Smyrna times., 1903-11-11

The effect of the elections last Tues
day on the fortunes of the Presidential
candidates for 1904 is not very marked
so far as the Republican party is con-
cerned. 1t does not lessen the proba-
bility, now generally accepted as a
certainty, that President Roosevelt
will be nominated by his party. 1t
plainly indicates, however, that his
own State is going to be debatable
ground in the campaign itself and that
the result, if it were to depend upon
New York alone, would be in doubt.
But it has brought forward to the at
tention of the country no new leader
who entertains any ambition to make
accdtest with Roosevelt in the nation
al convention.
1t is true that the one Republican
who in the past year or two has been
looked upon as most likely to do so, if
anybody were to oppose the President
for nomination, has won a victory of
great proportions in his own State.
During the recent campaign in Ohio
Senator Hanna, his records and his
methods were made the foremost issue
by the Democrats and the election of
Legislature to choose a successor to
Hanna in the Senate Overshadowed
every other question at issue. Tom
l.. johnson in his fight for Governor
ship, concentrated his forces chiefly
- inst - Republican Senator, who
took tl1e-9e "a person, and the result
of the fight Is one of the most over
whelming maiorities ever known in
Ohio, and the election of Legislature
in which hardly more than a handful
of Democrats will be left to oppose
his return to the Senate. But Hanna
is reported to have declared that his
attitude on the Presidential question
will not be changed by his victory,
and this attitude has been an accept
ance of Roosevelt as the candidate
whom the majority of the party will
want.
But on the Democratic side Tues
days verdicts are more significant in
their personal effects. The RepublI-
cans in carrying Nebraska lessen the
hold which Organism has in what was
once its stronghold. But the whole
sale reputation of the Bryan ideas
of Ohio as they were preached by Tom
l.. johnson is likely to have a general
effect among the Western Demo
Gratis who still cling to the candidates
of 1896 and 1900 for leadership. Al
the same time, it effectually dlspose'
of johnson as a candidate for thG
Presidency, to which Bryan hal
r. assigned him as his residuary legate il
the event of his carrying the Buckle!
State.
Nor has the availability of Senate
German has been increased by the re
suits in Maryland. While he ha
carried the State in both the Guber
Material and Legislative tickets, th
majority is not a large one, although
German exhausted his political re
sources in rallying the Democrati
lines throughout the State. Til
speeches in which he has attempte
to revive the race issue in its mos
Odious form have, moreover, been s
transparently demagogic that the
have distinctly lessened him in th
respect of the country at large as
politician of cautious and conservatiy
utterance. While German is ia
from being bowled out Of the race,
has not gained a victory which ind
Gates that he has fully recovered IL
personal strength as party leader /
formerly had in his own State.
The most important factor that Il
elections have developed in the Dem
cratic Presidential problem is Tamm
ny, which is now in a position to col
troll the party organization next ye
in New York State. The big maiorl
for George B. Mcclellan, its cand
date for Mayor, has already cause
him to be pointed to as a prospecti
candidate, and it is not impossib
that he May be thus used by Tammai
in the game it is likely to play for Il
control of the New York delegatio
But outside of Mcclellan, there
been nothing like new possibili
developed in the Democratic Pre-