The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-11
FORAKER TAXES A HAND
Will Attempt to Seize the
 Ohio Machinery.
The Redoubtable Mark Win Endeavor to Give Roosevelt Taste of the
  Real Strenuous Life. Mason Coming.

Washington, June 10.-tSpecial) )-Sena- tor Foraker of Ohio. who is trying to wrest from Senator Hanna the control of the Ohio Republican machine. has dip- ped in the Hanna Roosevelt quarrel. He called on the President and urged him to investigate the charges made by Repre- sentative Burton against Hanna's men in Cleveland. C{
 It was announced last night that James Garfield. the newly appointed civil service commissioner, would go to Cleveland to- morrow to investigate the charges. which means that Roosevelt and Hanna are right on the verge of a declaration of war. Hanna. it will be remembered. intimated to the President if he investigated the charges of pernicious political activity against his Hannas) friends, in Federal offices, their friendship would be severed. Foraker wants to run Burton against Hanna for the Senate next year, but Bur ton is holding back and declaring he does not want the job. It is believed he will change his mind if the great family row of Republicans in Washington is not patched up. The Foraker faction thinks Hanna can be beat by Burton.
  split with Roosevelt as it will afford him an opportunity to go after the Presiden- tial nomination in 1904 against Roosevelt They say the great silent sentiment Of Repubiicanism is for Hanna.
 Hanna at White House.
 Senator Hanna had long conference with the President today. At the conclu- sion of the interview he talked freely re- garding the published intention of MT. Burton of Ohio to withdraw from the race for Congress owing to the fact that he had not been permitted to name the chairman of the district committee.
 ''I do not want to criticise MT, Burton, ssi9 tire Senator. ''hst do not ! sieve hts charges arc well founded nor do I want to make the subject national matter. The whole thing is absurd"
 Senator Hanna declared that MT. P.rton never told him about the matter of having a candidate of his own until last Friday morning The election was to take place at ? o'clock that afternoon and Senator Hanna said he sent a telegram to Cleve- land asking that compromise be enect- cd if possible.
 .'There was a mistake in the transmits sion which made the dispatch incorrect, said Mir. Hanna. and the message was regarded as fake and no attention paid to it. But even if had been there, they
 
 Charges Not Verified.
 Senator Hanna also stated that the civil service commission had examined into MT. Burton's charges that certain Federal office holders in Ohio had taken an ac- tive part in politics and had failed to find anything in them that constituted a vio- lation of the civil service law. As re- suit, the President has concluded not to send letters to the Cleveland officers cen- suring them for pernicious activity in pol itics. With some warmth. Senator Hanna said:
 The mere fact that a man holds pub lie office does not necessarily mean that he should resign his rights of citizenship
 The Senator secuted the idea of his falling out with the President on this matter and seemed to feel that he had been put in a false light through MT. Bur tons action.
 Senator Hanna is usually exceedingly reticent when leaving the White House, hut today he spoke freely and had ap- parently no desire to withhold anything bearing on this matter He also discussed Cuban reciprocity ana the coal strike with the President. but he had nothing to say for publication on these subjects.