The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-18
LEADERS OF CONVENTIONS.
CONGRESSMAN WILL BE AT PHILA-
DELPRIA AND KANSAS CITY.

Western Republican Who Hopes
Triumph at Chicago in 1896
sympathy for Beers.
Washington, June I7.-All indications
point to the Washington contingent cut
ting a very large figure at both National
Conventions. Just as Senator Pettigrew
and Senator Butler absolutely dominated
the Populist gathering at Sioux Fails, so
will the congressional leaders in both the
other parties figure at Philadelphia and at
Kansas City.
AT Philadelphia the Republican senators
will practically be the whole thing. There
may be a little less putting 10 the front
of senators at Kansas City. but that will
be due more to the fact that Democratic
senators these days cut very little figure
than to any disposition to put officeholders
to the rear.
The Democratic party cuts very little
figure in the Senate these days, Senator
Jones. Senator Tillman and Senator Bacon
being the only three men who seem able
TO take a prominent part in the affairs
of the Senate or the political affairs OF
the Democratic party. There are one or
two other men, like Martin of Virginia
Clay of Georgia and Culberson of Texas,
who play politics and figure in the inner
councils Of the party; but senators will
not be to the front at Kansas City as they
are at Philadelphia, because the Demo
cratic senatorial material as a rule, does
not measure up to the occasion.
Members of the House are likely TO be
more prominent at Kansas City than
members OF the Senate, while the reverse
is true at Philadelphia. The long, lean
leader of the Democratic minority In the
House, Mr.. Richardson OF Tennessee, will
be on hand az Kansas City, and so will
such prominent members of the Demo
cratic minority as Bailey of Texas, De
Almond of Missouri. Champ Clark, from
the same state, Cowherd, who represents
the Kansas City district. Hugh Dinsmore
OF Arkansas SulZer of New York, Lenz
of Ohio--he with the anarchistc hair
Livingston of Georgia, Latimer the big
farmer from South Carolina, Kitchin OF
North Carolina. Claude Swanson, who
will one of these days be Governor OF
Virginia, Henry Clayton of Alabama
whose activity in the cause of silver led
to Clevelands firing him from the posi-
ton Of United States district attorney
but who, as the result Of that, is sure of
continuous performance as a member
of the House; the smooth-faced and
OlaCk-ndlIeQ James X. NlllldIns--tu us
tinguish him from his Democratic col
league, William Eliza Williams, from the
same state; DOC" Norton, the rotund
statesman from Ohio, who affects the Cal
Brice carnation in the buttonhole; big
Judge Miers of Indiana-these and other
Democratic members of the House VIII
be on hand as members of their respec-
tive stale delegations to aid in shaping
the platform and in making the candi-
date for Vice President at the Demo-
cratic National Convention.
others Besides Hanna.
At Philadelphia there will be Hanna. of
course, as the biggest of the big guns
the man who says what shall be done
But since Hanna has come 10 the Sem
ate he has learned that there are other
men with a right to cut a figure in the
party affairs. His wholesome respect for
other Republican members of the Senate
whose ability as members Of Congress
and as political leaders he recognizes has
led to the programme which makes Sena-
tor Wolcott of Colorado, Senator Lodge
of Massachusetts, Senator Tom Carter of
Montana, the lean and lank Senator Fair
banks of Indiana. Senator Spooner Of
Wisconsin. Senator Allison of Iowa. Sem
ator Steve Elkins of West Virginia, and
It Is possible one or two others of mis-
colleagues, prominent In the affairs OF
his partys quadrennial gathering.
There will be fewer men of the House
who will cut figures in this Republican
National Convention than in the Demo
cratic gathering at Kansas City. Gros
venor-he who disputes with Stewart of
Nevada the righ to serve as model for
those artists who put Santa Claus in
their Christmas holiday pictures-has sue
ceeded in getting on Ohio's big four"
and as he is back of the DOlliver boom,
he is likely TO be one of the real promi-
nent figures at the Quaker City. Doll-
YER himself will he on hand but whether.
In view of his prominence as a vice pres-
Dental candidate, he will be allowed to
figure in the thing oratorically
Is question about which every
body is just now at sea. Steele
OF Indiana will be there, but he cannot
be said to cut much of a figure under any
circumstances Lttlefield of Maine will
be out for a grand-stand play If he is Civ
en- half a chance. The shocky- headed
Brownow of Tennessee will be on hand,
but he will content himself with victory
over Commissioner of Pensions Evans,
and is not at all likely to take an &C
tive part in anything outside of the pure
ly local fight in which he is engaged.
Moody Of Massachusetts and Mccall of the
same state are two men who will come to
the front II they are given helf a chance,
but the indications are that they will not
get the chance.
sympathy for the Beers.
William Alden Smith of Michigan will
60 to Philadelphia loaded with resolutions
of sympathy for the Beers, but he will
discreetly permit himself to remain in
the background when he is told by Senator
Hanna that it will be better to say moth
ing to the Platform Committee, or any
body else, on that subject. Cushman Of
Washington, who still labors under the
handicap of being recognized as the sue
cessor of Jim Ham Lewis" has a sky
rocket speech up his sleeve. but there
seems little chance for its delivery. Cush-
man is imbued with the idea that some
day he may do TO Republican convention
what Bryan did TO the Chicago Convention
of 1896 and he is ready to make the at
tempt at the drop of the hat.
Babcock of Wisconsin, who Is chairman
of the Republican Congressional Commit
tee, will be on hand to take part in the
inner councils but is not the sort Of a
man TO attempt TO figure in the sky rocket
part OF the proceedings
II is an advantage TO a state to send
as members of It's delegation its senator's
or representatives, though some states
DO not seem to realize this fact. The real
work of every convention is handled
by few people who get together and say
what lis TO be done and these few peop,e
are, as a rule, those who are either now
prominent in Washington life, or who
like Gov. Roosevelt and Slate Chairman
Odell, have in the past been prominent
and who possess the acquaintance Of he
men who by virtue of elect on 10 the Sen