The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-02-13

man in another state, Oklahoma, who
was openly and avowedly for Cannon
for President. 1t was the case of a
clerk of the court in the new state,
whom he appointed Judge; the Taft
forces called the Presidents attention
to the fact that the man was pledged
to Cannon's candidacy, and urged the
appointment of a man who was I'M
committed; the President found the
clery to be possessed of the necessary
qualifications for the Office and insist
ed on appointing him. Today there is
pending at the White House an APP
pointment in Northwestern state;
the people of the state are for Taft,
and the organization has urged the ap-
pointment of strong man: Senator
Knox has a friend whom he wishes to
get the place, and the chances are the
President will appoint his man be
cause his qualifications are perhaps a
shade better than those of the other
applicants. 1t will be an another
case of the best man winning. In eff
feet. II will be distinctly a blow to the
Taft candidacy in that state. .
In Ohio, by actual count, four-fifths'
of the federal officeholders are active
ly at work against Secretary Tafts
candidacy, and II certain instances
their abuse of their offices has been
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ton by the civil service commission,
which is in progress. Not only are
the Ohio officeholders against Taft, but
they are against the administration,
Offices to defeat its policies; giving out
interviews in denunciation of the ad-
ministration and its most notable
achievements. If Senator'S Foraker
and Dick would recommend men sim
ply on their merits the President
would follow their recommendations
this they have failed to do. Senator
Foraker named man for Judge last
year whose brother had the previous
year delivered the state convention TO
Foraker. and at that time the charge
was openly made that his brother
would get the Judgeship as a reward.
The whole deal was so flagrantly
brazen that it became known. and the
President then turned to Secretary
Taft; who sounded the sentiment of
the leading jurists in Ohio, and a man
was appointed who had the recon-
mendation of the leading members of
his profession. TAFT. the jurlst. was
consulted in Ohio in this instance, just
as Root, the jurist, was consulted re-
garding judicial appointments in New
York city some time ago. Such were
the sort of men the Ohio Senators con
tinued to recommend TO the President
until he finally saw that they were act
ually letting II be understood in that
state that in order for man to get
federal appointment in Ohio he must
be opposed to the President. This the
President would not submit to; he is
willing that it should be an indispensa-
BILE prerequisite TO obtaining a federal
office in Ohio that a man shall be
a gainst President Roosevelt and his
policies and a violent opponent of the
man who of all the candidates among
the people, comes nearest to recogniz-
ing these policies.
1t was in this predicament that the
President turned down the Senators,
and has since that time been making
upon the recommends
ton of the Ohio Congressman. 1t was
the Senate and not the President who
were playing politics when 1t rejected
four Ohio postmasters; rejected them
solely on the ground that they were
to the Roosevelt policies, and
were not committed, as were four
fifths of their confreres holding feder-
al offices in that state to support the
senators in their attack on the admin
In New York the charge of using
federal patronage has just about as
much truth as when 1t is brought in
other stakes. Considerably more than
half of the federal officeholders in that
state are actively at work for Cover
nor Hughes: the most important APP
pointment made there recently by the