Show PRICE FIVE CENTS CENTS- SAY HY I THAT HUGHES IS STRONGEST MAN Letters Leters to Candidate Taft Are Most Favorable to Governor KANSAS TO PILE UP V VOTE TE Wright and Nominee Discuss Questions of Philippine Government BY DY M WILLIAM I HOSTER HOSTEn HOSTER Hot Springs Va Aug WillIam William II H. Taft stated today that ho he Is In receipt of letters leters from Crom New Yorkers expressing sc sentiments favorable to Governor Hughes Hughe He lie m mado do the disclosure after ater con con- hesitation and he with wih it an a that he coupled did not wish to be beI regarded as a taking a part In the time New York contest or of or ex cx- pressing any preference as a to guber guber- candidates Eber- Eber Arthur I I. I Vorys s informed as to what Mr Taft Tac had said sid stated Well Wel I dont don't w want nt to bo be quoted 03 as taking part In the Ule New Now York contest a either b but t you rou may say ry I have havo re re- re letters lotters In a similar strain a stain my my- self Some Somo of ot them are aro of ot a nega nega- tire tive nature The writers inform Inton a me ma that thc they aro are for Hughes because ho Is the strongest strongest man th the tho Republicans of or Now New York cn can nominate They say te they would favor a n. stronger cr man sy if it son mon he can cn bo be found My I answer to them theta has been for I am looking for tor In tim tim- 11 formation nothing nothIng more Who Vo Is J a a stronger man who do you OU think will b be stronger wi Incidentally tho the significance of or the tho tG combined remarks of or Taft and Vorys upon the subject I Is probably to bo be found In those concluding words of ot Mr Vorys' Vorys talk talk Taft Tr declined to he be drawn Into any further talk upon the tho to New York situation On the tho state ot of affairs in Iu Indiana ho he said o No 0 Doubt for Republicans I 1 1 have had a n. letter from Iron an nn old classmate in iii Indiana who attended re re- re centy a meeting from all aU parts part of or the Ute state stale He Ho writes mn mo that par there thore was a a a general consensus of ot opinion that there IH is no doubt about tho tim election oC or the Iho Republican electoral ticket But YOU yon must remember that ho was wa writ writ- Smug a as my friend i Complications ho said w ro likely to arise as ns to eon u oC or tho the candidates s and andL L h the tho ho he thought was vas wa some nome someI I W ut In n do doubt ht With regard to InI Indiana In In- diana g 2 Mr lr t tel tolls 11 mo me I that It It l In is tho bl l or organized nl cd po- po lOI lO- lO Jn in tim tHo tho nt d etto I y m. AIMO bud i ill Irom V Aty i o n td i t to O t. t Jorn o In V v. v 1 1 U I lu ortt t r. r ff say ys that tuo thio BU m. m ha disi p nt th the tho result o h 5 I Primaries might put tho Iho state I In doubt hiu hL n Ifo I I i m mo that hoJ l orr orri 5 a i result or canvass CIt of or tho I state th 1 a. a I I JOTH Cor the tho ul tiCket cl ot eln to toI I that given elvon to elt I C M on oil Tr Mr Ir Taft us ius visited today toda b by Manuel Quezon who Is In a member of or orth th tho Philippine timo hou hoUse a of ot assembly an anti n l tto floor t leader of ot tho the Nationalist part party and amid C Camilla former secretory secre tory tary of oC agriculture In o s C cabinet cab cab- rb- rb that not and rec recent nt secretary r to to Mi I. I the Filipino delegate delegato to con- con grosa Senor Quezon is s 's making makl a a tour of or ortho tho the W world He assured Mr Ir Taft Tar that tat tho Filipino legislature I la is a much more representative body than the tho to Russian duma Mr Mi- Taft and Secretary of or War 11 Wright tonight had a n lon long conference on war department matters materS IncludIng Including ing lug the Philippines Cuba and Panama Panama There Thero are four tour departments in the Philippines at present e commerce commerce- and nl police finance Justice education and Interior Under the acts of congress congre a fifth department can be created and amid thero there has been some somo pressure uro in fn Inthe tho the Philippines the creation of ot a 3 department of oC agriculture 1 General Wright said sid this afternoon following his conference with Taft Tac department department depart depart- that it was not likely ment would be organized for tor the present pres pres- pres ent cut A nero moro more compact organization upon the Isthmus was ws discussed anti anil General Wright talked with Taft TaCt at some some length upon tho the character of ot legislation that ought to remain I lu II it force in Cuba after the withdrawal of ot the American army amy from the te island in February |