The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-24

after one has read the New York iu- terview. The mere suggestion of Jo- seph Benson Foraker being humiiiated in q presidential election year Is al- most beyond belief. Many of his friends and others incline to the be. lief that when Senator Foraker gets ready to speak his mind he is going to say what he pleases. regardless of what effect the Taft supporters may think his utterances will have.
 No one of sane mind expects Senator Foraker to bolt He Is too ardent d Republican for that, and it Is not like him to play the baby act when word has gone forth to the world that 1t is and has been the purpose of the fel- lows on top in Republican politics of Ohio to prevent his reelection as senaa tor. Mir, Foraker on several occasions in speeches has referred to the propo- sttipn to eliminate him. He appears to realize that the cards are at present stacked. against him, and it is doubt. fHl if he thinks deep down in his heart that he has any reasonable chance to be returned to the Senate.
 As is quite well known the chief of fense of the senator was in voting in Congress against the railroad rate bill which was so dear to the heart of President Roosevelt and by which he laid such stock that when he found Aldrich, .Eikins, Kean, Crane and other Republican Senators throwing obstacles in it's way, he was forced to allow the friends of the measure to permit Sena- tor Tiilman to be named as the mem Der of the committee having the bill in charge when 1t came before the Senate.
 Senator Foraker and the late Soma. tors Morgan and Pettus of Alabama were the only members of the Senate who had the nerve to vote against the measure. although there were at least twenty Republicans who did not favor 1t, and secretly did everything in their power to place obstacles in It's way.
 Taft Men are Scared.
 The Taft people did not like what Senator Foraker said recently In his Cincinnati speech, and they are afraid that if he were to be one of the speak CTS at the opening rally at Youngs- town he might make further discord in the ranks by telling why he opposed the railroad rate bill, and has been borne out in predictions as to the work ings of the new law.
 And yet friends of Senator Foraker want to know why Governor Hughes Is to be the chief orator at Youngstown. in view of the fact that he vetoed . bill pasned by the New York legislature reducing fare on the railroads in that SAAIc Lp IWQ AEEAAo q hhlCs AA1G4s AA V " that Hughes is just as much if not more of a railroad sympathizer than Foraker The masses In the Empire state are known to have been highly jubilant over the passage of the bill but the Governor stepped in and said that he did not think the legislature should compel the companies. to haul people at the low rate Of two cents a mile.
 This question Is being asked here: 'If President Roosevelt. Candidate Taft. Chairman Hitchcock and others high in authority do not want Hughes to be nominated for Governor again why did the Republican campaign managers make it a point to have Governor Hughes as the star attraction at the Youngstown meeting7" 's 1~
 They think the adn1inistration cer- tainly Is dipping Into. local copteats, and It has been as plain as the nose On a mans face for some time. that President Roosevelt wants Hughes nominated again. but quite naturally he desires to have 1t go out to the country that the New York bosses of their own volition asked his advice and expressed an entire willingness to do anything that would help Taft in New York.