The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-02-10

is not being needed.
The Washington Democrats would
like TO know on whom the smile Of
William ]. Bryan will shine. 1t Is
admitted that Mr.. Bryan's indorse-
ment is absolutely necessary to give
any Democrats campaign for the pres
idency a fair start.
There are Democrats who believe
that Champ Clark. the Democratic
leader in the house. may be an out
and-out candidate for the presidency
and that this will be more likely to
happen If the next house shall be
Democratic and Mr.. Clark be honored
with its speakership.
The Republicans realize that Gov.
Harmon has a good deal of strength
in Ohio, which is Taft's state. One
Democrat said, Harmon can carry
Ohio" Another Democrat instantly
answered. Marshall can carry Indiana
and Ohio too." and another Democrat
not to be outdone. said. Champ Clark
can carry Indiana. Ohio and Missouri.
too"
Many Seek Speakershlp.
Who will be the next Speaker of the
House of Representatives? Matters
have moved along so rapidly in one
direction that most of the close friends
of Speaker Cannon In the House ad'
NIT that the chances are before very
long he will come out with a state
ment to the effect that he is not to
be considered as a candidate for re-
election to succeed himself in the
office that generally is accredited with
having more power attached to 1t
than any other Office except that Of
president of the United States.
The number of men who would like
to be Speaker is perhaps limited only
by the membership of the House.
There are comparatively few members,
however, who by length Of service and
by shown and known ability have the
right, without exciting either smile
or criticism, to announce their candi'
dacy for the high homer.
Cannon's Reelection improbable.
The men who are close to Speaker
Cannon personally and politically,
have been saying very freely recently
that while they do not think there is
any real reason why Mr.. Cannon
should not aspire to be his own sue
cessor, there Is, as far as they are con-
cerned, real reason why they should
not urge him to stand for reelection.
They say their constituents have
come to believe that Mr. Cannon has
been in office long enough and that
their representatives in congress
should vote for some other man.
1t is an assured fact that enough
Of the socalled regular" Republicans
have intimated that they will not vote
again for Mr.. Cannon to insure that
his reelection to the Speakership is
practically impossible. The regulars
whose constituents have said that
they do not look with favor on another
term In the Speakership for the Dan.
vile man, added to the insurgents who
have been against Mr.. Cannon's rule
of the House for long time, make
enough Republicans virtually to COM
pass the Speakers defeat If he should
offer himself again for the first place
in the House.
Hope Of the "Insurgents."
With the exception of the Republic
an members from the state of Wis
consin, most Of the representatives
from the middle western states which
lie east of the Mississippi river have
stood consistently in the ranks Of the
regulars and in support Of the rule Of
Speaker Cannon. The eastern repre-
sentatives in the main have been reg.
ular," although Representative Angus
tus Peabody Gardner of Massachu-
sets, son.in-law of Henry Cabot
Lodge, has been as much of an insur.
gent as has Victor Murdock of Kan
sas, who ordinarily is looked upon as
the chief of the "rebellious" forces.
Most of the real insurgents, those
who have been insurgents through
good weather and bad. come from
west of the great river. They are too
few in number to hope to elect one
of their own kind as Speaker Of
the next House and they see little
chance of enough insurgent gain in
the east to overcome the majority
which the regulars now hold, and
which they seem likely to hold in
depleted form during the next con.
gress. 1t is the hope Of the insur-
gents, as they express it openly. that
some middle westerner may be chos
en- who is neither a hide-bound man
as Speaker whose election will be
something in the nature of compro
mise and who of necessity will be
more kindly disposed toward the in.
surgent ranks than Mr.. Cannon has
been
OF course in casting about for can
diGates for the spcakership the Re-
publicans are taking for granted a
victory at the polls next November
They admit that they will have hard
fight on their hands. and that they
will be obliged to defend the tarifI
bill against the violent assaults of the
Democratic enemy. The Democrats
are so cheerful over the prospect OF
the November elections that already
they see Champ Clark in Joseph G.
Cannon's seat, and, looking little bit
beyond this, some of them see the Mis-.
souri, representative in the field as a
strong candidate for his party's nom-
ination for the presidency.
GEORGE CLINTON.
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