The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
Senator Crane Realizes He's
Out of Touch.
Believes PrOgressiveS Will Pre-
dominate i'm Next Congress.
LITTLE SURPRISE AT OHIO
Cleveland Only Exception to
Long Established Rule.
State Bankers May Not Tell Of
Money Trust.

New York, May 25.-What is regard
ed by some of the leading Republicans
in this city as the most significant
news which was published on the morn
ing after the primary elections in Ohio
was the statement that Senator Win
throp Murray Crane of Massachusetts
would not be a candidate for re-elec-
ton to the United States senate. The
Massachusetts, legislature which is to
be chosen next fall will elect in the
winter the senator who will succeed
Senator Crane. No one in Massachus
etts doubts that had the senator been
willing to serve another term in the
senate he would be reelected without
opposition.
The meaning which lies behind the
announcement made by Senator Crane
that he will retire from public life at
the expiration of his term in the Uni
ted States senate on the 4th of March
next year is presumed to be Senator
Cranes acknowledgment that the
progressive and probably the strongly
progressive wing of the Republican
party is to be predominant. With
much that has been called progressive
ism, and especially with the issue Gre
ated by Colonel Roosevelt in his adj
dress at Columbus, Ohio-namely, the
recall of certain kinds of judicial de-
cisions given by state courts-Senator
Crane finds himself completely out of
sympathy. He has been esteemed as
adroit politician as sits in the SEN
ate chamber, and many Republican
leaders of Massachusetts, have looked
upon Senator Crane as the master
politician of New England. If, there
fore, he now informs the people OF
Massachusetts that they must elect
some other than himself United States
senator, for his purpose is complete
retirement to private life, then that
announcement is accepted as meaning
that Senator Crane recognizes thai
new policies and new principles which
he cannot support dominate the Repub-
lican party. 1t is not without some
regret that Republicans will Learn
that Senator Crane feels compelled by
the pressure of modern political events
to withdraw from public activities 1t
seems almost as though the new infiu-
ences were rapidly tending to drive to
the rear and into obscurity some OF
those who in the past were the great
forces and leaders in the Republican
party.
Ohio Discounted.
This announcement from Massachus-
etts came as a surprise, coincident as
it was with the news from Ohio But
for three or four weeks the Republi-
can leaders of this state have been con-
WINGED that Ohio would follow the
example of Illinois and of Pennsylva.
MIA. That has been the opinion OF
leading Democrats of Ohio who confid-
ed to some of their Republican friends
of this city their belief that CoIone.
Roosevelt would be triumphant in the
Ohio primaries. For this reason tho
news caused less surprise in this city
than would have been the case had the
reports from Ohio shown that the state
had emphatically supported President
Taft.
There Is One Precedent.
Ever since the convention method of
has been the practice it has been anxi-
omatic that no man could be noni-
mated for president if he were not
supported in the convention by the
delegates from his own state 1t was
for this reason that many politicians
believed that Grover Cleveland couIc
not be nominated at the Democratic
national convention of 1892 The dele
gates from New York state were in
structed to vote as a unit for David
B. Hill. Yet Mr.. Cleveland said tc
his personal friends in this city that
he could be nominated without the
vote OF New York and the event proved
the accuracy of his prediction, Tho
politicians here are wondering whether
the breaking down of this precedent
by Grover Cleveland in 1892 justifies
the belief that President Taft can be
renominated without the vote of his
own home state. The Repu blican stat.
organization in New York is persuad-
ed that the contest will be decided
at the Chicago convention on the first
ballot. There will be no diminishing
and no complimentary ballots for ia
vorite sons, as has been customary al
Republican national conventions ex-
cepting when presidents were renomi-
mated by reclamation. The real battle
at the chicago convention will begin
without preliminary diminishing. II
will be ended, our politicians think
when the tally. sheet of the first ballot