Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-02
HARRIS FOR GOVERNOR
Ohio Executive Will Keep Out
of Senatorship.
MANY MEET AT COLUMBUS
Republican State Convention Is
Fraught With Interest.
GOSSIP OVER THE PLATFORM
Senatorial Endorsement a Topic of
Much Comment-Taft Extolled.
Some of the Planks.
MANY MEET AT COLUMBUS
GOSSIP OVER THE PLATFORM
Special Dispatch to The Star.

| COLUMBUS. Ohio March 1.-The ques-
tion that the Taft leaders in the repubii-
can state convention are now considering
| is whether Senators Foraker and Dick
! shall be mentioned by name in the reso-
| lutions adopted or shall only be included
generally in a resolution expressing ap-
proval of the work of the republican
representatives in Congress from Ohio,
such as was proposed by Representative
! Burton in the state convention in Day
ton two years ago. but which was cast
aside when Senators Foraker and Dick
secured control of the convention.
When Attorney General Ellis went to
Washington last week he carried with him
rough draft of the resolutions proposed to
| be adopted in the Ohio republican conven-
tion for submission to President Roose-
welt, Secretary Taft and Secretary Car
| field. No mention was made in that
draft of either senator. There was no
direct word of either censure or praise
All of the gentlemen to whom it was
shown approved of it,
| Since Representative Burton arrived
last night he has heard much opposition
from delegates even to such Endorsement
of the senators would be carried in
| the plank proposed in. the Dayton con-
vention. Representative James Kennedy
OF the eighteenth district is specially vig-t
| orous in his opposition of even this kind
| of an Endorsement of the senators. point
| ing out that throughout the country many
| are supporting Secretary Taft mainly be-
cause they are opposed to Foraker.
Among all such he says even such a
plank would have a depressing effect.
Harris Ignores Senatorship.
Gov. Harris refuses to enter into any
plan by which he is to be raised to the
senatorship after his election as governor.
He says he is a candidate only for nomi-
nation and election as governor. He
wants to be recorded in history as a real
and not merely as an acting governor.
| having proceeded from the office of gov
| ernor to that of United States senator.
| In fact, he feels that, while his health is
good; he Is too old 70 enter upon ssna-
any impression on the Senate. He Is now
| seventy-four years old. ~Aet
fhe Office of governor carries a salary
of $4,000. so that in resigning the gov
ernorship to accept the senatorship Gov.
Harris would be sacrificing $4,000 year
| in salary. while his expenses in WASH
| ington would. of course, be greater than
1 they would be in the governors office
| Gov. Harris is not a wealthy man. being
| an ordinary farmer when elected lieuten-
ant governor two gears ago, and his prin-
| cfpal possessions being couple of Preble
| county farms.
Frank Hitchcock. the Taft manager for
| the southern states, is expected to arrive
| tomorrow to init ate himself with the Taft
movement. With the proceedings of the
state convention Taft himself is not to
/ be here as the program now stands. The
| Taft managers are fearful that the pro-
| ceedingS of the convention may take on
| such shape as to give ground for the sus-
plcion that a slate has been made by
| them for the state nominations. That they
have complete control of the convention
q md RI tot fho ar,ip io,c
| known. but to do SO would be to invite
| disaster at the polls The operation of
| the biennial election amendment to the
| state constitution brings the election OF
/ all the state officers up now every two
years. and fourteen nominations are to
| be made for state officers by the conven-
| tion larger number than was ever made
| before by state convention in the his
| tory of Ohio politics.
An Unusually Large Convention.
One result of this will be an unusually
large convention, friends of the candidates
coming in large numbers to hep them and
). see the contests. The convention meets
| by congressional districts at pm. to-
! morrow and at pm. as a whole, but
nothing will be done at the evening session
but listen 10 the keynote speech of the
| temporary chairman. Secretary j. r. Gar
| field. and the reports of the district meet
| lngs. The program now is to make At
torney General Ellis the permanent chair
! man.
As was expected, Gov Harris issued
the following statement this morning:
| L am not a candidate for United States
senator and have no expectations about
IT. hope to be nominated and elected
governor and to serve out nv full term
10 the best OF my ability. l have no am
bition beyond that
The name of Gov. Harris will be pre-
sented to the state convention Wednes-
day as candidate for nomination for gov
ernor by Judge Elan Fisher Of Preble
lcounty. 1t was Judge Fisher who, in 1905
presented the name of Gov Harris to the
state convention as candidate for lieuten-
ant governor He is neighbor of Gov.
| Harris in Eaton. and it was he who in
! formed Gov. Harris, as he met him on
his way from his farm of the death of
Gov. Pattison two years ago, and repair
! ing to the residence of Judge Fisher, the
oath of office was there taken. Seconding
speeches Will be made by Henry Clayton
of Columbus and John J. Sullivan of War
rem.
AS the rough draft of the platform, now
stands 1t commits the republican party
to modified form of the initiative and ref.
erendum. properly safeguarded OF course.
the fullest sort of approval Is given to the
administration of President Roosevelt The
work of Secretary Taft. both at home and
abroad. is eXtolled and made the basis of
a strong Endorsement both of work and of
the Secretary himself a candida tie for the
republican nomination for President of
the United States. The work of the re-
publican representatives from Ohio in
Congress is indorsed The senators are not
| referred to specifically either by office or
name.
The Panama canal, pushed by the
national administration is approved and
il is declared that it should be the ma
tional policy TO push this great work to
completion as early possible. The ad-
ministration of Gov. Harris is approved as
wise and patriotic.
OHIO REPUBLICANS TOMORROW
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