Republican isolationist from Ohio, the principal speaker at a four-state Republican Rally yesterday, warned that American participation in the open war would be more "likely to destroy American Democracy than German Dictatorship." Sharply critical on many phases of the New Deal, Senator Taft endorsed President Roosevelt's objectives in amending the Neutrality college during most of the term which his father, the late President William Howard Taft, spent in the White House. In 1914, Sen. Taft married Martha W. Bowers, daughter of former Solicitor General Lloyd Bowers, and she stumped the State for her husband in his 1928 campaign. They have four sons.
In carrying Ohio in his first try, Sen. Taft became a potential candidate for higher Republican honors, His ability to go into the convention with the votes of the Ohio delegation in his pocket, however, was threatened for a time by the availability of Gov. John W. Bricker for the nomination.
It looked early in the spring as though. the two would battle it out for the delegates, with the Ohio Republican headquarters reportedly favoring the governor. But on July 25, this threat disappeared, when Bricker paid at a press conference that "any assumption that I've been a candidate for president or working for it simply is not true."
It Sen, Taft wins the nomination, he probably will encounter opposition from some forces in organized labor. Ohio delegates to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen's quadrennial convention asked the Brotherhood on May 18 to bring about Sen. Taft's defeat if he is nominated.
They submitted data showing that Taft voted against labour measures in a majority of cases and described his labour record as "obnoxious."—
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