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Show TAFT'S PRESS AGENTS ALARMED. Political observers are amazed at tho tactics being pursued by President Taft and his followers in their effort to capture the Republican Re-publican National Convention next June in behalf of the president. Heretofore the president's friends have been careful to emphasize em-phasize his "judicial temperament," his calm, sound and deliberate judgment. It is not so long age that Secretary Hilles inspired certain cer-tain newspapers with the sentiment that the president would neither say anything unkind about tho prominent men in his own party, who are opposing him, nor would he permit any of his friends to do so. Having thus informed the country of the saintly attributes of the chief executive, plaus for a more vigorous campaign were formulated. These plans are beginning to take definite form. Up to date they consist almost entirely of a campaign of misrepresentation, misrepre-sentation, of anonymous attacks through the instrumentality of newspapers, friendly to the administration, and of excuses. The "White House press agents, becoming alarmed at the array of men opposed to another nomination for the president, are attempting at-tempting to explain the opposition. Their explanation, in brief, is that every man now opposed to the president, failed to receive favors at the hands of the president. Tho "Whito House, for instance, charges that Gifford Pmchot is working for the nomination of Senator Sen-ator La Follette because ho was removed as chief forester of tho United States. The real fact, known to everyone in "Washington, was not resentment because of his dismissal, but because of the retention re-tention of Secretary Ballinger. The White House is endeavoring to create the impression that opposition to the president is prompted prompt-ed by selfish motives, ignoring the important fact that practically every mail now prominently identified with the Progressive campaign cam-paign differed with the president on matters of great national importance. im-portance. The Taft followers arc finding it more and more difficult to conceal the alarm they feel in connection with tho president's political poli-tical future. Long age they conceded that the president had lost heavily in the north and west, but they pointed to the south and declared that with the patronage delegates within his grasp, the president would dominate the situation to Chicago. Now that the situation in the south is showing every indication of becoming anti-Taft, anti-Taft, the president's followers are more concerned than ever before. be-fore. The deliberate manner in which Postmaster, General Hitchcock Hitch-cock ignored the president, in making public his views on government govern-ment control of telegraph lines, is likewise disturbing. It is nc-i, secret se-cret in Washington that the president and his postmaster general have not been on good terms for many months. Prominent Republicans Re-publicans have been looking for a break between the two men, but realized that tho urgent need of havjng the southern delegates would cause the president to keep Hitchcock in the cabinet or else bring about a situation in which Hitchcock, if hd resigned could not in good grace turn the southern delegates over to a Progressive Progres-sive Republican. It is now bolieved that Hitchcock not only real-izqd real-izqd the position in which he had been placed, but that he resolved to free himself by causing an open rupture betweon himself and the president. Mr. Hitchcock is the last glimmering hope of the administration. His departure from the cabinet would deprive the president of the patronage-delegates from the south. Only Mr. Hitchcock's retention in the cabinet will permit a respectable show ing of Taft delegates in the convention next June. Politicians are waiting to see whethor tho president is so anxious to keep those delegates dele-gates that he will ignore a case of insubordination in no degree less serious than that which resulted in Pinchot's removal from the government service. nian ! ii MiMBii iiTM-nrnrTrn i-m n rra ii . -rg f |