Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-28
THE ROOSEVELT
TAFT-BURTON OUTFIT
It Stands Fair Chance for an
Awful Drubbing,
THE OHIO COLONY THINKS
Before Present Republican Organiza-
ton in State is Through With It.
NOT AFRAID OF THE PRESIDENT
Senators Foraker and Dick Will Be in
the State Soon-Embarrassing
Questions for Mr.. Taft.
THE OHIO COLONY THINKS
NOT AFRAID OF THE PRESIDENT

The opinion Is widely entertained among
the Ohio colony in Washington that the
Roosevelt outfit stands fair to
get an awful drubbing at the primaries be-
fore Senator Foraker, Senator Dick and the
present republican organization in the state
are through with 'em. Political considera-
tons of practical character induce to
this belief All the Buckeye folk are look
ing forward to the scrap with the greatest
interest and expect to see the fur begin to
lily pretty soon.
Senator Foraker's challenge is declared by
Ohioans to be typical of the man. For thir-
ty years he has had to fight in Ohio politics,
and he does not know anything else but
fight. He has taken a licking himself at
times, and he has administered few that
are still remembered in Ohio by those who
participated in them. His plan has always
been, when a fight appeared inevitable, to
get in and lead the shindy himself This is
what he has done in the present case, it is
said.
Not Afraid Of the President.
Senator Foraker Is not afraid of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, as every Ohio man knows
and as the President himself is aware Sem
ator Foraker and Senator Dick are indis-
putably in absolute control of the republic
can machine in Ohio. They regard, and
republicans generally will regard, the
Observation-Disclosures coalition as an eff
fort to smash that machine and set I'D a
new one. That means the unsettling of
great many political plans that are now in
process of laying, and the realignment of
affairs in every small political subdivision
of the state. Senator Foraker and Senator
Dick will be out in the state within fort
night, Tightening up the machine and as
sembling the forces upon the defensive.
Senator Foraker, it Is said, will make a
speech in each of the lightweight county
seats in the state, and will discuss before
the voters questions in which they are in
terested and upon which they will also de-
mand to hear Secretary Taft. For one
thing, the Ohio people say the voters will
want to know how Secretary Taft stands on
the tariff. There are rumors In Ohio that
he Is weakened on protection. Ohio Is as
much of a protectionist state as Pennsyl-
vania, and Senator Foraker is protection
list.
1t is pointed out that Senator Dick and
Secretary Taft have been completely at odds
over the question of the Philippine tariff.
Secretary Taft standing for free trade and
Senator Dick successfully opposing it, and
in that action receiving, it is said, the in
dorsement of his state. The Brownsville
affair will undoubtedly have to be explain
ed at some length to the voters, inasmuch
as Secretary Taft and Senator Foraker have
taken such diametrically opposite positions
in regard to II.
Embarrassing Questions for Taft.
1t is said by Ohio people who know that
Secretary Taft is likely to be asked some
embarrassing questions about his decisions
when on the bench on questions affecting
the labor unions. He is said to have rec