The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-23

again be the democratic standard bear
| er in 1908, gossip has turned on a vice.
presidential nominee, is the report that
comes from Washington, D. C. This
| field is still open to all, with the
| chances strongly favoring the men of
the east, and more particularly the as
pirants from New York state. Two
men, prominent in New York state and
city politics, have been mentioned, and
both are men who would be able to
carry strength to a Bryan ticket. One
! is William r. Hearst, the other Mayor
George B. Mcclellan, of New York
City.
If the tail of the Bryan ticket shall
be taken from New York state, one of
these two men is likely to be chosen.
Each is strong among a certain class.
Hearsts strength lies chiefly among
the people who have never forsaken
Bryan, the working men, while Nc
Clellan would be able to reach some
of the higher classes in the business
world that would not follow
| Hearst. William Randolph Hearst
has some hackers among the business
men, it is true, but he has posed as the
friend of the laborer and would draw
principally among that class of voters
| McClelland, on the other hand, while he
has his hosts of followers among the
| laboring classes, has a reputation for
stability that is not true of Hearst,
and he would draw more heavily
among the business interests than
| would the ditor-congressman.
Mcclellan the Favorite.
| is far and away the better equipped to
| fill the office of vice. president He is
gentleman of high type; he is school,
| ed in parliamentary practices that pre-
vail in congress; he would be able to
preside over the senate with dignity
and would be acceptable to a demo-
| cratic congress.
Hearst, on the other hand, would be
misfit in the vice presidential chair.
He would not like the job, and the
senate would not like to have him as d
successor to Fairbanks. He is not the
type of man to preside over the great
est deliberative body in the world, and
he knows it, and does not banker after
it.
1t is we'll known that Hearst has his
eyes on the presidency, and it is quite
probable that when the time comes he
will discourage talk of his nomination
as vice-president fearing that a term
in the second office of the land might
handicap him in the future when he
might renew his fight for the presi-
dency. Mcclellan, on the other hand,
would no doubt be glad to receive the
, nomination for vice-president. He has
no presidential bee buzzing in his bon
net so far as is known, and would look
upun the vice. presidential nomination
as great honor. Moreover, he would
stand a better chance of carrying New
York than Hearst, for Hearst and Tam
many are fighting continually of late,
and Tammany would never be able
to work up enthusiasm over a ticket
on which Hearst's name was written.
Will Come from East.
1t is not a sure thing that a New
Yorker would be nominated with Bryan
| if the Nebraskan should be chosen to
head the democratic national ticket, but
| if not a New Yorker, certainly some
man from another big eastern state
The south does not need a sop in or
der to stay in the democratic column,
! and the western vote is not large
| man from the country beyond Bryan's
home. He himself is westerner enough
to suit the democracy beyond the Mis-
slssippi river This is one reason
eastern men take no stock in the talk
along the Pacific cdast of about nomi-
mating Governor Chamberlain, of Ore
gon, as running mate for Bryan. East
ern democrats are ready to concede that
Chamberlain has done well in a strong
republican state, but at best he could
swing only few states for the demo-
cratic ticket, and they are not states
with large aggregate vote in the cleo
toral college.
Turning to Roosevelt.
Since it has been taken for granted,
from one end of the country to the
other. that Bryan is to be the demo-
cratic nominee, there has been revival