Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-04

q young lire alarm OF ofdtOry WAS
around the state denouncing it. So
Foraker was let into the senate and
| Bryce thrown out
| While he was fighting his way In,
| Foraker's nominal relations with Sher-
man were excellent. Twice, in 1884 and
| 1883, did he present the name of Sher-
man to the republican national con-
vention. Sherman lost, and passed on;
and then a new son of Ohio rose as an
aspirant for presidential honors, in
| Mckinley.
| Foraker had to be reckoned with in
the early days of the Hanna fight for
| Mckinley, exactly as he did in the
early stages of the fight to nominate
Taft. Hanna preferred to make terms;
Foraker was satisfied. agreed to keep
out Of the presidential fight SO far as
concerned furtherance of his own am
bition, and loyalty supported Mckin-
ley. He presented the name of Nc
kinley to two national conventions
Just as he had done that of Sherman
before
Beaten by Mark Hanna.
But Hanna wrenched away from
Foraker the control of the real old
Ohio machine, which now becomes a
Hanna machine. 1t elected Hanna to
the senate and from that time forward
Foraker held his place largely despite
that he had no machine; simply be-
cause he was a big enough national
figure to be independent of all ma
chimes.
CROWDED aside for Sherman when he
was a young man; pushed aside again
20 in1a In N a l1y- in
asked to give his support to a third
small wonder that Foraker did not
fancy forever sacrificing his own am
bition for the presidency Perhaps he
saw coming the Taft candidacy of 1908
long before other people saw it, and
knew 1t BODIED no good to his own am
bitons At any rate, he broke with the
Roosevelt administration, opposed its
policies, and became a candidate, him
self for the presidential nomination,
hoping to wrest Ohio from Taft.
Beginning Of the End.
The rest of the history is so recent
and we'll known. that it need not be re-
counted. Foraker was defeated; Taft
got Ohio and the nomination. The CAM
paign brought the disclosure of For
aker's relations to powerful financial
interests which had long opposed and
been opposed by President Roosevelt
From that time forward there seemed
practically no chance of F'oraker's re-
election to the senate
The greatest piece of political cap
ital which Judge Taft possessed in his
campaign for the nomination last year,
was the fact of his determined opposi-
ton to Foraker. 1t seemed a most
courageous thing to do-going out and
defying the senior and head of the state
scheme; declaring, as he once did, that
it wasn't so important for Taft to be
nominated, but it was important that
the public service be cleaned and
cleared of people of the Foraker type.
Taft won in Ohio despite the Foraker
fight: and he won elsewhere because OF
that fight. 1t was the one thing which
more than anything else convinced the
country that Taft was a real, devoted,
determined reformer.
They say out in Ohio that granted a
return of health, Foraker will be fac-
tor two years hence. He will make
fight for the Hamilton county delega-
ton in the legislature. OF course 1t is
agreed that he will rot enter the sena-
torial race while Dick Is in at; but the
Foraker people calculate that Dick VIII
drop out before the big fighting begins.
That Foraker could force his way PACK
into the senate in two years seems I'M
possible; yet he has accomplished some
things during his forty years of poilt-
zeal life which were quite as remark
able as they would be.
Senator Foraker is a great LAWYER
and has accumulated a fortune which
puts him we'll in the millionaire class.
His splendid Sixteenth street home in
is one OF the finest in The
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