The Washington herald., 1913-11-07

4 mont Page was loyal 70 Edmunds IN Una
battle and ten years later was Gov
ernor.
While the Interstate Commerce Com
/ mission 10 not considered a poiitica
body there Is some deference TO Sen
, ators and the dominant political organ
4 ization In States honored with appoint
| ment OF q citizen to the most poWerfu
body In the government service To-Day
Hence Senator Pomerene Of Ohio. val
! liant Democrat Of unusually even tenn
per. has carefully picked and Endorsed
Judge Hugh 7. Mathers. OF Sidney, q
be member of the commir-'-- suo1ec
to President Wilson's view Of IL Car'
was taken by the velyet-heeled. sort
spoken special agents OF the President
inner political circle, ever vigilant 'her'
| in Washington, to make a Dun's agency
sort Of report on the general ntness o.
Judge Mathers for the job and also 1ol
adding some to the moral weight OF the
administration's standing in Ohio. Thi'
| was quickly done as one special ad'
jutant Of the Presidents advisory cir
Gle is familiar with Ohio and the old
! reliable @'hoop pole" district OF thu
Northwestern section from which M
halls
Nor was 1t overlooked by the adjutani
| or by others In touch with conditions
/ in Ohio that Mathers comes from the
district once represented by Harvey G
CARRIER In Congress. Those who thought
CARRIER had lost his grip with the ad-
minlstration have another guess coming,
and 1t was cited with some apprehension
by his foes that Judge Mathers was a
part OF the old CARRIER organization in
the days when CARRIER had the distinc-
tion of being the one lone Democrat In
the Ohio Congressional delegation.
Il is not clear that CARRIER will gain
anything politically by having n former
constituent on the Interstate Commerce
Commission, but as a moral proposition
indicating the continued grasp of CARRIER
on party affairs and appointments at
home 1t counts for much and confounds
his foes.
Judge Mathers' Congressman is J..
Henry Cooke, clean. soft-spoken cit
lien who lives at Wopakonita and has
been active In State politics many years,
and he was consulted no Doubt before
such a high place was given his dis
trict. Solzgobu. the pension commits
sioner. was taken from the Ansberry dis
trict, just north OF Cooke. and that sec.
tion Of Ohio has done remarkably well
under this administration.
A society paragraph IN a New York
paper reads thus
"Mr. and Mrs. Brand wbltiock. Of
Toledo. Ohio, will be guests OF honor at
tea which the Pen and Brush Club will
give next Sunday afternoon. Mr.. Whit
lock, the new Minister to Belgium, will
make a speech. Miss Ida Tarbell is pres
ident OF the club"
The Hon. Brand will be right among
his own in such circle and forget the
late unpleasantness in Toledo which elect
ed Republican to succeed him as Mayor
Just how he viii explain IL at the White
House when he calls for his commission
Is another story. BY the way. Ida Tar
bell Is the literary lady who gave the
Standard OIL Company a few thoughtfuI
spells a few years back.
Chairman Frank Woods, Of the Repub-
renewed elevation of spirits each day
since Tuesdays event
He is almost ready TO predict a Repub-
ncan House when the SiXty-fourth Con-
gress is organized.
The victory in Cincinnati gives assur-
ance Of two Republican Congressmen pos
sibly including Nicholas Longworth's re-
turn.
Toledo took a turn toward the path or
time in dozen years. when IL elected a
Republican Mayor, and put the party In
control of powerful machinery. Chair
man Woods can see with prophetic vision
a gain Of Republican House members in
the revised returns from New York State,
apart from Tammany's defeat in Goth
am. This view is backed up by scrutiny.
also admiration of the vote for Court Of
Appeals which was very much Repub-
lican.
This vote alone indicates a striking ad-
vance OF New York State Republicans
toward party rehabilitation and Com
control at Albany soon enough.
The Republican majority in the Legisla-
ture promises to be well handled by party
managers, and the blond young man from
Iowa can see the gain Of many Repub-
lican Congressman from New York out
side Of the big city, while in the general
reaction there Is found to be a gain in
as well. The awful shrinkage
in the Progressive vote. especially in the
upstate districts, as compared with the
vote cast for Oscar Straus last year gives
the square hitting Republicans the
over much satisfaction and cheer.
Some Democrats in Congress have taken
exception to the Woods confidence. and
point out that upstate New York did
not do so awfully well for the RepubH-
cans after all. and that the "out-of- town
Democrats may organize, as they once
did under David B. B-HiIl, and make an
alliance with Brooklyn and Long island
10 keep Tammany walled In on Manhat-
tan. This worked well enough for q time,
but the Tammany support was usually
sought and bargains made before cam
paigns ended.