Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-12-09
Probably Not a Candidate.

Bucyrus (O.) Journal (Rep.), 18th.
The Bucyrus Journal is for anybody
but Foster. This is the stand the jour
nal has taken for several years, but it
does not seem to stop Charley from his
onward career FOstOria Review.
The Fostoria Review has the above
paragraph among half column of indi-
cations of the preference of its exchanges
concerning the Senatorship.
Foster is from its own town, and the
zeal of the Review is natural, and the
discretion, or rather the absence of it, is
not unnatural.
1t is not clear to the Journal that Mr..
Foster is really candidate. 1t is very
clear that it would on many accounts be
exceedingly indecent in him if he were.
Mr.. Foster is now the Governor of
Ohio; he sought lhe nomination for that
position with an intensity of activity
that exhibited new element in Repub-
lican politics. His competitor, with
dignity and self-respect unknown to any
but gentlemen, and that are matters of
ridicule to machine politicians, declined
to actively work" for the nomination.
Mr.. Foster had no such scruples, and lit
orally won it by an intensely active ef-
fort to secure it. Having secured what
his friends style this victory, the Repub-
lican party having conferred this high
dignity upon him, it is not dealing justly
by Mr.. Foster to suppose that he will
use his high position merely as foot
stool OF a step-ladder to climb higher.
Tens of thousands of Republicans who
were willing to see this dignity con-
ferred as an honor for services rendered,
will resent, as they ought, the base use
of making this office merely the vesti-
bule to the U. S. Senate.
The Journal has no idea that Mr..
Foster contemplates such course, self
ish insult to the Republicans of Ohio.
He knows well that it is matter of sur
prise to many prominent Republicans of
the State that citizen of his limited in
tellectual capacity should aspire to po-
sition which such intellectual giants as
Sherman, Garfield, Taft, and Matthews
would accept with anxiety and a due
sense of the weighty responsibility. And
what Mr.. Foster intends is probably to
familiarize the Republicans of Ohio
with his name in connection with the
Office in order that when Mr.. PendletOn's
term expires he may be regarded as hav-
ing created some sort of claim to favor
able consideration. 1t is far from i'm
probable that Mr.. Sherman will continue
Secretary of the Treasury, in such case
it would be the most selfish indecency
for Mr. Foster to press forward for the
honor of U. S. Senator when he already
has the honor of the GovernOrship, and
faithful Judge Taft and host of others
work on unrecognized.
In the course of events Mr.. Foster
will probably make, in some inexpIica-
BILE way, great merit of withdrawing
his name For him to seriously press it,
is to seriously force the Republicans of
Ohio to ask wherein has Mr.. Foster so
greatly distinguished himself as states
man that he has demonstrated his emil
nent capacity to represent the sovereign
character Of Ohio in the Senate?
That is place for Giants, and Mr..
Foster, even standing on the Governors
chair, does not reach to the shoulders of
such men us Sherman, Garfield, Taft and
Matthews.