The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-26
TAFT'S BITTER PILL
REPUB CANDIDATE MUST EAT HIS
 OWN WORDS.
Things That He Said About Senator Fornker Before the BombshelI Exploded Will Be Brought
 to His Mind.

New York, Sept 25.-(Special.) )-- Candidate Taft's frantic efforts to clear l his immaculate skirts from the dehling touch of Senator J. B. Foraker. be- cause of the. disclosure of. the latter's connection with the Standard oil in- terests, are Mdicrous in view of the public protestation of friendship of the two during the past month-once at Toledo on Sept. 2. on the occasion of the G. A. E. parade. and again at Cincinnati on Sept, 10. where they held forty minutes conference at MT. Taft's headquarters. while a dozen doves of peace fiuttered joyfully and the olive branch nodded approvingly. Senator Foraker's presence on that occasion was the result of a special invitation from Mir. Tafts campaign manager in Ohio, A. I. Vorys, of whom more anon.4 MT. vorys, was a pension attorney years ago, and the records at the Washington office refer to him. 1t will be difficult to convince the voters, not only of Ohio, but the coun- try at large. that neither MT. Roose- welt nor. his candidate knew nothing of Senator Foraker's communications with the Standard oil office until the publication of the correspondence. Taft and Foraker shaking hands in the reviewing stand at Toledo on Sept. 3, before an admiring. cheering null titude, taken by the sensitive camera. will make an excellent picture for the advisory" board, Messrs. Hitch cock, Cromwell Bliss, Sheldon DuPont, ct al, of inc Republican National Com mittee to spread broadcast throughout the country with the caption spoken by MT. Taft. He's good enough for
 Also 1t must today be very bitter for MT. Taft to eat his words Of Sept. 10. after the Cincinnati conference when he said:' ~A:' ,4' 's'-'~'
 senator Foraker and I are both worry much vexed at the reports of friction between us. There Is no occa- sion for such reports"
 Also referring to the interview, Mir Taft said:
 There has been a great deal of misrepresentation about the situation between Senator Foraker and myself. We discussed the general aspects of the campaign. Senator Foraker said he wanted to do all he could. to bring about Republican success, and to call upon him when needed him |" .'.
 Senator Foraker's, comment upon the conference was that we had very pleasant personal talk"
 Mir. Taft had good reason to be grate- full to Joe" Foraker, and to desire his friendship. for 1t was Foraker who gave him his first big boost into the
 
 the Superior Court of Cincinnati. For aker was at that time Governor of Ohio.
 According to Mir. Roosevelt's letter, MT. Taft declined all overtures from the Foraker party in 1907-the pro- posed agreement being that Foraker would support Tafts candidacy, if Mir. Taft and the other Ohio leaders would throw thefr strength to the Senatorial aspiration of Foraker. MT. Taft then said that he would not con- slider for one moment any possible ad- vantage to himself when what he re- garded as a great principle was at stake" Those are Mir Roosevelts words. But in view of the pact of Sept. 2, are the people of Ohio and the entire country to be deceived into be- lieving that no arrangement" was made either with MT. Taft or his man. agers and Senator Foraker?
 Can MT. Roosevelt, who has deemed 1t necessary to rush to the aid of Mr. Taft. explain 1t?
 Boss" Cox of Cincinnati with his new halo of virtue, affixed by Mir. Taft and. appointed by the latter head of the local committee, ordered thousands of the hand-shaking ',he is good enough for me" Autographs for distribution. But what a change a week brought in the situation. The peace doves have DSen klllSu, tH6 OliNe thrown into the ash can and Senator Foraker pitched headlong from Peach Noun tain into Despair Gulch.
 MT. Foraker has been read out of the party. repudiated and reviled by MT. Roosevelt. As Henry Watterson so cuttingly speaks of the Grand Old Party's" attitude in the matter. It Is amazing! It Is pitiful. It is hu- initiating. Their sins indeed have found them out. Scandals to right of them scandals to left of them. de- feat in front of them. Yet a little longer and then the boneyard, leaving only a stench behind. and this inscrip- ton: .-
 whilst it lived, 1t lived in clover.
 When 1t died. 1t died all over"