The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-20
THE ATTACK
On Senator Foraker By Kohlsaat, of
Chicago.


going on for a week between II. II.
Kohlsaat, editor of the Chicago Times
Herald, and Senator J. B. Foraker.
Mr.. Kohlsaat by shrewd business
enterprise became millionaire. He
had brains, and therefore had ambition
to become something better than a
and he became an editor.
He bought the Times-Herald of Chi
cago, and has made a success of it.
In business way he has therefore
been s'cracker-jack." He is an admi-
rer and warm friend of Mckinley. He
was his good Samaritan. In turn, the
President has been friend of Kohl
saat. In fact their Damon and Pythias
leanings have been such that Mark
Hanna has more than once showed
greeness about the eyes.
This is Kohlsaat. Everybody knows
who Foraker is. He is a man who,
without money, has been unpurchas-
able; without any Napoleonic features,
is known as knight of the lance;
without any pedigree, he is born
leader of man; buried by his enemies,
he has risen to new conquests and new
victories; and in spite of the handicap
of the President and his groom, he has
ridden over the motheaten traditions of
the Senate and taken position as one
of its foremost leaders, during his first
term. Traduced and villifed by a
venal press in the interest of envious
political rivals, his character has been
blackened by those who have not had
the courage to come out from under
cover and meet him in the open. Too
impulsive and honorable to play the
part of q sphynx or cOnspirator,
where ever he has seen a
head that needed hitting, he has given
lit q whack, and has therefore made
some of the meanest enemies a man
ever had. He has been so loyal to his
party that he has often eaten crow
rather than hear the rooster crow; and
he has supported those for highest
positions who had secretly stabbed
him in the back.
Mr.. Kohlsaat has taken his estimate
of Senator Foraker from the lips of his
enemies, and has revamped a lot o.
stories long ago exploded, in order as
he expresses it, to drive Foraker out oi
public life. He has redressed ole
charges about Foraker that were
weighed and dumped in the junk heal
before Mckinley asked Foraker to pre-
sent his name to the St. Louis cOnven
ton, and before the Republicans of the
Legislature unanimously voted fol
him for U. S. Senator.
For an admirer of Mr.. Mckinley t.
trump up lot of this old exploded
smOothbore ammunition and fire it a
the man whom Mr.. Mckinley gave hi
personal endorsement after thes'
charges were exploited and exploded
certainly is queer; and we are not sur
prised that the Senator intimates tina
of harmony in the party, the Presiden
would better call off his dogs.
Mr.. Kohlsaat is surely taking
, str ange method of serving Mr.. Nc
Kinley and the Republican party. Fo
whether he thinks he is serving tn
President or not, he is only string u
resentment that is not confined alone
the breast of Senator Foraker. If tn
attack had been at the instance O
with the knowledge of the President
!, it would be a great mistake. If it ha
. been instigated only by Mr.. Kohlsaa
it is still blunder from politics
+. stand point, coming as it does from on
= of thePresident's most intimate friends
+. The charges were all disproven 6
- - the time, some of them never had
~ particle of testimony to back then
and all were condemned by the Repul
licans of Ohio, by giving Mr.. Forake
their unanimous endorsement for th
. Senate.
Senator Foraker has appeared res
i've under these attacks, and ha
showed impatience; but when all thing
are considered, it is only a wonde
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