Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-11-23

In Attendance.
Columbus, O.-United States Senator
Joseph b. Foraker of Ohio was in
dorsed for reelection to the senate and
for the Republican nomination for
president at a joint meeting of the ex-
ecutive and the advisory committees
of the Ohio leaguo-of Republican clubs.
The committees declare that they
have no sympathy with the PROPOSE
tion that Senator Foraker be elimin-
ated from public life because he was
not able to agree with President
Roosevelt on all questions.
The action of the committee at
once brought out a challenge from A.
l. Voryes, manager of the Taft pres
idential canvass, for a popular prim-
airy of Ohio Republicans to indicate a
candidate for president.
About 100 ardent supporters of Sen
ator Foraker, members of the commit
tee, or holding proxies, were in attend
ance at the meeting. Conrad j. Mat
tern Of Dayton, first vice-president Of
the league, presided in the absence of
President Harvey " Spielman.
The resolutions indorsirg Senator
Foraker were presented by Warren G.
Harring, eX-lieutenant governor, and
they were adopted unanimously, the
announcement of the vote arousing
cheers. These resolutions recite that
the general officers of the Ohio league
of Republican clubs together with its
advisory and executive committees,
representing the SO counties of Ohio,
in session assembled, believe it oppor-
tune to declare:
That in our opinion, the good of
the Republican party requires that we
should publicly announce that we have
no sympathy whatever with the pro-
position that had recently been advanc-
ed that Senator Joseph Benson Fora
ker be eliminated and retired from
public life because he was not able to
agree with President Roosevelt as to
the rate bill or joint statehood for New
Mexico and Arizona or about the
Brownsville matter.
" On the contrary, we believe that
he was right in opposing statehood as
he did, except on condition that a ma
jority of the citizens of each terri
tory should vote therefor, in which re-
quirement the President now concurs
and we believe that he was right and
we thoroughly approve his action in
demanding that the negro soldiers of
the 25th United States infantry who
had served their country with great
yalor and distinction should be given
an Onnnrtunitv to testify in their own
defence that they were not guilty Of
a crime, for which, on purely ex parte
testimony, they were discharged with
out honor
Entertaining these views, we send
him greeting and assure him, as he
returns to his labors at Washington
that he has our unqualified confidence
and esteem; and we not only pledge
him our loyal support for his re-elec-
ton to the senate, but we further de
clare that he is our choice as the Re-
publican candidate for president of the
United States in 1908.
with him for president the policy
of protection to American industries
and American labor would not fear
the attacks Of its enemies, whether
made in the open by ayowed free trad
ers or by those who, in the guise of
friends, professed to improve it by
a downward revision of duties; and
every American citizen whether white
or black, and no matter how humble,
would feel and know that there would
be a fearless enforcement of laws that
have been enacted for the protection
of his rights.
"At this time of business depression
and painful uncertainty as to financial
conditions, his nomination would be
especially helpful. 1t would arouse the
old-time spirit of Republcanism, re-
store confidence and insure victory.
at is for such reasons that we pre-
sent Joseph Benson Foraker as our
standard-bearer, and appeal to Repub-
leans everywhere to join us in his
support"
When told of the action taken at the
league meeting Insurance Commission
er Voryes, manager of the Taft cam
paign dictated the following state
ment:
"The resolution processes that the
committee is representing the SO coun-
ties of Ohio AS a matter of fact the
members of the committees were not
elected by the Republicans of the sew
eral counties of this state. At the time
these committees were announced it
was generally understood that the
members were named by a representa-
tive Of Senator Foraker.
Il hope that this action may precipi-
tate what the friends of Secretary Taft
so much desired, that is an oppOrtun-
ity for direct expression by the Re
publicans of Ohio of their choice for
presidential candidate. l am satisfied
Ohio Republicans are overwhelmingly
for Taft"