The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21
OHIO SPLIT WIDE OPEN Sacrifice of Taft For the Vindication of
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Roosevelt.

Washington Correspondence of Saxby's
 GCineinnatD Magazine.
 Tnere is a nauseous as well as a within the national ranks of the Re- publican Party which seems intent up- on destroying the honor and reputation or ,rsa senatr. at @ Joseph B. Foraker. - which checked the flow of hundreds of millions of foreign capital to this country for investment-and we can done good service in exposing the in- ner rottenness of the party. The ad- mlnistratton may not hope to excuse or conceal It's own shortcomings by posture of those of old party leaders. This is too much like the kettle calling the pot black. It Is, unquestionabIy, party. slaughter for one strongly-en- late another with the following which Senator Foraker has.
 Roosevelt knows. and every one wise to the situation knows. that. were the large number of both Senators and Representatives have. and now are, drawing pay for valuable services rendered" to the large corporations, such as the Standard Oil Company, the United States Steel Company, the Pow der Trust, and especially the railroads. Their very existence depends upon the lobbyist" to protect them from raids
 
 This Is no worse than employing men like Cromwell, representing so many great monopolies, End duPUpt, the head of the Powder Trust. Cn the Advisory Board of the Roosevelt Campaign Committee. which is the strongest of all trusts. It Is not quite so bad eiher. as the employment by Candidate Taft. as his closest persona al adviser. of a man who was convict ed of defrauding the widow of an old soldier out of large part of her pen. sion, and was dlsbarred from practice ing in the Pension Office.
 It is not nearly so improper as the practice of employing the well trained Government employees in personally conducted political campaigns.
 Senator Foraker has been the legal representative of che Standard oil Company, as Root represented the United States Steel Company and other large corporations, and Knox the Carnegie Steel Company. and. when the excitement has subsided. fair-minded men will see that the only real fault to be laid at Foraker's door Is that he represented that particular concern which is the chief object of hatred on the part of Roosevelt. and Foraker's worst enemy.
 It Is not at all essential that. because a rampant Chief Executive takes mo- tion to destroy a large national insti- tuition, all the members of Congress must condemn and shun that corpora ton In adNance or US lar anu leSdl conviction of the crimes with which 1t is charged. It is very possible that vicous- natured. accidental occupant of the White House may go to extremes and do grave injustice to such cor porations to vindicate his own radical policies. This appears to be true in this present instance.
 The nauseous aspect of this case is in the fact that this whole campaign seems to be a personal fight between Roosevelt and Foraker. full of betray- the expense of the Republican Party, in which vulgar. and even criminal. methods are being used. Perhaps rhe most despised evidence in criminal ju- risprudence is that based on the theft of discriminating correspondence. The man who uses 1t Is usually considered less respectable than the thief. Eight ly SO.
 The real funny side Is to see the back and splitting Itself into hopeless factions, While a harmonious and won derfully- y-organized Democracy sweeps
 The outcome of the Foraker matter is inevitable. It Is the sacrifice of Taft for the vindication of Roosevelt.
 Foraker has a large following in Ohio. said to represent one-thtrd of the Republican State vote. Most of these believe him innocent of intentional wrong doing, He in fact, has not been charged with illegal conduct. The contemptible methods and instruments of his betrayal are in themselves of- fensive.
 There are grave suspicious as to how Hearst obtained the F6rakef letters. That they were stolen from EhC files