Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1908 — REPORTERS AFTER FORAKER [ARTICLE]

REPORTERS AFTER FORAKER

He Tells Them How He Feels About Speaking in Ohio. Washington, Aug. 21.—-Senator Foraker is In Washington after a vacation spent In Maine. He will remain here nntil tomorrow, when he will go to his home in Ohio. On his arrival here Senator Foraker found a dispatch from Chairman Hitchcock expressing regret that they had not met at New York, and conveying the hope that when Foraker was In that city again they would meet The senator was a much sought man by the reporters, who desired an expression from him relative to his non-participation in the opening of the Republican campaign at Youngstown, Ohio, Sept. 5, when Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, and Governor Hughes, of New York, are to sound thT campaign keynote. The senator expressed his views regarding the action of the state committee of Ohio. “I don’t know.” said Senator Foraker, “what action the state committee took, except as I have been advised by the newspapers. I see by the morning papers that Chairman Williams says he mailed me an invitation last Saturday, but I have not received it. All T know, therefore. Is that according to the newspapers I do not appear to be either needed or wanted at Youngstown, except to sit on the platform and listen to the speeches that are delivered by the orators chosen for that occasion. “I would, of course, he glad to hear these speeches, but I can lead them in the newspapers. The fact that I do not care to make any s]>eeches, under the circumstances, under the auspices of the state committee, will not necessarily interfere with my making speeches under other auspices. I find on my desk tod iv a iiuaiber of invitations to speak, some from Ohio and some from other localities. If I should see fit to accept any of these invitations, while I would certainly try to speak in such a way as to help the Republican cause I yet feel that I shall be at liberty to express my >«n views on important questions about which there probably Will be mote or less discussion during the progress of the campaign.” BOWS TO THE MANDATE Governor Johnson Decides to Accept the Call of His Party. St. Paul. Minn., Aug. 21.—Governor Johnson called the newspaper men together and announced that he would accept the nomination tendered him by the Democratic state convention at Minneapolis. He did not issue a formal statement, but said: “After duo consideration of the matter asid before I have been formally notified 1 will tell you that I have made up my mind to lay aside all pc rsonal considerations and listen to the call of the party. I will accept the nomination when It is formally tendered to me. “1 desire to state also, and to make it emphatic, that If the committee had called on me before the nominating speech was made I would have declined positively to be a candidate.”