The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-15
Warning Factions in Sec
retary'S Home State
Make Result Anything
But Certain.
Returns From Other
Sections Give Candi-
date Long Lead, With
ITO Delegates.

Taft. .......s........... ITO
Fairbanks. 26
Uninstructed. ...........,....... u
Contested. ...................... 80
Foregoing are the nonpartisan figures
on the preconvenuon Republican night
as given out yesterday, They are no,
TAFT or and-Taft. They do not accept
Endorsements" and compliments" as
instructions.
The TAFT bureau figures, as handed
out yesterday. claim 1f6. The statement
comedies THAI not all Of these are in.
strucled. Tie bureau statement fol-
lows:
"A weeks developments show a gain
Of thirty-four ia the number of Taft
delegates selected One week ago Mr.,
TAFT had III delegates who were either
directly instructed for him or whose Sc
lection followed the adoption of resolu-
tions indorsing the candidacy of Secre-
tary TAFT by tire conventions which
named them.
"Of the 1l2 delegates I'm question. nine
ty-t0ur were InCoutested. In the course
of the week the number of Taft delegates
has increased to 146. OF the thirty-four
Taft delegates chosen this week four
VIII have 10 establish their claims in
the convention, in contests. The num-
Der OF uncontested Taft delegates
would, therefore, be 124 If il were not
for the fact that in the Eleventh and
Twelfth Missouri districts, which were
uncontested heretofore, contesting dele
cations have been chosen and instruct
I'd for Hughes. thus reducing the total
OF uncontested Taft delegates to 100"
Conventions the coming week will in
ciude the Eighteenth, Twentieth, and
Twenty Illinois districts: the Iowa
State Convention. the Eleventh Ohio
the Ninth Virginia. and the New Mexico
state Convention.
Revolt in Ohio.
The real political development Of the
week Is the beginning of Il bolt in Ohio
from the Republican State ticket. re-
Gently nominated. Ohio has been foI
several years uncomfortably close in
State issues The last governor elected
was p Democrat. but he died soon after
being inaugurated, and the lieutenant
governor, a Republican, became chief
executive.
Ohio Repubhcanism has been divided
between the machine politicians and the
reIOrmers for a long time When the
Taft Presidential movement was start
ed il took high moral ground, and in
1850 Secretary Taft delivered a great
speech at Akron. which, without doubt
had the effect OF defeating Myron T.
Iierrick for governor. George Cox. long
time boss of Cincinnati. was turned out
OF his boss-ship, and reform made strik-
ing progress-aIso Ohio Democracy. Taft
looked good to the independents. He
didn't seem 10 care a fig for party; prin-
Clple was what he stood for.
The State had gone Democratic: the
Senator'S. Foraker and Dick, had been
Ienomced; the revulsion of decency
against viciousness was In full swing
The Senators were blamed for getting
the party into the scrape. il was given
out that they must be eliminated Cox
was already eliminated Ohio was CO.
ing 10 be cleaned up.
So Theodore z. Burton opened the
1906 campaign with a hot attack on
the right Of the Senators TO run things
tors they won, but a good third OF the
convention had the nerve to stand "a,
and be counted against them, knowing
they were beaten. It takes nerve fol-
politicians 10 do that. for politicians
hate TO lose, and love a band-wagon. II
needed but few such victories as that
one TO undo the Senators.
The Taft Presidential boom by this
~
In Ohio was largely based on the belief
that Il represented the sentiment OF
uprotest against machine domination
of antagonism to George Cox, and OF
Walter Brown, boss of Toledo. and the
rest OF the bosses. Vorys was made
manager, and he lined up the State
committee for Taft.
The Lining-Up Process.
Ii was the Hnlng-up operation that
first made the ohio independent
scratch their heads Walter Brown
was chairman of the State committee
a boss VINO in all the years since Sam
Jones rose on the horizon Of Toledo
politics has never lost a primary or
won an election. Brown is a nice man
smart man, too. He represents about
all the franchised corporations of To
ledo, i'm law and politics; and the fran
ehised corporations of all the Ohio
towns are in iranclad League against
the outsiders. They are the basis OF
machine power ir the state.
So when Brown became a Taft man
folks wondered whether he could really
have reformed so suddenly. It certainly
did look like letting him in al the
eleventh hour and hfty-ninth minute;