| Show OHIO SITUATION MIXED Much Expected From Meeting o of 01 Republican Committees at Columbus Wednesday TAFTS FRIENDS AGGRESSIVE Will on Oil Ii Ills 1111 Knor l ment mi as I tin the Peoples Choice for rOl lIn tor or Ibi Made no 1111 1 1111 12 No C political gath gatli held lucid In II this state for mouths has hn excited so io much Interest as IH that of the tho joint meeting of the Republican state central cent 1111 I and state executive committees to be bu held at Columbus ColumLus on Wednesday of nt this week for tor the purpose of or recon reconciling clashing political interests The of or Secy Sec of ut War a ni I Tuft Taft led by uy Arthur Corys Cor of Columbus am Congressman Burton lurton of ot Cleveland according ac IU cording to authorized o of those In tho the of tho the Taft 01 or will Insist Insl t on an unqualified by the committee of u Secy Sec Taft Toft BH nu time the peoples choice for or president dent and will stubbornly oppose e tho linking of ot that indorsement In with the tho contests for either United Status senator or 01 governor Burton who loft left hero here tonight for St Sl I Louis ho Is lEI to deliver Iver nn I n tomorrow positively declined to C Inake a definite ns Ill to his position In connection with the Close political 1011 friends of or Mr 11 Burton soy It will be h probably several weeks before a II formal an announcement whether he will wilt b a candidate against Senator will willbe be b made nuda TAFT AND Cleveland 0 O May 11 Theodore H 1 Hurlon gave IraO out the lol lowing today An A n erroneous report bIlLS hiis gone gono forth to the tho effect that I Secy Taft said to 10 me lite by hy telephone that hut ho desired tho tite elimination ot oC Senator Foraker from rout politics He never made any om such state statement ment He lIe hits has refused to en on enter ente leI ter te um j ny deal in lii which he ho woul ouId 1 have havo havethe the tho ot of tho the Republicans of oC tho the for fOI the tho and In Mr Foraker should ho bo for or the tho Such ai no an arrangement would silver savor of or a political bargain and awaken cn criticism because the two ate are supposed to 10 0 represent dif cUt different ferent lucas Ideas especially In regard to the politieS policies of or administration ot or Pres Pre President ident Roosevelt So far as us I know none anne ot or the tle friends of Secy Sec Taft Tatt has advIsed or asked him him to lo take J any part Dart In un any contest for f Or I the of oC the state nOI nor has hall ho he expressed any an mien Intention tion to do Ilo so sum 0 STATEMENT lJJ Nr RY Ill Washington May 1111 12 l Senator Fora Forn Foraker Foraker ker kel of oC Ohio tonight Issued Is uell n cu statement on the Ohio situation In hi reply to Hep 1 Burton saying aln that so far farat at ns ho he Mr Ir Foraker wi concerned no tin effort lunch had been heen mada to make maken IL n U I bargain or 01 with anybody about anything nn that tho the statement issued by Georgo H II Cox of ot Cincinnati was WU ns not In Mr lilT or 1 1 with his approval hut but that Mr III dr Cox ox was Willi striving for or party liar hal harmony halmony mony he Mr Foraker was will willIng willIng Ing In to In accept the tIme rC If tho the conven convention convention tion should net act favorably on Mr Coxs The rim rii senator says nil questions of ot endorsement and nom acm nominations nomInation should be he deferred until tho the next state convention lie lio will not regard regald as us binding any nil action netlon to 10 settle questions question II for tor Ohio Republicans n 11 OS OPEN LETTER It Dayton Dulon 0 O May 12 Congressman J 1 Eugene Harding tonight Issued 1 tin un open Opel letter through tho Dayton Journal to Chairman Charles Charlen Dick of ot the Re Ite Republican publican state central committee usk Ing lag that ho lie call ore off the th conference of ot Republican both eon cen central and executive of or county count chairman and nil II Ohio congressmen arranged for fur Columbus Wednesday Mr 11 Harding says In part hurt lart The Tho central and und primary ground for Cor formy Corm or ormill my mill m opposition to tho call lies lIe In tho the tact fact that It II was not Issued with Wit any nm reference whatever to any an alleged knowledge of or the thu wishes of ot tho the Republican party of ot Ohio beyond the suggestion everywhere heartily approved ap approved proved that H 11 Taft TaCt is III candidate atc for tor president As 11 to Gov Hauls candidacy for tOl reelection It Il I Is the tho popular consensus ot of opinion that he hue wilt will havo no Ito competitor Foraker has hIlS covered tho the ground In bit his 1113 statement that he Ill wished wl nothing from front the tho people of ot Ohio which was not free frea given |
