The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-03-08


age Of situation that was growing
awkward with every passing hour, but
showed his real friendliness to the
president by effacing himself. 80 far
as the controversy over the selection
Of Ellis was concerned. Thus he has
5t none of his former following and
lks added to It a great number of
4Ahose who were holding aloof waiting
TO see whom the president might indi-
cate as his choice. 1t was diplo-
matte attitude Harding assumed and
he is reaping the reward. 1t suggests
something Of the safety of his leader
ship. And heaven knows the party
needs safety appliances and q candi-
date equipped with we'll filled sand
begin to slip.
So Harding emerge from the events
of the past three days wearing, as
sort of souvenir trophy, a .goodly num-
Der of bright baubles that formerly
entered into the adornment OF the halo
that once shone in encircling splen-
dor about the dome of the trust-bust-
ing executive chairman.
Garfield is Handicapped.
MIR. Garfield, meanwhile, is still
handicapped by the Pinchot-Ballinger
episode, which wary persons are not
anxious to bid into. Hence his friends
are in waiting mood, entertaining
the suspicion in the interim that the
whole forestry controversy, together
with the parties thereto, will be con-
signed to the tall timber ere long with
instructions to fight 1t out on their
own hook in their natural environ
ment. In which event Mr.. Garfield
may or may not be considered avail
able as candidate. And It does not
appear that Roosevelt would come to
Ohio any quicker for Garfield than he
would for some other candidate, Hard
ing for example. Harding has always
been a staunch Roosevelt man, too. II
Roosevelt comes at all he will come
for the cause and not for the individ-
ual. One Of the things that is said
to have annoyed Roosevelt as much
as any other experience during his
term at the white house was when
.yudson Harmon and Frederick Judson
disagreed with him in the Paul Nor
ton Santa Fe case and quit the job
of special counsel. They took the
ground the Individual could be- prose-
cuted in that case while the president
could not see 1t that way and thought
!. the corporation was the one to prose-
cute This disagreement was not at
all. to the liking Of Roosevelt and he
has not forgotten Harmon. So X 1t looks
like real good fight Roosevelt will
probably come to Ohio anyhow.
Chairman Ellis was not the only
one embarrassed when President
Taft's letter to President Hy d. Davis
of the Ohio league of Republican clubs
was made public by arrangement. The
letter contained the statement that the
president had assumed the state had
been canvassed before he gave his
consent to relieve Mr.. Ellis of his
Washington duties and permit him to
come to Ohio to become chairman Of
the executive committee. He mentions
in this connection Arthur I. Vorys,
national committeeman, and Walter
Brown, state chairman. 1t has become
definitely known that MIR. Vorys and
Mr.. Brown did not consult with any
one before deciding on Ellis. It is a
we'll known fact that when Mr.. Ellis
made his trip to Columbus after his
Cleveland speech he was candidate
for governor. He said so to intimate
friends, though he said also he had
not made up his mind to announce his
name. He was just feeling the situa-
tion out. He talked to numerous Re-
pnblicans in official positions along
that line. Mr.. Vorys talked the same
way. He thought Ellis would make
a good candidate. The encourage
ment not being deemed sufficient,
Vorys and Brown put the deal over to
elect Ellis chairman. They did 1t
alone.
i Therefore, when the president said
he assumed the state had been can
vassed. it was taken her, at the capt.
tai to mean that it had been represent
ed to him that the state had been
canvassed and that Ellis was the
choice of the Ohio Republicans for
campaign leader. The first awaken
ing came when the Cox, Hamilton
county, organization at Cincinnati re-
fused to have anything whatever to
do with the selection of Ellis and did
not send representatives to the Day.
ton meeting of the committee. Since
that time the situation kept getting
warmer. till the presidents letter dis
avowing Ellis as his representative
in Ohio came at the fag end of the
week. So there is embarrassment for
Vorys and Brown in the Canvass of
the state" feature of the presidents
letter. Mr.. Vorys says the president
must have meant that the situation
instead of the state, was canvasseI
He says chairman was needed. the
field was looked over, Ellis seemed to
be the most available man and he was
picked for the place. He does not re-
gard the letter of the president as q
Jolt, but it is so regarded elsewhere.
STILL RUNNING
Insureent Leaders ONLY Have CQrpOr.