The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-26
FORAKER OUT
FOR REVENGE
A PLOT TO DRAG BROWNSVILLE
AFFAIR TO CONVENTION.
" Ne Fails TO Get Recognition He
Proposes TO Organize Negroes
Against all Candidates for
Office.

Washington, May Ex-senator For
aker has invented a new plot for
making trouble. lie made part Of
his plan public today and accom-
panying this information is the COY.
ert intimation that he has only be.
gun to fight. Foraker, having drop
ped for this session the Brownsville
fight in the senate, proposes to take
1t before the republican national con
yention. lie will go before the plat.
form committee and demand prom.
ise of redress for the negro soldiers
implicated in the Brownsville affair.
Failing to get recognition by the
committee he will take his fight
to the floor of the convention, and
falling there he will organize the
negroes to present a demand to all
candidates for Office from the can
didates for president down" From
sources close to the Ohio senator
1t became known today that his
campaign plan contemplates only the
venge lie does not expect to be re-
turned to the senate, And with
full knowledge that he is going down
to defeat Foraker wants to take
down with him every republican
who will not subscribe to his con
tentions in the Brownsville affair
When Senator Foraker abandoned
his fight at this session for the
bill which would restore the negro
soldiers to their former status in
the army he was severely crit
icized by some of his negro fol.
lowers. Foraker had been whipped
in the senate and was tired. His
action surprised not only his enc
mics, but stunned those senators
who had been fighting with him, but
who had not been taken into his
confidence. Apparently the Ohio sen.
ator has awakened to an apprecia.
ton of what he did for his reputa,
tion as a fighter by his motion 70
postpone consideration Of his own
bill and tonight he comes forward
with the most savage letter he yet
has written. The letter is addressed
to the president of the constitutional
league and purposes to give an ex
tract from letter Senator Foraker
had written TO Richard ID. Whit,
of Cambridge, Mass. For the frs
time the contents of letter which
it is said, the president wrote to WI
, liam Alden Smith, the Michigan
senator, are revealed. Senator For
aker alleges that the president per
sonally importuned senators to vot,
against his bill and was so activ,
in his hostility that It was impos
. sible for him TO get more than thir
ty-five votes for his measure Tn,
Brownsville case, he asserts, has mar
= rowed down to whether his bill shal
be passed at the short session an,
that it will be necessary to ge
enough republican votes for il L
pass it over the presidents veto. Il
one paragraph Senator Forake
a says in speaking of the president
N AS late as April "a he wrote t
"a Senator William Alden Smith G
10 Michigan that he thought many
"a not all the soldiers guilty, and tina
n. there was no more excuse for syn
10 pathy for them than there would b
IT. in sympathy with Czolgoz or Gulteal
70 and that my bill meant only to fore
20 a lot of murderers and perjurer
back into the army, and that h
m would feel 1t his duty If we passe
Il. the bill to veto it and If we passe
q. it over his veto he would refus
,s to enforce It,"
no Senator Foraker asserts that h
has had a sufficient number of prom
ises OF support In December to S
n cure the passage of the bill.