Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-07

| failure OF Secy. Taft to receive tho
unanimous endorsement OF the state
central committee at its recent meet
ing Is construed to mean a split IN tho
Republican party In the Buckeye state
and the eventual elimination OF the
| war secretary as presidential posi-
| bility. 1t means, according to the
knowing ones, renewed fractional strife
in that state which cannot but SER
iously injure the chances of Republic
| can success in the presidential cam
| paign In 1908 and n realignment Of the
forces now in control "of the grand
old party"
The friends OF secy. Taft are claim
ing victory and are shouting his
name from the hilltops as the sue
cessor of Prest. Roosevelt, but the I'M
emotional politician who is not hook
| ed up with either wing OF the Repub-
lican party does not see IL the divided
state committee OF Ohio any legiti-
mate reason for enthusiasm on either
| side, but rather a precursor OF troublous
DAYS to come for both Taft and F'or-
| alSer.
| FORAKER NOT PLACATED.
| Notwithstanding the vote of conf
| dence given him by the committee,
which endorsed secy. Taft, as ohlo's
candidate for the presidency by two
thirds vote, Senator Foraker, like n
Roman of old. refuses to be placated by
| q sop, the Enforcement OF himself
as his own successor IN the senate. on
the ground that the state central COM
Mite lacked authority to endorse any
body, and that its business Is fixed by
| party regulation, 1t being but the SER
want Of the master which in this In
stance was the state convention Great
ing it.
| THE powers of a state central COM
mittee vary in several states with
which l am familiar" said a United
states senator. who was In Washing
| ton this week, but l know of no
Republican state committee clothed
with power to endorse candidates pre-
vious to state convention. l can
| conceive where state committee
might want to express itself upon
some particular feature of party eth
les. or party policy, but the pre-
| negatives of a state committee are
| limited TO the powers with which II
is clothed at the time Of its creation.
| state committee Is but governing
body IN the larger sense and really
| is an executive committee whose pow-
ers extend over from one convention
| to another 1t is the business of the
| state central committe to conduct
campaign, to arrange for meetings
| and for speakers, to arrange for the
financing of the campaign and, when
the smoke OF battle lifts-to arrange
|
when. on the converting of that con-
ventlon, another state central COM
| mite is made. I do not believe 1t
was ever contemplated that a state
central committee could blaze path
way for a state convention and al
though ! am sincere admirer of
Secy Taft and will do all in my state
to. secure a delegation In his behalf,
| / think the friends of the secretary
| VIII rue their work when they called
upon the state central committee of
Ohio, to endop~e William II. Taft
year before the presidential contest
begins. l believe that Secy. Taft will
the language of an older statesman
say. God save me from my fool
friends"
ANOTHER STORY.
There is another side to this story,
that is the story OF Ohio which fits
in to the general belief hereabouts,
that President Roosevelt Is using VIII
liam Fl. Taft as a stalking horse"
for his own candidacy, and that The
factional strife In Ohio is working out
as he anticipated to the end that
should the Republicans of Ohio fail
to agree on any of the favorlte sons
Of that great state. for the presidency,
| that he. President Roosevelt, will be
given the delegation In order to heal
up the wound which the Taft Foraker
controversy Is bound to make.
DEATH OF A PAYMASTER.
There died in the Philippines. in the
last week, one of natures gentlemen,
Eugene Coffin, a major and paymaster
of the United States army, under ex-
ceptionally sad circumstances. Maj,
Coffin was one of the most efficient pay
masters In the service and he was
marked for a splendid assignment after
his term In the Philippines, by his
friend and admirer. Paymaster General
Culver C. Sniften. Maj. Coffin, 1t Is
understood. died from the effects of
blood-poisoning resulting from the
handling Of tainted greenbacks. His Is
not the first case by any manner of
means, OF men dying from the handling
of tainted money but 1t docs seem that
the life of a paynaster In the army
should be seriously taken into account
by the makers OF our laws and some
thing should be done at the next sea-
sion OF Congress to retire money that
Is In any way soiled.
Talking to Col. Charles II. Whipple OF
the pay department. a son OF that spien-
did Christian gentleman-Bishop Whip
pie OF Minnesota-about the death of
his associate, MAI. Coffin, Col. Whipple
said that while he was In tho Philip
pines. great quantities of money came
in from the English banks and when
opened emitted a stencil That almost
raralyged the Office force. They fumi-
gated the bills as best they could and
In counting the greenbacks used on
their spongles listei1ne and carbolic
acid, the best known disinfectants, but
still. with all their precautions, II one
OF the cashiers had a cut, or the
slightest scratch on his hands, injurious
results We're bound TO occur, because OF
the handling OF this money
NEW BILLS NEEDED.
England can give the United States
cards and spades ON the question OF the
newness OF its banknotes, No matter
how bright looking an English bank
bill may be when II appears In the
Bank Of England. It is Immediately de-
stroyod and a new bin OF the same de-
nomination and the same serial NUM-
Dor takes its place. We, In Washing
ton, being near the treasury depart
ment and the place where gieenhackh
are made, generally have new bills, but
the people OF the west, who are under
the dominion OF the national banks get
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