The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-27
FORAKER INCIDENT
mAY LEAD TO RESULTS DISASTROUS
 TO REPUBLICANS.
uzs Following Devoted and Fanatical False hoods ns to Demo- cratic Campaign
 Fund.
BY WILLIS ;. ABBOT.

f1Ianager of Publicity Department
 Democratic National Committee.) fcopyright. 1908 by Tribune Company,
 Chicago.)
 Chicago, Sept 2s.-Nobody can blame President Roosevelt for dashing into this campaign as sort of complete nolitcal ready-letter writer. Within about a week he has given the people sf this nation three long letters. The members of Congress who used to get sometimes two or three messages day from the White House must feel a sense of relief that his letter writing activities are now extended to all the citizens of the United States. Some- times q message to Congress resulted Tn mediate adjournment, but the Ann erican people cannot adjourn.
 The Presidents last letter includes an epistle from Secretary Taft con- cerning the sinfulness of the unfor- tunats Foraker and declaring that he would not be a party to any action taken by a Republican State conven- ton which would involve the endorse ment os Foraker for the Senatorship and of Taft for the Presidency. It Is useless to quote at length from this letter, which everybody has read be- fore the. publication of this article.
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 This letter was dated July goth, but where II was WTllI0u IS liIiIud- teriai in view of the fact that for menths the friends of Mir. Taft were exciting every possible endeavor to ef- feet a reconciliation with Senator For aker. Scarcely two weeks ago Mir. Taft, with the knowledge of this let ter thoroughly in his mind grasped hands wamly with Senator Foraker at review of the Grand Army of the Republic in Toledo and stood while the pictures of the two loyal Repub- licans could be taken In this attitude of friendship.
 am not defending Senator Forater. It seeins to mesthat he was not mere iy caught as the phrase goes with the goods but he has practically ples l. ca guilty to the charges brou ght against. But I do ask whether MT. Taftss attitude in inviting Ere sup port of man who had committed such political sins is that of statesman of high honor? If Mir Taft thought so III of Foraker that he was willing to write letter refusing an endorsement at the hands of a convention which would endorse the senior Senator from Ohio why has he had his emissaries pursuing Foraker for months seeking reconciliation and the Foraker sup port?
 If Mir. Taft is a man of such untar- nished honor as Mir. Roosevelt asserts. how could he clasp the hand of For aker Knowing that after he had thus disarmed him the President of the United States. standing behind, would thrust the knife furnished by Taft into the Senator?
 Effect Is Uncertain,
 What the effect of all this may be Sn politics no one can tell. promi- nent Ohio politician put 1t to me this way: "Foraker has in his own State, and in certain adjacent States. a fol- lowing which is personal, and might say, almost as fanatical as the Bryan Following. This attack upon him made by the President will, in my judgment carry the State of Ohio and perhaps that of Indiana for the Democratic ticket. Nobody has explained where Hearst got these letters. Is he friend iy with the Standard oil Company. and did John D. Archbold turn them over to him? And finally how did 1t hap 1. pen that the day after Mir. Hearst sprung his sensation the paper owned by Charles P. Taft in Cincinnati came out with an eulogistic editorial upon Hearst?"
 Moreover. my opinion is that this controversy is not yet ended. Senator Foraker is not the greatest of states men, but, as Henry Watterson said in an editorial. He is more the crea- fure of his environment and associa- lions than he is of his own personal opinion" A Republican oficeh older told me in his opinion the President has done exactly what Foraker desired From now on Foraker Is likely to tell fhingg that he knows that will be gUite as interesting to the American people as any revelations that the