The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-04
FORAKER STILL
NOT SATISFIED
Ohio Senator Refuses to Be
Bound by Action of State
Central Committee.
CAN'T UNDERSTAND CALL
ASKED FOR BREAD AND WAS
HIT WITH A BRICK.

Cincinnati, o., Jan. "a fat refusal
to be bound by the conditions of the
call for the Republican state conven-
ton, which is TO name a state ticket
and select deIegates-at-iarge to the ma
tional convention, is the conclusion
reached by United States Senator J. b.
Foraker, and announced in a statement
given to the press here tonight.
Primaries for a test of strength be-
tween Taft and Foraker as presideu-
udl candidates were provided for in
the official call. and the method prOvid-
ed is sharply criticised by Senator For
aker The statement, in part. follows:
Not What He Wanted.
Il am not sure l understand the call.
although l have read it several times.
If do, it is another case of asking for
bread and getting a stone. My idea
in requesting primaries was to have
the election of delegates brought home
TO the people so that in each ward, for
instance, We could select our immedi-
ate representatives. This call makes
all that impossible.
In addition, it prescribes require
ments not authorized by the statute
and not within the power of the state
central committee. Some of the re-
Guirements are in direct conflict with
the statute. Some OF them are very
burdensOme. One in particular is the
requirement that before there can be
a Taft ticket and a Foraker ticket
there must be petition signed by
twenty times the number of the candi-
dates for delegates and alternates. That
would mean in this county about 1000
sfgners or petitioners.
Requirement Not Reasonable.
The unreasonableness of the re-
quirement that there shall be 4.O0G pc
titiOners to authorize a ticket is shown
not only by the fact that the law
makes no such requirement, but that in
cases where the law authorizes county
and city officers to be nominated by pc
titiOn only 300 names are necessary to
nominate any county officer and only
fifty names are necessary to nominate
any municipal officer
IF in the contemplation of the law
fifty signers are enough to authorize
placing a mans name On the ticket for
mayor of Cincinnati or Cleveland, GER
tainly il is beyond anything contem-
plated by the law that 1000 signers
should be necessary to nominate a lot
OF delegates and alternates to merely
attend the state convention. Such 4
oordition is unnecessary as we'll as bur
densome- 1t should be enough for each
Party to select its own ticket and then
let the people vote THEN preference.
The counties are not bound to fol-
low the order Of she state central COM
mittee, but whether they will do so or
not | am not advised. So far as I am
personally concerned, shall make no
effort to comply with such uncalIed
for, illegal and arbitrary conditions"
Dick for Foraker.
Akron, O., Jan 81 am for For
ed States Senator Dick said today.
Reports that I desire TO climb into
some one else's band wagon are false"
Thus the junior senator from Ohio
sized uD his attitude toward Senator
Foraker, incident to the recent call of
the Republican central committee, con-
cedCd by the Foraker forces to have
been decidedly in favor of Secretary
Taft.
Il think the time set for the prime
ries and the convention is entirely too
early" said Senator Dick "All of the
conditions of the call are arbitrary and
hard to comply with. This is exceD-
tiOnally true of the feature which pro-
vides for the nomination of delegates
by petition. No provision is made in
the call for candidates for state Of
fees. The delegates win have 40 op-
pertunity to vote for any candidate ex-
cept Mr.. Taft or Foraker