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Show A BLOW AT TAFT. H President makers doubtless read B with interest that Gov. Hughes 01 H New York at last has come openly H into the field as a Presidential candi- H date. In response to an invitation H to address the Republican Club of H New York, which had appointed a H committee to work for his uomina- H tion, he responded, accepting the in- H vitation and adding: H "I can not fail to recognize the' H great honor which the nomination H 'would confer or the obligation or H service which it would impose. Nor H should I care to be thought lacking H in appreciation to the confidence and esteem which prompt the efforts ot H those who sincerely desire to bring H it about. The matter is one for the H party to decide, and whatever its de- H cision I shall be content." A New York paper declares that H this action of the Governor removes H the seventy-eight votes of New York H in the Republican National Convcn- H tion from the list of Taft possibili- B tics. As long as the Governor's posi- HJ tion seemed to be in doubt it was pos- HJ siblc for the followers of the National H Administration, led by Represents- HJ live Parsons, Chairman of the Re- H publican County Committee of New H York County to hold back the party organization and prevent it from IJ committing itself to Hughes. This possibility is now ended. |
