Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-28

feated for reelection to the United States
senate by the same influences that ele-
waited Mr. Taft to the presidency, ii now
appears that Joseph Benson Foraker holds
the key to the political situation in Ohio;
indeed, II is said that the only chance
the Grand Old Party has for winning
the state in the next gubernatOrial cam
paign is to nominate Foraker its can
didate for governor. President Taft, II
is stated is beginning to realize this,
and in the interests of the party will bow
gracefully.
Foraker has twice been governor of
Ohio, and 1t is stated that the wave of
resentment against him which recently
swept over the state has about subsidized.
and that he is looming up bigger and big
ger every day. Foraker is harder fight
er and a better politician than President
Taft of ans of the Ohio lieutenants, and
since retiring to private life he has made
much progies in re-establishing himself
in the good graces OF the people of Ohio.
President Taft, 1t is explained, has new
er been personally popular in his native
state. He has never been close TO the
people, and for many years he has been
out of touch with Ohio affairs. spending
most of his time in the philippines and
in Washington. The Republican party,
il is claimed, had the hardest sort or
fight to carry Ohio for Taft in the presi-
Dental election, due in part to the For
aker detection, but in larger meas
ure to Taft's unpopularity at home. Since
being elected president, Mr.. Taft has
done nothing to strengthen himself in
Ohio, but on the contrary has handled the
federal patronage in such way as to
weaken himself politically. His appoint
ments have all been good ones, in so far
as efficiency and character are concern
ed, but they did not represent good pol
tiles"
WHEREFORE THE WORRY.
The situation in Ohio is not satisfying
to the Republican party. primarily, be-
cause the present governor-HaTmon-is
a Democrat, and he is making good,
Strengthening the party and strengthen
ing himself The Republican leaders fear
that Harmon may be nominated for pres
ident by the Democrats four years hence,
and they believe Ohio would give her elec-
toral votes to the Democratic party, If
Harmon were the candidate. But II Har-
mon is defeated for reelection as COVER
nor, he will be a member of the down
and out club, and will have small chance
of winning the Democratic nomination
for president Then. too, Ohio must elect
a United States senator two years hence,
and while the Republicans have com
Portable majority of % votes in the leg
islature now the Harmon regime. as stat
bare possibility that the Republican par
ty lead of % votes in the legislature may
be turned into a Democratic majority, un-
less Harmon is stopped. Then there
would be a Democratic senator from the
Buckeye state.
The Taft faction being willing to har-
monize on Foraker. the Republicans be-
lieve that Fire Alarm Joe" is the only
man in Ohio who stands any chance of de-
feating Harmon. In view of the disclo-
sures about Foraker 1t is hard to be-
lieve that he could be elected governor OF
Chic, but the Republican party has
way of swallowing most anything, II
needs be, for party success.
ABOUT SENATOR OLIVER.
Senator George T. oliver. whose home
is in Pittsburg. Pa. knows a lot about
iron and steel, plate glass and banking.
He has given the senate the benefit of
his expert knowledge of metal and glass
and had an attentive audience, notwith-
standing that he is the newest member
of the upper house, for the other sena-
tors clearly perceived that he knew what
he was talking about and that he was
talking to give information and not for
the purpose of making speech.
Ordinarily the senate resents the intru-
sion of a new senator into its debates,
but times are different now and any one
who has facts in his possession and can
state them clearly is listened to with re-
spect. no matter whether he uses them
to support protection views or tariff-for-
revenue opinions.
But Oliver Cwho is, of course, Repub-
lican) has been adopted into the senate
family and is in as much favor on the
Democratic as on the Republican side be-
cause of the neat manner in which he
trimmed Senator Newlands, of Nevada.
Il would not be fair to say that II was
because II was Newlands lie trimmed that
the senate enjoyed it,. II was the way in
which oliver did it,
Mr.. Newlands, had been attacking the
excessive protection of sewing machines,
'ypewriters and printing presses and pro-
dressed from that to n picture of Pitts
burg, a hot-bed OF protection sentiment,
drawn by q commission of the Russell
Sage foundation. The commissions re-
BORT represented that in Pittsburg men
were compelled to work for twelve hours
a day and seven days a week and that
their wages were so low that they hao
% herd like animals in any available
hole or corner. If that was consequences
If protection. Mr.. Newlands thought II
ine to end ii.
AS he hammered on conditions in Pitts
burg the man from that city, who was
seated just behind him, rose. MS first
business was to deny that there were
such conditions in Pittsburg as Mr. New
lands was relating He did that briefly.
Then with almost as much brevity he
Ontinued:
But 1 want to ask the senator from
Nevada what is the universal custom
in his state with regard to six or sew
en- days work? I spent Sunday for
my sins In Nevada within the last
year and / know that there is no such
thing as Sunday in the state. 1t Is
the universal custom to work seven
days a week. l nave some interests
in Nevada and I and my associates
endeavored to induce the operatives
to work only six days a week. They
refused saying IT was the custom Of
the country and they did not know
there was such a day as Sunday. In
Nevada the faro and roulette table
are a feature OF every hotel; not Of
the bar room, but of the office of the
establishment, and the guests cannot
get away from it. / spent one day
IT was the sorriest L ever spenv-in
the senator's home town. The only
way l could escape from the rattle OF
dice and the clink. cliRk of faro chips
was by going to the Carnegie library.
which was given to the city of Reno
by one of Pittsburgs millionaires.
AS Mr. oliver began about Nevada,
turning the tables on Newlands the SEN
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