The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-05-07

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Liberal Republican movement nf lStz
ne abnominated as next thing 10 frea-
son: the Democratic victory Of 1878
when old BIN Allen was elected
governor, he held 10 L. 4 chastIs+meni
from heaven. His heart sank within
him when the returns Of the election
Of 1874 revealed a Democratic ma
jority Of about three score ~ tn"
Forty-fourth Congress. lie believed
that all was lost. and honor. too, when
Samuel j. TiIden was elected Presi-
lent In 1876. That tribunal Of $ % I
made WY with honor and honesty
part of the game in the shuttle they
gave and the deal they made the fol-
lowing February.
Ry 1859 Foraker was the most bril-
liant and attractive politician in ohio,
and the Republicans nominated him
for governor. His Democratcic COM
petitor was George HoadleN. Of the
Cincinnati bar, an original Democrat.
who had become a Republican because
Of his hostility 10 slavery and was now
returned to the party Of his youth n
early manhood. The race attracted
national attention. Hoadley had
never been 50 able: Foraker never so
eloquent. Ohio was in a blaze, off
year that it was. As ! now recoIcct,
the temperance question was a blg
side issue. However, it was, Hoadiey
was clectcd-thc third Democrat
chosen governor of Ohio since the war,
and the knightliest man Ohio has yet
produced went down.
But it was the fall OF Antaeus and
he sprang up more formidable thar
ever, and two years later, he succeed
ed HOadleN as governor, who was then
taken out of the Democratic national
calculation for president as "Old Blll
Allen had been ten years earlier When
he was defeated for recollection by r.
Il II9yyac 'ri,a H.faar nf Allen made
Tilden the nominee, and the defeat Or
H0adley made Cleveland the nominee
in 1874. Foraker was reelected.
While he was governor, Mr.. Cleveland
purpoSed returning certain 1aSS cap
tured in battle to the Southern States.
Foraker challenged him on that
proposition, and for some weeks there
was a political brain cyclone in Grand
Army circles. The result was that
Mr.. Cleveland receded. Foraker was
actuated by sentiment, pure sentiment,
and as evidence that malice had no
part in it. he was the first man OF
the North to spring to the AID q
Charleston when that town was VISITED
by the disastrous earthquake OF 1894.
Foraker was forty-three years old
when he was nominated for governor
for the fourth time, in 1889. James
f.. Campbell was his Democratic com
petitor. 1t was an off year, and the
Harrison administration was far from
popular. Campbell. next to Foraker.
was the best stumDer in the state, ana
when the returns came III the rupert
of Ohio was again immersed ana most
people thought and many people
hoped. he was done for. Like Blaine,
whom he so much resembles in tenn
permanent and especially in audaclty,
Foraker has considerable capacity
for making bitter enemies as we'll as
great capacity for making devoted
friends.
But Foraker was not done for. The
/! next we hear of him he was more
uarlng than ever, and entered the lists
against John Sherman in q contest for
United States nat He was de-
feated, but every man in Ohio knew
that he would have been elected if
the legislature had been Independent
enough to select its first choice. 1t
was the closest shave John Sherman
had had in Ohio since he got the SEN
atorship from a LEGISLATURE that want
ed to give il to Robert c. Schencll. AT
the succeeding election for senator,
Foraker was chosen to succeed Calvin
$. Brice.
Meantime a new prophet had arisen
in that Israel-Mark War
wick, a preSi1ent-maker. Trained to
business, he brought to his new vOca-
ton d superior intellect, q forceful IN
d~ividuality, and q capacity for Organl
cation rarely equaled. He entered
upon the work with enthusiasm. and
before the adversary got ready for
action. he had secured enough pledges
to make William Mckinley the Re
publican nominee for president in
1884. 1t was his wish to make it a
tariff fght-the Mckinley tariff
against the Wilson tariff. but by this
time the coinage question came on tC
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1t was not until the battle was halt
over that Hanna realized the true
point of attack. and the candidate die
not see it until within a fortnight OF
the election. Foraker saw it from
the beginning. With characteristic
daring he proclaimed the gold stand
ard, though he was then, and is still
a more inVeterate and u~nreaSOnabl
protectiOnist than Mckinley ever was
The first time | ever saw Foraker he
was forced to stand and compelled
to MAKE a speech in the Republican
National Convention of 1888. and hi.
eXodium was this monstrosity: "W.
Republicans believe in a tariff fOI
protection, and if revenue should fol
low incidentally we have no very seri
Gus objection. There is no NOR,
aggressive standpatter than he, and i
the friends OF Secretary Taft are dis
posed to promote interest in the fight
let some II of them authorized t,
speak a something about ''revision'
anywhere in the Hooking Valley or i,
one OF the manufacturing towns Of til,
western reserve.
Forak er took his seat in the Sen
ate the day Mckinley became presi
fent. He did not have to spell up
He was in the front rank from III
peglnnlng. along with Hoar, SpoOne1
i. Hale, Lodge. O. H. Plat, Allison
Clshfnan X. Davis. and the others
There was the greatest curiosity t
see nm, the greatest desire to hea
MN. Now that sherman was re
tred, he was recognized everywher
as the first statesman of Ohio. an
save Thurman alone. the greatest law
Yer ONO has sent to the Senate sine
George F.. Pugh. The Senate saw i
nm the strong man he is and CAV
: hlm desirable committee assignment.
/. Always an Industrious man he plunge
into the drudgery of the position an
after all, that is what gives a ma
! standing in the Senate.
t l shall not undertake a review {
s FOraker's Senatorial lahors. Withol
a superior in that body as an crate
e or debater, he has participated j
q every discussion of general intere:
g and always acquitted himself wit
II credit. He discussed the Cuban que:
ton tho SnaniSh War the Phjlinnir