The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-05-15
(American News Service)
BY RoDERIcK CLIFFORD,

Washington, May 14--There are
more than the usual number of guber-
Material aspirants in the house this
session. They are about equally di-
vided between the democrats and re-
publicans. Indications are that the
guebnatorial lightning may strike
some of them. In the New York dele
cation Representatives Sulzer and
Bennett are each being groomed by
their respective following. Represent
alive Sulzer is the dean Of the New
York democrats. He is considered by
the democrats in the house as an
available candidate to carry the en-
pire state into the democratic column
this fall. If the New York democracy
can be influenced by the house demo
Gratis Mr. Sulzer will be nominated
for governor by reclamation.
Representative Bennett stands well
with the republican organization of
New York, and is one of the house
regulars. He is well thought of by
Speaker Cannon, and is frequently
by him to preside over the house Mr.
Bennett has not announced his candi-
dacy but is ''in the hands of his
friends"
Others who are, after the guberna-
torial nomination in their respective
states include Representative Eugene
N. Foss Of Massachusetts who recently
carried a republican district by safe
democratic majority; Representative
Ben Johnson of Kentucky, democrat:
Allen of Maine, republican,: Hughs of
New Jersey. democrat; Longworth of
Ohio. republican,; Rothermel of Penn
sylvania, democrat; and Hayes of aCli-
fornia, republican-insurgent.
Concerning Mr.. Longworth. it can
be said that while he Is not making a
strenuous fight for the nomination it
Is known that If the nomination for
governor comes his way, he will not
refuse 1t to remain in the house.
The coming retirement of Senator
Aldrich of Rhode Island and Hale of
Maine, has started no end of gossip
concerning probable changes that may
be made in the personnel of the next
senate. According to the political
summing up made by Representative
Champ Clark, of Missouri, minority
leader of the house, there may be 4
number of new faces in the senate af-
ter March 4, and there may be some
democrats among the number. Mr..
Clark believes the democrats have
more than an even chance to elect a
successor to Senator Beveridge of In
diana; while in Missouri every thing
points to = democratic victory which
means the election of democrat to
succeed Mr.. Warner. In Nebraska,
Ohio, New York, Massachusetts, Della
ware and Montana the democrats, Mr..
Clark asserts are in good fighting trim
with conditions favorable to democrat
ic success. 1t would be no surprise,
Mr.. Clark said, if when the roll is
called in the next senate, Senators
Lodge, Carter, Depew Dupont, Burkett
and Dick are not there to answer to
their names. ..s
Some twenty-five years ago." said a
veteran employee of the house "the
newspapers were filled with stories of
the legislative fight on the Hatch bill,
better know as the 'oleomargarine bill
It was the farmers who started the
cry against oleo, and they were strong
enough to get what they wanted. It
was a democratic house that passed
the Hatch bill, but it was republican
votes that put the bill through. Now,
with the prevailing high prices Of
food comes an organized effort to re-