The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-15


| Secretarys record in granting injunc
tons against labor organizations
while he was a United States Circuit
| Judge. He will arraign the Secretary
| for siding with the President on the
| Brownsville issue and against the ne.
groes, as there is a large voting pop
| ulation of negroes in Ohio. He viii
| pummel the Secretary. for advocating
| the Philippine tariff, as Ohio is high
tariff state and not in sympathy with
any program for tariff reduction. The
Senator will also want to know wheth-
er the Secretary is a stalking horse
for President Roosevelt or whether ne
wants the nomination for himself
Then the Senator will want to know
why Secretary Taft went into Ohio
two years ago and made his Akron
speech, which, 1t is generally cOnced-
ed, resulted in the defeat of Gov. Her
rick for reelection.
The other candidates welcome the
Ohio strife. Naturally they will side
with Senator Foraker for his triumph
would keep the presidential race open
and make their own prospects better.
Vice President Fairbanks, for instance,
an Ohioan by birth, is carefully hold
ing aloof but his friends are immense
ly pleased at this turn of affairs Be
ing a former Ohioan he would prob
ably be the second choice of the state
for president. But if Taft wins the
Ohio primaries, he will have a splen-
did start for the nomination. His vic
tory would be regarded as a victory
for the President also. And the pres
ident and his Secretary would probably
have things their own way-provided,
of course, nothing happens to shake
the Presidents popularity.
President Roosevelt welcomes the
test in Ohio. He likes a fight just as
we'll as Senator Foraker ever did. He
is thoroughly confident that if it were
a test between Taft and Foraker, with
no complications, Taft would win cas-
lily. The President is not afraid of the
Ohio machine. He thinks its strength
has always been overestimated, that
it was in it's heydey in 1903. But in
that year Senator Hanna did not dare
resist an endorsement of Roosevelt at
the state convention for the presiden-
tial nomination the following year. 1t
was one of the dramatic incidents of
the preliminary campaign that Sena-
tor Foraker, then fighting for the
President, brought Hanna to his knees.
The convention did endorse Roosevelt
and Ohio was one of the states that
led in demanding his continuance in
the presidential Office. Although this
machine, of which Senator Dick is the
nominal head, includes committees
whose members number approximately
100000 Republican voters, quite one
fifth the voting strength of the state
and is well disciplined, President Roos-
evelt believes it can be easily STAN
peded.
1t is rather unique that the men
fighting Senator Foraker in this great
preliminary to the presidential strug
gle, are the very ones whom Senator
Foraker has greatly befriended and
from whom he has never received any
notable favors. Mr. Foraker has never
received political reward even in the
form of fat patronage. He has had
but few offices from the White House
and in recent days the President has
taken the Ohio appointments into his
hands. He has undertaken to name
postmasters, a federal judge, and
other officials without consulting Sem
ators Foraker and Dick. Of course
the Senator will hold up these ap-
pointments in the Senate next winter
and on that the merry war will prob
ably continue.
When he was Governor of Ohio Mr..
Foraker appointed Mr.. Taft as judge
of the Supreme Court of Cincinnati
and thus gave him his start in official
life. The two have remained personal
friends. Their differences at present
are purely political
Representative Burton, of Cleveland,
chairman of the River and Harbor
committee, who is Secretary Tafts
political right bower in Ohio and who
is now travelling with him on the Pan
anna, Cuba, Porto Rico tour, has also
been a recipient of Senator Foraker's
favor. After the death of Senator
Hanna Mr.. Burton wanted to come to
the Senate. He could not control the
of the legislature from his
own home county of Cuyahoga, which
was a sad state of affairs for a sen-
atorial candidate The machine was
then against Senator Foraker and Mr..
Burton appealed to him for help. The
appeal was not in vain. Senator For
aker used his influence with members
Of the legislature and secured more
votes for Mr.. Burton than Mr.. Burton
was able to secure for himslf. On the
olueF udifO the Ola fGepuDlEcdn organ
zation, which the late Senator Hanna
headed and which fought Senator For
aker and everything he wanted, has
now become his friend and is with him
through thick and thin. It's very life
depends upon the outcome of the fight,
tor if Secretary Taft wins it will be
-he doom of the old machine. Secre-
-ary Taft will then be the recognized |
BOSS of the state of Ohio and the pol
t1cians will make pilgrimages to him. |
1t is also interesting in that the pro-
posed primary is the first in which |
presidential candidates as such have |
Senator Foraker no longer makes |
my concealment of his candidacy for |
he presidency although he has made |
10 direct statement for publication. |
Much as he is regarded for his abil- |
ty, few people in Washington have |
hought he had much of a show for |
he nomination. But if he can win the |
of Ohio in the face of |
such an overwhelming fight he will |
ind himself a powerful factor in the |
so than ever before |
And the nomination might not be be-
Iond his reach. Such a victory for