The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-10-26

tional politics next year. second Co
few in The Democratic camp
The linking OF the names of lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler and John Johnson
by SO experienced a presidentmaker
as Colonel WattcrsOu has created
something akin to sensation at the
capital u represents q combine lion
of interests, both substantial and
sentimental which Washington recog-
izes as hci1g calculated to appeal
Pa telling force 10 the nation Both
are young. and each has achieved a.
victory in his own state that IS nui-
Qro i1 haracter and SO patiently inn
dicativc IF The popularity of both as
TO require 30 argument 10 establish
inc fact AS all other clements Of the
couutry's population ere represented
i'm Washington in about equal proper
tons. sectional considerations play
virtually not part an calculations here
on .ho Presidential outlook AT the
same timg however, note ie made of
tho fact ;hat Governor Chanler's
Southern ancestry is a factor of great
Importance I'm that 70 meets fully
whatever may Dee the strength of the
movement no restore t0 HE south it's
old-tlme f' i'm the national politI-
cal eouafe Governor Johnson lives
u that quarter of the country where
1 concededly the Democrats party must
look for growth and where its ascen-
dcucy Was becoming Gv~1 until VIII
liam jennings Bryn cWhroilcd bis
/ party in warning factionalsm that did
not cease nntil Johnson developed
srcb marvellous qualities of leader
ship
The Scandinavian element is near
! ly as sirolg in pakotas, Montana, ldH-
] no and The State of Washington. as IL
/ is in Minnesota Thus Governor
! lohnson's name On the ticket with
( Governor Cbanler would. 10 Is conf
IDENTIFY believed in Washington. draw
/ from the Republicans n very consid.
cradle part of the vote In the North.
/ west upon which that party has do
/ pended in the past for its victories
I in the states named
! It.i sthe talk among pOlhiciaRs who
are "in the know" that Developments
/ Of a most sensational character may
grow out of the WINS Investigation
Z of the Ryau-Belmolt traction inter
esls in New York. Indeed it Is said
! th8t If tho probe goes deep enough
/ one of the New York candidates fol
I the Presidential nomination may have
! his hopes blasted for an time hy tho
/ production OF evidence tending tC
show that me- is The political creature
! OF certain monied Interests now i'm eY
cessivcly evil repute
Iu "those dear days ROW gone be
/ yond recall. when the game of prac
/ tical politics was played for an o. wa.
worth aud the Widest possible licens'
given to al participants such tan
as ono now hears iu climbs and hote
l0bbies would not have been trough
with great danger to the aspiran
around whom the converaatiou cen
tiers. ln those days the statement
even 1T iudubitsbly proved that
/ powerful hlt obnoxious man of weaiu
/ repres uting hugo BOT highly unpoDu
lar corporate interests had contnbu
ted 10 fhe election of a candidate, fo
a great offce-in those days. J say
such doings would have been regard
I'd as matter of course and the pro
position would not have excited NOR
thGu mOmcntary comment. But il
these sensitive times. when the pui
iic is flly awake To the frighih
dangers that accompany the use q
cooperation money iu politics, th
mero hint that q hieh executive of
Ger owe his present poltical alutud
10 such help is apt 90 prove damn
ing And iu this particular case Nh
effect will be- an ihe more hurtfm bl
cause OF the holicrth1nth0n' an
tule which the official most conceri
ed has always occupied In the publ
eye.
in effect ho story that ls now eau
ing thc politicians to chn.kle Is ths
by the appointment Cf q commissiO
tO iaYe tEate the street railway a
mss md deahngs Governor Charlie
II Hughes may ind himself "hOi.
DF his uWn peiard A large sum {
money devoted by tho nyan.Rrad
Belmont interests % some cause