Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-08
POLITICS OUT IN OHIO
Senator Dick and the Republi-
can Craftsmanship.
MUST COME UNANIMOUSLY
Some Disafection Reported Among
Rank and File.
ELECTION VITAL TO THE PARTY
The Friends Of Both Senators Are Ru-
minating Over Conditions In the
Country Districts.
ELECTION VITAL TO THE PARTY

Special Dispatch to The Star.
COLUMBUS. Ohio. August 3.-Senator
Dick may not after all manage the repub-
lican campaign in Ohio this year. Upon
returning home after the adjournment Of
Congress he announced that he would again
be at the head OF the campaign committee
At Akron last night he said he would &C.
cept the campaign Craftsmanship II it was
rendered him unanimously, but not other
wise
His first announcement came as q shock
to the anti-machine republicans. who had
supposed after the defeat the party suffer
ed last fall that the holder machine methods
at least would be dropped. To have Sena-
tor Dick announce himself as the head Of
the campaign committee before the cleo
ton of the delegates to the state conven-
ton which will in turn select the cam
paign committee and it's officers seemed to
look very much like the operation Of the
machine again.
Before the republican Ohio congressman
returned from Washington they held eau
Gus and unanimously decided that they
wanted Senator Dick to have charge OF the
campaign this year.
But now that they have mingled with
their constituents they are sending reports
to Washington to the effect that the promi-
nent connection of Senator Dick wi tn the
state campaign committee will greatly In
jure the chances of republican success and
make it very likely that thu close districts
will elect democratic representatives..
Might Be Wise for Dick.
The national republican congressional
committee has become interested and is
suggesting that 1t might be wise for Sem
ator Dick to drop out of the campaign
committee this year. The congressional
elections it is claimed, make the result in
Ohio this year of much more than state i'm
portance 1t was in discussing this phase
of the matter at his home last night that
Senator Dick said that he had been chosen
unanimously to manage the Ohio cam
paigns for the last dozen years and It
must come that way this time or he would
not accept It, thus paving the way. 1t Is be-
lleved. to step aside in view of the growing
objections
John r. Malloy who has served as sec
rotary with him. expresses a desire also to
be relieved, but it is probable that he will
be secretary of the campaign committee
again. as any new man as chairman would
greatly need his experience and political
knowledge.
The name of Congressman T. E. Burton
is mentioned in connection with the chair
manship. but he will hardly be the man.
The work Is not in harmony with his tastes
and training. and he is hardly In good favor
with the republican state machine. The
fact that the republicans OF delaware
county, in their convention this week did
not mention either Of the states senators.
while praising the President unstintingly
in their platform. has set the senator's
friends to thinking. --=
The first indication of opposition to Bryan
among Ohio democrats appeared yesterday
in the fifteenth congressional convention at
Marietta. where there was strong opposi-
ton to his Endorsement for the presidency
In 1908. The Endorsement went through,
however, by a close vote. G.