The National tribune., 1910-09-15

Jersey, CurrleT, OIL New t1anpSnlTet
Bartholdt, of Missouri: Gillett, of Mas
sachusetts; Butler, Of Pennsylvania:
Campbell, of Kansas; Foss, of Illinois;
Mccall. of Massachusetts,; Mann, of Il
linois; Sulloway, of New Hampshire;
Foster, of Vermont; Burke, of South
Dakota; Rodenberg, of Illinois; Dr1s-
COLL of New ork; Gaines. of West Nir-
ginia; Smith, of Michigan Prince and
Mckinley, of Illinois, ard Vreeland, OF
New York
The Great House Committees.
The great committees of the House,
as made up by Speaker Cannon, have
not suffered much. There are IL Re-
publicans on House Appropriations:
Tawney, of Minnesota; Bingham, ot
PENNSYLVANIA; Brownlow. of Tennessee
(Geceased); Gardner, of Michigan,
civil war veteran, who has been defeat
ed fer denomination; Gillelt, OF Massa-
cl usetts: Smith, OF Iowa; G"alt, OF
Iowa: eX-Speakcr Eeifer, o. Ohio;
Snapp. of illinois,; Taylor, of Ohio, and
Malhy, of New York. Gardner Is the
only one who has been beaten thus far
for denomination.
There has been some pruning of the
list of six Democrats on Appropriations,
Livingston, of Georgia, the ranking
Democrat, was superseded at the tfeor-
gia primaries, leaving Fitzgerald. OF
New York as the man likely to be
Chairman if the next House is Demo-
cratic. 1t is entirely probable. now
ever, that the Democratic Speaker, IL
he should be Champ Clark, of MISSOURI
would supplant him in favor Of REPRE-
sentative Burleson, of Texas, because
FITZGERALD allied himself with the Can
non forces at the beginning of the Con
gress and accepted committee rewards
from the Speaker. Sherley, OF Ken
lucky; Bowers. of Mississippi, who re-
tires from public life March next, ana
Keliher, of Massachusetts,, who is hav-
ing a hard fight for reelection, are the
remaining Democrats on Approprla-
tions.
The Congressional Campaign.
The Congressional campaign is now
pretty we'll opened" but the hard bat
Ting will not begin till well toward the
1st of October A number of the big
Eastern States have not yet made their
nominations. New York, New Jersey
and Massachusetts, are notable IN
stances. 1t will be well into the first
week of October before the lists OF
nominees can be completed and sur
vey of the entire personnel made pos
sibIe. Indiana and. Ohio nominated
early. Iowa came a few weeks ago.
Kansas. California, Nebraska, Michi-
gan. Wisconsin and New Hampshire
have held primaries in August or early
September.
Neither the Republican Congressional
Committee nor the Democratic Con-
gressional Committee has gotten very
actively into the fray. The Republ-
cans. as usual, are better organized and
have been conducting considerable inl-
tial work, but their headquarters in
New York and Chicago are far from
being the bustling hives of enectlVe
campaign industry that has been seen
sha rnitfpa
ayers have been more or less .paralyzed
by the insurgent warfare and the nos
tilities inside the party.
Vice President Sherman has been
touring the West in a series of speeches
delivered under the auspices oil the Re-
publican Congressional Committee.
However. with President Taft circling
into the Northwest and Col. Roosevelt
stumping from one populous center TO
another populouS center, sunny Jim
did not have the wide publicity he 9TH
erwise might have had. He is now back
in New York State looking after his
interests as the choice of the Republl-
can State Committee for temporary
presiding officer of the Saratoga Con-
vention.
The Congressional candidates have
been very busy in their own right. MAX
ing speeches and renewing acqualnt-
ances but with an exception or TWO. as
noted, the big campaign orators nave
not vet gotten into the swing. A rev
went into Vermont, where the election
has already been held and the two
present Republican incumbents re-
turned for another two years. during
the past week there has also been
considerable movement OF orators INTO
Maine Two of the districts IN that
State have been regarded as good hight
ing ground The Republicans have sent
a few effective speakers there and the
Democrats have done likewise Former
Judge Alton B.. Parker, of New fork,
and Representative Eugene n. Foss, OF
Massachusetts,, have been the two lead
ing Democratic orators in Maine as far
as outside talent is concerned. The Re-
publicans have Communicated Repre-
sentatives Weeks, of Massachusetts:
Duncan McKinlay, of California, who
was defeated for denomination, but Is
an orator of the whirlwind type; VIM.
S. Bennett of New York, and Geo. w.
Prince, of Illinois. Fewer outsiders than
usual were called into the Maine cam
paign this year, but the Congressional
Committee has been doing its utmost
there wherever men or means could be
of material assistance.
New York Politics to the Front.
For the time being New York poll
tics promise to hold the center of in
terest 1t is now only about two weeks
= before the State Conventions of both
parties meet There will be a deal of
important activities with the Democrats
and Republicans. Both parties are
making careful preparations for these
conventions. Neither side is certain
whom IL will name for Governor. Ex-
President Roosevelt promises TO be the
big figure among the Republicans, for
he has agreed to go TO the -conVention
as "A delegate, and has announced that
he will wage big warfare against the
upstate bosses.
President Sherman over the Temporary
Craftsmanship of the convention is in
volyed in the struggle now in progress.
The New York leaders are all at skies
and sevens, and it remains TO be seen
whether they can get upon common
ground and have a great unanimous
forward movement after the conven-
tiOn has adjourned. There are wise
p1en who think such development Is
still possible. President Taft it should
be said, is still holding aloof from the
wrangling in the Empire State, and is
willing to leave ii TO the Roosevelt and
anti-Roosevelt factions to fight ii out
among themselves.
The New York Democrats seem to be
centering more and more upon Mayor
Gaynor, of New York City. as their
Gubernatorial nominee. altho quite o
contingent of the Mayors friends insist
that he should properly serve out his
term as Mayor. They argue that that
Is a bigger Office than Governor Of New
York, and that he has begun an impOr-