Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-03
VICTORY FOR TAFTMEN
CONTROL OHIO REPUBLICAN
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

ident at primaries to be held on February
IL, when delegates and alternates to the
republican state convention will be elected.
The convention will be held in Columbus
on March 3 and 4, and IL will select. in
addition to four delegates at large to the
republican national convention. candidates
for governor and other state officers.
The call for the primaries and conven-
ton was adopted last evening by the re-
publican state central committee after a
protracted and lively session. The friends
OF Secretary Taft were in control of the
committee. casting fourteen votes to seven
for the supporters of Senator Foraker
also avowed candidate for the presi-
dency. The vote stood fourteen to seven
on every proposition which required a roll
call except the selection of d temporary
chairman for the state convention. James
r. Carrie d.. Secretary of the Interior, was
the choice of the Taft supporters, re-
ceiving thirteen votes to eight cast for
Harry NJ. Daugherty of Columbus. Rich
ard McCloud of London. close personal
frie nd of Mr.. Daugherty, but Taft sup
porter vot, d for him as against Mr.. Gar
field.
Convention Officers Named.
The officers chosen for the state con-
vention are: Chairman, James r. Gar
field. Cleveland: secretary, R. NJ. Switzer,
y
Jennings, Athens; sergeant alarms Rich
ard Giles, S,eubenville.
The state committee decided that 1t
had nothing to do with the selection of
national delegates in the congressional
districts and declined to make any sug
gestion in regard thereto. The committee
met early in the afternoon and, after a
shorc session, appointed subcommittee
to draft "a call for the primaries and CON
venton. This committee called upon Gov.
Harris during the recess to consult his
wishes in regard to the call. The committee
representing the supporters of Senator
Foraker also called on the governor and
asked him to permit his name to be pre-
s. nted for chairman of the state conven-
ton. but the governor declined Several
amendments to the call were proposed
by the friends of Senator Foraker, but
in each case they were voted down. The
chief fight was made against the direct
primary plan for the selection of dele
gates to the state convention. They pro-
posed that delegates to county conventions
be chosen by direct vote, the county con-
ventions to choose the delegates to the
state convention.
The call as adopted provides for a total
of S15 delegates to the state convention.
The Australian ballot is to be uscd in
the primary. If petition il made the
be printed under the name of the person
who may be their choice for presidential
candidate. The unit rule in the election
Of delegates will be observed in all ex-
cept Cuyahoga and Hamilton counties,
which may be divided into districts.
What Foraker's Friends Think.
Special Dispatch to The Star
COLUMBUS. Ohio, January 3.-Though
Senator Dick decline to make any COM
ment on the call issued for the state con-
yention, friends of Senator Foraker here
are openly saying that the call is so
draw n as to shut out the senator's friends
from the convention, and ttat in all coun-
hnre the Foraker men control the
county central committees the call will be
ignored and delegates chosen to the state
convention as they see fit. There are from
twelve to fifteen counties In which For
aker republicans control. so that II the
daIa,atas so chosen should be shut out OF
tho state convention there would ne
enough of them to hold another stcte con-
vention of respectable proportions that Is
outlined now with the furtner propoSil on
that a second delegation at large to the
national convention is to be chosen. me
presence at Chicago of a contesting ana
hostile delegation from ms STATE wouiu
be embarrassing and probably injurious 10
Secretary TAFT however 6io"N 40
claims might be. .,
the Taft leaders believe they are so
we'll fortified that there VIII De niue
chance for Foraker delegates to be CHOSEN
rom any ward o. township. They take
no chances on a contingency OF that KIND
elsewhere for in each or the other
counties the delegates are to be voted for
at large throughout the county.
Straight Ticket Up.
IT is expected that the provision that
upon petition of twenty times the number
of delegates any county is entitled to
ticket of delegates shall be put on the bal
lot marked with the name of the presi-
dental candidate that the candidates.
stand for. will be generally used and that
straight Taft and Foraker tickets will be
up in every county. The provision that
The presidential candidate so proposed to
be supported must indorse 1t before any
such ticket Is admitted to the ballot Is
intended to present the springing OF
.'phony" tickets calculated to confuse the
voters. The primary election is to be
held under the new primary election law,
the state supervisor of elections having
complete control, and it is questioned by
the Foraker men as to whether the SUI
pervisors can be held to follow all the I'M
Usual and complicated requirements of
the call.
A singular thing about it is that
candidates for nomination on the state
ticket at the convention will be COM
pletely lost sight of In the desperate fight
over the presidential Endorsement.
Since last August, when the state GEN.