The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-11-14
BRYAN AND
KERN FOR THE SENATE

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Chauncey NJ. Depew, whose senatorial
term expires March 8, 191l. That
Depew will not be elected to succeed
himself goes without saying. New
York decided quite a number OF years
ago that Platt and Depew were not the
calibre of men who ought to represent
the Empire state in the senate, and
their retirement at the end OF their
present terms has been regarded as a
matter of course. Plat has recognized
the impossibility of retaining his seat
and is not seeking reelection. There
is ever reason to believe Depew will
see things in the same light.
There is no reason now why Roose-
welt should not aspire to be Depew's
successor. He then will have finished
his African hunt and his program Of
absenting himself from the country
until the Taft administration is well
under way will have been carried out.
1t is impossible to see how his duties
as associate editor Of The Outlook
would interfere with his duties a. q
senator, and Mr.. Roosevelt has made
no secret of the fact that he regards
the United States senate as q fitting
field for the activities Of an ex-
president. Politics would only be
following a normal course, therefore,
should Theodore Roosevelt take the
oath as a senator from New York on
March A, 1911.
Mr.. Bryan's chances of succeeding
Senator Burkett would have to depend
in the first instance ON the ability OF
Nebraska Democrats to elect a major
ity of the legislature two years hence.
They did it this yea,, but the legisla-
ture elected this year will not elect a
senator, so the question will have to
be regarded as an open one. Although
not formally a candidate, it was
well understood when Burkett was
elected to the senate that the race was
between him and Bryan, and Burkett
won. The results in Nebraska on No
vember 8 indicated hat Bryan has
grown in the esteem of his own state,
and the result might be different in
another race between him and Burkett.
Should Bryan be elected to succeed
Burkett, and Roosevelt to succeed
Depew, they would take their oaths as
senators on the same day, and the
event would be one Of the most sig
n~ificant in the history Of the senate.
That body has never in its history
acquired two men as members who, be-
fore becoming senators, had been OF
such commanding influence in the ma
ton. Andrew johnson went to the
senate after leaving the White House
it is true, but at no time had he ever
had a 1.-THE of the influence of a Roose
welt or a Bryan, and his power was
wholly shattered before he entered the
senate. In that body he was never of
even average consequence.
Should Root succeed Plat and Roose-
welt Depew, it probably would solve the
now-mooted question as to who shall
take the places of the present veteran
leaders on the Republican side. With
the cooperation of Knox, already a
senator from Pennsylvania and on the
closest possible terms with both Roosc-
Welt and Root, there would be q trium-
virate hard to down.
Just what influence MI. Bryan wouf1
have ON the Democratic side Of the
chamber would depend no doubt on the
future tendency of that party, but
there is no manner of doubt that as a
senator he would prove a mighty inter
esting figure to the public and that ne
would have an immense following
among the rank and file of his party.
Roosevelt's election to the senate
would be a striking demonstration Of
the fact that the senate is destined to
change from a conservative or "reac-
tionary' body to a progressive one.
The selection of Governor Cummins Of
Iowa to succeed the late Senator Ali
son places a pronounced radical in the
seat of a pronounced conservative, AMI
the tendency of all the incoming SEN
ators, so far as their identity is known,
is toward radicalism. Joseph L. Bris.
tow, who will be the new senator from
Kansas, probably will be more radical
than any other man IN the Republican
side side except Senator LaFollette OF
Wisconsin.
1t may be pointed out that if Elihu
Root is elected senator from New York
it will not be a triumph for radicalism,
but it will have to be admitted thar
Root, having been one Of the main
stays of the Roosevelt administration,