The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-30
FORAKER URGES NON.ACTION
WANTS OHIO COMMITTEE NOT 10
INDORSE SECRETARY TAFT.

sstNch N MS Neoe0uh TnuA douHttttee rAs
No Authority. That u 10 Too EsrIy
and That TAFT 10 for Tartn Re,i-
sion. which the senator Opposes.
CINCINNATI. July Ex-senator Foraker
to-day sent an open letter to c. B. Mccoy at
~Coshocton, Ohio, a member Of the State
central committee, which is to meet in
Columbus tomorrow.
The meeting Of the committee will be in
response to a call by Chairman Brown OF
Toledo, ostensibly for the purpose OF
deciding some contest regarding boards
OF election in various counties.
IL 10 and has been from the first con-
coded on all hands that the matter Of prime
importance to be considered is the indorse-
ment Of Secretary Taft for the Presidency.
The Taft managers hav apparently
exerted their every influence and power
TO the end hat their candidate receive a
hearty sendof, feeling that his candidacy
il lacking in a most essential quality az
viewed from the standpoint Of other States
so long as his own State has not formally
declared for him.
The following OF Senators Foraker and
Dick have been averse to any formal action
~ the kind. anyhow, until after the fall
municipal election. At various times IL
has been variously claimed that the COM
mittee would and would not come out
for Taft. Within the last few days it has
bean generally Acknowledged that an
Endorsement Of Taft was assured.
Gov. Harris's statement or interview
yesterda2 was taken az final evidence
that the COMMITTEES would formally an
nounce itself for Taft as Ohio's ~favorite
SON. What the effect will be of Senator
Foraker's argument against such action,
as contained in his open letter of to-day, is
a problem discussed on every and tom light.
Senator Foraker's letter follows:
CrNcINNATI. Ohio. July 20.
TO me Hon. e. n. MeCoy. Coshocton, Ohio.
DEAR Sir ] learn from the newspapers
and otherwise that n resolution is likely 10 be
offered at the next meeting Of the State CEN
trail committee. TO he held In Columbus to-
morrow. July 80. indorsina Secretary Taft as
Ohiois candidate for the Presidency, and
have seen II stated that n resolution is likely
also 10 he offered Endorsing me ss a candidate
TO be my own successor in the Senate Of the
United States. and in to-day's ~ pers il pub
lished what purports to be an authorized
Interview with Gov. Harris. f~avoring this
proposed action IN indorsing Secretary Taft
and expressing friendship and good will for
myself with respect to q continuation Of my
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himself Endorsed IA his own successor In the
Governors once.
In this same interview he announces, as he
has heretofore announced, that he is in favor
of a revision OF the tarih. lnssmuch as you
are a member OF the state central
take the liberty OF addressing you, and
through you the whole and oil the
Republican voters OF Ohio. upon the questions
so brought 10 our attention.
A the Dayton con vention Of last year,
which was a large representative body con-
sSing OF eisht or nine hundred delegates
chosen in the usual way. II was proposed by a
great NUMBER or the delegates TO indorse a
candidate Tor the presidency L opposed the
propositaon on the ground thstt was not only
premature. out also on the ground that the
ue'esstes 10 tnat convention mad not been
CHOSEN with reference TO that question and
that u would be an assumption or jurisdiction
ana autnonty tnst did not properly oelong
10 them ana nat their action could not be
olndlng upon the next state convention,
"hich must mees oefore the nstionsl con-
Vention OF 1900 ana thet no action should be
teKen oy tnet convention or anybody else
tne' Wou'u iorestaiI tne people or oeny tnem
the risht 10 De neard on mat all important
question
Inc present State central COM
posed OF only t~enty-one members one from
each congressional district were chosen by
tnat convention. Ihey we're not selected
WIN reference 10 presioenrrai preferences
lney we're CHOSEN 10 De simply the machinery
OF me party representing IT'S organization
and empowered TO call the next convention
and 10 transact such duties as the last con-
Nention ana the statutes oil the state have
imposed upon them. The selection OF a
candidate Tor the Presidency Is not one OF
those duties. Their action in now indorsing
q candidate Tor the Presidency would not,