Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-10
NEW REGIME IN OHIO
Election of Burton to Senate
Changes Things.
.FAvORS PARTY SUPREMACY
Arthur I. Vorys Regarded as the
Biggest Loser.
HARRIS MAKES APPOINTMENTS
Retiring Governor Sends in a Large
Number of Names-Senate
Promptly Confirms.
HARRIS MAKES APPOINTMENT.
special Correspondence of The. Star.

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position to ring rule in politics it was
thought by some that his election would
not mean an attempt by him at party
supremacy, but enough has already de-
veloped to show that he will take and
use all that comes to him as prerogatives
of the high Office to which he has been
elected If stories that come from Cleve-
land are correct. Maurice Maeschke of
that city, now deputy recorder of Cuya-
hoga county, will come into state promi-
nence as the political manager Of Mr..
Burton and a factor in state politics,
eclipsing both George B. Cox of Cincin-
natl and Walter +. Brown of Toledo.
How far the republicans of the state will
so in the support Of this arrangement
remains to be seen.
Though Mr.. Burton was overwhelming
ly defeated in the movement he led in the
| republican state convention at Dayton
| three years ago to overthrow Senators
| Foraker and Dick. the rank and file Of
his party have kept him in kindly re-
| membrance ever since, for the reason
| that they believed he. was sincere in his
efforts for political reform and was not
governed in his political service by selfish
| motives. They were still supporting him
| in the recent contest for the United
States senatorship otherwise he could not
|
| testants out of the running, incidentally
breaking up the state organization of the
party, which, coming fresh from it's Sue
cessful movement to nominate and elect
William II. Taft to the presidency, was
| well established in the party.
Election Is Significant.
Though Mr.. Burton acted closely with
the state organization in the movement
that led up to the nomination of Mr.. Taft
for the presidency. it is evident that he
| has broken completely with that organi-
cation now. Nothing could more definite
ly show this than the election of John
R. Malloy, close friend of both Senators
| Foraker and Dick, as clerk of the Ohio
senate in the organization of that body
| this week. Nalloy's election under any
| circumstances would be significant, but
| 1t is all the more SO because of the fact
that his opponent was Malcolm Jennings
| of Lancaster, who was a member of the
| state organization.
! 1t begins to appear now that the man
who loses most as the result of the sem
atorial fight is Arthur I. Vorys, who was
at first, at least, the manager Of the Will
liam Fl. Taft movement. From the time
| Mr.. Vorys resigned the Office OF state
| superintendent of insurance to accept the
work. to the present, he has met with
continued political reverses. Hardly had
he brought his state organization into line
for Taft when he began to feel influences
pulling him back and pushing Mr.. Hitch
cock forward in the leadership of the
movement. At Canton, on the occasion Of
the dedication of the Mckinley monu-
ment, he first met President Roosevelt
and after the exercises, the President
continuing on his journey westward, Mr..
Vorys rode with him In his car as far
as Fort Wayne. On the way they dis
| cusSed the Taft movement, and Mr.. VOrys
told the President what was being done
and how.
Advancement Of Hitchcock.
The advancement of Hitchcock became
pronounced, resulting in his selection as
national chairman, place that Mr.. Forys
had thought from the first belonged to
! him. Through all this time Mr.. Vorys
has been talked Of as the candidate Of
the party for governor two years hence
and he had come to be generally looked
upon as definitely lined up for that honor
| But the termination Of the senatorial
fight seems to have lifted him out Of
that preference. 1t was at his advice
and that of Henry A. Williams. the chair
man of the republican state committee,
that Charles p. Taft became candidate
for the senatorship. Many of he party
leaders considered it unwise for Mr.. Taft
to try for this office, but Mr.. Vorys urged
him to make the fight, even making a
public statement to the effect that neither
President-elect nor that he had contrib
uted largely to the national campaign
fund should have any weight against
him In this ambition.
OF course, before Mr.. Taft retired from
the fight he had found a strong feeling
against his election. which he feels that
Mr.. Vorys should have discovered and re-
ported to him. In that case he could
have saved himself great embarrassment.
Now it is said that Mr.. Taft will prob
Lob q candidate
for governor two years hence
Retires With Good Grace.
In spite of the embarrassment of the
senatorial fight to Mr.. Taft, it is evident
that he has retired from the fight with
good grace and in such way as to
stand in favor with the party for that or
any other political honor for which he
may hereafter have ambition. Mr.. Taft
has been urged as candidate of his
party for governor several times in recent
years, but never made any effort to secure
the honor. He has influences in his con-
troll which would probably be able to
secure the nomination for him If he should
care for it.
In the meantime nothing in the way OF
political honor of consequence appears
on the political horizon for Mr.. Vorys
He does not seem to be reckoned with a,
all in connection with the better patron
age that will be dispensed by the new
president. The state organization. with
which he had allied himself, has evidently
been badly managed. as the result of the
!, senatorial fight, and while, as an organ
ization it will continue in existence unit
d next year, it's influence will be SMALL anG
when a new organization is formed next
year. undoubtedly Theodore Burton viii
have a hand in forming it, and if SO. ii
is not likely that many Of those influential
in it now will remain. Not that Mr.
, Burton is known as reSentfuf or vim
dictive-quite the contrary-but he will
, no doubt want men at the head Of party
affairs whose political judgment recon-
mends itself to him.
Retiring Governor Makes Appoint
ments.
Gov Harris. by sending to the Senate
+ large number of appointments, and the
, Senate, by promptly affirming them, have
' deprived the incoming democratic gov
:, ernor Judson Harmon, who will be In
augurated tomorrow, of much important
: patronage. 1t is estimated by the demo
Gratis that the courts will be asked Il
E pass upon the validity of these appoint
ments. Many of them were recess ap
E pointments, made as the vacancies occur
: red, and regarding these there seems
| scarcely a chance that the courts will no
S sustain the governor. But Gov. Harris
made two important appointments to fill