Vindicator file photo

Vindicator file photo

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO: Robert A. Taft II, a Hamilton County commissioner who would later be elected governor of Ohio, said at the Mahoning Valley McKinley Club’s 70th annual dinner Feb. 12, 1985, in Niles that Republicans must be “evangelists” if they want Ohio to return to national prominence. Taft, the great-grandson of President William Howard Taft, was the fourth generation of Ohio’s most famous Republican family to speak at the McKinley Memorial. Pictured are, from left, Atty. Douglas Neuman, outgoing president of the McKinley Club; Dr. William Binning, Mahoning County Republican chairman, Taft, Charles Zamary, incoming club president, and Fremont J. Camerino, club treasurer.