Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-28
DOMIN ANT FIGU RES
SOMETHING ABOUT THE SITUA-
TIoN IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Representative Young Says That the
Cries Were Roosevelt and Pros
perity-Future Outlook.

Representative James Rankin Young OF
Philadelphia who arrived in the city today,
in conversation with a Star reporter con-
cerning the political situation in Pennsyl-
vania, had this to say:
In the recent campaign it was in Penn
sylvania as it was in the other states that
went republican-that is, Roosevelt and
prosperity were the dominant figures. The
skillful way in which the President brought
the coal strike to an end was as climax
to the popularity he had been steadily gain
ing from the time he assumed the presi-
Dental office. His personality permeated
everywhere, and although the democrats
had the strongest vote getter in their party
at the head of their ticket and were as
thoroughly organized as they were in the
two successful Cleveland campaigns, they
were overw helIningly beaten. The heavy
Independent republican vote of the last few
years drifted back into the regular republi-
can column because of Roosevelt's popu-
larity. t
Senator Quay Directed the Campaign
Senator Quay directed the canvass In
person, giving his attention mostly to the
congressional and the legislative districts,
with the result that the state sends to the
lower House of Congress the largest repub-
lican delegation 1t has ever sent to that
party people by nearly three-fourt-s s vote
on joint ballot.
Senator Penrose will be reelected, al
though a most determined effort is being
made by the leaders Of the republican or
ganiZation in Philadelphia to have him
give UP the Senate and run for mayor in the
election next February. The term is four
years, with a salary of $4,000 per annum.
everything in sight being in the mayor s
control. Should Penrose yield to the wishes
of his party leutenants, which is possible
but not probable an effort will be made to
elect former Postmaster General Charles
Emory Smith to succeed him in the Senate.
Quay, Smith and Penrose are now pulling
together just as If there had never been
any estrangement between them. On the
surface it looks not only like a queer but
an unsteady combination, but the senators
assert that 1t is of the all-wool-and- "a yard
wide order, the real stuff.
In taking in Smith, the two senators in
cluded also Representative John Dalzell of
Pittsburg. They have the twenty eight re-
publican votes Of Pennsylvania in the
House in solid array for Dalzell for Speaker,
but now that Cannon seems to have got
away with the trick, it is conjectured that
Quay will put the Pittsburg member in line
to succeed to his (Quay's) seat in the Sen
ate two years hence-that is, If the old war
horse in the meantime does not find con-
ditions such that it will behoove him to
change his mind and make himself his own
successor.
Next Mayor Of Philadelphia.
III Penrose refuses the mayoralty nomi-
nation the second choice Of the republican
leaders in Philadelphia is said to be Rep
resentative Henry H. Bingham, the father
of the House. 1t Is believed that Bingham
prefers the ease of a representatives envi-
ronments, where he has his district pat for
life, as has Bingham, to the strain that is
natural to the mayor of a city having a
population of a million and a half and
where the patronage is SO immense.
NO. l will not be a member of the next
House. The last census showed up the dis
trict l represented with a population well
on to half a million, and 1t had to be ap-
portioned into three districts. In the next
Congress Philadelphia will have an addi-
tional member. Mr.. McCreary, who will
represent the new district, was elected city
treasurer ten years ago to succeed Bardsley.
The republican organization We're panic
stricken at the time and were inclined to
allow the opposition to take the office by
default, but finally McCreary was brought
forward and the democrats charged that
he was nominated because he was the only
honest republican in the city"