The Washington herald., 1913-11-27
With the Political Procession.
BY r. n. G.

Governor Taylor, the ad interim chief
executive of New Jersey, who took hold
when Governor Fielder LET go to make a
campaign, was an unobtrusive sort OF
guest at the wedding. but given much at
tention by all citizens eminent or semi
eminent from Jersey.
The pro tenn governor is little over
thirty. but to the minds of the Democrats
in Congress and otherwise engaged IN
State politics, he has the stun in him
/ for future operations of a political char
acter. There is frequent remarks about
the loyalty of the Jersey Democrats now
in Congress, one to the other and their
almost alteration of their first citizen
now kept busy as the first citizen of
the republic. No President has come to
| Washington In years with so compact and
loyal a State delegation in Congress, in
Guiding Senators, and the wonder Is how
| long 1t will last.
There is another Democratic faction UP
| home not quite so cordial TO the chief
Democrat and waiting for a break that
will put the old leaders very much TO the
front. Those now in and sitting in the
shadow of the throne are well aware OF
what is planned against them, but insist
that the President and his Adjutant Tum-
ulty will control Jersey politics through
out the Presidential term and beyond If
second term is desired. They look upon
the young acting governor as qualified
| to do much for the proposition and he
| indicates in quiet way that he is will-
| ing to do his part
Governor Taylor was introduced 10 big
John Wilson, the one financial magnate
of the Presidential cousin list during the
festivities with the added information
that Cousin John comes from Franklin,
Pa. Governor Taylor remarked that
Franklin had been his home as a lad and
that his father had been a preacher there
not so many years ago. As Cousin John
has special regard for preachers he had
known the governors father and re-
joiced TO find a son doing so well I'm poll
tics and confessing to Democratic inclina-
tions, which is a bit unusual for Preach
ers or sons of preachers in the oil re-
gions of Northwestern Fennsylvasia.
One high official Of the American Con-
gress feels inclined to take of his hat
to every penny -in-the-slot weighing ma
chine encountered on his daily going and
coming. That official is Robert B. Cor
don. who served two terms in Congress
as a Democrat, and is now sergeant-at-
arms with all the suavity and cordial
grasp of hand so characteristic of states
men from the hoop pole" region Of Ohio.
Years age Hon. Robert was telling farm
ers how hardhearted they were in asking
too much for their wheat, and he did
everything that could be done in a coun-
try Touring mill. Then he fell sick and
the doctors diagnosed tuberculosis. with
an intimation that Robert had about six
weeks to live.
He had never seen much of the world,
so decided to draw out his money and
haN II In,
regardless of expense. saving out only
enough for a respectable funeral 80 he
hiked for New York and the seashore.
almost weeping as he saw the happy.
healthy men and women and realized that
in a few weeks he would be under the
sod. away from it all. One day he hap
pened to try a slot weighing machine
and Gasped some as 1t seemed to register
many pounds above his usual weight. He
thought this machine unreliable, and tried
a dozen more, including one that had no
slot attachment All told a gain of many
pounds, and Robert decided that a man
who could gain that much weight in
three weeks was hardly in a dying con-
GitiOn. He gave up all ideas OF dissou-
ton and decided 10 keep on living and
to be 4 Congressman. He has prospered
every other way and thanks the slot ma
chine for getting him on the read to
health and political hOnors.
When the Hon. George Winthrop Fair
child. Congressman, fnancier. and long
headed Republican leader of the Onconta
region, met his Democratic colleague.
the Hon. Jefferson Levy, the other night
there was an exchange of Fluctuations,
along with some semi-cyniCal Observa-
tions on the Levy ambition for the Sem
ate. The Fairchild intimation. given in
friendly words, was that after the late
Generalization of Democrats in New
York. due to the Sulzer fall from grace,
there was not much promise OF a Demo-
crat becoming a colleague of the rugged,
square-shOuldered O'Gorman.
The Hon. JEFF admitted that the Sulzer
might make things look a bit murky at
present, but he hoped for clearing up
long before he went into the primary
asking the dear people to make him the
successor OF his good friend, Elihu Root
The Fairchild rejoinder was that he
might try the Senatorial game himself. |
now that he found Levy so serious about
it, and added that it was about time for !
a Senator from the upstate region, any
how.
The central belt of the State. where |
Fairchild has his legal habitation, has |
rot had Senator since Hiscock. of Syra- |
cuse, and the Republican Senators from !
New York in recent years have all come
Gotham town.
Although Platt insisted on voting at :
Owego. in Tioea County, he was really /
a resident of Manhattan, and the up !
State folks are really beginning to think /,