Evening star., 1899-04-07
EFFECT OF MAYOR M'KISSON'S DEFEAT
FactionaI Fight Not Likely to
Affect National Election.
GUBERNATORIAL TIMBER
Special From a Staff Correspondent.

This is to say that if the nominal tions are
made within reasonable time the leaders
IL ink that the factional dissensions may
be kept in the background. All the candi-
dates for governor are said to be favorable
to a trial of strength before midsummer
1t is expected that the state central COM
nittee will be called together at Columbus
socn, and that it will agree upon the con-
vcntion for some time in May.
1t is yet question how far the struggle
of the factions will continue. Cleveland is
hardly d fair criterion of the whole state
Here there will be factiona fight this
year, as there has been for fifty or sixty
years back, and a factional fight next
year, as there will be for the following
fifty or sixty years That is the chronic
condition of republican politics in northern
Ohio. Occasionally it hurts at the polls,
when issues as well as candidates are at
stake, but generally the average vote is
polled, no matter what may be the rivairies
certain to be the case next November who
ever is nominated for governor 1t will
also be the case when representatives in
Congress come to be chosen and when
President is voted for in 1900.
No Influence on National Politics.
Nothing could be more ridiculous than
the suggestion or the threat that the pres
ent split is going to affect national politics.
Nor will it have any bearing on the choice
OF delegates to the next national convention.
Il is possible that Senator Mark Hannas
friends will not be able to name delegates
of their own liking, just as they were not
able to name them to the last national
convention. Nevertheless, they were all for
Mckinley then, and they will all be for
Mckinley again. 1t won't be because Sen
ator Hanna's machine is in cortrol-for he
has a pretty good machine-but because of
public sentiment.
The test of the factions will come in
choosing the delegates to the state con-
vention. Mayor MckissOn has promptly
announced that the Hanna bolters We're
responsible for his defeat, and he states
the case with precision. Not all of the
bolterS were partiSans of Senator Hanna.
There were a good many republicans who
are pretty independent and who care no
more for the senator's personal fortunes
than for those of Mckisson. They thought
that the young mayor was treacherous to
his party in the senatorial election, and
they wanted to rebuke him, but of them
selves they would not have succeeded. 1t
the organized movement of the dis
tfnctively Hanna partisans which insured
the election of John H. Farley. the demo-
cratic candidate. The Municipal Associa-
ton is already discovering that it was
used. Most of the members of that non
partisan organization are content, because
Extent of Mckisson's Defeat.
1t is stin unsettled how far the repub-
lican opponents of McKisson will be able
to follow up the defeat inflicted on him.
His machine was a personal one, based on
the spoi.s. The spoils are gone and with
them such power as comes from patronage.
Mckisson has no offices to give out. In
stead, many of his followers will be cast
therefore becomes
how far Mckisson is a political leader, and
this question will be settled in choosing
the delegates to the state convention. If
he controls majority of the Cuyahoga
delegates his opponents will have to admit
that lie is still a potential factor. Every
body agrees that his influence has suffered,
hut nobody is ready to say that he will
not get the majority of the Cleveland dele
CATION. Under the Ohio law popular pri-
maries are held, and there is not much
chance to manipulate the selection of dele
gates. With his city machine smashed If
Mckisson succeeds in controlling the dele
cation, nobody will heed the cry of unfair
primaries. Some uneaSineSS is already
shown by the anti-Mckisson republicans
lest they reap no lasting fruits from the
municipal elections. The Euclid avenue
dwellers lined up the East End almost SOL
IDLY against McKiSsonism. The fear now
is that they cannot be worked up to fever
heat the second time within the compare
lively short period which will elapse until
the primaries are held.
The candidates for governor are seeking
information about the prospects. The lead
ing candidates are Representative c. II.
Grosvenor, George K. Nash of Columbus
and Chairman Dougherty of the state CEN
trail committee. Charles Kurtz is also de-
clared to be a candidate, but this is hardly
probable. kurtZ wants revenge and SO do
his friends; yet the mass of the republicans
are not likely to encourage a candidacy
based on revenge and on direct antagonism
to the national administration. KurtZ NAV
get his revenge by defeating some of the
candidates most acceptable to Senator
Hanna and be content with that
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