| Show REPUBLICANS WAITING FOR DEMOCRATS TO TURN THEIR ARTILLERY ON Ii Gg GO O 0 P FORT Campaign Moving Slowly With Chairman Chair Shaver Facing Big Job to Catch CatchUp CatchUp CatchUp Up With Butler n By ROBERT ROBIRT T SM I 1 Correspondent Cor of or Tho Standrd r Copyright 19 4 by The Consol ConsolI I dated dued Press Pes Uon WASHINGTON W July 2 26 6 The Tho presidential campaign 1 li h moving Iy al d but thi-re thi Is no great impetus on either SIde Bide The Republicans nrc waiting for the Democrats to attack but the latter ate ale a lItt HU slow In ln getting their artillery In position The Republican reel feel that they are r holding the tho rt and It is up to the th Democrat Democrate to come coin and try to take it a f from om them Meantime Chairman Butler or of orthe othe the Republican national tee e Is Js extremely ly busy buss with his defense works work He Is t visiting 1 the thebo thebon bo boe s Js Is I the th trenches anti and along lone the tho theline theline line and nd thInks think of being In Boston Botton one day and in ChIcago the ne next neit t with sIth emi stops In Washington dOd nd New v NewYork NewYork York Mr II Butler la is himself an Indefatigable worker Ho He Is leaving nothing undone Many persons have said that thai Mr Ir But Dut- But Butler ler s e i task In obtaining th the nation of Mr c was as as noth-Ing noth H at t all Mr Ir did not take lt It 10 so Ho went bent about the tho orle orIc In a n manner thit left no for a n slipup UA LK GITS GUTS BUSY DUSY Clem Shave the new Demo Demo- chairman Is se several eral laps behind Mr 1111 Butler but bUI hopes to catch up His We III selection came cam moro more than a month after Mr tr 11 Butler Dutler had bad active of ot his com corn committee committee Mr Shaver sUit stilt I Ir is merely merel acting and cannot bo be elected formally to his until thoI the tho I Democratic e meets meet at atthe atthe the Clarksburg notification cere- cere cere ceremonies monies on August 11 Mr Ir Butler Is I lap laps and nd laps ahead of o Mr Shaver er In the Issuance Issuance ance anco of statements TIe The Republican Republican I can chairman has become au an adept In that respect As A a mit-ler mit tel ter of ot tact fact be b In Is l s dor most or of the talking of or the J thus fill far and Is i trying to put a II little bat bat- bat early pep In the Urging tb man Chill Butler m mi may I represent sent a silent candIdate but Lut he be- be behaves be believes haves thoroughly In a certain amount of or official loquacity Mr t Butler Is i not much of ot a hand handon j on bein being being- Inter Interviewed ne lie II likes to write rIte out his hl hi statements in his iOn n on n n B av SIL SIL SILER SIL ER SIL T MAN Chairman Shaver on the other I band Is pro Ing almost ta J A taciturn I ie Mr Coolidge would make Il a a fine fino pair pall Mr ls Dals warned the nO correspond correspond- correspondents correspondents correspondent ent that they would rot not find his friend aery a very ery ery talkative soul yet yeth he said ald Mr Shaver Shafer would o ha to do do all alt tho answering to Chairman Butler Tho The latter Is 18 j batting already In mid form torm so Mi h Sha Shaker er hn hu his ork Lut ut out for tor him Although he la Is to bo be elected chairman of ot the Democratic com corn committee 0 Mr II Shaver not officially officially bo be a member of it It Charles w V has ha b been ba en n elected re-elected re L I as national committeeman man for West Vest Virginia This Thin lL III be b the time In man years ear that a chairman has been elected outside 1 Ithe the committee As Aa a 2 matter ot of fact fact It long has been beell a rule In Inthe InIth the the national commit co that Its t officer must mu t be choso- choso from Its Tho The Republicans hao hae had hl no such rulo rule and u the chairman and the rea have been chosen from front the It cae aa wa morally generally thought the theold theold old eld Democratic rule rul would apply to Mr Shaver and he lie have to bo be elected a national corn com com member before he h could become chairman of oe o that body and director In chief of the th Da DaIs D Is campaign But Dut It appears appear now that In the closing mInutes ot of the national com at Madl- Madl Madlon eon aon on Square Garden Senator Glass GIaso of at Virginia offered n a resolution providing that the th national corn com committee com would choose iu Itz Il chairman the th outsIde The Tho was wa reported and Dd adopted with wIth- wIthout without without out discussions fe few fee person knowing that this thle thi drastic change had been made In the Democratic administrative affairs affair A A number or of o Mr Shavers Shaver's friends urged hi his election to the tho cOmmittee regardless or of o the tho new rule but the th followers insisted l t d on his hi re-election re and fori Mr Shavers 8 name nam wax was not for for- formally i mally presented for the place O MEMBERS West Wort virginia will thus thui In ef effect have hate tao t o members member of or the committee Th new committeewomen committee woman women from Vat West Is Mrs Nancy Nancy Mann of ot Hunt Hunt- Mrs Mr Irs Izetta ll Drown n partIn who took such sueh uch an Important part tn in th New York convention an- an announced an flounced In advance that sh as aas Slot a a candidate I The Th Republican leaders of West are aro contending It Is I all wrong wrone wron to place that state In the Davis column for for tor sentimental on They say ay the th state normallY Is Republican and some I someI of them m have taken oCcasion occa lon to come corn on here to Washington to tell Mr Coolidge to 1 be he 1 of good tood cheer that thai ho he will wilt co carry rry that tha state tat by 60 The 11 ill not mako make a paulson fight ht tiKhon on M Mr l DaIs Dails tor for t ey esteem him as a dl son on of the tho but state but they say ay thc tJ alli not let sentiment run away with 10 io- io lo alt all and affiliation Inasmuch lna n uch as some sone omo of th the Demo Demo- Democratic Democratic cratic leaders In lii Insist upon gh Ing that state tat to Mr Davis the Republican R or of cst Virginia feel It Is 1 only fall fair that Mr Coolidge should be as- as assured as assured of success In the home borne state of hl rl rIal rhal 00 00 |
