The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-10-29
HITS A SNAG
The Republican Leaders 10 Ohio Are
eseaily Wenied About
FORAEER'S OUTBURSTS

| FORAKER'S OUTBURSTS
On the New: Nationalism chat Has
Been Promulgated by Teddy
Roosevelt Has Created :Consterna-
ton Among the Republicans Of
the Buckeye State.
The bitter attack on Roosevelt
made by Former Senator Foraker IN
Ohio on Saturday has created con-
sternation among the. Republicans
| Of the Buckeye state. Senator For
aker declared that it is no wonder
that william J. Bryan holds up his
hands in horror at the Roosevelt doc
lstrine, for never IN his radical
moments, did Bryan go so far
as to advorate such a thing as
the new nationalism.' He declar-
ed that it was not nationalism, new
or old, but Imperialism, pure and
simple. The senator went. further
into detail, and did not mince words
in denouncing the overweening am
bition Of the ex-president, who would
like the opportunity to run the
whole country, in the. executive. leg
islative and judicial departments.
Ohioens declare that the net re-
suit of Foraker's attack on Roose.
welt will be to lose Harding, the Re-
puhlican~ candidate for governor,m'a
large number OF votes: Harding has
been doing great things in Ohio in
the effort to, bind up the Republi-
can party's wounds. and had begun
to hope for success in defeating Jud-
son Harmon for governor. But when
the Foraker outburst came on, with
all the bitterness and force which
long ago earned the speaker the title
of Fire Alarm" Foraker, 1t was
Immediately recognized that the re-
suit was not good. Mr.. Harding
gave out the following statement in
regard to the affair:
ut was typical Foraker speech.
Perhaps his opposition to the new
nationalism will not wholly please
the more devoted followers of Col.
Roosevelt. But we have no special
need to agree upon that subject in
this. campaign There is no censor
ship on Individual Republican ideas
In Ohio either for or against new
plans. The main thing this. year is
to elect Republican congress; and
in Ohio to elect a. Republican admin
istratior in the State for which the
party will assume the responsible
ty."
The fear that besets the Buckeye
Republicans is that Taft may lose
his own State to the Democrats.
They are particularly anxious to win
because Of the Presidents being a
citizen OF Ohio. for there Is every
prospect that this is a "Demo ocratic
year" in that State.
AS a result Of the speech Of Fora
ker. it is probable that the dates
for other, speeches which he had
been scheduled to make in the cam
paign will be cancelled. Already
one meeting. at which Foraker and
Son-in-law Longsworth were to speak
from the same platform, has been
called off. and 1t is said that the
Foraker stronghold. Union County,
will in all probability be carried by
|'the Denlocra this year.
The Foraker attack on Roosevelt
recalls the bitter enmity which grew
up between the senator and the pres
ident. while Roosevelt was the oc-
cupant Sof the White House. The
whole affair grew, largely. out Of
the Brownsville affair. II will be
recalled that. while the negroes COM
opsing the Twenty-Fifth Imam
try were guilty Of shooting
u p Brownsville. or II lease
some Of them were guilty. the
president discharged the whole bunch
without allowing them the right 81
court-martial. 1t was lyncil-law N
3 different form from that In when
lynch law Is usually adminislere 1,
according tc legal authorities.
Senator Foraker deprecated the
action o: the president in firing
the negroes without trial. and natul-
ally the negroes looked to him to de-
fend then. in the senate In the
long struggle that took place over
the affair, Senator Foraker was de-
term1ned in his efforts to see that
tho negro soldiers were given an
opportunity TO be hrnrd---a right
which Is supposed 10 be denied no
man who is charged with crime ;E
the civilized world.
At a dinner Of the famous Gridir-
on Club in Washington in February
1905, President Roosevelt took occ?-
sion to defend his action in dischar:S-
! ing the negroes, and to denouncc the
| men who had opposed him in con.
ercss He was especially severe,
and, In the course of his remarks,
, he took occasion to use slang es-
preston which was popular about
| that time-Roosevcl Is both a MAX
er and user of slang, as everyone