The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-12

PhN lNG.
 Iy embarrassed over the liquor ques- against the Republican State ticket.
 If that goes down. as is generally be-
 lieved it will. no power can save the
 national ticket.
 Foraker Friends Indignant.
 Friends of Senator Foraker who have recently come to town. are indignant over the treatment accorded him for the opening of the Republican cam paign at Youngstown on the 5th of September. Never before in thirty years has such a slight been put upon the Senior Senator from the Buckeye
 State The idea. they say. of hav- ing such rally and Joseph Benson Foraker not to be one of the speakers. To think that a man holding his posi- tion, who has twice been the Governor of Ohio. who has been prominent in the national conventions, and who so often has been called upon to sound the keynote for his party. will have this year. if he attends the Youngs- town rally, to sit up among lot of putty politicians on the platform with a paddock on his mouth, and all be- cause the fellows who are running the Taft campaign are afraid that the Senator might possibly say something they would not like. "You can come" they tell him in the invitation extend ed. "but let 1t be understood that you are expected to keep your mouth shut"
 Followers of Senator Foraker are pretty generally of the opinion that he will not be apt to attend the gather ing. His friends were completely ig- nored in the contests prior to the selec- tion of delegates from Ohio to the re- cent national convention at Chicago. They have been slapped in the face and insulted since Judge Taft became the nominee for the Presidency, and the word has gone forth that the pins must be so fixed that in the event the Re- publicans control the next legislature Representative Burton or some other Taft man must be sent to the Senate of the United States in the place of Mir. Foraxer.
 Elmer Dover, late Secretary of the Republican National Committee, Is a friend of Senator Foraker, and had to get out. Chafrman Hitchcock may talk all he pleases about how willing Dover was to step aside. but it is fully under stood here that Hitchcock meant from the start to remove Dover. The pre- tense is made that Dover Is very well satisfied to take another position
 Dover Told Truth.
 The truth of the matter is that Dover was talking out loud and telling the Hitchcock fellows what they might look for in Ohio, and that is why he was told "to git" It is common talk here that Dover did not like the way things were being run in Ohio, and he said so. Hitchcock has his notions. and so has Brother Charley Taft, and as they did not coincide with those of Dover the clash could not be avoided. And of course Candidate Taft had to yield to the superior judgment of his most wonderful political man ager, and meekly submit to the de-.. capitation of Dover because 1t had been ordered by the great and only Hitch- cock, the one fellow that Charley Scott of Alabama was going to Chicago to do up''
 The Ohio Democrats are also greatly this year in having as their senatorial candidate Ex-Governor James E. Campbell The only defeat Senator Foraker ever sustained at the polls in his state was administered by Mir. Campbell. That was in 1889 when he was beaten for Governor Two years later Governor Campbell was de- feated for that office himself by the late Hon. William Mckinley The chances are that if Mir. Campbell had been reelected Governor in 1891 he WVaA0 Hdbo DcCH tue OcmoCfaIlc nOH1i~ nee for the presidency in 1892 Mir Cleveland, it will be recalled was de- feated in 1888 by General Harrison If Campbell could have won over such a prominent Republican as Mckinley, and in state that usually went Re- publican. he would in all probability have loonned up bigger in 1892 than any of the Democratic candidates for the presidency, but. of course. his defeat ruined his chances completely, and the Mckinley victory, followed by a re- election as governor of Ohio, put him clearly In line for the presidency in 1896.
 James E. Campbell is looked upon as a strong and popular candidate for the It Is thought he will add much. strength to the national and state tickets in sections of the state where he is best known. Mir. Campbell is 3 first-rate stump speaker. and it is nderstood that he will do active cam | paign work between now and the day of election.