The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-11
FORAKER'S REPORT
Senator Takes Issue With the President on Question of
 Patronage.
CITES OHIO INSTANCES
Asserts That Presidents Representa- tives Have Menaced
 Officials.

Washington, Feb. 10.-Senator For aker threw down the gauntlet to President Roosevelt to-day, taking di- rect issue with the president on the use of federal patronage for political purposes He charged that it is uni versal knowledge and universal belief in Ohio that federal patronage had been used for political purposes. and he cited a specific case showing this to be true
 Senator Forakers speech was in spired by the publication to-day of President Roosevelt's letter to Will liam Dudley Foulke, eX-civil service commissioner, in which the president entered general and specific denial to the charges that positions in the government service were being award ed to supporters of the candidacy of Secretary Taft.
 The speech received close attention from the senate. Senator Lodge, the presidents senatorial champion, sat directly in front of the Ohioan and gave especially careful atention.
 Mir. Foraker did not speak to ex- ceed twenty minutes He was con- cluding his remarks when he was in terrupted by the vice president. who announced the arrival of a message from the president" This announce ment caused a ripple of laughter in the senate chamber. and, to some ex- tent. dispelled the dramatic effect of Senator Foraker's utterances.
 In the course of his speech, Senator Foraker several times said he was not attacking the president He did not charge him with bad faith, he said. He did charge that those representing the president and pretending to speak for him (whether with his authority or without it. he did not know), had. by certain statements, actions and menaces sought to impress upon pub lie officials and applicants for public office that they would be expected to flavor a particular candidate for the presidency. He felt certain, he said. that he could satisfy any unbiased mind that those representing the pres ident had sought to influence, direct and control patronage for political purposes. The case which he cited did not stand alone. said MT. Foraker. Ii was only one of hundred in the state of Ohio.
 The Senate's Rejection of Ohio Nom
 nations.
 As son as the morning business of the senate had been concluded, Sena tor Foraker arose to question of privilege. He called attention to the rejection by the senate of several post office nominations in Ohio last month He said he was correctly quoted in the press when he said that this ac- tion of the senate meant that there should not be in Ohio any further prostitution of patronage for politica purposes without a protest.
 An Ohio Instance.
 Mir. Foraker then read two excerpts from the presidents leter to MT Fculke, in which the president said that no appointments to public office had been made in the interest of any presidential candidate, and that al appointments made would have beer made whether there was presidential
 
 canvass on or not Mir Foraker said t was difficult to prove the use of pat ronage for political purposes, as r most cases the evidence rested on pa role, Fortunately. he said, there wa, one case in which there was some written testimony
 In October last, said the Ohio sena tors, Charles H Bryson was appoint cd postmaster of Athens, O. He hat not sought the office. He is the owne and editor of Athens Gazette, and has been republican leader in his com munity for years. He was nominated for postmaster by Albert Douglass the republican representative from thu Athens district
 Tn November last MT Bryson cam, to Washington, and while here gay, out an interview on Ohio politics. MT Foraker read this interview It quot cd MT. Bryson as saying that Forake' sentiment in Ohio was growing, ant that probably he would have some n the presidential delegates from tha state. MT, Bryson spoke highlt O Senator Foraker, and expressed appre hension lest the fight in Ohio nigh