Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-10-01
Candidate Taft's frantic efforts to clear

Candidate Taft's frantic efforts to clear
his immaculate skirts from the dedllDg
touch of Senator J. B. Foraker, because OF
the disclosure of the latteris connection with
the Standard Oil interests, are ludicrous in
view of the public protestation of friendship
of the two during the past month-once at
Toledo Oh September ID, on the occasion OF
the G. A. R. parade, and again at Cincin-
natl on September 10th, where they held a
forty minutes conference at Mr.. Taft's head
quarters, while dozen doves of peace fiut-
tered joyfullY and the olive branch nodded
approvingly Senator Foraker's presence on
that occasion was the result Of special In
yitation from Mr.. Taft's campaign manager
in Ohio, A. I. Worry, of whom more anon.
Mr. Vorys was pension attorney years age,
and the records at the Washington Office re-
fer TO him.
It will be difficult to conYince the voters,
not only Of Ohio but the country at large,
that neither Mr.. Roosevelt nor his candi-
date knew nothing Of Senator Foraker's com
munications with the Standard Oil office
until the publication of she correspondence.
Taft and Foraker shaking hands in the
reviewing stand at Toledo on September I'd,
before an admiring cheering multitude,
taken by the sensitive camera, will make
an excellent pictuIe for the advisory"
board, Messrs. Hitchcock, Cromwell, Bliss,
Sheldon, Dupont, ct al, of the Republican
National Committee, to spread broadcast
throughout the country with the caption
spoken by Mr.. Taft, He's good enough for
me.n
Also it must to-day be very bitter for Mr..
Taft to eat his words of September 105h af-
ter the Cincinnati conference, when he said:
Senator Foraker and I are both very
much yexed at the reports Of friction be-
tween us. There is no occasion for such re-
ports.n
Also referring to she interview, Mr.. Taft
said:
''There has been a great deal of misrep-
resentation about the situation between
Senator Foraker and myself. We discussed
the general aspects of the campaign. Sena-
tor Foraker said he wanted to do all he
could to bring about Republican success
and to call upon him when needed him. =
Senator + oraker's comment upon the con-
ference was that 1--WE had a very pleasant
personal talk"
Mr.. Taft had good reason to be gratefu
to ssJoe'' Foraker, and to desire his friend
ship, for it was Foraker who gave him his
first big boost into the limelight, by making
him judge of the superior court of Cincin-
natl. Foraker was at that time Governor
of Ohio.
According to Mr.. Roosevelt's letter, Mr..
Taft declined all oyertures from the Foraker
party in 1907 the proposed agreement be-
ing that Foraker would support Taft's can
didacy for the presidency, if Mr.. Taft and
the other Ohio leaders would throw their
strength TO the Senatorial aspiration of For
aker. Mr.. Taft then said that he would
not consider for one moment any possible
advantage to himself when what he regard
ed as a great principle was at stake. !"
Those are Mr.. Rooseyelts words. But in
view of the peace pact of September End,
are the people Of Ohio and the entire conn-
try to be deceiyed into believing that no
arrangements" was made either with Mr.
Taft or his Managers and Senator Foraker?
Can Mr.. Roosevelt, who has deemed it
necessary TO rush to the aid Of Mr.. Taft ex-
plain it?
"Bossp Cox, of Cincinnati, with his new
haleof virtue, affixed by Mr.. Taft and ap-
pointed by the latter head of the local COM
mittee, ordered thousands of the hand shak-
ing he is good enough for me- Autographs
for distribution. But what a change week
brought in the situation. The peace doves
haYe been killed; the olive branches thrown
into the ash can and Senator Foraker pitch
ed headlong from Peach Mountain into
Despair Guleh.
Mr.. Foraker has been read out of the par ty
repudiated and reyiled by Mr.. Roosevelt.
AS Henry Watterson so cuttingly speaks of
the 'Grand old partY'sn attitude in the
matter. 1t is amazing Tt is humiliating.
Their sins indeed have found them out.
Scandals TO righs of Them scandals to left Of
them; defeat in front of them. Yet little
longer and then the boneyard, leaving only
a stencil behind, ard this Inscriptions:
"Whilst it lived, If lived in clover,
''When it died, it died all oyer.n