Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20

that he uses skillfully today. He used
it in the Senate in his speech against the
President. 1t is his most powerful weapon.
In that second Ohio campaign he used it
against Judge Hoadly his former friend
and associate. Hoadly and Foraker Were
not only close friends at one time, but they
were also close neghbors, depositing their
votes in the same ballot box. As the sec
ond campaign waXed warm however, the
former friends became very bitter toward
one another. Finally, Foraker challenged
Hoadly to a joint debate the main issue
in Ohio at that time being the temperance
question. 1t was arranged that the two
candidates should meet. first in Toledo and
then in Cincinnati. Both men We're excel
lently equipped for such a meeting. Both
We're fine orators. Both were well Informed
as to all the details of the political history
of their state Both were quick at repartee.
1t was natural that the meeting places were
crowded to OVERLOOKING
Gerrymandering was one of the early
sciences practiced to perfection in Ohio by
both the great political parties. In former
days the republicans had gerrynlandered
Columbus that political map of the
city looked like cracks in a Satsuma vase.
Then the democrats got into power and
gerry wandered 1t all over again. Foraker
took Hoadly to task for this latest political
job. Hoadly defended himself by saying
that the democratic party simply corrected
great republican wrong.
A Foraker Story.
That" said Foraker, reminds me of
the man who had the reputation of being
a constitutional liar. The habit grew upon
him and he agreed with his friends that
he ought to stop it. So they arranged that
when one of them heard him begin to tell
an unlikely story it should be cut short
with d nudge. Soon after this agreement
ne and one of these friends were travelling
together. and one night In the bar room of
the hotel the constitutional liar said to the
proprietor:
Landlord, what is that big house they
are building back here on the road?
g L know of no big house, said the land
lord.
Why said the liar, it's the biggest
house 1 ever saw. 1t is 921 feet high
and
Here his friend gave him a nudge. He
stopped short and then quickly added:
- And two feet wide.
For many years Foraker waved the
bloody shirt" and, when good occasion
offers, he does not object to wave it now.
During the debate with Hoady the latter,
who was noted for the mistakes he made,
generated Hoadly, himself, had left the
republican ranks, he said. because of this
degeneration. He charged the republicans
in that campaign with lodging the tenn
perance issue.
In the days., said he, when Salmon p.
Chase, who died a democrat, and Abraham
Lincoln, who died a democrat, and Charles
Sumner, whose last wish was that the en-
blems of victory should be removed from
our flag, and Horace Greeley, who died a
democrat, and a thousand other leaders of
the republican party, who came within the
fold of the democratic party before they
died, were the leaders of that party that
party would never go before the people and
present itself for their favor, lodging an
important issue"
Another Hoadly mistaken Numbered
Foraker when his turn came to speak.
The meeting quickly responded to him
with a roar. Foraker grasped the situation
to, ,i,,er 70 no rSa,af &c tnn
platform, with his hands appraised, he said
in his penetrating voice:
Scored Strong Point.
Gov Hoadly has given to me surprising
information. He has told me that Lincoln
died a democrat. 1 want to tell you that
the mistake he made was that Lincoln died
by the hand of Democrat
Hoadly denied the statement. The stem
ographer was appealed to, and the notes
showed that be had made the remark.
Then he admitted he had made a mistake.
The house was Foraker's and the state
also, and to this one incident 1t is said he
owed his victory.
Those who heard Senator Foraker make
his Brownsville speech in the Senate the
other day, and who knew him in the fights
with Hoadly. recognized in him the same
old Fire Alarm Foraker of the C1eve
land flag incident. They recognized in him
the same quick spirit of repartee-the same
eager sarcasm-the same alertness to re-
cover a lost point. This was well Illus
trated when he was reciting the Gen. Lee
case. Senator Lodge interrupted him.
THE senator from Ohio must recollect
that there were two Gen. Lee cases" said
Lodge.
ooh, know" said Foraker instantly.
but can't talk about them both at once
And thus he avoided an attempt to con-
fuse him. The years have whitened his
hairs, but they have not dampened the
thusiasm and fighting spark which have
been with him since these school days when