New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-14
want to do Is help to select the man who Is best
for the ticket We believe Dollfver to be that
THE GOSSIP IN WASHINGTON.
SOME POLITICIANS SAY THE RACE is
BETWEEN DOLLIvER AND LONG
THE PRESIDENTS ATTI-
tube UNCHANGED.
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Washington June 13.-Vice- Presidential Cos
sip among the politicians who yet remain In
Washington is not overfed just now. and even
small crumbs quickly bounced upon and
eagerly swallowed. It is observed that none OF
the crumbs fall from the White House table, so
far as anybody has been able to discover IL
the President has secret preference Tor any
one Of the many whose names have been sug-
gested 10 stand below his on the National ticket.
he has guarded the secret well. II his hopes
nursing whose name has not yet been
publicly suggested that fact also has been skill
fully concealed from men who might be sup
posed to have ct least inkling OF It, Oh
course il is easy TO say. as some OF Secretary
Longs friends dc, that the Administration Is
for him and he will be nominated" or as some
Of REPRESENTATIVE Delivers friends do, that
'the Administration favors his candidacy and he
is sure to win; OF as some Of Senator Alisons s.
or Senator Spooner's. or Cornelius n. Bliss 8
friends do that "the Administration has set its
heart or his nomination, and he will be forced
to consent" 1t is just easy for some Of Mr.
Delivers friends to intimate. some of them
do that 1.-THE Administration is opposed to his
nomination, and will prevent it,
All these and many other things Of like sort
are easy to say. and said. but no man can be
found who will confess that the President any
member Of the Administration ever said any OF
them to him. or that he knows anybody who has
said that the President any member of the
Administration ever said them to him. On the
contrary the President has hidden every candi-
date or suggested candidate a hearty godspeed,
with the assurance that. far the Admins
tration was concerned, he to have a fair
field and no handicap They viii all feel deep
disappointment and chagrin IL 1t shall turn out
otherwise.
According TO the information received here
from various quarters Mr.. Delivers prospects
are daily growing brighter. and his more conf
dent friends will be disappointed il he does not
muster more than two hundred votes on the first
ballot. An indication that OF the friends of
other candidates are fearful Of the young
Iowan's success is the revival OF the argument
that II would involve the retirement of General
Henderson from the Speakershp at the end Of
this Congress, because, It is urged, IL would
be an unheard of thing to have the presiding
officers of both branches of Congress from the
same State at the same time To this Mr.. Dolli-
ver's friends reply by pointing TO the fact that
Speaker Henderson is one of the formers most
active supporters and heartest well wishers.
They might add that in the last Congress the
president pro TEN. Of the Senate and the Speaker
of the House Of Representatives both hailed
from Maine.
Despite the apparent vigor and promise Of Mr..
Delivers candidacy. however. some political OBJ
servers here cling with strange tenacity to the
opinion that Secretary Long will be nominated,
because he is the Administrations candidate
and for other reasons. while others say that the
contest has narrowed until only Dolliver and
Long are in the race"
If political assurances are worth anything in a
Presidential year, the nomination Of either of
them would be equally acceptable to the Admin
istration