Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-11-30
AFTER
OHIO DELEGATION
Makes il Clearly Known That He
viii Make a Contest With
Seoy. Taft.
DEFENDS RAILROAD COURSE.
Bad Time 90 Hamper Them With I'm
necessary Legislation When Spend
ing Millions for improvement.

Washington, Nov. Ex-senator J. y.
Foraker made 70 clearly known today
that he will contest the Ohio delegation
20 the Republican national convention
with Mr.. Taft This decision Is con-
tained Ga a letter to Conrad J, Mattern.
vice president OF the ohio Republican
league. who forwarded to Mr. Foraker
a copy OF the resolutions adopted by
the advisory and executive committee
OF the league. endorsing Mr.. Foraker
for the senatorshlp and for the presi-
Dental nomination He defends his
course IN relation to the passage OF the
railroad rate bill and insists that the
necessity Of the railroads Of the coun-
try 20 spend millions OF dollars an
nually In Increasing their facilities
makes this a bad time 10 hamper the
roads In any unnecessary way by leg
islatlOn.
Senator Foraker says he is gratihed
by the endorsement OF the committee at
this time because IL is a flat rebuke TO
the suggestion that the ofHCe Of United
States senator is TO be Slipped Of an
the real honor attached q IL by maxi
ing It's incumbent mere agent. to reg
lister the DEGREES Of somebody else.
Foraker says:
Il do not want to even appear 20 be
a candidate for two Offices at the same
time. and therefore fOrcgo the double
honor proposed, and with heartfelt APP
probation accept the support for tho
presidential candidacy which the com
mittees have so generously rendered
Continuing the letter says
Il not only stand FOR the broad prin-
ciples involved. but also stand ready TO
submit to my constituents Tor thelr
Judgment not only my action ln three
Instances where / am unable TO agree
with the president. but my entire rec
ord. l may have made mistakes, nut
no speech or vote or other act Will De
found that was not Ia accordance WITH
a conscientious Judgment formed by
the aid of the best light at the time
attainahlc.
MY action on the question of Joint
statehood and In the Brownsville mat
ter your committee have approved, as
believe the great majority OF hepuoh-
cans do everywhere.
There are doubtless yet many VINO
criucise my vote on the rate Dill out
NJ the assurances with which my man
Is filled. coming as they do frGn every
section Of the country. are not mlslead-
ing, the number Of these CRITICISMS is
rapidly diminishing.
aIn the debates on that measure
took pains TO point out that If the Nov-
eminent took upon itself the duty and
responsibility OF making rates, II would
of necessity have 20 determine not only
how much a railroad should De allowed
to make. but also how much IL Wouid
be allowed 20 spend--hOw much for op-
Grafton, for extensions. for equipment
and for every other item of necessary
expenditure, all of which 1t Is impossl-
bile for a government TO do successfully
and satisfactorily, and that the result
would inevitably be that Just az the
time when a rapidly increasing business
for the road was making il necessary
lOi them 70 raise hundreds OF millions
annually for increasing their tracks,
cars and general facilities. we would
impair the confidence Of investors IN
their stocks and bonds and thereby not
only make Il impossible for the roads
20 sell the additional securities neces-
sary for such purposes but lead many
OF the holders OF them, both at home
and abroad TO dispose OF what were
already outstanding. and that In cOnse-
Quoncc the market would be so largely
oversupplied that their values would
shrink. dragging down all kinds OF s.
curities with them until panic and dis
aster would take the place Of confidence
and prosperity.
ITO say I told you so is always UNI
gracious. but Il is. / trust. permissible
to point out that from the day the rate
bill passed the trend has been IN the
direction predicted and while other
things have contributed. that measure
has a fun share OF responsibility for
the unhappy financial and Industrial
conditions with which We have been
Oyertaken
While there should be efficient su-
pervislon and regulation OF interstate
commerce, and the carriers and cor
pOrauOns Of every Kind engaged there
Ia. Il VIII become more and more man
ifest as time passes and results are de-
Yeloped that this supervision must be
safe and ervauve-consistcnt with
the Constitution and with sound COM
mon sense.
"'rhe moral standing Of the business
men Of this country has always been
high. n was never SO high as Il Is
now. There Is. consequently less Oo-
raslon than ever before to restrict
commercial freedom by statutory de-
mands OF management and surveillance
that are apparently framed on the the
DRY that an men are criminals Such
legislation hampers enterprises. rctards
business activity and discredlts the
whole nation"
In conclusion the senator adds,
When the national committee shall
have issued the call for the next ma
tonal Republican convention. ] shall
as heretofore announced, formally re-
quest the state central committee 10
embody IN It's can for the next state
convention. requirement that AN dele
gates 20 that convention be chosen bv
direct vote Of the Republican electors
Of the state az duly authorized prim-
airy elections. held in accordance with
tho statutes applicable thereto"