Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-01-01
FORAKER AND ROOSEVELT.
interesting Side Light on Expected
Forthcoming Tilt.

Forthcoming Tilt.
Zach McGhee, the Washington cor
respondent of the Columbia State
sends his paper the following under
date of December q:
Senator Foraker is going to raise
Cain when congress reconvenes about
this Brownsville business. And let no
one think that the Ohio senator Is not
able to do 1t. No matter what JUS
tice, what facts, or what public senti-
ment the president may have with him
in the fight, Foraker, Fire-alarm
Foraker" Is eminently adapted for
Just such a performance as raising
Cain on the other side. He has been
raising Cain, In one way or another,
pretty much all these twenty-three
years since he was first candidate for
governor of Ohio. He raised Cain as
governor and he has raised Cain In the
senate. And withal, strange as 1t may
seem to those who do not know him
and have never heard him, he Is one
of the mildest hammered, most unex-
citable, and altogether perhaps the
calmest man in the senate He Is the
ablest man in the senate. The ingen-
ious special pleader" Spooner, the pom
derous Bailey and the fiery Carmack,
to say nothing of the picturesque Till
man, are at times Interesting. (And
in q parenthesis l am reminded Of dear
old Paul Youmans, who once resented
some ones calling him interesting.
why, a monkeys interesting" he ex-
claimed.) Well, these others are in
teresting. and l would not deny them
ability, but when 1t comes to good all
round horse sense, combined with an
iyat ~ n
ner, a magnificent gift Of speech, es-
pecially as to clearness and directness,
and perhaps above all, delicate bal
ance-"sense of humor" some call this;
ii is in fact rather sense Of propor-
tion-why, these others are easily out
classed by this very same Mr. Fire
alarm" Foraker, who Is creating such
a stir all over the country, or rather
who is manipulating the spoon.
"One can't help getting in a way
little enthusiastic about Foraker, how
ever much one may differ with him.
He is so absorbingly fascinating. The
first time l met him was early last
spring. With a newspaper friend l was
strolling one Sunday afternoon around
Du Pont Circle-that's the high hat
neighborhood. We met Senator For
aker about half way around the circle,
and as my friend knew him well, got
the honor of an introduction to the man
who had been, to me, the most fas-
cinating man in the senate, and to
whom / had listened intently on every
possible occasion, although, as far as
a newspaper correspondent can take
sides or is supposed to, nearly every
thing he said was directly opposed to
my view of things.
Senator Foraker turned and walked
90 a.
lightful walk we escorted him to his
home-which is also in the high hat
neighborhood. I told him that he had
been delightful to me and that l en-
loved him particularly because he had
such a magnificent and fascinating way
of saying what isn't so. At this ne
laughed and thought it was all very
fine. Since that time l have felt 1t
high honor to have a speaking ac-
uuaintance with him. And yet know
that his very name Is probably obnoxs
ious to many Of my friends In South
Carolina, because he Is taking up for
the nigger." That's because they don't
know him.
Senator Foraker Is very pleasant 70
newspaper men. He is altogether an
exceedingly pleasant man. But ne VIII
not talk to us about this Brownsville
matter now. Yesterday when some oil
the boys went to see him he said that
he would do his talking in the senate
when that meets again. The president
said to four newspaper men he invited
to visit him the other day that he
would veto any measure that congress
might pass restoring the negro troops
who we're dismissed for shooting up
Brownsville. He Furthermore made the
very remarkable statement to the Ell
feet that If congress should pass a
bill over his veto he would refuse 10
execute 1t, and that If congress should
then want to impeach him he would
gladly welcome the impeachment pro-
ceedings. This is pretty big talk even
for a president. All that Senator For
aker will say about this Is the foilow-
ing: ,o
the president intends to do Is too silly
to talk about, and you must excuse me
from discussing It,"
There are several little supplement
tary circumstances which make TINS
an exceedingly interesting fight be-
tween the president and Senator For
aker. In the first place Foraker has
not liked Roosevelt in a long time.
Mighty few people who know MT
Roosevelt WELL in these parts at least,
do like him; or If they do like him TO-
day they don't tomorrow. The prin-
cipal reason for this-and there are a
number of reasons-is that the presl-
dent has h way of promising one tnlng
and doing another. and another little
way of saying one thing and when he
is criticised for saying it issuing a
statement Of denial, always celebrating
this statement so as to include tne
more or less emphatic declaration that
the man, who says he did say so Is
liar. But that isn't the reason For
aker has 1t in for him just at present.
AT least that isn't all Of the reason.
Foraker wants to be president, as eV-
erybody else does, or most or US any
way. But Mr.. Roosevelt doesn't want
Mr.. Foraker to be president. 1t Is
said. and some people are easily
enough duped to believe 1t, that Roose-
welt wants Taft to be president. Those
who are on the game have a pretty
strong conviction that the astute man
ipulator and calculator in the Whlte
House already knows that there Is not
a ghost of a chance for Taft, for the
reason that he cannot carry Ohio, MS
own state. Taft Is a big man, but ne
is bigger abroad than he Is in his own
state. Foraker is the big man In ONO,
as was clearly shown last summer,
when some OF his enemies trleu to Set
the state convention to snub him be-
cause he dared to oppose the presl-
dent on the rate bill. Foraker got
tremendous endorsement, and the
presidents adherents were made to
icck like 30 cents. But the president
is for Taft-nominally. He wants the
nomination himself. and when It Is
clearly shown at the last minute that
Taft is impossible because he cant
carry his own state, then there is no
body else to turn to but Roosevelt. He
may decline 1t and go down in history
as another Caesar who pushed ASIDE
the crown. He's a pretty shrewd fel-
low, is this man in the White House,
who sits up there today eating turkey
aIs.l cranberry sauce between lectures
on the Ten Commandments.
Foraker knows it. Foraker has
sort of an idea that Mr.. T. R. Is some
thing of a hypocrite. And he isn't
afraid to say so. Put that down.
Foraker isn't afraid to say anything.
He's wrong about this thing, of course,
but he isn't hedging, and he isn't go
ing to hedge And he Is going to make
the Brownsville affair an exceedingly
important little incident before he gets
through with It,"