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Show WILL LEAD FIGHT FOR TAFT Selection of Representative William ' B. McKinley of Illinois, chairman ol " the Republican congressional commiti v 'ee' t0 'Ha "le "Sn' 'or delegates foi wfjf, , v President Taft to the Republican na. Wffl' Jw tional convention at Chicago, s hail- i lhwl CV' xvA ec aa a drawlnS taut of the adminis- VmM'rh vrfiim tratlon- lines in an out and out contest Uf(!lM 7aJj' between President Taft and Theodore Wwii ?j&' Roosevelt. Mr. McKinley has hither- n recognized as a standpatter of vVct' " i ' the Joseph G. Cannon type. The Taft Y-o'l jK- Ja M men asser' tnat Cannonism is dead ! T trlKvj ad tnat tne McKinley appointment is ifSjf a recognition of the fact that the standpatters have now aligned them- ' jffisNv., j& selves with the president, a middle of S!m(iluf&''' '$7 the road progressive Republican, as Ml'WftvWTi. again3t tne more radical progressives 'li wMil v'l ' 'Wl represented by Theodore Roosevelt i lllMiul': 111 f and Senators La Follette and Cum- ( fffl lir-4'(IlS Mr- McKinley was selected to lead I' )) T? W.lll the Taft fight on the suggestion of Senator W. Murray Crane of Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, after a careful poll of the situation. The selection of Congressman McKinley to manage President Taffs campaign for re-election will make Illinois Il-linois the center of the Roosevelt-Taft struggle. McKinley Uvea In Champaign, 111., and will take a personal pride In delivering deliv-ering his own state to Taft. He is one of the best-known Republicans in Illinois. As head of the McKinley Mc-Kinley syndicate, which controls the interurban roads of the state, he has employes by the hundreds in the larger cities. Representative McKinley has been chairman of the Republican congressional congres-sional committee two terms and has just been elected to a third. |
