Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08
TO SUCCEED FORAKER
Believed That the Next Ohio
Senator Will Be Democrat.
EXTRA SESSION is URGED
Pressure Brought to Bear on Gov.
Harris.
TEMPERANCE ISSUE FAILS
Defeat Of Anti-S-locn League Can
didate-Pat~ age in Hands of
Ne-v Executive.
EXTRA SESSION is URGED
TEMPERANCE ISSUE FAILS

Special Dispatch to The Star.
COLUMBUS, Ohio. November Now
that the general election is over and the
result is known. the next question is who
VIII succeed Joseph Benson Foraker as
senator from the Buckeye state. 1t is but
fair to presume that his successor will
be democrat and that his name will be
James f. Campbell, although the legsla-
ture and the state senate are republican
by safe majority.
But the time of Senator Foraker will
expire before the next regular session of
the legislature, and therefore one of two
things will be necessary. either for Gov.
harris to call an extra session of the
legislature and elect the successor of For
aker for the next six years, or for him
10 permit the matter to pass over and al
low Gov. ELECT Harmon to appoint a sena-
tor who will serve until the regular ses-
sion of the legislature is held. which will
be in 1910 Every possible influence will
De brought to bear upon Gov. Harris
the present republican head of the state,
10 call an extra session. Along the paths
that he has followed in curbing all state
expenses 1t is but fair to presume that
ne Will refuse to do this. The cost of an
extra session would be more than 800 =
600. and as to whether the present gov
ernor will feel like putting the state to
that expense to obtain a political office it
is hard to say. No one knows today. The
tlme OF GOV. Harris does not expire until
January IL. and he would have more than
a weeks time in which to get the new
members here. AS the next legislature
will be safely republican. the senator who
Will be chosen will be republican as a
matter Of course. but just who it will be
is another question.
Half a Dozen Candidates.
There are at least half dozen candi-
dates for the toga now worn by the
senior senator from Ohio. Most promi-
nent OF them are A. 1. Vorys, DR.. c. A.
Reed w. B. Woodmansee. r E. Burton.
Harry Daugherty and others yet to hear
from.
The question which is puzzling the
republicans just now is whom will they
unite upon should the governor call an
altogether likely that ii. they are not
able to agree upon any one candidate
IT would be little use to call an extra
session. as 1t would be deadlocked, and
then after going to the enormous ex-
pense of calling them together the mat
ter would be left eventually with a demo-
cratic governor to decide. The sena-
tOrial question Is one of the uppermost
in the minds of Ohio politicians today,
and the solving of the problem will re-
qutre much time, much work and con-
siderable thought and scheming
Never In the history of Ohio have two
democratic governors been elected in sue
ceeding years on two such wide plat
forms as that upon which. the late Coy.
PattisOn was elected and that upon which
Judson Harmon was chosen. Pattison
was supported by the Anti Salo&n League
and every known temperance Oreaniza-
ton: Harmon was opposed by them even
more strongly than Pattison was sup
ported by them. Yet the result is the
same and in both cases the democrats
have been successful. Harmon went about
the state campaigning and his only plat
form was the breaking up of an alleged
state house ring.
Temperance Issue Fails.
On the other hand Gov. Harris went
about talking nothing but temperance
issues. The question did not appeal to
the voters as he thought it would and in
the rural districts, where it was expected
that he would be the strongest he was
the weakest; in the known dry" counties,
where he expected to get large majorities,
he lost the county. and for the time at
least the temperance question has been
relegated to the rear.
Anti-Saloon League policies was defeated
for reelection. Senator 1. r. Rose, the
author of the famous Rose county local
option law, although a candidate for re-
election for his second term in a district
composed mostly of republicans, was de-
feated for reelection. His district gen
orally gives from 1000 to 5000 republican
and 1t has never been known to
send man up for one term Always two
terms is the rule in the thirteenth con-
gressional district. yet Rose was defeated
by large plurality. as was also his run
ming mate. Senator Sites from Lancaster
a strong advocate of the Rose county 10
cal option law.
Others who supported the Rose bill went
down to defeat at the primaries when they
were up for denomination. Those who
succeeded in the preliminary conventions
met their Waterloo at the polls Tuesday.
Democrats Gain Congressman.
The democrats gain at least four con-
eressmen In the state and possibly five
James Cox won in the third. but had the
advantage of running against two repub-
leans and the vote was split. Congress
man Grant E. Mouser was defeated for a
third term. and James Joyce in the tif-
teenth won by a nose over George
White, the Marietta democrat. who was
of election. Albert Douglass
won out In the eleventh, but lost his own
city and county, which means that al
though he was successful he cannot hope
for another nomination at the hands of
the republicans of his district. and former
Grosvenor is already laying
his plans to get back into active work
again. He will be candidate against
Douglass when he comes up for reelection
again.
Patronage for the Democrats.
Every state institution will be reorsan-
lied under the new governor and the
Democrats will be given strong foot
hold In the state. In Ohio the state in
situations are all controlled by a board
that is appointed soon after the new
governor is inaugurated. Although the
terms Of the boards in many cases do not
expire until some months after the inau-
suration ceremonies. it is rule in Ohio,
which has never yet been violated, that
all boards resign when the new governor
goes in and Ito the victor belong the
spoils.' This means that the Ohio peni-
Tertiary, the state school for the blind.
and. in fact, every public institution in the
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