The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-22
SEN. FORAKER'S MANAGEMENT Biggest Political Sensa-
 ton of Age. TO THROW HIM 0vERBOARD Congressman Burton Slated for
 the Senatorial Toga. William Randolph Hearst Has Truly Hurled . Bomb Into The Ranks
 Of The National Repub
10 THROW HIM ovERBoARD
BY ALFRED !. sToFER.

Washington, Sept. 21.--(Special.)-- Senator Forakers entanglement- with the Standard oil crowd has furnished more lively and interesting political gossip than anything that has sprung up during what might properly be called the dull season for Washing ton.
 People identified here with public matters know so many little inside things calculated to add spice to the talk that can be heard. The senior Senator from the Buckeye State Is truly a national character. He Is man of strong, positive nature, and throughout most of his career. has been regarded as a fighter to the last ditch. But now the question is asked. '-Will this sensational disclosure un- horse him who never before has low cred his plume to either Republicans or Democrats?"
 William Randolph Hearst touched off the dynamite at Columbus at a time when the fellows running the Roose- velt-Taft campaign thought everything was lovely in Ohio and the goose was hanging high. Taft and Foraker had met over at Toledo and apparently fallen on each others necks, and had determined for the sake of the grand old party at least to pull together lest the wick ed Democrats should cap- ture Ohio in November. There was 8tC6t udASoF or Just SuCH a. nap pening. even though they would not for moment talk 1t out loud. They were to speak together at the same meeting. and word would go forth that harmony, pure and sweet prevailed, and that the factions under the two leaders. would march in solid phalanx against the rampant Democracy to pre- vent Bryan from coming out on top. All this was to be pulled off regardless of the fact that the edict had secretly gone forth months ago that Foraker was to be slaughtered. and that the Sem atorial toga should be given to Con- grsssnan Burton or some other Re- publican acceptable to the cornbina- tion who had determined upon Fora kers' elimination "or bust"
 Taft's Predicament.
 Taft all along has been in a predic- ament so far as the Ohio situation was concerned. Foraker's assistance he poll anything like the full Republican vote in the State. And yet he could not afford to be too thick with a bril- liant Senator who was the only Repub- lican in the upper branch of Congress who had the nerve to speak and vote against the railroad rate bill when the Roosevelt administration had put on the pressure for its passage. That action, the Taft managers believed. was hurtful out in Ohio. and they there fore decided to snub Foraker by not having him as one of the speakers at the big Youngstown meeting when the Republican campaign was formally opened This was a re-arranged' studied insult.
 1t was not by any arrangement of Taft's that he had the so-called recon ciliation with Foraker. It was a iit- tie scheme concocted by two distin- guished men who are now being caHeo every contemptuous name that can De thought of by the mad and disgusted Republicans who realize what Q thun- dering muss they have brought about: Ex-Speaker Refer and Major General Henry C. Corbin are the men respon- sible for that Toledo meeting between raft and Foraker, and that led on to the engagements subsequently, made. 1t caused the Republican papers every where to chirp and inform tnelr read. CTS that the situation in Ohio was just too lively for anything. Foraker Is looked upon by the negroes now guilty of political insurrection as the great est friend and champion they have in the United States. His position in re- gard to the Brownsville matter makes him their hero. and they were grumb- ling all along the line over the way he was being treated in Ohio,
 Rut when they heard that he and Taft had made up the Republican or- xans shouted loudly that 1t settled the question so Tar as the nekEo Vote was concerned This would be a notice to them not to bolt.
 But along comes this Standard oil exposure which makes 1t impossible for Taft to speak from the same plat form with Foraker. They have got to part company once more. Foraker the Taft shouters look upon now as a dlsgraced public man, or at least they must so regard 1t, and in the hour of his gloom they are going to walk over him and then cast him out, and tell the Buckeye voters that they never did want to have anything to do with him anyhow, and that pair of old political busybodies in the per sons of General Corbin and Keofer got to fussing around and caused the na- tional candidate to agree to make up with Foraker. when he had uo idea of doing so.
 Big Political Sensation.
 Politicians who have just come on