The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-07-29
TO SWING Ohio
FOR GOVERNOR HUGHES
A New Twist in the Taft
Foraker Controversy
at Present.
A LARGE UNDERTAKING
Friends of Ohio Senator
Expect the South
to Keep Out.
A LARGE UNDERTAKING

Washington, July 2S.-With the
Hughes boom reaching proportions in
Indiana that alarm the supporters of
Mr.. Fairbanks, there has been silence
concerning the Governor of New York
among the Republican leaders in Ohio
on both sides of the Taft Foraker con-
test, says the New York Times CORE
spondent. 1t is predicted now that the
contest will not be COMPOUNDED with
the Endorsement by the State Central
Icommittee next Tuesday, made formal
| ly or informally through press inter-
views, of Mr.. Taft for the Presidency
and of Mr.. Foraker for the Senate.
Senator Foraker's declaration last
May, which caused Senator Dick to re-
Ecall the order for a conference Of the
State Central committee, the Ohio Re-
publican Congressman, County Chair
men. State officers, and Republican
leaders generally, that such a meeting
would have no authority to bind any
one on such matters, is remembered
| in the light of a new phase of the con-
test, limited at to-day by some Of the
old and astute politicians of Ohio Sem
ator Foraker, in repudiating the au-
thority of State Republican ante
conference convention, said;
All nominations and Endorsements
that can be properly and authoritative
lly made only by the State convention
should be left for that body to deal
| with Efforts to settle them in advance
| by unofficial Individual announcement
| or committee action, no matter how
| well intended, usually do more harm
than good. The party will be strong
er and can act more intelligently II we
will always wait for its duly chosen
Representatives to speak on such ques-
tions and then Loyalty abide the ac-
ton so taken"
He further pledged himself, after the
November elections should be out Of
the way, to request the State Central
committee, in issuing its call for the
next State convention, to provide that
the delegates shall be elected from the
various counties at primaries duly held
under the statutes such case applica-
BILE, to the end that the voters them
lselves may have an opportunity to de-
termine, as they should, what is to be
done as to all matters in which they
will at that time be interested"
1t is stated that, whatever complex
| ion, the Ohio State Central committee
lmay assume on Tuesday, Senator For
aker, already assured of a reelection
to the Federal Senate, will ignore the
committees action. He will henceforth
work on National lines for the nominal
ton of Mr.. Hughes for the Presidency,
| whether the State convention shall for
mally instruct its delegation for Mr..
Taft or otherwise. On the floor Of the
National convention 1t Is Mr., Foraker
design, backed by the Southern delgae-
TONS, finally to- swing his State over
| to Hughes. This blow he will aim di-
! rectly at Mr.. Roosevelt and the future
Roosevelt control of the Republican
party.
| For weeks past there has been much
quiet talk Of Mr.. Hughes in Ohio But
SO intent has been the public on the
conflict of National and local issues
Involved in the candidacy of Taft that
| the shifting of Foraker's plans toward
Hughes, once his own election to the
Senate should be assured, comes as a
surprise. Ohio has had three Presi-
dents in the two decades from 1875 to
1S96-Hayes, Garfield and Mckinley
and it is argued that the State must
have Taft in 1908. But Ohio men feel
that Hughes, after his successful battle
with the New York Legislature and his
ltwo-cent- fare veto, looms large before
the Nation. He has once vanquished
the Hearst forces in that State. He
can vanquish them again. Senator For
aker prefers to wait; ne will find out
what New York is going to do. He
will endeavor to learn what is actual
| ly the sentiment of the voters of Ohio
tnword Gnvarnnr Hughes,