Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-03
ALL SERENE IN OHIO
Senator Foraker Denies He Is
Still UnfriendIy.
NEWSPAPERS ARE SCORED
Meets Taft Again in Afternoon and
Both Make Speeches.
SAY ALL SORTS OF NICE THINGS
pleasure to Be Here" Says Mr..
Taft-"He Is My Leader" Are
Senator's Words


ledo Times today prints a story asserting
that Senator Foraker yesterday declared
that there has been no peace compact
between himself and Judge Taft: that
| President Roosevelt had adopted the
policies of Mr.. Bryan and that as between
the two he preferred the genuine to the
| imitation.
Other statements credited by the paper
to Senator Foraker are that he was de-
liberately insulted because he did not re-
| ceive an invitation to participate in the
opening Of the Ohio campaign at Youngs-
| town September j and that the only diff
| ference between the democrats and re,
| publicans was that the republicans fa-
| vOred tariff revision after March and
| the democrats favored immediate revision.
He further credited with saying
that he believed in immediate revision.
Senator Foraker left here last night be-
| fore his Endorsement denial of the
above story could be obtained.
Denied by Foraker.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, September :;.-In
an explanatory statement which was a
comprehensive denial. Senator Foraker
today disposed of a story published in the
Toledo Times of this morning giving what
purported to be an authorized statement
from him.
AS soon as the senator reached his home
the substance of the story was repeated
to him. He at. once made the following
statement to The Associated Press:
What He Really Said.
THE statement published in the To-
ledo. Times. as you report it to me, is
grossly misleading. The only basis for
any such statement that l can recall is
this: AS l was leaving the hotel to take
the train for Cincinnati last evening,
gentleman introduced himself to me and
told me he represented the Toledo Times
and that the Associated Press was send
ing out long story-some two thousand
words as l now remember his statement
giving an account of an agreement that
had been entered into as basis for
peace between Judge Taft and myself.
and he wanted me TO give him my yer-
son of the matter.
L told him no agreement of any kind
! had been made or suggested; that there
was no trouble between Judge Taft and
myself; that the trouble SO much talked
about in the newspapers was manu-
factured; that l had not made at any
time any request of Judge Taft, and he
had not made any of me, that we had met
| on the reviewing stand and at the public
meeting which we both addressed; that
our conversation on the reviewing stand
| was only social and that which would be
naturally suggested by the character of
the occasion: that at the public meeting
We had had no private conversation and
what we had said at the public meet
ing spoke for itself-that is all there was
of it. 1 bade him good evening and went
to the train.
II wish there could be some way found
to stop the publishing of these mischief
| making reports
Meeting in the Theater.
Judge Taft and Senator Foraker fra
ternized again yesterday afternoon in the
Lyceum Theater i'm Toledo. Ohio, when
both addressed a gathering of G. A. X.
vetOans Mr.. Taft's auto ride ended at
the theater at pm. and when he had
been cheered for few minutes by an
| audience which filled the large playhouse
| Senator Foraker made his appearance.
He was also most enthusiastically greeted
as he took seat beside the candidate.
after the latter had risen and greeted
him with a handshake.
| And then the speechmaking began.
President Mulholland OF the club intro
fduced Mr.. Taft the worlds big man. "
and many more complimentary phrases.
| Judge Taft was again the subject OF
| demonstration. and he encouraged the
good nature of his audience by the pleas
| antry that his excuse for being i'll this
sectiont of the state was an effort to ind
| out whether there were any bass in Lake
! Erie. He had not Yet quite satisfied
| himself The veterans next received his
| attention. and after expressing his pa
| triotic sentiments toward them. he
! brought Senator Foraker into the discus
! sion.
Taft Starts by Joking.
Your chairman has said that | have
! filled office for nearly twenty years almost
without reward. AS he did so Senator
! Foraker whispered to me that there are
some who would accept the honor on the
! same terms"
1T is pleasure for me to be here with
! Senator Foraker" continued Mr.. Taft.
| because when governor of Ohio he gave
me really my first chance, and took a
good deal of risk by putting man of
| twenty nine on the bench of the superior
court of Cincinnati. We are about TO
enter. or rather have entered, a great
| oratorical campaign 1t is a pleasure to
| think in this presence that We are going
! to stand in the campaign shoulder TO
| shoulder. with the full strength of the
| republican party.
| After the capdidate had reviewed the
| tariff question, spoken of the present
| restoration 10 prosperity and taken a
rap at the democratic party. he concluded
| with the sentence: Il did not come here
| 10 make speech. came here TO attend
|
! Coy. Harris and other distinguished
! ohioaUs are participating.
After most glowing Endorsement of
Judge Taft by Bishop Samuel Fallows of
! the Reformed Episcopal Church. Chi
| cago. Senator Foraker was introduced.
| and WAS received with decided cordiality
| He began by scoring the press to the eX-
| tent of saying that there came near be-
! ing Il tragedy in his absence from the
meeting during the first ten minutes of its
! duration. because the newspaper CORE
| spondents We're preparing cisDatches an
! nouncing the confirmation of the 'feud
| and bad feeling that is existing between
| Judge Tart and myself
No Ill Feeling.
| He continued:
| Under the circumstances / hope
may be pardoned if I say here in this
| presence-the first time | have had op-
! portunity to say it-that there has not
SO far as | know. been the slightest ILL
feeling of any kind between Judge Taft
| and u1NSelf'