Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-11
ELIMINATING FORAKER
Latest Move of Republican
State Organization
AT SANDUSKY LAST WEEK
Ohio Senator Left Of Program Of
Campaign Opening.
DICK MAKES HIS PEACE
Grumbling Among Republicans Over
AT SANDUSKY LAST WEEK
CK MAKES HIS PEACE

Grumbling Among Republicans Over
the Treatment Of Vorys-Tem-
perance Question Looming Up.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
COLUMBUS. Ohio. August 1.-THE &C
ton of the republican state executive
| committee at Sandusky last week IN re-
fusng to place Senator Foraker on the
progr am for the opening of the state cam
paign at Youngstown on september
indicates that in spite of the denials OF the
| leaders in the new republican organiza-
ton in the state the proposed eiimina-
| ton of Senator Foraker is proceeding.
No one here believes that Senator Foraker
will accept an invitation to attend Ii ne
| should it would take stronger presiding
officer than Mr.. VOrys to prevent him
| from speaking. Youngstown is a FORA
ker stronghold: has been such for years.
and with laIge number OF his frlends
| in the audience at the opening Foraker
| would be loudly called for and In such
way that their call could not be ignored.
But that is not expected. Senator FORA
ker will not be present at the campaign
| opening, for the first time In quarter Oh
| {, century
Developments at the Sandusky meeting
| showed also that Senator Dick mas mace
mis- peace with the organization he was
prest nj and entered into their conferences
AID mis- advice was sought. Having stood
| by his colleague to the last, he seems 10
| have felt that he had rendered all the
| fealty to him that could be expected. and
| FASTENED to place himself in line with the
| new order of things.
The new state organization eFldehtlE
| felt that an important step was being
| taken when they decided to shut S~lator
Foraker from the campaign opening pro-
gram. A meeting held last week to de-
eide the matter adjourned without reach
| ins final action.
| The leaders say that they were in doubt
as to which would be the safer thing
to 90: to risk a speech from the senator
that might prove as disastrous as that
of Mr.. Taft at Akron three years ago was.
or to offend him by ignoring him. To ask
him to speak on condition that he sub
NIT his speech to the committee in adj
vance was not to be thought of. A man
of Senator Foraker's spirit would not con-
slider such a proposition a minute. Fur
Their Senator Foraker never prepares his
political speeches. and might not follow
a prepared address if he should prepare
one.
Reason to Fear Foraker.
In support of their claim that they had
reason to fear Foraker on this occasion
the organization men point to an adj
dress that the senator made before the
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce last
month-not intended to be a political
speech at all-in which he attacked the
rate bill with vigor. Now that Mr.. Taft
in his speech of acceptance has placed
himself squarely on the so-called Roose-
welt policies, and especially defended the
rate legislation, they felt that no such
chance of attack from Senator Foraker
could be risked at the very opening Of
the fight. 1t would be as disastrous as
shots from the rear at the moment OF
the beginning of battle.
Having invited Senator Foraker to be
present, they say. it cannot be said that
he has been ignored. There was de-
mand from the Youngstown people for
Senator Beveridge as one of the orators.
gram for the occasion was flled-Gov.
Hughes, Gov. Harris and Senator Bev-
eridge. of course. taking all the time
that could be given to speaking on such
the republicans generally, however.
feeling that In inviting Senator Foraker
to be present. but to wear muzzle," as
the democratic press has put it, the state
committee has done a thing Of very ques-
tionable wisdom.
Grumbling Among Republicans.
There is still much grumbling among
the republicans of the state over the fall
ure Of the national committee to select
Arthur l. Vorys as chairman of the ma
tional campaign committee. and they
have pretty generally agreed that Presi-
dent Roosevelt is responsible mainly for
Vorys' failure to land In that position.
AS a result the President is coming in
for round of denunciatiOn from the or
ganization republicans, and especially
those that had counted on securing.
the national campaign management.
In this connection story has come
out here which shows that the President
and Mr.. vorys had clash last fall on
the occasion of the dedication Of the
Mckinley monument at Canton. vorys
went to Canton solely to have a confer
ence with the President regarding evil
dence that he had secured that showed
that Mr.. Hitchcock. then in the Post
Office Department. was setting up pins
in the south for the nomination of Mr..
Cortelyou. The story came out short
time thereafter.
At the conclusion of the dedicatory ex-
ercises the President left for the west and
Mr.. Vorys rode with him far as Fort
Wayne. Ind. Mr.. Roosevelt was annoyed
by the story. He listened to 1t petu-
lantly and told Vorys in his plain way
that he believed not a word of it. Vorys
insisted that he had the PROOF Never
theless the President insisted that it
could not be so. and came near consign-
ing tOfyS THEN anu tHeTe 10 Inc Ana
Mas Club. Vorys left the President at
Fort Wayne and returned to Columbus
satisfied that he would sooner or later
be convinced that Hitchcock was guilty
of duplicity.
Very soon thereafter Mr. Hitchcock
was called from the Post Office Depart
ment and set to work in the open for
Taft. What the reason for this was is
not known. but the President never re-
ferred to Mr.. Vorys afterward except as
that man Vorys,' and those who knew
of this feeling predicted with great con-
j1dence that Mr.. Vorys would not manage
the national campaign.
A Republican Concession.
Republicans concede that Cincinnati will
give a democratic plurality on the state
ticket this year. Estimates as to the size
of that plurality differ. II hear you are
going to give Gov. Harris a defeat by
10000 in your county," said an upstate
man to George B. Cox in Cincinnati last
week Cox replied: IF the election were
held now that would probably be the re-
suit in Cincinnati but that does not mean
that the election will turn out that way"
This is taken to mean that Cor ia in