The Nevada County picayune., 1910-05-20
Politicians in Two States Look Into the Future With Much
 Misgiving.
AWAIT RETURN OF ROOSEVELT
situation In New York and Ohio hp- parently Will Be Tangled Until His Return-Consevatlon ls- sue in James River Dam
 Bill

reSentatlVe NlcnOIaS lOH8WOTlu, to se- cure his consent to be a candidate be- fore the Republican state convention for governor of Ohio. He is still coy. Mir Longworth, as the world knows. or ought to know, Is the son-in- law of former President Theodore Roosevelt. The Ohio representative has told President Taft several times that he is, and will continue to be as long as the present Taft endeavor Is continued, a strong and sincere SUD- porter of the administration's policies.
 There are some politicians in Wash lngton who look on the declaration or the fealty of MT. Longworth to the administration as being evidence In part that the Ohioan believes that his father-in-law, when he comes back. likewise will declare fealty. Other politicians say that there Is nothing to this. and that Nick" acts for him. self in political and personal matters without regard to the advice or sug- gestion of his wifes distinguished fa- ther.
 If the "son-in-law representative should become the candidate of the Republicans for the governorship nom- ination in Ohio, there are those who say emphatically that he will draw the Roosevelt Republicans to his ban ner. and also the other Republicans, for 1t is averred that MT. Longworth is popular with all Buckeye Republi- cans and that his hnship-in-law to Colonel Roosevelt will have great sentimental effect on some of the Re- puhlicans who seem to have with drawn their support from President Taft. and who are apparently careless about the result in Ohio
 Democratic Faith In Harmon.
 The Democrats say that Judson liar mon, present governor. and the man who Is to be their candidate for re- election to that high office, can win against any candidate whom the Re publicans choose to name. They say that Harmon's record is excellent and that the state Republicans are split into two factions, insurgents and reg ulars-iust as they are in other states, although the outward manifestation or party trouble has not been as marked in Ohio as 1t has been elsewhere. The Democrats scout the truth of any statement to the effect that mere re- | lationship by marriage between NIT. Roosevelt will have any sentimental or other effect in deciding the election in Ohio next fall.
 In New York the governoship situa. ton is extremely interesting. Colonel | Roosevelt when he returns, Is expect | ed to try to straighten out state af- fairs even though he takes no hand in
 national affairs. and says nothing pro or con upon the Taft administration s achievements,
 1 IL seems possible that if the Roose- welt influence prevails. and If the rec l ord which William Loeb, Jr.. collector l of the port of New York, has made in
 a score of cases stands him in good 1 stead, that he who once on time was l MT. Roosevelt's secretary will be the l Republican candidate for governor. It
 may be that the Democrats will nom- l mate William J. Gaynor, mayor of 1 New York city, for the governorship of
 the state provided Judge Gaynor says | that he is willing to make the race. If the mayor runs for governor. and i is elected and MT Harmon runs for governor in Ohio and Is elected, tt 1 readily can be seen what prestige each | will have as a candidate for the Dem 1 ocratic nomination for the presidency.
 Sees Roosevelt Opposing Taft
 William Jennings Bryan has said, | according to press reports, that he be
 lieves when Theodore Roosevelt re- 1 turns to America he will be found in 1 the ranks of the Insurgents" and l that instead of standing in defense of
 the Taft administration the colonel will take the position of an adverse l critic
 On four or five different happenings
 Mir. Bryan bases his prediction He l thinks that because the coicnel has promised 10 speak at the conservation convention in the west, and because uf his enthusiastic and delighted" vel come to Clifford Pinchot, Mir. Roose- 1 welt Is ripe for the fight in defense Of all that the former chief forester stands for in the way of conservation. including his position of antagonism to MT. Taft's secretry of the interior, Rich ard A Ballinger
 MT. Bryan touches. also. though | lightly, fl must be admitted. on the re port that a stenographer who took some of Mir Roosevelt's correspond ence, has leaked information to the effect that the strenuous one intends
 to get into the field of progressive ac- tivitias once more and to assail those acts of the present administration
 which he thinks denote tendencies to
 retreat from the position which the present president originally took.
 In Senator Roots private visit to
 Theodore Roosevelt. Mir. Bryan also sees signs which point to fear on the | part of Mir. Taft that his predecessor