The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-09-14
SENATOR DICK
WON FIGHT

Charles +. Dick has won his fight Tor
the Republican state chairmanship. If
he wills, he can manage the campaign
in Ohio this year, but on the heels of
his hard earned -ictory, comes a tre-
mendous sentiment that he resign the
reins to another. Men who voted for
his candidates for committee member
ships in the district caucuses today
and who voted to win with him are
among those most insistent that the
senator should voluntarily surrender
the honor and authority bestowed upon
him by his party's representatives to-
day. One movement started to this
end was inaugurated by the senator's
friends in the hope of completely re-
storing party harmony.
HAD ID OUT OF 81.
They say that l., Dick of his own
volition gives up the chairmanship he
will rob the Democrats of their thun
der, as they likely might again raise
The cry of bossism which caused the
defeat of Herrick for reelection for
state convention delegates by congress
sional districts this afternoon the
friends of Senator Dick controlled ID
of the 21 delegations and two-thirds
of the central committeeman elected
were pledged to his support for the
state chairmanship. The districts car
ried by Dick were the first, second,
third, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth ninth
tenth eleventh thirteenth, fifteenth,
seventeenth and eighteenth. Those
carried by Burton were the seventh,
twelfth, fourteenth, sixteenth, nine
teenth, twentieth and twenty-first
Senator Dick lost his own district
the 18th, Congressman Thomas leading
the fight against him.
COMFORT IN DEFEAT.
The Burton forces found comfort in
defeat in the fact that they carried the
western reserve Republican strong
holds, while Dicks victories were won
mainly in southern Ohio Many of the
old Foraker guard in the southern
Ohio districts jubilantly asserted to-
night that the result of delegation meet
ings meant the turning over of the
state organization to Senator Foraker.
They declare that the victories had
been won in the main by Dick where
the senior senator was strongest,
while in the districts hitherto loyal
to Dick, the Burton-Daugherty forces
won signal victories
One movement in favor of urging
the voluntary retirement of Dick as
the campaign manager took formal
shape when the delegates from the
eleventh district adopted a resolution
saying that if the senator believed
that it would be to the welfare of
the party he would in their opinion
resign the state Craftsmanship. This
was a kindly substitute for a resolu-
tion by Albert Douglas, congressional
nominee, asking Dick to give up the
Craftsmanship.
Candidates for state nominations and
a number of nominees for congress in
Ohio are interested in Ohio in the
movement to induce Dick to resign
the party management.
HERRICK'S ATTACK.
Tonight General Dick clinched his
victory when the new state central
committee reelected him chairman of
the state executive committee. Walter
Brown, of Toledo, was elected chair
man of the state central committee to
succeed Orrin B. Gould. John R. NAL
10y and w. p. Burdell were reelected
secretary and treasurer)of the commit
tee. The convention was opened in
Welfare Hall, at four o'clock this
afternoon. Former governor Myron T.
Herrick, OF Cleveland, temporary chair
man, delivered the keynote speech in
which he made veiled attack upon
both Dick and Foraker.
The headliner of the convention,
though, was Foraker, who was called
to the stage after Herrick's speech.
The senior senator made one of the
efforts of his life. With all his old
time fire he asserted his independence
and his right to be governed by his
own judgment and conscience in all
his acts as a senator from Ohio. He
declared that when his constituents
told him he must take orders from
any one or any power they robbed
the Office which they had given him of
all its honor.
FoRAKER's WORDS.
"And you can take the office with
It," he shouted. Foraker did not speak
in parallels nor in synonyms. He
went after his critics and opponents
In the most direct and vigorous fash
ion, using names and meeting tho at
tacks that have been directed against
him by counter attacks that made
the atmosphere fairly sizzle