Foraker gained renomination, but fell in the general election.

At the national convention, Hanna joined forces in support of Sherman with another delegate at-large from Ohio, former Cincinnati judge Joseph B. Foraker, whose rise in state and national politics over the next 20 years would parallel Hanna's.

He became an ardent supporter of Governor " Fire Alarm Joe " Foraker ; however, his political stance put him at odds with those who controlled local politics in Marion.

Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio, seeking Taft's support in his senatorial re-election, made an appearance with Taft, creating the impression Taft was allied with the big business trusts.

William Howard Taft was nominated with 702 votes to 68 for Knox, 67 for Hughes, 58 for Cannon, 40 for Fairbanks, 25 for LaFollette, 16 for Foraker, 3 for President Roosevelt, and one abstention.

Foraker had the amenities associated with older communities: sidewalks, a public park, and plans for an electric and water system and a substantial school building.

B. Morrow contradicted Foraker's account, stating: " I was at the convention in 1888 and know Senator Foraker he later became brought great scandal to the Ohio people who were there and to the delegates with his secret work with Mr. Blaine's friends ... Mr. Hanna became thoroughly angered at what he thought was Senator Foraker's bad faith.

Joseph B. Foraker, with whom Daugherty was politically allied as a young man, as he appeared in 1902.

A close political relationship developed between Foraker and Daugherty, with Daugherty exerting himself in support of Foraker's unsuccessful 1883 campaign.

The Ohio Republican Party had for several years been deeply split along factional lines, with Senator Sherman and former Governor Foraker leading rival groups of party activists and political functionaries.

Neither Senator Foraker nor Senator Hanna supported Daugherty for the position, with Hanna lending his support to George K. Nash and Foraker clearly still seething over Daugherty's 1892 abandonment.

Daugherty and Burton aligned themselves with supporters of William Howard Taft, Secretary of War in the Presidential administration of progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt, and together the factional allies forced Foraker out of the U. S. Senate and into political retirement, aided by muckraking news reports that Foraker had received nearly $ 30, 000 as a political retainer from the Standard Oil Trust.

Steller held a strategic planning session on May 14, 2005 with the Foraker Group, a nonprofit organization specializing in planning for nonprofits.

There was widespread speculation in the press that Governor Foraker, nominally a Sherman supporter, would declare a favorite son candidacy or else support Blaine if he entered the race.

Foraker threw his support to Blaine, though he returned to Sherman when the New Englander did not run.

Victories by McKinley in the gubernatorial race and by the Republicans in securing a majority in the legislature in 1891 did not guarantee Sherman another term, as he was challenged for his seat by Foraker.

Hanna hired detectives to find legislators who had gone into hiding and were believed to be Foraker supporters, and saw to it they supported Sherman.

Foraker was determined to challenge Sherman for his Senate seat and sought assurances from Daugherty that he would continue to support him when the matter came before the legislature.

Forced by the logic of the situation to switch alliances rather than risk being cast into political oblivion, Daugherty abandoned his political friend in the final contest of the Ohio Republican caucus on January 2, 1892, joining 52 others in voting for Sherman, against 38 for the insurgent campaign of Foraker.

In the aftermath of the caucus that would determine Ohio's U. S. Senator, editorials the Democratic Columbus Post charged that Daugherty and 14 other Ohio legislators had change their support from Foraker to Sherman based upon " intimidation, threats, promises, and actual purchase " and accused Daugherty by name of having accepted cash payments.

Foraker stated in his memoirs that the break occurred because Hanna bribed black delegates from the South in 1888.

Stern notes that the defeat of Foraker " was ascribable largely to the efforts of Hanna ".

Foraker and Hanna put aside their differences in support of McKinley.

His political rehabilitation was only partial, however, for as long as Foraker and Hanna remained the top factional leaders of Ohio Republican politics there remained a very real ceiling beyond which Daugherty could never hope to rise.

The new government of Puerto Rico, organized under the Foraker Act of 1900, was a mixture of the British and the American system, somewhat similar to that established for the territory of Orleans after the Louisiana Purchase.

When prompted, Harding agreed to run for Burton's seat against his mentor, " Fire Engine " Joe Foraker, in the Republican primary, and he emerged victorious.

Early in 1908, the only two Republican contenders running nationwide campaigns for the presidential nomination were Secretary of War William Howard Taft and Governor Joseph B. Foraker, both of Ohio.

The Foraker Act of 1900 provided for an organization of the civilian government.

It was named for Ohio Senator James B. Foraker.

" According to Horner, Foraker was the more embittered of the two as the years passed, feeling that if it had not been for that dispute, Foraker, not McKinley, might have become president.

* Sultana, a Tanana Indian name for Mount Foraker, Alaska

Although Daugherty won his race, his close political ally Joseph Foraker lost his bid for a third term as Governor and the Democratic Party won control of the Assembly as well, forcing Daugherty to participate as a member of the minority party.

The Ohio Republican Convention was dominated by the Foraker faction, however, and Foraker loyalist Frank S. Monnett was nominated for the Attorney General post over the deeply distrusted Daugherty.

Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio placed McKinley's name in nomination.

* 1900 – The Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.

The Union Party, from the very beginning, was against the colonial government established under the Foraker Act.

The Puerto Rican citizenship was first legislated by the U. S. Congress in Article 7 of the Foraker Act of 1900 and recognized by the Puerto Rico constitution.

* Joseph B. Foraker, Senator from Ohio

Image: Senator Joseph Benson Foraker. jpg | Senator Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio

Candidates pledged to Taft were printed on the ballot in a Taft column, and candidates pledged to Foraker were printed in a column under his name.

The Foraker Act,, officially known as the Organic Act of 1900, is a United States federal law that established civilian ( albeit limited popular ) government on the island of Puerto Rico, which had recently become a possession of the United States as a result of the Spanish – American War.

Section VII of the Foraker Act also established Puerto Rican citizenship.

President William McKinley signed the act on April 12, 1900 and it became known as the Foraker Act after its sponsor, Ohio Senator Joseph B. Foraker.