Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-08-21 | Page 8 | Senator Foraker Seems to be out in the Cold

SENATOR IfORA&ER SEEMS TO BE OUT IN THE COLD WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. Senator Forakcr, of Ohio, was in Washington today, after a vacation in' Maine. On his arrival Senator Foraker found a despatch des-patch from Frank II. Hitchcock. Republican Repub-lican National chairman, expressing ro- ?:rct that the senator had not met tho iepublican lenders in New York and convo3iur tho liopo that when Mr. Forakcr Fora-kcr was in that citj' again U103' would meet. Tho reporters desired an expression expres-sion from the senator relative, to his non-participation non-participation in tho opening of the Republican Re-publican campaign "at Voungstown, September Sep-tember 5, where Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, and Governor Hughes, of New York, aro to sound the campaign keynote. key-note. The senator expressed his views regarding re-garding the action of the stato committee commit-tee of Ohio in inviting him to attend tho opening and his prospective attitude in tho campaign. "I don't know," said Senator Fo raker, ra-ker, "what action the stato committee took, except as I have boon advised by tho nowspapcrs. T sec by the morning papers that Chairman Williams says ho mailed mo an invitation last Saturday, but I have not received it. All I know, thereforo, is that, according to the newspaper, news-paper, I do not appear to bo cither needed or wanted at Youngstown excent to sit on tho platform and listen to the speeches' that aro delivered by the orators ora-tors chosen for that occasion. I would, of course, bo glad to hear theso speeches, but T can read them in tho newspapers." "The fact that T do not care to make any speeches under the circumstances, will not necessarily interfere with my making speeches under other auspices. E find pn ni3 desk today a number of invitations in-vitations to speak, some from Ohio and some from other localities. ''If I see fit to accept any of these invitations, whilo I would certainly try to speak in such a way as to help the Republican cause, I yot feel that I shall be at libertj- to express my own views on important questions about -which there will probably be moro or loss discussion dis-cussion during the progress of tho campaign."