Evening star., 1896-07-03
Likely to Prove a Useful Man to His
Party.
LAY HARMONIZE new YORK FACTIONS
He Knows How to Reach the Wage
Earners.
M'KINLEY MAY GO SOUTH

Mr.. Hobart made very brief stay in
Canton. and an equally brief stay ir Cleve-
land. But the dispatches state that both
visits were entirely satisfactory to Mr.. Nc
Kinley and Mr.. Hanna, as well as to HIM
Ielf. He will see Mr.. Hanna later and
Soon again.
Likely to Prove Useful.
1t dawns upon the politicians that Mr.
Hobart is likely to prove a very useful
man to his party in the coming campaign
He is not a speaker, but as an organizer
he ranks high in state where organiza-
ton In politics has been carried by both
parties almost to perfection. He has the
executive faculty, and has had a very large
business experience. His gifts and quail
ties are not unlike those of Mr.. Hanna
himself. In fact, there is said to be good
grounds for the belief that had an eastern
man been nominated for first place at ST.
Louis Mr.. Hobart would have been selected
as chairman of the republican national
committee. He knows all the ropes in his
rart OF the country, and he has the conf
dence of the business world throughout the
EAST. MIR. Hobart in the campaign, there
fore, will give his party the full benefit of
mis- talents and experience. He will be a
valuable ally to Mr.. Hanna in the commit
tee work, and general counselor on such
lines.
To HarmOnise New York Factions.
1t is also suggested that Mr. Hobart will
be intrusted with the very difficult task of
harmonizing the factional troubles in New
York. They are already serious, and ap-
pear to be growing. They must be stopped,
or the state inevitably will be lost. On the
one side are Mr.. Platt and his people, claim
Ing to represent the regular organization,
while on the other side are Warner Miller
and his friends. insisting that the Platt
people must be ousted. As matters stand it
is a far cry to harmony. But harmony. by
somebody, In some way, must be obtained.
MIR. Hanna. unassisted, would probably
find the job beyond him. He and Mr. Platt
are not on good terms. as the result of Mr..
Platt's ante-conventiOn crusade against the
Nc <inley program: and so Mr.. Hanna at
the very beginning. would be at diSad-
vantage But Mr.. Hobart knows Mr.. Platt
and knows New York. His business con-
nections take him across the Hudson river
pretty often, and with him to smooth the
way Mr.. Hanna and Mr.. Platt and Mr.
Miller may be brought together.
Reaching the Wage Farmers.
Mr.. Hobarts advice, moreover, on the
subject Of reaching the wage earners
throughout the whole of the east ought to
be valuable, and will doubtless be sought.
He is a business man, prominent in a num-
Der of large business enterprises, and an
employer of labor. He knows how and
where party policies touch business, and
how this may best be stated to arrest the
attention of laboring men. The campaign
when fairly opened, will be pitched In a
business key, and, although Mr.. Hobart is
not himself an orator. he will probably be
able to give men who are orators many
valuable pointers.
Mckinley May Go South.
Meanwhile Mr.. Mckinley, who Is an ora
tor, may not be able to resist all of the
appeals that will be made to him to say a
word here and there for the ticket. The
renllhHcana
have him visit their section. However
prominent silver may be in the east and
west, the tariff, the southern republicans
whatever strength protection may possess
in the south would best be developed by
Mr.. Mckinley. Prominent southern repub-
Icans bslieve that tour which would take
him to Louisville, Nashville, Atlanta, Bir-
mingham, Mobile, New Orleans and Gal
weston, would be worth thousands of votes
to the ticket in November.