The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-24
w. ARE TO LEAD
IN 1872 CAMPAIGN
This Is a Question Giving
Concern to Managers of
Each Party Now.
eY FREDERICK CLIFFORD.


WASHINGTAON, Sept. 23.-Who is
TO lead the campaign for the Demo
cratic and Republican parties next
year? Who are to be the national
chairmen?
This Is a question which is giving
more concern to the party managers
than any other single proposition now
confronting them. The issues have al
ready been made. They are now clear
1y drawn. There is no longer any real
bother about them. But there Is bother
and plenty OF IL about the right men
10 present these issues-the men who
nre to win the fight.
Now Is "A chance rarely offered for
some real political Moses to present
himself. II he can convince the party
heads that he can run successful
campaign, there is fame and fortune
awaiting him. There is a seat in the
next Presidents cabinet at his COM
mand.
Look For Right Man.
Democrats and Republicans are
hike weighing the shrewdness and re-
source OF their promising politicians
In the hope of finding the man. Both
parties are today without executive
leadership. They may be "titular" lea
ders, but they are never the persons
tot do the big work OF running a ma
tional campaign President Taft, for
Instance, could not manage his own
campaign. He has to have a manager
just like the star in theatrical COM
pany. some man who collects the mon
ey and spends IT. and who runs the
show
" is true that there are in the Re-
rIolican party half a dozen politicians
who would seem to measure up to the
requirements. but, singularly as it
may seem, there is not one of them
who stands out as eminently qualified
and who fills the bill There is not
one of them to whom the party man.
ayers would unanimously offer the
craftsmanship.
Almost exactly the same situation
prevails in the Democratic party. The
changes In policy of this party with
its changing fortunes has shelved
many of the old time leaders and has
brought forward new ones. Yet not one
of the prominent Democrats Of today
Is agreed upon by all as being exactly
the man for national chairman.
II Is admitted that Norman Mack
does not want the Craftsmanship of
his party again. He lost his last fight,
and that in itself is enough to put him
nP IN
happen to be a member Of Congress
who figures enough to make him the
logical chairman. Therefore the next
leader will probably be a man now in
private life.
The Democratic problem is a pecu-
liar one. The west, by which is meant
Organism, will no doubt oppose New
Yorker for this honor They would feel
a bit suspicious about any man whom
'Tammany might approve or whom
Wall street might find no objection to.
1t Is certain that no man not associat-
ed with one or the other of these in
,fluences could be picked from New
York.
Dixie Would be Jealous.
Then the South would be jealous
of any Westerner. This section, which
now commands the forces in the
House OF Representatives, is assert
politics than at any time since the
Civil War. 1t has produced Clark and
Underwood and james. and it has
produced practically every important
committee chairman in the house,
with the exception of that of the APP
preparations committee, headed by
Fitzgerald of New York.
And of course the west will want to
choose the chairman just as it will
want to choose the candidate and the
committee on platform. and the plat
form planks themselves. But the West
will not have its way next time. accor-
ding to the signs. 1t will have its in
.fluence, but not domination of the par
n.y.
These facts makes the selection of
NEW national chairman by the Demo
lcrats a difficult matter In one particu-
lar respect ii is in a far different posi-
ton from the Republican party. And
that Is:
When It happens that the candidate
of national party is known before
the convention meets. the courtesy of
picking the men to run the candidate
campaign is left to the candidate. The
Democrats do not know who is to head
their ticket. They probably will not
know until many ballots are taken.
Therefore their national chairman