Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-14
CAMPAIGN TO BE HOT ONE
Warm Fight to Select the Delegates to
the National Convention.
LABOR VOTE IS AGAINST TAFT
Already the Leaders Are Circulating
Literature Calling Attention to
His Record Against Unionism.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 13.-With no
quarter asked or given and with assur-
ances to his friends that there will be no
let-up until he is either victorious or van
pushed, Senator Foraker this week opened
his active campaign for control of the
presidential delegation from Ohio.
There has meyer been a fight in Ohio in
which the senior senator has participated
that promised so much of activity, so much
Of sensational warfare, as that of the pres
ent year.
The Tafts have enormous wealth and
political strength. Foraker is astute, cour-
ageous, far and away the greatest cam
paigner in the state. These two forces are
now in a combat that will not end until
either the senior senator or cabinet member
is retired from the presidential race.
Made an Error.
1t is manifest from the developments of
the past week that the Taft men, when
they sprung the boom for the War Secreta-
ry, expected that the senior senator and his
friends would quietly acquiesce and be
content with the reelection of Foraker to
the Senate. In this they reckoned without
their host, and, instead of Ohio being
behind the Taft candidate. the Buckeye
state evidently leans toward the senator
and is waiting until the gladiators of poll
tics shall have met in the field of battle
and established leadership 1t is impossible
at this time, with linessbut partially drawn,
to accurately forecast the result. 1t would
seem. however, that the Taft people have
already practically abandoned the belief
that they can carry the state election.
The Foraker Program.
The Foraker program will have the effect
of carrying the fight into every precinct
Of the state, and this plan, it is reason
able to believe, will be adopted by the state
convention. for that committee is with the
senators by vote of two to one. But the
fight in it's most vigorous form will come
now in the selection of the delegates to the
national convention. New fights will an
pear in the congressional convention which
will be held early In the coming year. The
fight for their control is now on, and in ey-
cry district of the state Taft men and For
aker men are lined up in combat A num-
Der Of the districts of the state are appar-
Der of districts in the state are firm for
Foraker against all Corners
Taft Men Fighting.
The Foraker purpose, therefore, is easilv
understood. In his fight for control of the
delegates for the state convention, the
senator expects to control the delegates of
the state at large and seek an Endorsement
by the state convention which will be tan
tamount to instructions to the delegation
as whole. Taft men understand this
clever move and are fighting it with all the
energy at their command.
Senator Dick, who Is out in the open for
Senator Foraker, Is expected tn arrive in
Columbus about Monday or Tuesday, al
though he may be delayed little later in
Washington. Immediately upon his arrival
here he will open headquarters with Mr.
Dan ]. Ryan and Mr.. John r.. Malley and
will perfect the organization for the cam
paign in Ohio.
Union Labor Against Taft.
Union labor ia growing more active as the