The sun., 1903-11-16
POLITICAL NOTES.


An Illinois Republican asked at the Firm
Avenue Hotel yesterday. whats the matter
with Uncle Joe Cannon as tho candidate Ior
President next year?'
Bully" replied Roosevelt man from
Chicago I'VE could call him the canned
oyster candidate or tho canned lobster
candidate.
Speaking OF Gov. .-elect Myron l.. Herrick g
great Republican victory Of lA,o00 in Ohio.
IL is recalled that in the Presidential election
OF 1892 Grover Cleveland got one electoral
vote from Ohio and came within about Goa
votes of all the rest, and at the same election
the Democrats carried q majority OF the
Ohio Congress districts. Harrison carried
Ohio in 1902 against Cleveland by only l,o72
votes, SO that a change of s37 ballots would
have given the State to Cleveland. Further
more, it may be interesting to note that the
Republican elector who was beaten IN Ohio
in 1892 by the Cleveland elector was Myron
l.. Herrick.
Attorney General John Cunneen Of Buff
falo Is a candidate. his friends say. for tho
place as Associate Judge of the Court Of Ap-
peals now held by Celora f. Martin Of Bing-
hamton.
Representative Edwin c. Burleigh. Third
uFtrlCt OF Maine, ANNOUNCES tnat ne 10 NV
a candidate to succeed Eugene Hale IN the
United Safes Senate next year.
John Sharp Williams of Yazoo. Miss.
the successor Of james d. Richardson.
leader of the minority in the House OF Rep
resentatives. has been member OF the House
for ten years: he's lawyer and planter
and his pictures In the newspapers are stacy
Mayor-eleot George B. Mcclellan OF New
York city said to a friend at the Shoreham
Hotel in Washin gton the other day: Il need
nothing short Of divine guidance. ] will be
damned If ! do and the same II don 7,
Experts do not nowadays pay much atten-
tion to the size OF the audiences at political
meetings in making prophecies OF the result
OF campaign. Neither do experts bank
much on the enthusiasm for candidates mani
tested at these meetings.
No other candidate In a Presidential CAM
paign ever had the tremendous audiences that
Bryan had in 1896 and 1900. Many men and
women from curiosity attend political meet
ings to see the men Of whom the newspapers
are talking.
A French barber said the other day:
Times are hard and good Democrat
could be elected President next year. Ill
tell you why:
Last spring my customers in New York
and at the country houses on Long Island
began TO say they didn't want me to come to
them any more, ] charged only 81 for a
shave, but they told me they were cutting
down expenses, and since then have lost all
my trade and must go back to the shop"
There are indications Of an effort to re.
introduce the silver question into politics: only
this time the proposed rate for discussion is
S2tol.
Politicians speak OF David B, Hill and Will
liam j. Bryan as the only two men in the
public's eye destitute of a fad or a hobby.
Neither drinks nor smokes; no eolf nothing
Of that kind. Mistaken" said a Democrat
who knows both Hill and Bryan. are these
politicians. Hill and Bryan hnve a fad they
coddle every waking hour. 1t is wind
jamming.
William A, Smyth and not Thomas c. Plat
is the Pooh-Bah Of Tiosa county. N. Y. Mr.,
Smyth is Postmaster OF Owego. bank d.
can boss of the county, president OF the state
Republican Editorial Association. and Mr..
Platt is merely Il humble voter once year
from the Ahwaga House In Owego.
The Republicans Of Maine are reviving the
talk Of making Joseph II. Manley Of Augusta,
the next Governor.
The judgments now outstanding against
Chicago in consequence Of personal injury
suits caused by defective sidewalks amount
to s4.o00.ooO. There are 5000 suits pending.
with claims making total Of Ss7. .OOo.o 900.
Mayor Carter Harrison has been repeatedly
urged to make reports OF sidewalk defects
part of regular police duty