The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-17
FORAKER
 IS DOOMED May Not Be Returned to
 Senate. GROSvEN0R IS MENTIONED Many Ohio Counties Against Pres
 ent Senator. Gen. Henry c. Corbin is Also Mention el as . .ndidate for Congress --InterestinE Gossip from
 Nation's Capital.
aY GEoRGE c. ADAMs.

political gossip that reaches the Ma tional Capital from Ohio. The story is that Senator Foraker Is in imminent danger of failure of reelection. and that General Grosvenor is looked upon as the most likely man to succeed nim.
 It would be unique episode in the ups and towns of American politics should General Grosvener succeed to the Senate The General, who is 74 years of age, was defeated for re- election to the Sixtieth Congress, af- ter a service of more than twenty years in the House of Representatives. For nearly the whole of taat twenty years the Sage of Athens" had been consumed with ambition to sit in he upper House of the National Legisla- ture Senators came and went. but Grosvenors preferment was deferred. When he failed of ie-eisstion to the House last year, 1t was generally &C., cepted that General Grosvenors pub lie career had closed, and no one was more thoroughly convinced of this than the Athens statesman himself.
 Senator Forakers term will expire March 8, 1909. General Grosvenor will then be in his 76th year. Should Gros- venor succeed him. expiration of :he new term would find him s2 years cid -zand, probably, a candidate for re- election. The suggested possibility that Grosvenor may succeed Foraker in the Senate recalls the fact that they are ancient enemies, though of late years there has been something of q truce between them. When Foraker was Governor of Ohio. and Grosvenor a member of Congress. they got into an argument one day in hotel lobby at Columbus The wordy war grew heated, until finally the Governor slapped the Congressman's face.
 Talk of Downfall.
 The story that Foraker's downfall is impending is brought ito Washington by James Kennedy, member of Con- Rress from the Eighteenth Ohio Dis- trtst.. Mir. Keynedy asclarea that there is no such thing In Ohio as contest between Taft and Foraker The al- most unanimous sentiment of Ohio Re- publIcans, he says. Is for Taft for Pres ident, and it is settled that me War Secretary will have the Ohio deJega- tion in the next National Republican Convention. The fight now on in Ohio, Mir. Kennedy ayers, is one being waged by Foraker for self preservation His retirement, declares the Buckeye Con- gressman, is demanded by large body of Ohios Republican voters.
 "Particularly in the counties com prising the Western Reserve" said MT. Kennedy, "is there determined hosttl- ity to the Senator. You must remsm- Der that Ohio gave Roosevelt q quar- ter of a million majority in the last Presidential election, and the policies of Roosevelt are exceedingly popular among our people. Up in the Western Reserve there Is a general belief that Senator Foraker has systematically opposed the President and the things for which he stands.
 Tt is difficult for the people in that part of the State not to believe that the Senator's antas0nisin to the Pres ident's railroad rate policy was vital mistake. The Senator has explained his attitude In his speeches, and has declared that every step that mas been taken in the way of prosecution Of the violators of the interstate commerce law has been under the old Elkln's law, and not under the recent legislation. This may be true, but those who differ from the Senator also point out that this new legislation, which the PreSi- dent urged and the Senator opposed, made the gathering of evidence easier and created the machinery that has made conviction possible.
 There is no doubt the opposition to the Senator is so intense throughout the Western Reserve and some other sections of the State, that many who would like to see him returned fear that 1t will be impossible to do so. It is no secret that through the Western Reserve counties. every member nom- mated and elected to the State Leg islature by the Republicans, will be pledged to cast his vote so as to pre- vent the reelection of Foraker. With such conditions existing throughout such large and influential section of the State. it Is difficult to see how tho Senator can come back to the Senate"
 COrbin for Congress.
 Another bit of interesting political gossip from Ohio Is to the effect that Lieut. Gen. Henry c. Corbin, U. S. A., retired is likely to come to Congress as the Republican Representative from the Sixth District. A bitter factional fight has been waging in that district between the Hildebrand and the Scrog- KY factions The rank and file of the party has tired of the eternal warfare and is talking of putting a stop to 1t by sending Corbin to Congress. The General has expressed his Willingness to stand for the nomination and elee- ton.
 how successful a member of Congress General Corbin would make, but tkere isn't any doubt that he would be an ornamental one. This hero of cam paiRns, both military and social, stands several inches over six feet ip his stockings and except for tendency to adipose tissue, has the build of a creek god General Corbin in uniform used to be the wonder and delight of social Washington, and whenever he appeared out of doors, the street urch- ins followed him. few years ago Le married one of the richest women at inc National Capital and fig now erect ing in one of the aristocratic suburbs n summer home that is to cost a for tune.
 working on siessnge.
 Word comes from Oyster Bay that President Roosevelt is dividing his time between play and preliminary work on his forthcoming message to Congress. one of the things to which the most serious consideration is being given, 1t Ia said. is amendment of the present anti-trust laws in such manner as to assure that violators can be placed be- hind prison bars. It is the belief Of fine President and his advisers that jail