Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-03
SEC. TAFT
VICTOR IN
OHIO FIGHT
CONTROLS REPUBLICAN STATE
COMMITTEE
PRIMARY ELECTION TO DECIDE
PEOPLES CHOICE
Foraker's Efforts to Secure Passage
of Amendments Result in
Rout of His Forces at
Columbus
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 2.-The Re-
publicans of Ohio will be given an OPP
portunity to express by direct vote their
choice for the party's candidate for the
presidency at primaries to be held Feb
ruary II, when delegates and alternates
to the Republican state convention will
be elected.
The convention will be held in Column
bus on March and 4, and 1t will select,
in addition to four delegates at large to
the Republican national convention, can
didates for governor and other state or
ficers.
The call for the primary and conven-
ton was adopted this evening by the
Republican state central committee atter
a protracted and lively session.
The friends of William H. Taft, sec
retary of war and candidate for the
Republican nomination for president
were in control of the committee, casting
Ia votes to for the supporters or SEN
ator Foraker. also an avowed candidate
for the presidency.
The vote stood IA to on every propo-
sition which required a roll call, except
the selection of temporary chairman OF
the state convention James r. GARFIELD,
secretary of the interior, the choice of
the Taft supporters, received 13 votes
to cast for Harry M. Daugherty OF
Columbus. Richard McCloud of London,
a. close personal friend of Mr.. Daugherty'
hut a Taft supporter, voted for him as
against Mr.. Garfield.
Call on Governor
The state committee decided that 1t
had nothing to do with the selection of
national delegates in the congressional
districts and declined to make any sug-
gestion in regard thereto.
The committee met early in the after
noon and after a short session appointed
a subcommittee to draft call for the
primaries and convention. This COM
mittee called on Governor Harris during
the recess to consult his wishes in re-
gard to the call. A committee represent
ing the supporters of Senator Foraker
also called on the governor and asked
him to permit his name to be presented
for chairman of the. state convention,
but the governor declined.
The call reported by the subcommittee
and adopted by the general committee
by a vote of IA to is one of the most
elaborate ever issued by a state COM
mittee.
Several amendments to the call were
proposed by the friends of Senator Fof-
aker, but in elch case they were voted
down The chief fight was made against
the direct primar.- plan for the selection
of delegates to the state convention
They proposed that delegates to county
conventions be chosen by direct vote. the
county convention to choose the delegates
to the state convention.
Dick Is Active
Senator Charles Dick was here to look
after the interests of his colleague, Sen
ator Foraker, but he remained at his
room in the Hotel Hartman and did not
go to the Neal house. where the com
mittee held its sessions. Senator Dick
received many callers, but had no com
munication, so far as could be ascer-
tanned, with Arthur Vorys, manager OF
the Taft canvass, regarding the conven'
tion preliminaries, and no efforts at com
promise were made on either side, al
though rumors to that effect were in
circulation.
After the state committee had concluded
its work. Senator Dick declined to make
any comment upon it, either in regard t.
the dates set TO. the primaries or the
convention, or the regulations for con-
Quoting the primaries.
Mr.. Vorys also declined to make any
formal statement. saying that 1.-The re-
suits speak for themselves"