The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-25
POLITICS AS SEEN AT
THE NATIONS CAPITOL
Congress Appears to be Very Successfully Putting in
Its Time Doing NothiDg-Hearst's Threat to
Bring Out an Independent Ticket in the Next
Election May Cut Some Figure.

committee b ythe anti-Roosevelt fac
tion, with its power to decide which
OF the contesting delegations shall
be placed upon the roll of delegates
may turn the scale against Mr..
Roosevelt and his candidate. All
the power and money of the corpora
tions and the tariff protected inter-
ests will be used to prevent Presi-
dent Roosevelt from rounding up the
Southern delegates into the Taft cor
raj, and the opportunity for corrup
ton VIII not be wanting where one
side is ready to buy and the other
side to sell. Such is-the present con-
dition in the Republican camp. but
with practical" politicians involved
with both factions, there may be
tightening changes in the program
when found necessary to achieve their
ends.
Whichever faction succeeds and
whoever Is nominated by the Republi-
cans, will leave gaping wounds that
VIII be hard to heal before election
time. especially in Ohio and New
York. Thus the chances of the
Democrats are apparently improved,
but so much depends upon whether
the party can unite upon a candidate.
who will not drive away necessary
votes to win in the doubtful states
makes 1t impossible to lock forward
to the result of the election until.
at least, the nominations of both
parties have been made.
There is a cloud upon the Demo-
cratic horizon that will bear watch
ing irrespective of whoever Is NOM
mated, and that is the evident deter
mination of Mr.. Hearst TO mt
ticket In the field under the head OF
the Independence League, and in all
PROBABILITY to head it himself. In
an open letter to his chief organizer
IN the West, published in the New
YORK Journal on January 11th. Mr..
Hearst declares thar the Jndenend-
ence League will soon supplant one
loi the old parties. sAs IL is certain
that the League will not supplant tbe
republican party 1t must be the DEM
ocratic party that Mr.. Hearst homes
70 snow under. To accomplish that
!Nr' Hearst tells the League. "yvo
shouio be conservative in our meth.
ods and absolutely sound in our
measures and he then states his no.
N4oh on finance, that the nIan
70 lsue a flexible currency tbrough
.ne banks is good one. but dec,aroo
lnat financial reforms must ne n,ado
WIN as little disturbance of existing
conditions as possible" +" That moder.
ate pan of reform may not be a hit
at Mr.. Bryan, but Mr.. Hearst further
says; 'When certain reform has
Deen accomplished, we can 90 an a.
other reforms, but it seems IN mo nm
wise 10 Jeopardize the success of the
"noie movement by declaring for
"ieimate reforms, and putting the
party IN position where Il viii he
deprived of an opportunity to put anv
OF IT'S reforms into operation untiI
the people are finally educated nm
10 the necessity of all such reforms.
L take this same position in regard
to tariff revision and in regard to
public ownership. There is no use
declaring for public ownership of
railways. What can he mean other
than direct opposition to Mr.. Bry-
ANS multiplicity of refroms and espe-
cially the government ownership of
railways. AS no one the League
would nominate for president would
draw as many votes as Mr.. Hearst
could from the radical faction of the
democratic party, /; would appear
THAT he intends to take the League
nomination for president and measure
swords with Mr.. Bryan.
! ROBERT MILLER.