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COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY J. B. FORAKER All Rights Reserved COPYRIGHT IN ENGLAND
JOHNSON & HARDIN, PRINTERS, CINCINNATI,
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
IN THE SENATE
CHAPTER XXX.
Inauguration of McKinley and Hobart. Official Terms.
Some of my Colleagues.
CHAPTER XXXI.
THE DINGLEY TARIFF LAW
Maiden Speech in Senate. Intervention in Cuba. Spanish-
American War. Article in Forum.
CHAPTER XXXII.
SAMPSON-SCHLEY CONTROVERSY
A Big Gun for Cincinnati. Cuban Legislation. Cuban
Franchises. Debate in Senate. Correspondence with Gen-
eral James H. Wilson and General Fitzhugh Lee. The
Platt Amendment. Correspondence with Theodore Roose-
velt. Authorship of Platt Amendment. Elihu Root.
Henry G. Davis.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
PORTO RICO AND THE PHILIPPINES
Foraker Act. Mount Foraker. Philadelphia Union League
Speech on Porto Rico. The Philippines.
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CHAPTER XXXIV.
THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION OF 1900
....
Facsimile Original Draft of Trust Plank of 1900. The
Renomination of Wm. McKinley. McKinley Memorial Ad-
dress. Official Memorial Exercises.
340203
RE-ELECTED SENATOR
CHAPTER XXXV.
Senator
Ohio Endorses Roosevelt. Campaign Literature.
Hanna Re-elected. Speeches at Chillicothe and Washing-
ton Court House. Senator Hanna's Death. Senator Charles
Dick. Article by him in the North American. Deaths of
Governor Foster and Governor Bushnell.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER, JR.
..105
127
Early Life. Military Life. Death. Newspaper Account
of Funeral. Kind Messages.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
THE PANAMA CANAL TREATIES
Letter to President Taft. Footnote Excerpts from Thayer's
Life and Letters of John Hay. Cleveland Chamber of
Commerce Speech. Testimony before Senate Committee.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
THE PHILIPPINE TREASON AND SEDITION ACT
Authorship of Sherman Anti-trust Law. Speech on Chinese
Exclusion Bill. Wu Ting Fang. Answer to Charges made
against Governor Taft. The Philippine Tariff. Statehood
for Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma. Secession of
Panama.
.136
..157
CAMPAIGN OF 1904
CHAPTER XXXIX.
Correspondence with John Hay. Speech at Music Hall.
Election of Roosevelt.
CHAPTER XL.
DIFFERENCES WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
Hepburn Railroad Rate Bill. Letter to General Assembly
of Ohio.
CHAPTER XLI.
THE BROWNSVILLE AFFRAY
Debate in Senate. President Roosevelt's Messages. Re-
marks in Senate. Gridiron Club Dinner-Debate. Letter
to J. B. Foraker, Jr. Newspaper Comments.
.196
.205
.231
CHAPTER XLII.
THE BROWNSVILLE AFFRAY-Continued
.258
Appointment of Judge Sater. Speech of April 14, 1908.
Letter of Dr. J. G. Schurman.
CHAPTER XLIII.
Speech of January 12, 1909. Affidavits. Bill Authorizing
Court of Inquiry Passed. Personnel of Court of Inquiry.
Interview about action of Court of Inquiry. Speech in
Metropolitan A. M. E. Church.
CHAPTER XLIV.
THE HEARST-STANDARD OIL LETTERS
Answer Published
Roosevelt's Inter-
Letter from Virgil
Answer Published September 18, 1908.
September 19th. Answer to President
view. Answer of October 2, 1908.
P. Kline. Judge West's Statement. Letter from Henry
Watterson. Washington Letter Published in Times-Star.
Testimony before Sub-committee of United States Senate.
.299
.828
THE ROGERS LAW
CHAPTER XLV.
Judge West's Statement. Letter to W. K. Schoepf giving
history of Rogers Law. Newspaper Comments.
CHAPTER XLVI.
.855
NOMINALLY A CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY
.....
The Dayton Convention of 1906. Speech at Dayton. Tele-
gram of August Herrmann. Correspondence with Charles
D. Hilles. Letter to Hon. C. B. McCoy. Resolutions
Adopted by the Ohio Republican League. Letter to Hon.
Conrad J. Mattern. Placed in Nomination. Correspond-
ence with W. H. Taft.
CHAPTER XLVII.
SOME OF THE CAUSES OF THE TAFT COLLAPSE
Golfing and Junketing. Footnote from "Gridiron Nights."
Two Democrats in Cabinet. The Tariff. Appointment of
Chief Justice White. Canadian Reciprocity. Marking
Graves of Confederates. Promotion of Col. Kingsbury.
Brooklyn Slocum Monument.
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..398
ODDS AND ENDS
CHAPTER XLVIII.
The Confirmation of General Leonard Wood. Impeach-
ment of Judge Swayne. Hawaii and Danish Islands. Isle
of Pines. Reciprocity Treaties. The Reciprocity Treaty
with Cuba. General Arbitration Treaties. Correspondence
with Andrew Carnegie. Correspondence with Joseph H.
Choate. Senator Reed Smoot.
IN RETIREMENT
CHAPTER XLIX.
New Nationalism. Answer to Garfield Interview. Address
to Business Men's Club. Address to Ohio Constitutional
Convention. Hamilton Speech. Candidate for Nomination
for Senator. Letter Announcing Candidacy. Times-Star
Editorial. The Primary System. Political Outings.
414
.483
Senatorial Labors. Kind Expressions. Correspondence
with Senator Cullom. Political Changes. Presidential
Candidate of Republicans for 1916.
.466
APPENDIX
.479
Addresses: "The Andrews Raiders;" "Chief Justice
Chase;" "Ohio Constitutional Convention;" "Birth of a
Nation."