Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-10-19
FEATURE OF The CAMPAIGN
Some of fhe Buckeye State poIifI-
Cal FeudS Which Have Become
HiStOrIC-HOW Parties Frequent
Iy Pull Themselves Together
Mar the End of a Very Hot
Campaign.

and scares are the chief feature of the
Ohio campaign this year. It is worth
noting that there is nothing new in the
existence of these factions and in the
scares. There has been a republican
party in Ohio for something more than
forty years. and it has been rare sea-
son that did not produce crop of
factional differences. The democrats
have had a party under some name or
another for a century and the most
interesting chapter in its political his
tory is the quarrels and rivalries Of
the chiefs of the party. The wings In
| their time had the same troubles. 1t
would be unusual to come into the
buckeye state and not hear the old
stagers give their "reminiscences of the
way parties were split in the past.
Much of it is instructive.
The factional struggles are Inherit
Ances from one generation to another
like the Kentucky feuds or the Italian
vendettas. The bitterest division
among the republicans was just after
the civil war. when John Sherman
States senate. Sherman held his su-
premacy as the party leader for thirty
years, yet he never had united party
in his own state. General Schenck
disappeared from the field of active
politics. but an anti-Sherman follow
| ing survived. 1t was strong enough
and virulent enough to defeat Senator
T1'c fiaI
either by splitting the Ohio delegation
to the national conventions or by
showing the country that the support
of his own state was not united and
sincere. Senator Sherman suffered
more than any other public man from
treachery within his own political
household. This is all political history.
Sometimes the opposition was simply
from ambitious and younger rivals in
whose pathway he stood, and some
times from the resentment of disap-
pointed office seekers. He always had
the best element of the republicans in
the state with him. but the popular
enthusiasm was never on his side.
This was the lever with which his enc
mics were able to work
1t has passed out of mind that Sena-
tor Mark Hanna was for many years
an active lieutenant of Senatof Sher-
mans at national conventions. and in
trying to influence state delegations.
He never achieved national promin-
ence in this work. 1t was only when
the Mckinley tidal wave came along
and he found himself in the pilots
boat on the crest of the wave that he
became leading figure. The transit
ton was natural enough because in the
internal turmoil in Ohio the Sherman
following had to some extent coalesced
with the growing Mckinley following.
The anti-S Sherman influence had gone
to Governor Foraker. whose first effort
to displace Mr.. Sherman in the senate
had failed just as similar effort of
Gov. Charles Foster had failed fifteen
years earlier. For time the factions
as the Foraker and MeKin-
ley wings of the party. The ST. Louis
convention in 1896 wiped out these dis
tinctions, and there was something of
a factional formation on new lines
the state. Now the rival
ries are generally described as Hanna
and anti-Hanna factions. though
sometimes the dissatisfied element is
called the Kurtz- Bushnell crowd. SEN
ator Foraker is rather fortunate than
otherwise in not having his name iden-
tilted with a distinctive faction.
The democrats have likewise had
their factions, though this year there
is less of this spirit apparent on the
surface than formerly. In national
way democratic leaders who dreamed
If the presidency were just as unlucky
rs Senator Sherman. George H. Pen
1leton. at the height of his brilliant
eareer as a champion of unlimited
sreenbacks never got a support from
lis own state which made him a real
residential candidate. Allen C. Thur
mans disappointments are better
Known because he held a stronger pos
ton in the party and with the coun-
ry, and the defeat of his ambition
through the treachery of his Ohio enc
nies is historic. 1 remember at the
convention which nominated
1r. Cleveland the old Romans mag
lificent despajr. Candidate John R
dcLean is 4 osed to have had a
and in tha at and the Ohio de.
locracy W hSs divided on