The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-18
KNOX SUPPORTED
 FOR PRESIDENCY Pennsylvania Will Instruct for
 Its Senator PART OF THE CONSPIRACY" Roosevelt Blamed for Ohio Trouble. Daniel Ryan Amused By Senate far Presidency Offered
 Foraker.
PART OF THE CONSPIRACY

Washington May 1T.-(Special) 1.-The ac- tion of the Plttsburg GazetteTimes in coming out for Senator Knox for the re- publican presidential nomination is given considerable significance by republican po- liticians here.
 It is declared by supporters of Senator Knox that there is no longer any doubt that efforts will be made to instruct 2ennsylvania's delegation for it's senator. This, of course meets with emphatic dis approval on the part of the President, who thinks 1t a part of the ten million conspiracy for states to send to the con vention "favorite sons."
 According to the administration people, any state other than Ohio, which sends a favorite son delegation to the convection, is in the conspiracy. Both the Ohio sen ators are in town as well as Secretary Taft, but for all that the Ohio political situation is quiet at this end of the line.
 The Ohio colony in Washington retains interest in the contest. and there is a great deal of correspondence back and forth on the situation in the state. One of the letters received here today by an Ohio resident politician was from Daniel J. Ryan, former secretary of state, and 
 captains in past battles Mr. Ryan, in this letter. expresses his amusement at the attitude of the Taft managers, and adds:
 "The presidency for the Senate is a good bargain. In the days of McKinley's great ness and ambition we were always will link to trade on that basis. Nothing has a more disastrous effect on a presiden- tial candidate than dissension of his own state"
 MT. Ryan goes on to say that the belief is spreading that the lack of harmony is directly due to President Roosevelt 8 ennity of ForalScr, and that this realza- ton is weakening the position of the Taft people. He says there is no question that Secretary Taft has the lead for the pres idency but he deplores that the lack of harmony growing out of the rule or ruin policy of the rational administra- ton.
 Other advices from Ohio claim that Representative lSurtott isi the cause of a g1-eat deal of the fricffn' existing in re- puUtcan politics, and ss go so far as to say that if President Roosevelt and Representative Burton would keep hands off. the Taft and Foraker factions would get together in a jiffy. In point of fact, it Is thought that misunderstanding mis- representation, and mutual distrust are responsible for much of the trouble. Some of the Ohio folks have been trying to get Senator Foraker and Secretary Taft together for talk over the situation but 1t Is rather difficult.
 Senator Foraker is said to feel that he is the senior in every way, and that it is not becoming that he should make advances. He was governor of the state when MT. Taft was very new in politics, and appointed him to the bench Secre- tary Taft. for his part is keeping aloof from the details of the Ohio squabbe leaving them to his managers, and in his attitude of extreme dignity, is hard to approach, so that the possibilities of a half hours amicable talk between the principals seem to be remote.
 Gov. John A. Johnson of Minnesota, has accepted an invitation to visit Vicks- burg, Miss. at an early date and de- liver address at the unveiling at the battlefield there of monument to Minne- sota soldiers who participated in that bloody siege. If his official duties at St. Paul shall permit him to extend the trip several days he may visit other parts of the south, and make some speeches. His presence in that section Is expected to stir up presidential politics. As the only democrat ever elected governor of Minnesota, the feeling Is growing that probably he would make a winning candi- date for 1908.
 The relations between him and the Bry- an element are entirely harmonious and 1t Is suggested that should Governor Johnson make a favorable impression in the south and the Nebraskan should conclude not to take the nomination next year he would favor the Minnesota man.