The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28
REPUBS ARE
 COMPLAINING About MT. Rooseyelt's s
 Starchy Letter. THAT ARcE AT TOLEDO ForaS s Undoing Changes Plans -- ~of Campaign Managers. osevcits Recent Attack Sn Senator Foraker Has Turned Many
 Negro Vote to Bryan and
 Democracy.
 
BY ALFRED J. STOPPER.

Washington. Sept. 27-(special)-- Many of the experienced Republican politicians are complaining bitterly. that by giving out without his con- sent that starchy letter Candidate Taft wrote some time ago in which he declared he'd rather not be President than get there with the help of such pesky man as Senator Foraker, Roosevelt has made 1t decidedly em- barrassing for Judge Taft.
 They think the President should at least have warned his specially brand- ed candidate that he was going to spring this document so that the can- didate might have avoided that ap- parently most touching reconciitation with Forakor at Toledo. The concerns which are making cheap newspaper pictures about as quickly as you can bake batter-cakes. got out one of that ecstatio scene in the presence of the soldiers who had gathered that day in large numbers. In view of what has happened since. how ridiculous that picture seems now. Preparations had been made by the campaign managers to circulate the pictures all over the country. The old soldiers were massed in front of the lavishly decorated stand. In the front were Taft and Foraker. They had a moment or two before clasped hands most cordially. Foralxer had said in loud tones that he was going to support Taft. He was willing to of our cause" raft smiled one of his grandest smiles, and he proclaimed with all the voice he had So that 1t might be heard and teiegraphed far and wide that he was powerfully glad to hear the eloquent and fiery Senator say In public that he was going to whoop up the voters for him. He didn't even intimate remotely that he had ever had any misgiving about Foraker, and to have the assursnces of his hearty good will and that he sauid try to keep an his tollo wefx f. line was really more than highly ap- preciate candidate for high office could stand.
 Best of Friends.
 And right here is the strongest point Judge Taft made that day. He said, be 1t remembered. that he and Senator Foraker would work shoulder to shoulder in the campaign. He im- pressed the fact upon his hearers that they were the best of friends political ly and personally. With a heart fair. ly bursting with gieefui gratitude he assured the assembled vets and others that he owed a great, deal indeed to Foraker, for that now embarrassed statesman had done him q great fa- vor during his young manhood--ap- pointed him while Governor of the State to the position of superior judge in Cincinnati. How could he then ever forget him? It was the first ofice Taft had ever had.
 Ever since, that supposed reconcil- iation and until our strenuous PresI- dent commenced throwing bricks at people and putting ginger into tho campaign as he calls 1t, the Republi- cans about Washington thought that place had certainly been patched up out in Ohio, and all that was neces- sary was to count the votes election night Hardly had Candidate Taft's words died away before the impetu- ous gentleman in the White House commenced to raise thunder for his party. Without consulting Taft. Roosevelt gave out his letter scoring Foraker unmercifully. There was the candidate on the platform with Fora ker falling on his neck, and about the same time Roosevelt was holding up his statements In his manifesto aim ed at Bryan, Haskell and the whole kit on the other side of the political fence. In other words. Taft for the political effect 1t would have in Ohio and the surrounding States was prais- ing Foraker and Roosevelt was using Tafts own bitter words to discredit and drive from the public stage Sem ator Foraker.
 yOrys the Man.
 The worst of 1t is the perplexed Re- publicans who talk about these bad breaks are compelled to admit that the Taft letter was addressed to Vorys the right bower of Taft and the man who was disbarred as a pension at- torney by Dudley because he appro- priate1 to hIs own use. the money of soldiers widow. The President left out of the Taft attack upon Foraker the name Of the man to whom the sensa- tlonal letter was addressed, but 1t is common talk in Washington that Vorys was the individual, for he 1t was who managed the fight to capture the Ohio delegation to Chicago.
 No such capers as these have ever been cut in national campaign in this country before. To say the Dem ocrats are going to make good use of this remarkable situation hardly ex- presses It. They are loading up with some of the most fetching material stump speakers ever had
 The President and Judge Taft do not seem to be able to agree as to their Interpretations of certain issues being raised with a view of stemminR the tide which is undoubtedly setting in against the Republicans and which they are doing their utmost to check, no matter what methods may be em- ployed. Within the past two weeks Taft has advanced a lot of ideas in ref erence to intunctions. They are inc opposite to what Roosevelt has ad- vanced in messages to Congress and in animated magazine articles written by him just before he was elevated to the highest office within the gift of the American people These clashes and Inconsistencies are being watched closely by the Democrats speakers and writers, and the Republicans re going to get a hammering all along the line In consequence thereof.
 From all accounts Frank Hitchcock is doing some odd things. He Is ra- ported to do more comforting than any man who ever attempted to direct a national campaign. Complaint is made by many Republicans of prominence that he is the ha -dest man to see im- aginable. Whom he isn't conferrfng they declare that he is locked up alone and must be whispering to himself Secrets are being let out which go to show what a lovely time they are hay