Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-24
TAFT AND FORAKER
Eliorls oi Candidate and R0ose' welt io Drop Ohio Map Hsve
 Made Ridiculous Sight.

 Tafts frantic efforts to clear his im- maculate skirts from the defiling touch of Senator J. B. Foraker, be- cause of the disclosure of the lat ter's connection with the Standard oil interests. are ludicrous in view of the public protestation of friend- ship of the two during the past month-once at Toledo on Septem- Der 2d, on the occasion of the G. A. R. parade, and again at Cincin- natl on September 10th, where they held 40 minutes conference at MT Taft's headquarters, while a dozen doves of peace fluttered joyfully and the olive branch nodded ap- proyingly. Senator Foraker's pres ence on that occasion was the result of a special invitation from MT Taft's campaign manager in ohio, MT Vorys was a pension attorney years ago, and the records at the Washington office refer to him.
 It will be difficult to convince the voters. not only of Ohio but the country at large. that neither MT Roosevelt nor his candidate knew nothing of Senator Forakers com munications with the Standard oil office until the publication of the correspondence.
 Taft and Foraker shaking hands in the reviewing stand at Toledo on September 2d, before an admirlng cheering multitude, taken by~ the sensitive camera, will make an ex- cellent picture for the advisory board, Messrs Hitchcock, Cromwell, Bliss, Sheldon, Du Pont, ct al, of the republican national committee, to spread broadcast throughout the country with the caption spoken by MT Taft, He's good enough for me-"
 Also 1t must to-day be very bitter for MT Taft to eat his words of Sep tember 10th after the Cincinnati conference, when he said: !.
 Senator Foraker and I are both very much vexed at the reports Of friction between us. There Is no oc- casion for such reports.
 Also referring ito the interview, MT Taft said:
 There has been a great deal of misrepresentation about the sltua- tion between Senator Foraker and myself. We discussed the general as- poets of the campaign. Senator Foraker said he wanted to do all he could to bring about republican sue cess, and to call upon him when I needed him."
 Senator Foraker's comment upon the conference was that we had a very pleasant personal talk
 MT Taft had good reason to be grateful to "Joe"A Foraker, and to desire his friendship. for 1t was Foraker who gave him his first biz boost into the limelight, by making him a judge of. the superior court of Cincinnati. Foraker was at that time governor of Ohio.
 According to MT Roosevelt's let ter, MT Taft declined all overtures from the Foraker party in 1907 the proposed agreement being that Foraker would support Taft's can didacy for the presidency, if MT Taft and the other Ohio leaders would throw their strength to the sena- torial aspiration of Foraker. MT Taft then said "that he would not consider for one moment any possi- ble advantage to himself when what he regarded as great principle was at stake" Those are Mir Roosevelt's 8 words. But in view of the peace pact of September 2d. are the peo- pie of Ohio and the entire country to be deceived into believing that no arrangement" was made either with MT Taft or his managers and Senator Foraker?
 Can MT Roosevelt, who has deem- ed 1t necessary to rush to the aid of MT Taft explain 1t?
 Boss" Cox of Cincinnati with his new halo of virtue, affixed by MT Taft and appointed by the latter head of the local committee, ordered thousands of the hand shaking The is good enough for me" Autographs for distribution. But what change a week brought in the situation. The peace doves have been killed; the olive branches thrown into the ash can and Senator Foraker pitched headlong from Peach Mountain into Despair Gulch.
 Mir Foraker has been read out of the party, repudiated and reyiled by MT Roosevelt. As Henry Watterson SO cuttingly speaks of the Grand old party's' attitude in the matter. It Is amazing! It Is pitiful! It is humiliating. Their sins indeed have found them out Scandals to right of them; scandals to left of them; defeat in front of them. Yet a lit- tie longer and then the boneyard. leaving only stench behind, and this inscription:
 Whilst it lived, 1t lived in clover, When it died, 1t died all over.''