Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-01

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!. the delegation from his home coun- X
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i will be turned over to Burton, ad- X
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X would no longer hope for re-elec- X
K tion X
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| COLUMBUS, o., Dec. 31.-Congress-
man Theodore E. Burton was to-
~ day looked upon as the next sena-
tor from Ohio.
Charles P. Taft withdrew from the
race and Senator Foraker issued a
statement later that his defeat for re-
election is Gertain.
All the minor candidates have either
withdrawn or will get out of the race.
1t is said Mr.. Taft will remain in
virtual control of the Republican organ
ization, and that he viii have the
united support of the party for the
senatorship in 1911 if he desires it.
The election of Mr.. Burton, it is said
will eliminate Senator Dick and Myron
T.. Herrick from the 1911 senatorial
! situation.
Senator Foraker will again oppose
Mr.. Taft in that year, but some of the
! leaders here were inclined today to in
/ terpret Mr.. Foraker's statement as in
the nature of a valedictory.
| Later in the day Governor Andrew L.
Harris and Gen. J. Warren Keifer also
Lieutenant Governor Harding would
drop out.
Senator Dicks Friends Worried
Friends of Senator Charles Dick were
deeply concerned over the developments
of the day.
1t has been an invariable rule in Ohio
politics that northern and southern ends
of the state should alternate in the
! naming of senators. AS both Mr. Bur-
| ton and Mr.. Dick are from the north
it is said the senatorship will go to a
southern man in 1911.
Many believe Mr.. Taft will renew his
candidacy at that time.
Senator Foraker's friends believe he
too, will make the race two years hence
Senator Foraker said in part. in a
statement issued by him late in the
day:
''The withdrawal of Mr.. Taft simpli-
fies the situation. Under all the cir
cunstances, would have been glad to
/
that seems impossible, feel there is a
great compensation for any personal
disappointment involved for myself in
the result that has been reached.
Lesson Has Been Taught
IF nothing more had been accom-
plished, a lesson Of lasting value has
been taught in the demonstration that
a party organization is powerful only
when it confines itself to it's legitimate
| business and duties as the agency and
| representative of the whole party. and
that it loses its force and power when
it becameS a personal asset of an in
| dividua1"
| Mr.. Taft's statement in part follows:
MY candidacy from the beginning
/ seems to have been misunderstood I
have been represented as urging my
own personal ambition at the expense
of Republican harmony and success.
| The imputation is unjust; but that is
of no moment now.
1.-THE cause of it shall exist no longer.
I yield the personal ambition for the
accomplishment of better and more i'm
portant things.
''I have been a sincere and consistent
Republican all my life. I have served
my party and the people of my COM
munity as a member of the legislature
Of Ohio, and of the congress of the
United States. It was my privilege TO
be one those who. nearly forty years
ago, in the general assembly of this
state, stood for the authority Of party
| judgment as formed in public senti-
ment and expressed in party caucus.
when John Sherman was sent to the
senate OF the United States.
Ambitious to Be Senator
'I have long had an ambition to be
senator from Ohio. I have sought this
great honor without reliance upon the
popularity or prestige of any other
man, and especially without any ex-
pectation that my motives would be
misinterpreted, or any personal desires
would endanger that harmony among
Republicans everywhere which is so es-
sential to the success of the incoming
national administration.
ST withdraw as a candidate for sena-
tor, and with grateful appreciation re-
! lease my friends from further effort in
my behalf. I will resume my place in
| the councils of the Republican party
and give to it's welfare and to the splen-
did policies for which it stands the
same service and devotion which have
been the great privilege and pride of
my life.''