The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-11
FORAKER JUMPS ON ROOSEVELT
 WITH BOTH FEET
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 White House was told in letter which Mr. Douglass immediately sent to MT. Bryson, saying:
 The President bluntly told me that I would have to recommend another man."
 MT. Douglass said he urged the Pres ident to reconsider, but he was jn- sistent. MT. Foraker said he did not want to comment upon correspondence beyond showing the pressure that had been brought to bear on one man who had expressed his personal views on a matter which he had a right to ex- press them ito coerce" as the President has said in his letter.
 Letter to Douglass.
 MT. Bryson then sent a letter to MT. Douglass, said MT. Foraker, in which he gave his view of the situation He said that in his interview he had said that Taft was losing and Foraker gaining in Ohio, and that Taft if nominated, could not carry the state. MT. Bryson's letter reiterated this and declared that it was true He said that he had always been in favor of the Presidents policies and that. nothing had ever apepared in his paper in ep- position to the administration. He re- viewed some of the things he had printed, however, including the state nent that the President would be com pelled to take another nomination be- cause, with Taft as a candidate, the labor, capital and negro vote would be eliminated from the party. He asserted that the Presidents statement of his fBryson's) activities as represented 10 MT. Douglass. was entirely wrong, and in conclusion MT. Bryson's letter said: q favor the President, but not his candidate, and l shall not so long as l think Bryan can beat him at the polls" MT. Bryson announced that while he would like to continue in office lie would not do so by the sacrifice of his independence,
 Mir. Foraker said he supposed Doug lass had laid the letter before the President and asked that the President send in the nomination.
 MT. Foraker gave the President en- tire credit for seeing justice of such course in view of the manly reply made by MT. Bryson to the criticism that he had made of him.
 Mr. Foraker asserted he could estab- fish to the entire satisfaction of any unbiased mind that there are a hun dred such cases in Ohio. He said that : estimate was no exaggeration, alth ough the President sAiland could not be traced
 
 engineered y men who represented The President.
 No reply was made to MT. Foraker's remarks.
 The reading by Senator Foraker of : correspondence between Representative Douglass of Ohio and c. H. Bryson, post master at Athens. O., caused MT. Doug lass, on the floor of the House of Repre- sentatives. to read another letter Of his to Mir Bryson, which he said MT. For alxer had failed to read. Mr. Douglass said he was unable to understand how MT. Foraker came by the letters, which were private or why he failed to read all of them, unless he did not have them.
 The letter was in reply to one from MT Bryson, who had acknowledged him. self a Foraker man, and in this reply Mr. Douglass declared Bryson was mak- ing a mountain out of mole hill and in order to disabuse his mind about the Presidents feeling toward candidates for public office suggested that MT. Bryson come to Washington and have a talk with the President
 Small Matter Maunified.