Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-10
FORAKER IS ABOUT
TO BEGIN CAMPAIGN
All Ohio Intensely Interested in
the Coming Fight.
FIRST GUN FIRED TONIGHT
FIRST GUN FIRED TONIGHT
Opening Speech Will Be Made Before
Board of Trade
IN McKINLEY'S OLD HOME TOWN
Senator Spends Part Of the Day in
Visit to Mrs.
Mckinley.

Senator Joseph B. Foraker arrived
in Canton, Ohio, this morning from
Washington. He will speak tonight
at the Auditorium at the annual
banquet of the Canton Board of
Trade. Senator Foraker was met at
Alliance, Ohio, by a nonpartisan
committee from the board of trade,
headed by President Dougherty,
and escorted to this city. Many of
Senator Foraker's friends in Can
ton called on him during the day.
There is intense interest in his
speech tonight.
Special Dispatch to The Star
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April Ex-senator
Foraker or his friends are evidently de-
termined that the senator shall have a
| crowded house at Canton this evening,
| where he is scheduled to address the board
of trade and its friends on the subject of
Civic Pride" When Cantonians awoke
this morning they were surprised to see the
entire city billed with portraits of the SEN
ator and with announcements that he would
| make an address this evening The an
nouncements made no mention of politics
out the committee that invited the senator
TO make the address FASTENED to make pub-
| lie denial that they mad authorized the
placarding Of the city. The report was
| that some friends of the senator in Gin
cinnati are responsible, for it.
| Senator Foraker arrived in Canton abont
| IL CLOCK and was met by a committee OF
| citizens at Alliance and escorted to Canton
| He will be in Columbus tomorrow to meet
such state leaders and others who desira
TO see him and an important conference
VIII be held with them before the senator
goes to Cincinnati He will see Gov Harris.
Atmosphere is Cloudy.
Nothing that Senator Foraker has said
himself, or that has been said by any OF
his friends in any authoritative WY. has
tended to clarity the Ohio situation and
what he has chosen to say has only served
to mystify it. He has let it be known that
he is coming to Ohio to demand that the
Taft candidacy be submitted to the test Of
popular vote for delegates and to ask for
his party's support for himself. But for
what office he wants that support he has
not said. In no authoritative way have the
senator's constituents been told whether he
is about to begin a campaign for the sena-
torship or the presidency, or both. Silence
was the only answer when that pertinent
question was put to him by Charles p
Taft, and Ohio republicans are wondering
If this silence is to be preserved during the
projected Foraker-Taft campaign.
Not Worried Over Taft.
Both he and Senator Dick disbelieve that
the Taft sentiment in Ohio has reached
such proportions as need occasion them
any concern. The Cincinnati situation is
puzzling Foraker men say when the sem
ator reaches that city the opposition II
there is serious opposition. will disappear.
The local republican leaders, the other
hand, were reported for Taft for President
and are willing to go for Foraker for sem
ator at the proper time.
AS Senator Foraker and Senator Dick are
in control of the state organization. the
Taft are waiting for the senior sem
ator to make his proposal to the state GEN.
trail committee relative to the manner Of
making the projected Foraker-Taft con-
test, If Foraker still desires to make 1t.
Politicians here were interested In At
torney General Ellis statement that the
proposed primaries could not be held under
the Bronson law, but his argument against
the ACCESSIBILITY of holding primary at all
failed to persuade the Taft men to ADAM
don their plans to demand direct primary.
Senator Foraker made a trip to Monument
Hill to view the Mckinley monument this
Foraker was taken to the Mckinley homo
and had chat with Mrs. Mckinley.