The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-04
LEFT FOR DEAD.
Foraker and Dick Run Over by
Taft Band Wagon.
Every Friend of Theirs Voted
Out of the Committee.
GARFIELD PRESIDES
PRESIDES
As Temporary Chairman OF the
State Convention.
Makes a Speech Commencing the
Roosevelt Administration.

Columbus. O.. March 4.-The Repuo-
Icans of Ohio. who met at p. m. yes
Fterday to hold their state conventlon'
placed the entire party machinery IN
the state in the hands Of William ii.
Taft and his political followers ana
dealt a staggering blow to the interests
of Senators Foraker and Dick by Wlp-
ing off the state central committee eV-
a,-v man who was known to have any
bias in their favor.
OF the 81 members of the new COM
r,ittee Ii were reelected. Seven mem
hers constituted the Foraker faction,
and all were dropped.
The other three who were not elect
ed were TOR Taft and their retirement
was caused by local conditions alone.
Every member Of the new committee
is a Taft man.
waiter F. Brown Of Toledo was re-
elected chairman and Malcolm karsh-
ner of Columbus secretary OF the COM
mittee. The committee on permanent
organization decided to report attorney
General Wade H. Ellis for permanent
Pictures of Senator Foraker and
Dick were hung in the convention nan
and the platform has In 1t plank
commencing the "Ohio represen'arisos
in congress'' without, however, men
| tioning any of them by name. AT the
same time another plank which is also
in the platform strongly lndorses the
passage of the railway rate Dill against
which Senator Foraker fought SO Wig
| orouSly on the moor OIL TIC
| States senate.
The convention was called to order
nv Chairman Brown. The Columbus
! Glee club sang several selections, the
| most popular being Were Wearing
| Our Hearts Away for You, Billy Taft
| When the glee club retired Chairman
| Brown announced that the temporary
| organization Of the convention would
be-: Chairman, James r. Garneld, sec
rotary of the interior; secretary. M.
| Switzer.
The mention of Secretary Garfield s
! name was the signal for an outbreak
| of applause, which was deepened when
| he advanced to the front of the plat
greeted every mention of the name OF
| Taft, and the prediction that Ohio was
about to furnish another president
| created a bedlam of approval.
! When the secretary had concluded
his speech the various districts pre-
| sented the names of the committeeman
who had been selected at the caucuses
| held just before the opening of the
convention and it was then made man
| ifest that the Foraker influence had
disappeared from the state central
| committee Following the announce
ment of the names of the committee
men an adjournment was taken until
| this morning at 10 o'clock.
| Garfield's Address.
Mr. Garfield spoke as follows:
! In the coming campaign the Repub-
! lican party will be held to account not
merely for it's conduct of the ordinary
affairs of the government, but especial
| ly for the policies affecting our indus
| trial life which have been carried for
| ward during the present administra-
| ton.
! THE all-absorbing issue in this cam
pafgn is-shan these. policies be ap-
proved and continued? Among our OPP
| ponents there are two extremes. those
who say we have gone too far, and
/ those who say we have not gone far
enough. The former attribute the
financial crisis through which we have
passed and its resulting depression to