THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 218, 12 September 1916, Page 7

THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

REPUBLICAN PARTY UNITED. (Special to "Star.") NEW YORK, July 28. The two principal Presidential candidates. Hughes and Wilson, are busy planning their campaigns, and the newspapers are printing lote of goasip and ideas as to developments which will not be made known with any authority until after the election. Of course each of the candidates will make a tour of the country during September and October, making n.s many public addresses as possible in the time, and giving speeches from the rear platforms of t'he.ir railway cars at the stopping-places between times. As both the living Republican ex-Presidents, Messrs. Roosevelt and Taft, have accepted invitations to be present a.t the notification meeting to Hughes, at Carnegie's Hall, this city on July 31. it goes without saying that the Republican party will once imore be united in the present programme, which it is considered means easy and certain success at the polls. Speculation is rife as to who will be in bhe Ca-binet of Mr. Hughes -when he is elected, but it 'is not denied that the "Presidential family" will include former Ambassador Joseph H. Choate, who was so popular in England, and n still vigorous, although 84 yeaxe of age, as well as Senator Elthu Root and former President Roosevelt. It will be indeed unprecedented to have an ex-President in a Presidential Cabinet, but there is no doubt that the Cabinet of President ! Hughee will be in every respect excenj tionally strong and brilliant.