Show DUllS DENIES MEDDLING I iN POLITICS i CLEVELAND 0 O Mai h 4 In In a Ul tel tei to It H D Li Davis United LimIted States mar mar- marshal dial here PresIdent Taft denied any re re- re for the recent election of former assistant to the attorn attorney Vade II ll 11 Ellis as chairman of time tho Ohio Republican mm executive e committee The letter follows M My ly Dear Mr SIr Davis I Davis I have your jour our letter let let- tei ter of February 26 26 6 in which you vou refer to of me for interfering in Ohio politics by suggesting the Ute selection of or Wade Avade II 11 Ellis as chairman of the Republican executive committee of Ohio 1 I 1 am glad to have the opportunity of assuring yOU ou that I am not in the slightest slight slight- eAt est degree responsible for the he selection of Vade Wade II 11 Ellis as chairman of the Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican executive committee of Ohio The Cue national committeeman Mr and the head of the time committee Mr 11 lr Brown Biown and Williams V who was chairman of or the executive committee came to Washington and after what I assumed was a canvass can of the time state notified me that for the general good of the time party part I t should release Wade Vade H II Ellis from his position in the department of justice where he has been doing excellent work and allow him to leave the time government service in order to succeed Mr Williams as Its head of ot the executive committee I Most Mott reluctantly did I do this timis and I did It also allo with the express under under- understanding standing that I did not desIre to InterI Inter Inter- fere with local politics in Ohio that thai 1 I I had no rio hok for governor and that tha t though Mr I Ellis Ills might succeed to the chairmanship he would could not while there represent me or act upon my sugg S 'S s tiona U hat hat I am most moat anxious about is j that the Republicans of Ohio shall ha have full and free pie c with rf respect to time the platform that th the they shall adopt andalo and amid anjal al also alo o as to the tile candidates to be selected I I do not think that there Is now In Inthe Intile inthe the tile stale state any influence of an organized character that would seek to pi prevent event such a It full and free expression of the Republicans Certainly I shall neither have the time power nor tho the Inclination m myself my- my self to exert any influence of this kind Sincerely yours jours VILLIAM I It n. TAFT T |