The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-07-30

difficulty, and so throughout all
the district party division and
personal opposition threaten Mr..
Douglas election.
Before the congressional conven-
tioa met at Logan in April there
seemed no doubt but that the Taft
people would be in such complete
control as to pass without serious,
If any, opposition the most en-
thusiastic of Taft resolutions and
select two earnest and loyal Taft
men to the national convention.
Why should this not be so since
A. l Vorys, one of the Taft man
ayers, lives at Lancaster, in Fair
field county, and it seemed incred-
ible that his own district would
refuse to most heartily support
the man for whom he was so val
iantly working. But with the
gathering of the delegates, q
strange situation presented itself.
It was reported to Mr.. Vorys that
the anti-Taft men had gained con-
troll; that resolutions indorsing
Senators Foraker and Dick would
be passed and two Foraker men
chosen as delegates to Chicago. If
these requests were refused Mr..
Taft would not be indorsed nor
Mr.. Douglas renominated for con-
gress.
"Impossible,'' cried Mr.. Vorys
and Mr. Douglas, "it cannot be. :"
But when votes were counted and
delegates polled the report was
found to be based upon fact and
the anti-Taft program was carried
out. Deleg stes Burleigh of Perry
county, and Poston of Athens,
both pronounced Foraker men,
were chosen to go to Chicago; re-
solutions recommending in no un-
certain terms the work of Senators
Foraker and Dick in congress- were
passed; Secretary Taft was iu-
dorsed and Representative Doug
las renominated. 1t will be re-
called that the opposition of Mr..
Burleigh to Taft was 80 deep.seat-
ed that he refused to vote for him
at the national convention and
constituted one of the dessenters
from Ohio. Poston voted for the
secretary, saying that opposition
was useless and would do no good.
This action of the congressional
convention was severe dissp
pointment to Mr.. Vorys and prob
ably the most serious he received
during the campaign preceding
the Taft nomination. To lose any
votes in Ohio was of itself embar-
RAISING, but to lose any in his own
district went beyond embarrass-
ment and became humiliating. In
a measure Mr.. Douglas was
charged with the result at Logan
since he had taken much hand in
the selection of delegates through
out the entire district and 1t was
believed lie should have exercised
such care as would have made it
impossible for any but the most
pronounced Taft men to be in at
tendance. To the Foraker and
Dick men it was an occasion of
riotous glee.
Since Douglas left the Foraker
camp, at the commencement of the
Taft movement, and joined HIM.
self with the latter, whatever of
disappointment and regret the
congressman felt, the followers of
Foraker did not have it in their
hearts to placate. The convention
in ne wise strengthened Mr.. Doug
las throughout the district.
Secretary Taft 10 not strong
man throughout the district. His
judicial attitude toward labor and
the weak and vacillating anti in
junction plank adopted at Chicago
combine to make him weak, and
especially in the mining and man
ufacturing districts. To what ex-
tent this will reflect itself in the
candidacy of Mr.. Douglas 10 not
known and cannot now be estimat.
ed.
The knowledge which Mr.. Sears,
the Democratic nominee, has of
mines and their needs and of the
needs of those who work in them
comes from the actual experience
of having been an employee be-