Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-01
Ohio Senator Will Oppose Pres
ident Roosevelt's Inherit
ance Tax Idea
WILL LEAD CONSERVATIVES
Upon Success of His Fight in Ohio
Depends Largely His Chances of
Becoming Factor in the Presiden-
taI Race-consress May Make Some
Expression.


fought in the coming Ohio state con-
vention. the first fight to prevent the
republican party from giving it's sane
ton and adherence to the radicalism of
Theodore Roosevelt Senator Joseph b.
Foraker will lead the conservative
forces, and upon his success Is stem
ming the tide of what men of his be-
lief consider to be sort of red
folly" may depend the chances of the
senior Ohio senator of being consid-
cred as a leading candidate of the con-
servatives of his party for the presi-
dency Of the United States.
1t is practically certain that both
the senator's from the Mckinley state
will oppose any plan of the delegates
to the convention TO declare in favor
of an endorsement OF Mr. Roosevelt's
inheritance tax utterance. Senator
Dick has been known in mild sense
as an administration senator. The
Junior Ohio member of the upper
house, however, 1t is understood, has
had troublous task of 1t to make
his beliefs and his theories coincide
with those of the president.
1t is possible that before the conven-
ton of the Ohio republican state gath
ering some of the representatives in
congress may take the seal from their
lips and declare that the presidents
fortune saying was pregnant with
wisdom. All of the Ohio members are
listening for voices. 1t is we'll under
stood that this year more than any
previous year the rank and file of the
republican party in the state OF ONO
will do the nominating.
If sufficiently large number of
the rank and file show that they have
been won over to a mind to walk Win
the president in the new paths then
the majority of the members of the
Ohio delegation in the lower house
Of congress will consent perforce also
to be the presidents travelling COM
panions.
No one knows better than does Sen
ator Foraker of the fullness of the hight
that he will have to hold his party IN
Ohio to what he believes to be the
lines of conservatism. There is not
any doubt as to how Mr.. Foraker
stands on the fortune taxing PROPOSE
ton. He has spoken as freely upon u
as he has upon the railroad rate ques-
ton, and as Mr.. Foraker always Is
hopeful he believes that what he calls
conservatism will win. Upon the sub
ject Of the much discussed paragraph
in the presidents speech the senior
Ohio member has said:
81 cannot undertake to- say what the
Ohio state convention will do, but the
people of the state have had an ex-
perience with an Inheritance tax. On
the face of the returns 1t does not APP
pear that they think very we'll of
death tax. AS / understand 1t, this
new proposition is one to limit private
fortunes. do not believe that the
people of the country will approve any
plan to limit individual opportunity"
If Senator Foraker really hopes that
he may become the candidate of the
republican party for the presidency 1T
would seem that he has based his
hopes on nothing more than on the
stones of opposition to the administra-
ton. 1t is one Of the senior Ohio sena-
tors ambitions to secure the indorse- !
ment of conservatism by the republic |
can convention IN his state. If he sue
ceeds some of the other leaders who
have not walked with the president will
get heart for the fight in other state
AS it is, the presidents pronounce
ment will be put to it's first crucial |
test at the Ohio state gathering few
week hence. The president and his
friends are alive to the situation, and
the men who attend the political gath
aring will know when they leave for
their homes at it's end that they have
been in a fight the outcome of which
1as national significance.