The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-04
F0RAKER REFUSES
WON'T BE BOUND BY COMMITTEES
 ACTION.
He Says Some of the Requirements Are Unreasonable and Are in Di- rect Conflict With
 Statute.

Cincinnati, Jan. 3.-A flat refusal to be bound by the conditions of the call for the Republican State Convention. which Is to name State ticket and se- lect delegates at large to the National Convention, is the conclusion reached by United States Senator Joseph Ben- son Foraker and announced in state- ment given to the press here tonight.
 Primaries for a test of strength be- tween Taft and Foraker as presidential candidates were provided for in the of- hcial call and the method provided is sharply criticized by Senator Foraker. The statement in part follows: | ' T am not sure understand the call, although l have read 1t several times. If l do. it Is another case of asking for bread and getting e stone. My idea in requesting primaries was to have the election of delegates brought home to the people so that in each ward tor in- stance. we could select our immediate representatives. This call makes all that impossible.
 Tn addition, it prescribes require inents Tot authorized by the statute and not within the power of the State Central Committee. Some of these re- Quirements are in direct conflict with the statute. Some of them are very burdensome. One, in. particular, is the requirement. that before there can be a Taft ticket and a Foralxer tick ct, there must De . petition signed by twenty times the number of the candidates for delegates and alternates. That would mean in this county about 1000 sign CTS and petitioners.
 The unreasonableness of the re- quirement that there shall be 4.000 pe- titioners to authorize a ticket is shown, not only by the fact that the law makes no such requirements but in cases where the law authorized coun- ty and city officers to be nominated by petition, only 300 names are necessary to nominate any county officer and only fifty names are necessary to nom- mate any municipal officer.
 .Tf in the contemplation of the law fifty signers are enough to authorize placing a mans name on the ticket for Mayor of Cincinnati or Cleveland, cer- tainly Ii is beyond anything contem-' plated by tse law that 4.000 signers should be necessary to nominate lot of delegates and alternates to merely attend the State Convention. It sho hould be enough for each party to select his own ticket and then let the people vote SIeip preference.
 ''The counties are not bound to fol- low the order of the State Central Committee. So far as am personally concerned, I shall make no effort to comply with such uncalled for. illegal and arbitrary conditions"
 Dick for FOraker.
 Akron. O., Jan. 3.-'T am for Foraker. first. last and all the time" United States Senator Dick said today. "and the report that I desire to climb into someone else's band wagon is false"
 Thus the junior Senator from Ohio sized up his attitude towards Senator Foraker. incident to the recent call of the Republican Central Committee. conceded by the Foral1er forces to have been decidedly in favor of Secretary Taft. the other Ohio candidate for the Republican nomination.
 Senator Dick said he was not pleased with the action of the committee.
 'tAlI of the conditions are arbitrary and hard to comply with" he said. This is exceptional. No provision is made in the call for candidates for State offices. The delegates will have no opportunity to vote for any candi- date except Mir. Foraker or Mir. Taft. The voters will have no way of ex- pressing a desire in the matter"