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Show THINK TAFT SURE TOBEREJLEGTED HBa Secretary Hlllcs Confident There HBl Will Be Little Opposition In Na- KB tlonal Convention to President'!) HBH Renomlnatlon. HMH Washington, Kob. 1. In the first BBfl authorized statement lie Iuib IkbucI BBH In concclluit with the Taft campaign, BBB C n rules D. HIIIjh, Hccrotary to the BBS fiicHldcnt, predicted today 1'iegldeiit HBH Vnft would he nominated uiul elected. HBB "Prenlduiil Taft'H nomlimtloii tu HBH .tunc Is us certain na nnytiiltiK could HBI lie," uald Mr. Utiles In Ills statement HBH" "I am touldctit there will ho com- HMfl urntlvcl lltt'o apportion to him In HBB tlie national convention, and when the HBB nomination In made the Itepuhlicnuu of HBI the country will rally to tho party MB ntandard and win n great victory in HHH November. HBI "I would not make this prediction HMfl )ld I not feci that my Information HHH from nil parts of tho country warrants HBI Jiie In doing ho. It 1h easy to make big HHH claims and to try to deceive people, HHH and I think that a man who docs bo HBfl -without facts and figures to Justify It HMfl Is Kiillty of deception. HHH "A month ago, before I had gotten HBa In touch with Hopubllcans In all the HHH Ktates, I would not havo said this H -nl.ll Tn (lint mnndi T lin.r.. Mnn 4 It a HHH lines drawn closer and closor. In tho HMI last week tho situation has cleared HHH wonderfully, with Hopubllcans In all HHH directions foiling Into lino for the HHH President and manifesting a doterml- HHfl nation to bring about his nomination. HHfl "It Is Mscless to speak in general KB terms or to undcrtako at short notice a Co go Into conditions in each state, HMfl but ilovolopracnts In three of tho big HHB states within a fow days ought to BHH point conclusively to tho present trend." HH Reviews Conditions. HHfl Air. Hlllcs goes on to rovlew cone) I HBg fcions In Now York, Ohio and Indiana KB claiming that President Taft has re- HBB eclved Indorsement In those states BBB which lndlcato tlicy will glvo thoir BBB delegates to him In '.lie convention. BBB "There has been lots of noise In H Ohio," said Mr. Hlllcs, "hut tho sub BBB tttanllal ltepubllcans In every cougres- BBB ulonnl district are determined that tho BBB President shall havo the delegates and BBB lie will get them too. BBB "1 havo u telegram from ludlanapo- BBfl lis saying that every single member BBB of the Republican stnto committee BBB elected in the thirteen cpugrcsslnnal BBB districts yesterday Is for Mr. Taft. BBB That Is a big chango from tho commit- BBB toe whoso chairman, Mr. l.ee, went H around Washington in December pro- BBB claiming that Indiana was hostile to BBB tho President," BHB In regard to New York state Mr. 1 llillc BBB "Iho I'lvsldent's speeches In New BBB York so enthused the Republicans BBB limit) that tho executive committee BBB "f tho county committee of Now BBB York count passed, by a unanimous BBB vote, losolullonu Indorsing tho I'resl- BBB tlrnt and declaring for ills renomluu- BBB tilmi In the strongest terms. Tills was BBB lVUowed by u mtctlug of the general BBB ELcjiabllruu commlttco of Kings conn- Bfl ity (Ilrooklyu). Hy n unanimous vote BBB .Mr. Tuft's icnomlnatlou was urged. BBB Z was. told today bj two of the leadeib BBB of UrooUlyn that It hud not been the BBB intention of tho leaders to bring BBB siboiri. an Indorsement at that meeting, BBB but the nrtlon was spontaneous after BBB ii member had introduced the resold- BBB Ion. The informaiiou from the lead- BBB tira In Now Ycik was uniformly that BBB the .President will have tho delegation BBB tho BBB "In Ohio, the Picsldeut's spoechew BBB hmvo awakened ltopublieuiiB to a tic- BBB Krcio that was not expected. I have BBB kinl d doubt that overy delegate fioin BBs I the state' will be for him." |