where the election comes September 11, but he probably will write letters and in other ways take part In the campaign. William J. Bryan. Mr. Cummings said, probably cannot take part in tho Maine campaign, but -will make many speeches later. An Itinerary has not yet been arranged ar-ranged for him. An active campaign will be carried on by the Democrats in more states this year than ever before, the two leaders said, after theJr talk with the president. No states will be conceded to the Republicans, Repub-licans, they declared. The Democratic organizations in Republican strongholds are being; strengthened, with the idea of , putting up a fight all along the line. Committee Considered. Selection of the Democratic campaign committee has almost been completed, Mr. McCormick announced, and its personnel per-sonnel will be announced within a few-days. few-days. The chairman remained here until late tonight discussing the makeup of the committee with other Democratic leaders. He saw several California Democrats to get In touch with the situation in their state. Plans for winning tho women voters will be pushed actively, according to Mr. McCormick, in spite of tlie announcement of Charles E. Hughes, the Republican nominee, that he favors a federal suffrage amendment. A women's bureau at the New York headquarters will be organized in the near future. HERT TO MANAGE HUGHES CAMPAIGN AT CHICAGO END CHICAGO, Aug. 7. A. T. Hert, Kentucky's Ken-tucky's member of the Republican national nation-al committee, will be manager of the western branch of the Hughes campaign, with headquarters in Chicago, it was announced an-nounced tonight by National Chairman William R. Wlllcox, after he had consulted consult-ed partv leaders of the central states. In making the appointment. Chairman Willcox gave out the following statement: "A. T. Hert of Kentucky, a member of the campaign commit U-e of the Republican Repub-lican national committee, will be in charge of the hranch headquarters of the committee in Chicago. Mr. Hert will have associated with him at head quarters other members of the committee. "Frank H. Hitchcock has been prominently promi-nently named in connection with this work, but some days ago he informed me that he was not only not a candidate, hut could not, under any circumstances, give the time necessary for the work at the western headquarters. Mr. Hitchcock, however, has assured me of his willingness willing-ness and desire to assist in every possible wav In the work of the campaign." Formation of a Republics n advisory committee, which, with Chairman Willcox, Will-cox, will be in direct charge of the cam- ' (Continued on Page Four.) 1 DEMOCRATS DECIDE TO BEGIN CAMPAIGN (Continued from Page One.) paign, will be announced in a few days, it was said., Its membership will Include George B. Cortelyou, William Loeb and Charles D. Hilles, it is said. No Hope for Amendment. WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. Senator Thomas of Colorado, chairman of the woman suffrage committee, said today he had given up hope of getting a vote on the suffrage constitutional amendment at tins session ot congress, because it could not be done without precipitating prolonged pro-longed debate. "I recently addressed a letter to each senator," said Senator Thomas, "asking if he would consent to the taking up of this amendment and submitting it to a vote without argument. The responses I received were about equal in number consenting and objecting. Consequently, I have done nothing further about it." Speaker Clark Cheered. WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. Republican Leader Mann reminded the house today that Speaker Clark had Just passed his thirty-third anniversary as a member of congress. Republicans and Democrats rose and cheered the speaker for several minutes. Responding, Mr. Clark said he was not sure he wanted to remain in the house another thirty-three years, but did know he wanted to stay as long as he could. Woman Wins Nomination. TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. 7. Tt became certain cer-tain today that Dr. Eva Harding of To-peka, To-peka, a suffragist leader, had won the Democratic nomination for congressman in trie First district over the Rev. H. J. Corwine in the recent stale-wide primary. Dr. Harding, whose majority was 60S, Is the only woman congressional candidate in the state for the coming election. Stephens Resigns. WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. Representative Representa-tive Stephens, recently made lieutenant governor of California, notified Speaker Clark today that ho had filed his resignation resig-nation as a member of the house with the California state authorities. Murray Asks Recount. OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 7. Application Applica-tion for a recount of the ballots cast in last Tuesday's primary in the Fourth congressional district was filed with the state election board today by Congressman Congress-man William H. Murray, who, on the face of returns, has been defeated for the Democratic congressional nomination by a majority of 279 votes. Will Support Wilson. NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 7. X A. H. Hopkins, chairman of the New Jersey Progresslve state committee, today placed his services at the disposal of President Wilson in his campaign for re-election. At the same time Mr. Hopkins said he was opposed to an official indorsement of the president by the Progressive organization, or-ganization, as reconstruction of the party in New Jersey would be his aim. |