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that he had political influence enough
Ia compass the defeat OF Representa-
tive Albert Douglas, Taft man, Tor
Then they consented
that the appointment should be mace.
The Ohio primaries of last week, re
sulting in almost no votes Tor senator
Foraker, and enough for Secretary
Taft to give him the control of the
state convention-which names four
delegates at large-had been ant1cl-
pated. But right on the eve or the
primary Senator Foraker announced
that there would be a rump conven-
ton and that four contesting delegates
at large would go to Chicago from the
Buckeye state. At the same time sem
ator Dick, his colleague, said that sen
ator Foraker had no reason to despair
as several of the Congressional dis
tricts were sure to be for Senator For
aker and would assure him at least
ten or twelve, probably fourteen, dis |
trict delegates to the convention.
NEGROES AROUSED.
Right in the dinst of the gloomy
forebodings, however, news came from
two or three other quarters showing
that Senator Foraker knew more about
the general situation than some folks
who were disposed to condole with him.
Representative Butler Ames, of Mass,
a son of Gen. Adelbert Ames--tne lat
ter once q Senator from Mississippi
and a major general in the civil war
was down at St. Augustine, Fla, Wnen
the state convention for the nomina-
ton of delegates to Chicago was held.
He told in vivid language around the
Capitol how, when a banner was I'M
furled in that convention, calling upon
the negroes to stand firm for Senator
Foraker, their defender in the Browns
willie case, said negroes were stirred
with great enthusiasm, which proved
the feature of the convention. 1t de-
monstrated that Senator Foraker
name is one to conjure with IN the
Southern states, where the negroes
constitute most of the Republican par
tv except the officehoIders. Since then
the Taft workers have been receiving
fresh evidences that the enthusiasm OF
the Florida convention for Senator For
aker is quite certain to be repeated
in the state and Congressional conyen-
lions of other Southern states and IL
has become a troublesome question
with them. They are unable to see
Just how they can meet it for the agl-
tation among the negroes seems to be
something almost unprecedented.
On the heels Of that demonstration
came the convention of Methodist BIZ
shops of the colored churches here in
Washington. No such determined
gathering of negro bishops was ever
before seen here. They went to the
limit never before known here, when
L. iyour
of the bishops who generally abstain
from political agitation, announced
that they would never vote for Seere-
tary Taft and that colored voters gem
orally were not going to support him.
, They were ready to vote for Bryan
who would likely be the Democratic
. candidate
All of which, naturally, was balm te
the wounds that Senator Foraker had
received in his numerous onslaughts
from the Taft forces. He smiled quiet
: ". His insomnia, with which he is
troubled much, did not leave him and
instead of sleeping he worked on his
plans for continuing the fight and also
! worked away on his big speech which
: is to be delivered when the report OF
: the Senate Committee on the Browns
: is to be one of his supreme efforts an6
is calculated to fmpart great enthusi-
: asm to the negroes of Northern, a.
! well as the Southern states. He doe
: not intend to mince words and tbs
blame for the sweeping discharge o
soldiers of the colored battalion of thu
I 25th Infantry will be placed upon Pres
: ident Roosevelt and Secretary Taft
: The apeech is likely to become tbs
u handbook of the Presidential campaign
as far as the negroes are conc erned-
e il. secretary Taft is nominated.
:. THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
The greatest marshaIing of forces il
d connection with the Republican cam
q paign fer the nomination of u Presl
g dent promises to be over the sontrt
% of the Republican National committee
But the fight for the control of tina
n committee will not be in the oper
"a There will be little Of the spectaeula
= about it--no unfurling Of banners. II
- hurrahing of multitudes, no musterln
;, of votes or holding of rump CONVEX
- tions. 1t will be all gumshoe wori
- For the majority Of the National con
>" mittee viii have the say in maxim
UP the temporary rolls Of the NatioI
al convention, as has often been tol
r Of late.
re Quite one-ffth of the delegates
t. the convention will be confronted
er contests and that is probably a mode
to estimate. If the National commit,
IS PUTS 200 anti-Taft delegates ON Il
lie rolls for the South and other state
g those 200 men. with the delegates fro
in the favorite son states and from Il
n states that are not going TO instru
o. their delegates will have large N
ioritv in the convention.
do Therefore it need be little wond
en- that President Roosevelt and Seereta
or Taft and all the Taft lieutenants ha
r. nut on their gumshoes already. If tn
Iat can pick off a handful of Natior
r. committeeman. man by man, and s