The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-01

opponent, withdrew from the race. and
Senator Foraker issued a statement
later admitting that his defeat for re-
election was certain. All the minor
candidates have either Withdrawn or
Will get out of the race 1t is said that
MI Faft Will remain in virtual control
of the Republican organization. and
that he will have the united support Of
the party for the senatorship in 1911. If
ne desires IT, The election of Mr.. Bur
ton, it is said, will eliminate both Sen
ator Dick and Myron T. Herrick from,
the 1911 senatorial situation. Senator
FORAKER will again oppose Mr.. Taft in
that year, but some of the political
leaders here were inclined today to in
terpret Mr.. Foraker's statement. issued
today, as in the nature of a valedictory
Taft's Statement.
Mr.. Taft issued the following state
ment:
My candidacy from the beginning
seems to have been misunderstood. /
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. The cause of it shall
exist no longer. 1 yield the personal
ambition for the accomplishment of
better and more important things.
81 have been a sincere and consistent
Republican all my life. l 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. 1t was my privilege to
be one of those who nearly forty years
ago in the general assembly of this
state stood for the authority of party
judgment as formed in public sentiment
and expressed in party caucus, when
John Sherman was sent to the senate
of the United States.
81 have long had an ambition to be
a senator from Ohio. I have sought
this great honor without reliance upon
the popularity OF prestige of any other
man. and especially without any ex-
pectation that my motives would be
misinterpreted, or my personal desires
would endsnger that harmony among
Republicans everywhere, which is so
essential TO the success of the incoming
national administration.
Time to Get Out.
Conditions have now arisen which
impose a higher duty upon me than the
qualification of any personal ambition
1t is clear that a prolonged contest for
the senatorShiP would divide the Re-
publican party of Ohio, and l am not
willing to be in any way responsible
for such division. Although it does not
appear at present that any candidate
has enough votes to win a caucus nom
nation. and though many of my friends
insist that I can and will be elected,
put these considerations aside in order
TO meet worthier obligations. I with
draw as a candidate for senator, and
with grateful appreciation release my
friends from further effort in my be-
half. / will resume my place in the
councils of the Republican party and
give to its welfare and to the splendid
policies for which il stands the same
service and devotion which have been
the great privilege and pride of my
life"
Foraker Follows Suit.
Senator Foraker issued the following
statement:
The withdrawal of MIR. Taft sirnpli-
fies the situation.
Under all the circumstances would
have been glad to have been reelected,
but inasmuch as that seems impossible,
IL l.