Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-09
P0L|T|CAL TALKS
Senator Foraker on the Ohio
Convention.
EX-SEN ATOR MASON
PAYS HIS RESPECTS TO GOV.
YATES OF ILLINOIS.
Why the Governor Will Not Accept
the Republican Vice Presi-
Dental Nomination.
EX- AT0R MASON

senator Joseph benson FOraker OF OIno
had his coat and vest off. his sleeves rolled
up and in his hands mass Of manuscript.
which he was intently persuing when an
Evening Star reporter called at his home
this morning.
The senator arrived in Washington last
night from Ohio, where he went to attend
the republican state convention, and In the
deliberation Of which he was an important
factor in the way of pledging the state to
President Roosevelt for another term.
Senator, the people of Washington and
Of the entire country are interested in any
thing you may care to- say regarding Pres
ident Roosevelt's candidacy the reporter
volunteered
There is nothing to say" Senator For
aker replied. president Roosevelt was In
dorsed by the republican convention OF our
state; the republicans are pleased with the
work of the convention, and I don't see
what else Of interest can be said"
Gen. Grosvenor's Brief Stay.
Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor, the patri-
archial-looking statistician Of the Ohio dele
CATION in the House of Representatives,
also came to Washington yesterday and
departed last evening for his home In
Athens, Ohio.
Representative Grosvenor left the impress
sion in Washington that he has an array
of statistics that will be given out WITHIN
a short time that will remove from the
electors of the country any disposition TO
indulge in the formality of casting their
votes.
Ex-senator Mason's Breezy Talk.
Former Senator Mason Of Illinois was
circulating in the downtown districts this
morning, shaking hands incidentally with
old rio nd al the time COmplet-
ing ARRANGEMENTS for removing his family
to Chicago.
II see by The Evening Stars editorial
page last evening"" the former senator said
to an Evening Star reporter, that GOV.
Yates of Illinois, just before sailing fer
Europe declared that he would not accept
the republican nomination for the vice
presidency.
yates is entirely right about it. He
won't accept the vice presidential nomlna-
ton. He has gone on sea voyage Dy tne
unanimous consent of every elector In lii
nois The doctors assured him before he
departed that he was immune from sea-
sickness. as it has been discovered that sea
sickness is brain disease. Yates Is safe
Former Senator Mason stopped and
thought a minute and then continued:
1.-The strength of Yates and his crowd in
Illinois was correctly measured Monday of
last week, when about twelve out OF six
teen Judges of the Lorimer and Yates Dranc
were defeated by 10000 to 10000 votes III
county that gave to Mckinley 1OO,OOO ma
jority."
Mr. Mason was asked as to the presi-
Dental situation in Illinois, but he said he
was so much engaged in trying to discover
some remedy for the western floods that he
declined to discuss anything else. However,
he got back to a discussion of Gov. Yates,
and said:
Every time Yates has had a candidate
in the field. from Cairo to Waukeegan,
from the lake to the river that candidate
has gone down to defeat Why, even the
men who have used him for the last three
years are looking about for another candl-
date for governor.
'.It was because of these conditions that
I was compelled to smile when ! read In
The Evening Star last night that Yates had
decided not to accept the nomination for
Vice President. Again I say he will not ac-
cept."
Clay and Livingston
Representative Clay of Georgia arrived in
Washington last night. He met his Geor-
gia colleague, Representative Livingston,
at the Riggs this afternoon, when the fol-
lowing colloquy ensued:
Hello. Clay, when did you get to town.
asked Livingston.
Last evening"
How did you conner?
Hard to tell. Was three days trying to
get here. lodging clOudbursts and the like"
That's nothing I've been trying for
three days to get away from Washington"
Then they adjourned to settee in the
I~Ao ,ok1