The sun., 1907-03-28
OHIO HOT WITH 1908 POLITICS.
SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL
COMMITTEES ENVESTIG. .ITES
And Has Gone 10 Washington 10 Report
Foraker Men say They Won't Have
TAFT and Won't compromise Al Press
ent Foraker and DIck Control MaclIlne.

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Foraker NIen say They Won't Have
TAFT and Won't Compromise Al Pres
ent Foraker and Dick Control Machine.
Elmer Dover, secretary Of the Republican
national committee has gone to Washing
' ton. where he il to confer with eminent
Republicans concerning the situation IN
Ohio. MIR. Dover was Marcus A. Hannas
right hand man in the campaigns of 1895
and 1890. was very clOIa to President
Mckinley and was Senator Hanna's sac
retary in the closing years Of the soma
/ tors life. Mr.. Dover has recently had
a number of interviews with Charles p.
Taft, brother of Secretary Taft. and "a "A
result OF those interviews Mr. Dover has
recently made a tour Of Ohio. MIR Dover,
il was said. is TO report his conclusions on
the Ohio situation to Charles =. Taft and
TO other friends of Secretary Taft in Wash
ington.
Mr. Dover found a tumutuous state of
a1airS in the Buckeye State. according tO
friends who talked with him yesterday
The Presidential situation. is about thu only
thing now discussed by Ohio Republicans.
The Ohioans recall with 2ast that the State
has had five Ohio born BOYS in the Prrsi-
dental chair and il is eager 10 cut another
notch so that in time the State can rival
the Old Dominion with its seven Virginia
born boys in the White House
Secretary Dover discussed the situation in
Ohio with all classes Of Republicans. He
found the Foraker men bitter and he found
the Dick men very much wrought up. Ac-
cordIng TO Mr.. Dover's investigations SEN
atOr Foraker and Senator Dick control be-
Yond peradVerture the Republican organ
lTatiOn OF the State. and control il in such
iron fashion that they can control the dele
gates to the Republican State convention
which is 70 send delegates and delegates at
large to the national convention a year from
next June. Seldom has a Presidential situa-
ton burst upon State with such preCpi-
fancy as that with which tine Ohio Republic
cans are now wrestling and that too with the
national convention fifteen months away
Many of the Republicans with whom Mr..
Dover talked in Ohio couaseled getting
together on the part Of the Foraker Dick
forces and the Republicans who favor SecTts-
tary Taft's nomination for the Presidency
The Foraker Dick men, il was stated did not
view with complacency such programme,
because they feared it's ultimate effect upon
the political future OF Senator Foraker,
whose term expires on March g. 1909
The supporters of the present dominant
element in the Republican organization of
Ohio informed Mr.. Dover that Representa-
tive Theodore +. Burton, who is one Of
Secretary Taft's most ardent supporters, is
practically a candidate for Senator Fora
ker's seat in the Senate Senator Foraker
has always been n militant spirit in the
Republican affairs of Ohio and in times
gone by has marched to martial music
against the most powerful Republicans Of
the State with ultimate success for himself
The ForakerDick forces in the State be-
lieve, according 10 Mr.. Dover's investiga-
tion, that President Roosevelt in his advo-
cacy Of Secretary Taft has declared war on
the Republican organization of the State
as at present controlled, and the first evi-
dence OF this, they say, was the appoint
ment several days ago OF a Federal Judge
in opposition 20 the wishes of Senator
Foraker and Senator Dick Then, too
according to MIR. Dover's Investigations,
the Republican machnists of the State are |
still very much offended over Secretary
Taft's attitude in the Last gubernatorial
election in the State, when, they say, the |
Secretary's speeches in the state brought |
about the defeat of Myron 7. HerriCk for !
Governor while the rest of the State ticket !
was elected. Gov. Herrick was Mckinley
man and Hanna man, and after the death |
of President Mckinley and Senator Hanna !
he. with Senator Dick, joined the dominant !
element led by Senator Foraker and George |
Cox of Cincinnati.
just how Secretary Taft is to get The dele ,
gates from his own State to the national |
convention is now the great problem which |
is being discussed in Washington and in
Ohio. The friends of Secretary Taft in
the State balk AT the notion of any COM
promise with Senator Foraker or Senator
Dick and believe that President Roosevelt
will exercise every power within his grasp.
especially in the distribution of Federal
patronage, between now and national con-
vention time to overthrow Foraker and
Dick. Yet a good many Ohio Republicans
look for a compromise Of some sort II
is recalled that Senator Foraker il. 1898
was at first especially opposed to the nomi-
nation OF Mckinley. and ended by mixing
the nominating speech for Mckinley at St
Louis. as he did for Mckinley at Philadelphia
in 1900. Forakers men insist that there
will he no compromise and say hat Senator
Foraker feels that President Roosevelt il
personally hostile TO him, whereas the
differences between Representative William
Mckinley and Marcus 4. Hanna, Nick inley's
Warwick. we're merely of the ordinary
political factional character. Indeed, Sena-
tor Foraker's friends insist that unless
Senator Foraker and Senator Dick are
overthrown between now and national
convention time Senator Foraker will go
into the national convention as a candidate
himself with the Ohio delegation at his
back