The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-26
WEEKLY LETTER FROM
THE NATIONS METROPOLIS
Washington Politicians Of Opinion That the Chanler
Boom will Smoke Out Roosevelt Henry
Watterson in Favor Of Chanler
and Johnson.

lish the fact. AS all other element
of the -country's population are rep
resented in Washington in abou
equal proportions, sectional consldera
tions play virtually no part in calcu
lations here on the Presidential out
look. At the same time. however
note Is made of the fact that Govern
or Chanler's Southern ancestry is ,
factor of great Importance in that |
NETS fully whatever may be tn,
strength of the movement to restor,
to the South It's old-time place II
the national political equation Gov
ernor Johnson lives in that quarter
of the country where concededly tn,
Democratic party must look fol
growth, and where it's ascendancy
was becoming fixed until william
Jennings Bryan embroiled his party
in warning fac.ionallsm that did moi
cease until Johnson developed such
marvellous qualities of leadership.
! The Scandinavian element is near.
ly as strong in Dakotas, Montana,
Idaho and the State of Washington
as it is in Minnesota. Thus Governor
Johnson's name on the ticket with
Governor Chanler would. II is con-
fidently believed in Washington. draw
from the Republicans very consid-
erable part of the vote in the North
west, upon which that party has de-
pended in the past for its victories
in the states named.
Xxx XXX
It is the talk among politicians
who are "in the know" that deyel-
,opments of a most sensational char
'acter may grow out of the WINS in
,vestigation of the Ryan Belmont trac-
ition interests in New York In
deed, It is said that If the probe goes
deep enough one OF the New Yorl,
candidates for the Presidential nom.
nation may have his hopes blasted
for all time by the production OF
|evidence tending TO show that he is
|the political creature of certain mon
led interestes now in excessively bad
|repute.
In ''those dear dead days now zone
beyond recall" when the game of
practical politics was PLAYED for all II
was worth, and the widest possible H.
cense given TO all participants sucb
talk as one now hears in clubs and
hotel Hobbies would not have been
frought with danger to the aspirapt
around whom the conversation cen.ers
In those days. the statement even
III indubitably proved. that now
erful but obnoxious man of wealth
huge. but highly unpop-
ular corporate interests. had con-
tributed to the election of candi-
date for a great office-in those days
l say, such doings would have been
regarded as a matter of course and
the proposition would not have ex-
cited more than mOmentarv com.
ment. But in these sensitive times
when the public is fully awake to the
frlghtful dangers that accompany the
use of corporation money in politics
the mere hint that high executive
officer owes his present po,iticaI al
titude to such help, ant to proye
damning. And i'm this partic,Iar case
the effect will he ali the more burt-
full because of the "bolier-tban-tbon,
attitude which the official most con-
cerned has always occupled IN the
public eve.
In effect, the story that is now
causing the politicians TO chuckIe is
thai by the appointment of commits
sion to investigate the street rail-
way doings and dealings. Governor
Charles II. Hughes NAV find himself
"hoist by his own petard /, large
sum of money devoted by tbe RYAN
interests 10 Soma
couse or other has not vet been ac-
counted for-and the destruction OF
the boks probably means that tic
recipients will forever remain mvs,.
terry; but "a fairish indication Of how
such money goes was given by that
eminent acelerator of public opinion.