The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-03-15
THE STUCK PIG
Squedleth at FOrdker'S First
Blow

Last year was Senator Hanna's
year. He was 4 candidate for re-
election for Senator. Foraker nor any
o f his followers threw a straw in his
path.
There was strong dissatisfaction in
Cleveland, and Tom Johnson expected
to carry that county against Senator
Hanna Johnston's prospects alarm
ed the Republicans.
1t was said by some of Mr.. Hanpa's
closest friends that the Republican
State Convention would not pass any
resolution endorsing Roosevelt for
President. President Roosevelt said
that he desired an endorsement by
the Republicans of Ohio, and that
his friends would favor his endorse
ment. In view of this fact, Senator
Hanna said he would not oppose the
endorsement of President Roosevelt.
Foraker and his friends Joined Sem
a tor Hanna in his effort to carry
Cuyahoga county, and as result our
ticket swept the county Tom John
son was defeated for Governor, and
Senator Hanna received a magnii-
cent endorsement Not a friend of
Senator Foraker in the State faltered
in his support of the ticket, nor in
his support of Mr.. Hanna for reelec-
tion.
I his was not a new thing, on Sena-
tor Foraker's part. He was accused
of being opposed to Mr.. Mckinley,
bnt he fought for his nomination,
made the speech presenting Mckin-
ley's name to the St. Louis Conven-
tion, and Mckinley received the en-
thusiastic support of the friends of
Foraker throughout the campaign.
These things are matters of his
tory.
Since the death of Senator Hanna,
Immediately upon his death. with a
haste that was scarcely respectable,
a clique of Office seeking politicians,
hurriedly formed what they called
"an organization" and proclaimed
to the world that they would support
Roosevelt for President, but that no
man should go as a delegate from
o hio to the National Republican
Convention, who was a Foraker Re.
publican. And we hear every day
that this organization" has decreed
hat this or that bill shall or shall
not pass the Legislature.
This smacks of bossim, far beyond
anything that was ever before
thought of in Ohio. 1t is a secre,
political organization that assume:
not only to dictate who shall run oul
party but who shall run our Govern
ment?
The Republicans of the party who
do not bear the brand of this organ
ization, are plainly told that there
are no honOrs or emoluments fol-
them; and that they can have no part
in the councils of the party. Senator
Foraker is plainly given to under
stand that there is no further use
for him, and that he will be giver
no place in the coming State Conven
tion, nor in the coming National Re
PUBLICAN Convention.
No such arrogance was ever shown
in Ohio politics; no such insult wa:
ever offered an Ohio Senator.
1t is not in Foraker's make up Il
decline a fight that is thrust upol
him. Honorable and magnanimous
he never declined to come up to tn,
support of his party, whether it
candidates we're his friends or oppo
nents; but he never showed an enem,
his heels
With the challenge of the "organi
zationr at his feet, he put his foo
upon IT, and the news went out from
Washington, Foraker is in the sad
de As the only Senator from
Ohio, he made recommendations o
several of his friends for office, ant
asked the removal of a Postmaste
who had bartered for his position
and planned to defeat his (Foraker's
friends in the Lima District by Mis-
sippi methods of disfranchisement
President Roosevelt heard the re
quests of "the Senator from Ohio,