New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-04

informed by telephone that he hau peeh eeAoN
Republican candidate he made desperate
effort TO have his name withdrawn; but Tort
unately for him. was unsuccessful. His DIS
trict which extends from the Wabash to the
Mississippi, is known as the saddlebag dis
trict.'' from its peculiar shape. Dickson, also'
it is related. has had difficulty with his railroad
passes. Although bright and happy speaker,
he made no speech in the campaign.
ACCIDENTAL STATESMEN.
It is said in Illinois that the most surprised
man in the State the day after election was
| Charles McGavin. clerk in the office OF the
City Attorney of Chicago. Pitted against Nc
| Gavin was William P. Harrison, young brother
of ex-Mayor Carter Harrison. Young Harrison
| was certain of his election that his friends
were already addressing him Congress
| man." but McGavin put up a strong fight and
| Harrison lived appreciate that there is many
a slip, etc Another clerk in the Chicago City
| Attorneys Office who put the ticket to
fill UP gap was Charles S. Wharton, of the
4th District which gave a Democratic majority
of $4,000 votes to George P. Foster two years
ago. Still another surprised man in the Illinois
| delegation is Anthony MichaIek, elected from
the 5th District which has normal Democratic
majority of 5000 votes. Michalek succeeds
James McAndrews one of the loudest Hearst
shouters in the last Presidential campaign
will be precipitated a lively contest 1t is
claimed that he is not an American citizen and
so cannot properly serve in the House. It is
known that Mr.. Mchalek never expected to be
elected, and it is claimed that he stipulated
that If he accepted the nomination he was to
| receive in return generous advertising of his
| grocery business. At all events, all the cam
paign literature circulated in his behalf con-
tanned fattering references to his pure food
emporium in the Windy City. hard fought
and well won fight put up in the oath Dis
trict by Pleasant T. Chapman, his opponent
being James R. Williams of the most in
f4uential Democrats in Illinois. Mr.. Chapman
contested the election with Williams three years
| before and lost by only 252 votes. but last year
| the Republican candidate by substantial
majority. From delegation consisting of sew
enteen Republicans and eight Democrats the
Illinois representation is converted into Tone
Democratic" delegation, Henry T. Rainey being
| the only Democrat who survived the tidal wave.
CHANGES IN OHIO.
The youngest man in the Ohio delegation is
Ralph D. Cole, who comes from the Sth District.
He is thirty-one, and looks younger. Mr.. Cole
comes from strong Republican district, but he
attributes his luck in securing the nomination
to the fact that he is thirteenth child. His
| parents were advocates of the Presidents anti
| race suicide doctrines, having had seventeen
| children all told, and Cole is looking to this
fact to assist him materially in patronage con-
| tests at the White House. Two other young
| men in the Ohio delegation are B. G. Dawes,
| from the 18th District, and Ed L. Taylor,
| jr. of the 18th District who succeeds Dewitt
| c. Badger, a Democrat. Cole. Taylor and Dawes
are prone to "trot together" and bid fair to win
the sobriquet of ''the trplets" of the House. Mr.
| Cole has served two years in the Ohio Legis-
| lature; Dawes is a of that General Dawes
| who was a member of Congress twenty-five
| years ago and a brother of Charles g. Dawes,
ex-Controller of the Currency. Mr.. Taylor re-
signed the office of public prosecutor to run for
Congress-
Judge Thomas E. scroggy who comes to
! Congress to represent the 9Th District, won his
nomination only after terrific contest with
| Charles HiIdebrand. The contest. begun in the
convention waxed so bitter and became SO COM
picated that it became necessary to settle IL IN
| the courts which decided in Scroggys favor.
| He is a member of the Foraker faction. while
| Hldebrand represented the old Hanna organi-
From the old Garfield district comes w. Aubrey
Thomas who was elevated to the vacancy created
| by the elevation of Senator Dick. MI InoInas
was sworn in to fill the unexpired term of SEN
ator Dick last year. but since then some QueS-
| ton has been raised as to his citizenship lie
was born in Wales, of Welsh father, who. 1t IS
| claimed was never naturallZed, ana ne mas never
| taken out naturalization papers himself. Inc
| case promises to prove Of the most inter-
| ssting of those with which the Committee on
Elections will have to deal, although there seems
| to be little doubt that ultimately Mr.. Thomas
| will be seated. Ohio Will hereafter nave only
| one Democrat in the delegation
CONNECTICuToS MAN
There is Just one new race in the delegation
from the Nutmeg State, Edwin w. Higgins hav-
| ing been elected to succeed Frank B. Brandegee.
| who was elected to the Senate to succeed the
late Orvlle Hitchcock Plat Connecticut long
ago learned the value of continuous service in
both houses of Congress- and when a man is
elected to Congress from Connecticut he is
usually regarded as having entered on the career
of his life Senator Plat served his State in
the Senate for twenty years, and Senator Haw-
lev served only two years less while both would
have served even longer had they lived and re-
taned their health. E. Stevens Henry is enter
ing on his fifth term and Nehemiah Sperry Is
entering on his twelfth year. as is Ebenezer ].
Hill. Mr.. Higgins is we'll spoken of, and is ex-
pected to become of the solid standbys or
the House
VICE-PRESIDENT'S STATE.
An interesting member of the Indiana delega-
ton is John H Foster. of the LIST District VINO
succeeds James A. Hemenway elected to the
Senate to succeed the Vice-President. Twenty
years ago Mr. Foster was a clerk in the Pension
Office when he studied law and after his gradu-
alton he returned to Indiana TO practise mis- pro
fession. He served a term in the INDIANA Legs
lature and was then elected judge or tne gu
perior Court of his State but the longing Tor
politics led him to seek the nomination for CON
gress. and he found the HemenWay ais I t 50
well Disciplined that he had no trouble In gam
ing the election. In the convention MI. roster
was chosen as compromise candidate between
Messrs Cunningham and Brady whose irlenus
bad fought To a deadlock. The political com
nlexion of the Indiana delegation SHOWS gam
of two seats by the Republicans the DeIhoclatio
rnarobers from the I'd and 18th districts being
snccaeded by John c. Clancy and Newton w
Gilbert respectively. This Is the first tins ths