The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-05
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 Copyrighted, 1907. by E. W. Newman.)
 Just fifty years ago the administra- tion of James Buchanan undertook to put Stephen A. Douglas out of the po- litical business. The little giant was a. candidate for reelection to the Senate, and by general consent Abraham Lin coin was selected as his Republican op- ponent. Horace Greeley, however, who was possessed of extravagant admira- tion for the wonderful forensic genius of Douglas, advised the party in Illi- nois to give it's vote to him as re- buke to the Southern Democracy, that had prevailed on Buchanan to favor the Lecompton constitutions; but the Illl- nois Republicans distrusted and feared the little giant, and the result was the splendid fight he made against both Lincoln and Buchanan in 1858, from which he came off victor.
 A dozen years later Charles Sumner and President Grant had a row over Mir. Summers attempt to run our foreign affairs independent of the President and the Secretary of State, and there Is no sort of doubt that we would have had war with Great Britain over the Alabama claims if Grant had not served notice on Sumner that Hamilton Fish had charge of our foreign affairs. The result was the recall of John Lothrop Motley, our Minister to England, who persisted in taking orders from Sumner Instead of from the State Department. Later the Republican majority in the Senate deposed Sumner from the chair manship of FoSeign Relations and gave the place to Simon Cameron. Sumner linen joined the, Leberal Republican par ty and made speech rebukfng General Grant for nepdtism that was wonderful for the vast wealth of historical illus tration with which 1t abounded. Sum ner supported Greeley. whom he sur vived but few months.
 Another famous quarrel was that be- tween Garfield and Conkling, which was eut short by a maniac's bullet just as he Senator was getting ready to fight.
 And now there Is a quarrel between President and Senator that promises to eclipse all the others in public interest and political consequences. Ohio is the battlegrotfnd, and Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph B. Foraker the champions. The President asserts the right to ap- point his successor, for that Is what 1t means in plain English; the Senator maintains the privilege to be q states man in the Senate, or politician in Ohio, without let or hindrance from the President, or anybody and every body else. Secretary Taft is the man the President has chosen to wear his mantle after March {, 1908 Unfortun- ately, MT. Taft is not all the Presiden- tial timber in Ohio. There are thous- ands of Republicans in Ohio who be- lieve Joseph B. Foraker has done more for the party than Taft ever accom- plished, and these gentlemen are in no humor to have their favorite horned of from the National Convention in 1908 or pitch -forked out of the United States Senate in 1909.
 Foraker is one of the most dashing and attractive public men Ohio has produced. He is fanatically honest and fntrepidly courageous. His conscience never felt the touch of interest, and his tongue never felt the presence of bridle. What his heart forges, that his mouth speaks. and his is an eye that never feared to look on the face of man. He never Hanks an obstacle There Is nothing negative about him. Had there been there is little doubt that he would have been President ere this, and this I make bold to say, that he would have been elected President nineteen years ago if ho had consented to contest for the nomination.
 Foraker was born in Ohio because he is of a Virginia family that preferred to dwell in tho then wilderness rather
 
 where African slavery existed. This Is why Foraker was not born in Virginia Perhaps that is why he wore the blue and not the grey. He is Methodist and was named for John Wesley's friend and follower, Joseph Benson. A year before his birth there came the great schism in the Methodist Church that presaged the political secession of 1861. The family settled in Highland County and there the future soldier and statesman was born July 5, 1S46. At the age of 16 he was a volunteer soldier in the great war and continued in the service to the end when he was mustered out, having advanced to the rank of captain by sheer merit and with out patronage. Only 1s years of age and a veteran, his was a career and a record that tens of thousands of Ohio youth envied. He now set about &C., quiring an education and was gratu- ated from Cornell University in 1869.
 There was but one of the learned professions that invited him-the law and during the autumn following the completion of his college course, he was admitted to the bar and opened an office in Cincinnati. a city famous for the splendid abilities of its bar With youth. health, strength, charac- ter, brilliant parts and no ordinary tal- ents, he was studious and diligent in his profession and In a little while he was not lacking for clients. He was no moot court lawyer. as he had been no carpet-knight soldier. He had no odious vices Pleasures he had, but they were rational, the pleasures of a gentleman and a Christian. Ten years later he was on the bench, a judge of the Supreme Court
 But Foraker was a politician. He