The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-12-02

ilson, are silent and Woodrow
filson has not openly declared him
elf. 1t looks, however, as If Will
son would have to align himself
against Smith or suffer severe CEN
sequences politically.
Just now, in consequence OF Will
ms speeches and other pronounce
tents, especially his replies to the
.ries Of questions submitted to him
George l.. Record, he is growing
| favor among western progressves
5ithout respect to party. But if it
lould appear that he stood for
NTH for the senate, for the man
Tho when he was in the senate OIL
the United States was largely instru-
Mental in fixing up the sugar sched-
lie, he would lose caste In the pro-
,ressive quarters.
West Virginia and Ohio.
In West Virginia, former Senator
Henry Gassaway Davis IS one OF
those seeking the senate. Senator
Davis is firmly allied with the con-
sentative wing of his party.
Then there is the Ohio situation,
where John r. Mclean wants to be
senator. and where such men as for
mer Governor Campbell and NJ. E.
ingalls,, of the Big Four, are men
toned. 1t is needless to say what
effect the selection of Mclean or In
gals or Campbell would have on the
radical or progressive democrats in
congress.
BY reason Of his heavy interests in
the Washington public service cor
porations McLean's advent to the
senate would stir up particular oppo-
sition In the District of Columbia. 1t
would stir up Bryan democrats
everywhere, inasmuch as Mr.. Mclean
has gone out of his way to fight
Bryan. For these and many obvious
reasons, the selection of Mclean as
senator would fan the flames OF
democratic discord in congress as
well as in the state of Ohio. II
would be as fatal to the presidential
ambitions of Judson Harmon as
would the election of Smith as SEN
ator Of New Jersey.
1t might be expected that Missouri
would come along with a senator
who would not be affiliated with the
reactionary wing of the democratic
party. but it will not. James A,
Reed, of Kansas City, VINO will be
the next senator from there, is al.
lied with the same wing of the party
as Dave" Francis, though he beat
Francis for the senatorial nomina.
ton. He is not in any sense one OF
the progressives of his party.
In Maine, the candidate in the lead
for the senator ship to succeed Sen.
ator Hale is Charles F.. johnson, q
conservative.
Should the Montana legislature
WI WI " NC III LuG COuCrO1 OIL Gl{
democrats, it now being claimed b,
both sides, there is possibility tina,
former Senator w. A. Clark, witt
his millions, would be returned te
the senate. Senator Clark cannot
be accused of being a very wild eyet
radical.
Two Progressive Democrats.
AS it seems now, the only state.
in which the democrats have cap
tured the legislatures and which are
SIRE t. send progressive democrat.
to the senate are Nebraska and In
diana. Senator-to-be Gilbert M
Hitchcock, of Nebraska, has an anti
corporation record in the house, ane
is an anti-railroad democrat, who
has worked consistently with thu
progressive republicans.
Iohn w. Kern, who will succeed
Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, ia!
been a consistent progressive dem
ccrat, and is especially sound on tn,
tariff question.