The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-29

Cincinnati April 2S.-Seeretary Taft is
now formally before the people of OHIO
as a Republican Presidential candidate.
The authoritative announcement of Ar
thur L Vorys, manager Of the Taft head
quarters at Columbus, and the speech of
Representative Burton al Trenton have
placed the Secretary in the field for
Ohio's delegates TO the national conven-
ton year from June next Before Sec
rotary Taft came here yesterday he and
Representative Burton talked over the
Ohio situation with President Roosevelt
Secretary Taft in an Eastern State and
sentative Burton should speak up for
Secretary Taft in an Easter State and
that Mr.. Vorys. as quickly as possible
after discussing the State situation here
with Secretary Taft. should proclaim to
Ohio and the Middle West that the Secre-
tary is a candidate for the nomination
Both Claim State Committee.
The next scramble viii be for control
of the Republican State committee Of
Ohio. It is already on The Taft people
claimed to-day that they had a majority
of the twenty-one members Of the COM
mittee. Senator Foraker did not care to
talk politics to-day, and viii not for sew
eraI days because of the death of his
brother. James r. Foraker, in this city
yesterday. Friends of Senator Foraker,
though, said that they still control the
committee by vote OF II to Z. Other
Foraker people said that Secretary Taft's
friends had got away from them two or
three members Of the committee. Secre-
tary Tafts friends asserted that now
that the Secretary had declared himself,
through MT. Vorys and Mr.. Burton, 10
be an aspirant for the Presidential nomi-
nation, they would soon be in control of
Ohio's State committee. and that W. f.
Brown. Of Toledo. chairman Of the state
committee. would be compelled TO call
meeting of the committee and name a
day for holding primaries in the State.
Brown is an adherent of Senator Foraker
and Senator Dick.
Oppose General Primaries.
Adjt. Gen. A. B. CritchfeId, rejecting the
Foraker-Dick Interpretation Of the pri-
mary situation, says;
1.-THE constitutional amendment which
provides for municipal and local elections
separate and distinct from county, State,
and general elections would be violated in
spirit if a primary We're ordered for next
fall. The purpose of the amendment is 10
exclude from municipal campaigns all
issues having no local significance and
thus enable each community 10 settle its
own affairs without reference TO outside
or general considerations.
Whether or not Secretary Taft's friends
secure control of the State committee, and
no matter what disposition is made OF the
primary tangle there is to be a conflict
al along the line until the national con-
vention assemblies. The Taft people say
that before June, 1903, comes around the
State viii be practically so solid for the
Secretary that the delegation to the ma
tional convention from the State win be
practically unanimous in his favor
To BE War of determination.
The war after that is to go on, stn
headed by President Roosevelt and car
ried out by the Taft people in this State
for the political determination of Senator
Foraker Senator Dick and all of their
captains, lieutenants. majors. and high
privates. The Foraker-Dick followers pro
claim that at best Secretary Taft will
have but a divided delegation in the State,
and that the feeling is so intense in the
Commonwealth against Presidential inter
ference that as time goes on all sorts Of
complications may ensue. The feeling is
intensely bitter on all sides.
Gov. Harris proposes to stick to the
fence in the controversy, but his score
tary Samuel Flickinger, who greeted Sec
rotary Taft at Dayton to-day, said:
THE governor believes he should not
interfere as governor in a party quarrel.
1-rTr
rel He intends to keep his hands of
entirely. My own opinion, which should
not be taken as that of the State ad-
ministratiOn. is that the Taft movement
is Il tremendous one, and that If il goes
on as it has been going the result will be
difficult TO foreten. Roosevelt and Taft
make a combination hard to beat"
Taft Strong with Germans.
Ali Of che Federal appointments are TO
be taken by President Roosevelt and his
administration at Washington from Sena-
tor Foraker, Senator Dick, and their
friends in Ohio. Gov Harris. so far as
the State patronage is concerned, is to
remain as neutral as possible, for the
reason that he hopes to be reelected next
year and he desires the friendship of
both sides. The legislative candidates for
denomination a year from next fall are
in a predicament All want to get on the
winning side and want to appropriate the
winners popularity for themselves.
Secretary Taft's friends here, in Cincin-
natl, said to-day that they were con
WINGED that the local organization would
indOrse him for the Presidency as part
of the mayoralty campaign next fall It
appears t''at Secretary Taft is almost a
hero among The Germans, and that he in
heTited this popularity from his father.
Judge AlphonsO Taft, a member Of Presi-
dent Grants last Cabinet Once upon a
time the Germans of Cincinnati protested
against the custom of reading the Bible
in the schools of the city, which they
thought was an infraction of the spirit
of religious liberty. They took their pro-
test TO the courts. and Judge Alphonso
Taft decided in favor OF the Germans.