Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-24

| T. SHs.bAN G4AGlL IIdIIld W III IOIStSp HIS
colleague t-r the part he played il
upholdlng the president in taa Wooa
promotion. Foraker made that a per
sonal matter. He supposed he had the
president $ support and that he coula
depend upon that support when he
got ready later to return to Ohio and
open campaign for control of state
When ne left Washington he had a
fuil understanding with the president
| but the president forgot and Foraker
| Aad to give up and come home. His
chagrin and humiliation are not less
ened by the reflection that he is pub
llcly committed to the support OF
Woods nomination hereafter.
Senator Foraker's friends are charg-
Ing that he is victim OF rank treach-
cry or cowardice. They are not care
| ful In the selection Of the words which
they employ to express their feelings
and views.
Foraker himself had nothing to say
upon his arrival. Contrary t., his al.
most unbroken custom, he sent word
tc newspaper correspondents who call
ed upon him that he could not see
them and gave as reason for his re-
fusal that he was busy with his mail.
Expect Break With White House,
Senator Foraker is an outspsken
h1aE ana MS friends are Very sure that
when he has had time to take his bear
1ngs he will give expression to views
| that Will bring to permanent con
cusion his existing relations at the
White House
Six members If the Ohio congress
jona delegation. including Representa-
, tive GrosVenor and Representatives
burton and Beidler of Cleveland were
enlisted in tie Roosevelt Foraker cam
paign, and it remained for them tc
ascertain from the president himself
lAat there would be 10 fight. The pres
ident explained to them that he had no
Objection t. Senator Foraker making
personal campaign for the control
CT the state, but that the sacred name
of Roosevelt must not be used as a
weapon of offense. They hastened to
the nearest telegraph office to wire
Foraker what the president had said
and at the same time notify their sew
eral friends in the state that the pr-,n.
1sed fight would not come off.
Nobody can understand why the
president quit. He has offered no eX-
planatlon that is deemed satisfactory.
The effect of his unaccountable action
has been to solidify Republican sen
timent in Ohio in favor of Hanna and
even those Republicans wis, hereto.
fore have opposed the senator are now
getting ready to jump into his band
wagon
Alarmed by Illinois Desertons.
The president is casting anxious
eyes at Illinois. He has entertained
serious doubts about tf2t state fer
long time, but hoped that when he
summalily removed General Thomas
from tEs office of appraiser fer the
pOrt 0f Chicago and appointed I.uman
T. Hoy as his successor he would
bring his erstwhle friends back to
the Roosevelt fold. He seems t.. have
been mistaken in his conjecture. Edi-
tor Humans 5 newspaper, the Inter
Ocean, according to an excerpt from
one of its editorials which was pub
llshed in a conspicuous position in
the Washington Post this morning.
seems to have permanently abandoned
the devotion to Roosevelt which was
the Foundation of its political creed
only few months back.
Everybody in Washington is assum-
ing that because the Inter Ocean is no
longer for Roosevelt Senator Hopkins
and Representative Lormier are
against the president and the Republi-
can machine of Illinois is against him.
Hopkins and Lormier profess not to be
responsible for the attitude or utter
ances of the Inter Ocean and say very
family that they are still for Roose-
welt. They are fer Roosevelt Just as
Senator Platt is for him, because at
the present moment there is no other
candidate.