The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-30
COMRADE ]. D. FORAKER.
The Veterans Of Ohio Have Very
Warm Side for Him.

Editor National Tribune: / am very
much interested in what you say about
the political situation in Ohio ana
other States. and am pleased to know
that the great soldier paper of our
country is ahead of the great dailies in
National politics. The statement OF
Comrade S. H. Cook in The National
Tribune of April rs is a most remark
able declaration; namely, that Senator
Foraker's attitude on the railroad rate
bill! and the Brownsville affair has left
the Senator with very few friends in
| Ohio. L wish to inform the readers OF
The National Tribune that the veterans
lof Ohio are not so nearly unanimous
| for TEDDY and Taft as some would
have US believe. Senator Foraker had
a right to oppose the rate bill. and up
to the present time events have dem
onStrated the fact that Foraker was
right, and he should be commended
instead of criticized. Up to the present
time not a single suit has been brought
under the famous Hepburn rate bili''
against the Beef Trust, Standard Oil
Company. Sugar Trust or any othec
similar corporation, while numerous
indictments are pending today against
the Standard Oil Company under the
old Elkins law, which Senator Foraker
contended was sufficient.
Any person who has cared to get at
the truth of the Brownsville affair is
familiar with the fact of the entire
battalion of the 25th u. S. having been
dismissed, without honor, by an ex-
ecutive order; not a man of the 10
was granted a trial in court. Senator
Foraker contended that the spirit of
American institutions that runs
through all our legislation and all our
political relations is to the effect that
every man somewhere and some time
and in some manner shall have his day
in court when charged with crime"
and declared that had been the law
since the beginning of civilization. lie
then quoted the words of Festus in the
trial of Paul before Agrippa, Acts,
25th chapter and 18th verse: 1T is
not the manner of the Romans to de-
liver any man to die, before that he
which is accused have the accusers
face to face and have license to answer
for himself concerning the crime laid
against him. Again Senator Foraker
is right although he did not agree with
the Chief Executive of this Nation.
If Senator Foraker was elected to
the United States Senate as a figure
head, to obey the will of somebody
else, then L will admit that he was
wrong in opposing both the Hepburn
Rate bill and the action of the Presi-
ueHl IN QlSfniSSlUS pne DldcK DdltIllOll.
But if a Senator is supposed to have
his own opinions, and is granted the
liberty to stand for his own convictions
of right and duty, l contend that the
Senator is right
1t was my lot to serve in the same
brigade with Comrade Foraker in the
grand old Army of the Cumberland;
the old Turchin Brigade of Baird's Di
vision.
Senator Foraker earned a splendid
war record. In the years following the
civil war he has won, and fairly won,
place among the Nations leaders.
During all his years of public life he
has been a true friend to his comrades,
as hundreds of them will testify.
There are thousands of Ohio soldiers
who will fight the proposed attempt to
crush Foraker in Ohio"
No matter how great and popular q
Chief Executive may become in the
eyes of the people, they will prefer to-
choose his SUCCESSORS. A. Mcneil,
Redwood. Ohio.