Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-28
REQUEST TO HIM URGENT
Ex-senator Dick Declares Ohioans
Want to Hear Him Before Campaign.
NO FEAR OF VOTE IN STATE
Former Republican Candidate for
Governor Says Buckeye Voters
Will Stand by Executive.

TO his Itinerary IN Oh1o the last or jan
uary, due to urgent requests from eX-
Senator Dick and others that his fellow
Ohloans wanted to hear him prior to the
opening Of the campaign for renomina-
ton and reelection. Akron, the home of
Mr.. Dick, is the third city to he put on
the itinerary. The President will be in
that city January 81 and will be enter
tanned most Hospitality by his friends.
The President dates in Ohio are as
follows: Guest of the Tippecanoe Club. at
Cleveland, at its Mckinley dinner, the
evening of January -; in Columbus jan
uary 80, when he will be guest of the
chamber of commerce at luncheon, and
in the afternoon appear at the dedica-
ton of the new federal building; in
Akron January 81. and return to Wash
ington February 1 in time for the Su-
preme Court dinner February 2.
With the exception of the Akron date,
the OHIO engagements were made a good
many weeks ago. before Senator La Fol-
Iette began his campaign in that state.
Taft Forces Not Frightened.
1t is stated emphatically that the Taft
people are in no way frightened over the
insurgent republican campaign in that
state. now in progress. with Senators La
Toilette, Clapp and Poindexter and Gift
ford Pinchot figuring in the limelight
and leading the effort to stir up senti-
ment in favor of anti-Taft delegates.
1t was declared today by those close
to President Taft that the regular re-
publicans in Ohio will crush the in
sursents with the same ease they have
oeen disposed of in Indiana in the pre-
Ilmlnary fight in Indianapolis yesterday
over the reorganization of the republican
state committee. State Chairman Lee
of Indiana and State Chairman Brown
of Ohio both performed the same Feat
IN Washington while the national COM
mittee was in session, coming out against
Mr.. Taft. In indianapolis yesterday Mr.
Lee was outvoted IN a committee COM
posed wholly of his former adherents
and arrangements made for the reorsani-
Zation of the state committee February
:, two months earlier than Lee wanted
the meeting.
The state committee over which Mr..
Lee presided was made up entirely OF
men of his own selection, he was tnen
representing Senator Beverage, who
was struggling for reelection. The
REGULAR republicans gave the committee
and the campaign over to Mr.. Lee with
out struggle. But when 1T came to con-
trolling his own committee yesterday,
il was stated today, Mr.. Lee found only
two supporters out of, fifteen commit
teemen. In the stand he took here, on
a motion to repudiate his position, he
did not receive a single vote.
1t is declared that Brown has a smaller
percentage of the Ohio state committee
behind him than Lee had In Indiana.
- Says Ohio Is for Taft. li 49,,
Warren G. Harding. who was the re-
publican candidate for Governor of Ohio
last year, was with President Taft today
discussing politics generally and espe-
cially conditions in Ohio.
$50 far as the republican state conven-
ton is concerned" said Mr.. Harding
"Ohio is more certainly for President
Taft than 1t was four years ago The in
surgency hubbub is only midwinter po-
litical diversion, and 1t is not amiss. We
needed it to awaken us to appreciation.
The outcry Of the small crowd which ar
roaates to itself all progression has served
the useful purpose Of bringing to Pres1-
dent Taft the true measurement of the
public opinion that counts.
.-Oh, yes, the La Toilette invasion Will
attract crowds. 1t Is the diversion L
spoke of. we'll advertised But there Is
particle. The invasion is doing the Pres
ident great political good. The people do
think and in reflective thought President
Taft has grown surprisingly in the past
three months. The opposition will not
be considerable enough to count by the
middle of next May, when delegates will
be chosen.
There is nothing to 1t. Ohio is for
President Taft. No use discussing the
November ballot now campaign must
precede that But Ohio republicans never
fall i'm a campaign of appreciation and
full understanding. Besides, there are
more democrats favorable to the PreSi-
dent-I mean democrats of that great
class Of middlemen and producers who
are so vital factor in dependable po-
litical sentiment-than ever before IA
yored a republican President