The evening times., 1899-06-19
WANT KOHLSAAT QUIETED.
Foraker's Friends Call Upon Mr. Mo-
kinley 10 Take Action.

Foraker's Friends Call Upon Mr.. Mo
kinley to Take Action.
Chicago. June 1s.-The 'Inter-Ocean''
prints the following today. from Washing
ton:
Leading Republicans OF Ohio are urging
President Mckinley to openly repudiate
his fool-friend. Kohisaat,- of Chicago. and
| show that he has no sympathy with the
| outrageous attacks that the 'Times-Her-
ald,' has made upon Senator Foraker. The
| Democratic papers in Ohio have repub-
| lished these ISLANDERS uttered by Kohlsaat
| as coming from the personal friend and
I spokesman for the President and many Of
Senator Foraker's friends are disposed to
| believe that they were inspired by the
President or Senator Hanna. This suspi-
cion has revived such factional feeling in
Ohio that the Republican ticket is threat
| ened with defeat.
Judge Nash, the Republican candidate
for governor; General Grcsvenor. former
Secretary Foster former Senator Sherman,
and other Republican leaders have express
ed their disgust with the Times Herald
attack upon Foraker and have urged the
President to repudiate Mr.. Kohlsaat as
, man in no way qualified to speak for the
Administration. President Mckinley has
said to GrosvenOr and others that he was
shocked that any man pretending to be
his friend should make such indecent and
outrageously false charges against Sena-
tor Foraker. But private and Individual
denials are not considered sufficient and
the President has been Urged to take some
decided action to show that he does not
regard kohlsaat as friend in his rIdicu-
lous assumption to voice the private SEN
timents and grievances OF the President
OF the United States.
Ordinarily no public man would hold
the President responsible for the utter
ances OF any newspaper. however inti-
mate the editor might be with the Chief
Executive. but MIR. Kohlsaat has SO ex-
tensively advertised himself as the spokes-
man OF the President that Ohio Republic
ans can see no other way out of this en-
barrassment than for Mr.. Mckinley to re-
buke openly this Chicago editor for his
presumption and repudiate him as a man
violating the common decencies by parad-
ing himself as the friend of the President
and at the same time uttering the most
baseless ISLANDERS against every other pub
lie man who ever had occasion to hold
different opinion from that held by the
President.
THE Ohio men did not fully appreciate
the embarrassment Of hearing Mr.. Kohl
saat pretend to speak for the President so
long as he confined his ISLANDERS to IL
linois, attacking Governor Tanner and
other leading Republicans in that State.
nor were they fully aroused when he ex-
tended his ISLANDERS to New York to at
tack Senator Plat and then to Pennsyl-
vania to abuse Senator Quay. But since he
he has invaded the. Buckeye State Just at
the time when the Republicans want every
vote and entire harmony in their ranks in
order to make emphatic the election of
Judge Nash as governor. and the conse-
quent endorsement of the Mckinley Ad-
ministration. they realize that this great
self-advertised Chicagoan cannot be al
lowed to continue his pretense OF speak
ing for President Mckinley.
THE President has been many times
embarrassed by the antics of Mr.. Kohisaat
and he has been humiliated by this last
and most stupendous political blunder. He
has authorized General Grosvenor TO deny
that he had any knowledge of this new
development in Mr.. kohlsaats slander ma
chine. but Senator Foraker's friends de-
mand that the Presidents repudiation OF
Kohlsaat shall be public and not through
General Grosvenor or any other man..
They insist that the President owes it
to himself and to Senator Foraker that he
should clear himself Of even the remotest
suspicion that he or any of his chosen
friends should have inspired such an at
tack upon the one other Republican Of
Ohio who divides honors with him as a
popular hero in that State. Senator For
aker has answered every charge made By
the Times Herald in a way 10 show that
there was no foundation in fact for any Of
them. He has compelled Mr.. Kohlsaat TO
keep on the run inventng new charges as
he ran from old ones. Mr.. Kohlsaat's last
charge is thai Foraker has been treacher-
Gus to every ether Republican leader in
Ohio in the last twenty years and that he
was the man who induced Mayor McKisson
to oppose himself TO Senator Hanna as a
candidate for United States Senator two |
years ago.
Senator Foraker gave out Sunday the
correspondence between himself and for |
mer Secretary Charles Foster regarding |
the situation in Ohio two years ago. show |
ing where ne stood on the Senatorial situ-
alton. He was for Mr.. Hanna. but de- |
clined to be drawn into a fight between |
Hanna and Bushnell after Hanna had at |
tackled the governor and refused TO make |
any apology or retraction. AS to the |
charge of treachery, this has been denied |
by John Sherman, Charles Foster. General |
Grosvenor and President Mckinley, for it |
was Mr.. Mekinley's personal request thai |
Foraker nominate him for governor in 1894 |
and for President in 1886.
THE embarrassment caused the Ohio
by the pretensions of Mr.. !
Kohlsaat TO speak for President Mckinley |
has brought the President face to face with
the question as to how he can get rid of |
This pretended friend. Republicans in sew
eral States are asking the President
he stands with his party or with
those who are abusing the party leaders
and it is important that the President
should make il clear whether he wants a
second term as Republican or as a mug
yump"