The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-20
DICK ENTERS
 NOVEL FIGHT Ohio Senator Again Seeks
 Toga. WILL APPEAL TO PEOPLE Turns Back On Principles Of Mark
 Hanna. Coming Fight on Liquor in virsinis Legislature Leads Republicans of old Dominion to Hope
 for Victory.
WILL APPEAL TO PEOPLE
BY ALFRED ,. STOPPER.

Washington, Sept. 19.-(SpeciaL)-- Although the fight does not open up in earnest until next year interest al- ready attaches here and elsewhere to the contest Senator. Dick will make to succeed himself
 Things have been happening politi- cally in Ohio within recent years that caused Gennerai Dick to resort to an extraordinary move In his State to re- tain his seat. He is forcing an Issue that If put to the test. as he hopes 1t will be. will try plan that ts likely to give cold shivers to the political money bags" out in the Buckeye Com monwealth.
 Such a thing as appealing directly to the voters in ohio has never been heard of before when a United States Sena- tor was to be oh osen, and it is enough to almost make men like Henry B. Payne, Calvin S. Brice and Mark Hanna turn over in their graves. The old way was decidedly the easiest for the men who relied chiefly upon their bank accounts to grease the route for sliding into the upper branch of Congress, and in times past there hasn't been much if any dif- ference in the methods of the two po- litical parties in Ohio.
 Leading Ohio men who have been in Washington within recent weeks have discussed interestingly the outlook in
 
 gardless of political ahiliatIon they seem to think Senator Dick has made a shrewd move in daring his rivals to come out in the open and submit their claims to popular vote and thus let the people decide the contest.
 Gets Tip From Burton.
 They say Senator Dick got this tip from Senator Burton. only the former has gone further than Mir. Burton in appealing straight to the people. When MT. Burton was a candidate for the Senate to succeed MT. Foraker who was rounding out his second term and had a poor show of winning again. Charles P. Taft, brother of President Taft, was looked upon as the most powerful if not the leading candidate for the sena- torial toRa.
 Burton Is a poor man and realized that if the usual secret work was to be done before the Legislature he would have a slim chance of winning. He proposed that Taft, Foraker ano he go to Columbus and make their pleas to the legislators in open meeting. Taft was as poor in voice and persuasion as Burton In purse, and Taft feared that if any such contest as this was forced the brilliant and magnetic Foraker might electrify the legislators and walk away with the prize, even though he was supposed to be mighty near a dead one" politically after Roosevelt got through with him last year. So D Taft threw up the sponge and pulled out of the race. Foraker practically did the same, and that left the race an easy one for Burton.
 The Ohio politicians who come here talk as if they thought Dick has the rank and file of the old Hanna organi- zation behind him. For years he has been prominent in the National Guard of the State, and the soldier boys are almost to a man for him. He also stands very well with the labor ele- meit, and the common belief Is that he is going to be a mighty hard man to beat inside of the Republican party when the show down takes place. He's rated a good politician and organizer, too, having gotten his training right under the late Mark Hanna, who look ed upon him as his most valuable lieu tenant.
 A direct appeal to the Republican voters is about the last thing Charles P. Taft and the other rich Republicans want. But 1t is apparently Dicks only chance to circumvent the rich men in his party, and he Is reported to be de- termined to play it for all 1t Is worth.
 The prevailing belief has been here that Ohio would be one of the very last States in the Union to swing around to the primary plan. It Is almost as much of 8 machine" State as New York and Pennsylvania.
 It has been for many years the un- written law in the parties at least in Ohio that the two United States Sena- tors should not come from the same section of the State. Heretofore one Senator has been from over towards the Cleveland end and the other has come from either Cincinnati or Colum- bus. Dick and Burton live only a short distance apart.
 Few people now think that ex-Sena- tor Foraker will come up for another term in the Senate. The general ex- pectation is that he will hold himself in readiness to whack some of his po- litical enemies In Ohio. and 1t may be