The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-10
FORAKER WILL
GET SHORT END
Republican Primaries in Ohio
tuesday Certain to Be Car
ried by Taft With WhoOp.
BIG FIGHT IN CLEVELAND
OTHERWISE THE FIRE ALARM is
OUT OF 1T.
BIG FIGHT IN CLEVELAND

Columbus, O., Feb. 9.-Next Tuesday
the county primaries. at which dele
gates to the Republican state conven-
ton on March 3 are to be selected, viii
be held throughout Ohio. An over
whelming majority of these delegates
will be in favor of William H. Taft for
president and the convention may be
unanimously in his favor.
Under a recent decision of the Re
publican state central committee, it
will not be necessary to hold actual
primaries unless there is more than one
ticket in the field. and by virtue of this
ruling, in fifty-two out of a total of
lightweight counties in the state, the
regular Taft delegates will be chosen
merely by the certification of their
names.
Fight in cuyahosa.
In the remaining thirty-six counties
primaries will be held, but in only four
of these is there opposition to Taft. In
but one county, CuyahOga, in which is
the city of Cleveland. does the fight
against him show any sign of conse-
Quence.
The convention will be attended by
certain to have 745, almost certain OF
752, and his political managers are CON
fident that he will have them all.
The dubious spots are Knox county,
with seven delegates, and Cuyahoga
county, which has siXty-three dele
gates. The contest in the latter coun-
ty is the more serious. not only be-
cause of the greater number of dele
gates involved. but because the For
aker faction has sought to bring the
matter into court, and will, il is ex-
pected, ask the supreme court tomor-
row for permission to file the case be-
fore that body.
Primaries Will Be Held.
Minor political considerations in the
city of Cleveland have brought about
conflicting claims as to the validity of
the two county committees. The Taft
people claim that this is the only legal
body. and the Foraker faction is set
ting up a similar assertion in behalf
of its committee.
The board of elections of Cuyahoga
county recognized the Taft committee
but on order of the state courts re-
scinded this action and declared in IA
vor of the Foraker committee.
The primary, however, will proceed
Il
tons involved, but if the case is filed
before the supreme court and then de-
cided by that body in favor of the For
aker- people, new primaries must be
called.
+ Late yesterday a complete list OF
anti-Taft candidates for the county
/ state and congressional conventions
was accepted by the section Soard Of
Cuyahoga county. and there will be a
fight all along the line.
Lucas and Knox Counties.
| In Knox county seven men, all CT
whom are Foraker adherents, have en-
tered in the primaries against the Taft
candidates. They are running as indie
pendents, and are not claiming to be
either Taft or Foraker men.
! In Lucas county, of which Toledo is
/ the political center, there are two
/ tickets in the field. but both of then
/ have declared III favor of Taft. A sim
/ liar situation exists in SciOto county
where opposition to Philo S. Clark {
| Republican leader, has brought a list
| of candidates into the fight. Both tick
! cts favor Taft, however, and he stand:
no chance of losing in any event.
/ The twenty-one congressional districr
conventions at which delegates to tn,
/ Republican national convention will bc
! chosen date all the way from Feb. l;
| to Feb. II. with six as yet uncalled
! Primaries for the selection of delegates
! to congressional conventions as well a.
| delegates to the state convention, vii
/ be held next Tuesday in the Fourth
| Fifth, Twelfth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth
! Eighteenth and Twenty districts
| Primaries for congressional cOnven
tions will also be held on Tuesday il
portions of the Seventh, Eighth anC
| Nineteenth districts. In the Sixth
! Ninth and Sixteenth districts Repub
! lican candidates for congress will b,
nominated by the district primaries.
Four Certain for Taft.
| AS Taft will control the state con
vention by an overwhelming majority
| he is certain OF the four delegates a
/ large, and in the First, Second, Fourth
| Fifth, Twelfth and Sixteenth district
uncontested Taft delegates will b.
| chosen
The Foraker people have consider
able strength in the Sixth and Tentl
| districts. and the fight in the city o
| Cleveland for state delegates applies
also to the congressional convention
of the Twenty1first district 1t is there
| fore possible that there may be con
i testing delegates from these three dis
| tricts. and there seems at present I,
| be no possibility of breaking up
solid delegation for Taft, unless tn,
credentials committee of the nationa
/ fs<,r,l inc.