Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-22
HERRICK SECOND TERM
DEBATABLE PROPOSITION WITH
OHIO REPUBLICANS.
Echoes of the Recent Election Are
Hardly Inaudible Before the Poll
ticians Begin Calculations.


COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 81, 1904.
Though the Roosevelt electors received a
plurality of over quarter of a million
In Ohio last week, Ohio republicans are
now seriously debating whether they can
| reasonably expect to carry the state next
year if they nominate Governor Herrick
for second term. The fact expresses
emphatically the degree of unpopularity
Governor Herrick has earned in the ten
| months he has been in office. But for the
| large plurality given the republican national
and state ticket last week the governor
| would no doubt be summarily disposed Of
as a one-termer. Some of the leaders re-
gard the result of this election indi-
| eating large and permanent accessions to
the republican party and they argue that
the party will run no risk of defeat In
nominating Governor Herrick for a second
term. though they concede that be Is much
weaker than his party. Four years ago the
party refused to give a second nomination
to Judge John A. Caldwell of Cincinnati
as lieutenant governor for the reason that
during his first term he had by his official
conduct. made himself unpopular In much
the same way Governor Herrick has. At
that time, however the republican party
| recognized the democratic party organiza-
tion in the state as something to be afraid
Of
fractional Fight Already Started.
With the question of the nomination Of
Governor Herrick as the main motive, a
republican fractional fight has started here
at lively rate. In his campaign addresses
Governor Herrick himself brought up the
question of his second-term claims.
Most of the republican leaders promptly
declared in his favor, but Senator Foraker
said 1t was matter to be decided after the
election and refused to commit himself
This was Interpreted by Governor Her
tha for
against him and he proceeded al once to ar
range a conference of anti-Foraker leaders
to forestall anything he might do or say
regarding the nomination for governor
1t was held here on Thursday after the
election, and there were present nearly
every prominent republican leader in the
state except Senator Foraker. George B.
Cox the Cincinnati boss" was represented
by Attorney General Ellis and the latter
assured the conference that Mr.. Cox advo-
Gated the nomination of the governor for a
second term. To be perfectly certain of his
position, however. the conference delegated
Senator Dick. State Auditor Guibert and
General Ellis to visit Cincinnati and secure
direct from Cox his pledge to cooperate.
They saw Cox, reported him pledged.
and this week the governor himself visited
Cox at Cincinnati. and it is fair to presume
that the understanding is complete.
Dick-Herrick-C Cox Combination
The Dick Herrick-Cox combination seems
to have also as one of its objects the side
tracking of Senator Foraker's 1908 presi-
Dental boom. No sooner had he an
nounced that he would be candidate for
the republican nomination in 1908 than the
newspapers controlled by the Dick-Herrck-
Cox adherents began to expatiate upon the
qualities of Secretary Taft for the pres-
Dental office, and to refer to Mr.. Taft as
great big Ohio man. likely to be Sc
lected by the party as it's leader four years
hence.
1t is not merely the temperance element
of the people that Governor Herrick has
alenated. His insistence upon the passage
of a direct inheritance tax to secure more
revenue, instead of cutting down need
less expenses. has arrayed the farmers
against him.
His management of the new school code,
by which it was made to conform to the
spols system organized by Boss Cox in
Cincinnati offended a large number of
people both in the cities and country His
opposition to the organization of a coored
regiment, and refusal to permit the ap-
pointment of colored men to office in the
state has embittered the colored voters
Add to these the Foraker republicans and
you have an element of republican voters
sufficient to wipe out any ordinary major
fty the party has had here.