The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-12-04
With the Political Procession.
BY +. B. G.

BY
Gov. Cox. of Ohio. had a busy day witt
the corn boys, but he was careful to con-
meet with the home Democrats in Con-
gress and he had little trouble in arrang'
ing few executive sessions with those
who believe in him, or in missing others
who resent his part in putting them in
hopelessly Republican districts.
The half dozen who were especially IA
vored by the Cox domination at Columbus
when the redistricting bill was passed
came quickly to the governors grasp OF
hand and remained near him much of the
single day he was in Washington. As
the governor was once a Congressional
secretary twenty years ago and later
served two terms in the House. he needed
no guide, and enjoyed a general getting
around among old friends from other
States.
There was general congratulation
among his old friends that he has not
been bitten by the Presidential bug and Is
somber when the matter of a second
term as governor is mentioned. Ohio has
not been inclined to the second term for
Democrats, and Harmon was the first TO
achieve reelection through no fault of
his own. Gov. Cox has never gotten over
being a newspaper man, and begs his
friends not to forget that he still owns
two high-class journals in the Big Miami
Valley doing well and loyal to the Demo-
cratic party.
The Kentucky idea is to overlook moth
ing in politics and hold on to much. Only
a few weeks after John Hughes, of
Harrodsburg, hung up his Presidential
commission as collector OF internal reve-
nue. in the Danville district, he gave
signs of a yearning for the Congressional
honor Harvey Helm is the able and
ambitious incumbent, but the Hughes
appointment came from the Senatorial
dispensary and he is under no obligations
to keep out Of the contest unless big Ollie
James gives the word TO let Helm alone.
Other candidates are intent on giving
Helm something to think about, and
Hughes may await their open decla-
rations before turning his collectors
office into a political headquarters. He
was in Washington pending his appoint
ment and rather liked the looks OF things
in the immediate vicinity.
The conference OF New York Repub-
VII Illudg
view several distinguished citizens who
have not been conspicuous in the last
year or two. but who were much in print
and political promotion prior TO the Pro-
gressive revolution against Taft. DR..
Hill. who was never much OF a poll
tician. but big enough to be Ambassador
to Germany. has given notice that he
will take part in the Friday meeting,
along with Benjamin +. Tracey, who was
Secretary OF the Navy long. long ago,
and George w. Wickersham. late Attor-
ney General Others not famous as prac-
teal politicians but deferred to in other
days for their eminent respectability-l
Butler, college president: Will
lam Nelson Cromwell, corporation law
yer; George r. Sheldon, treasurer OF the |
National Committee; Seth Low and Sam |
uel Fairchild, president of the Union |
League Club-have also been asked by |
Chairman Barnes and have promptly |
that they will be on hand.
OF course National Chairman Hilles, |
Job Hedges. Henry l. Stimson. William
Loeb. Henry Taft, and Chauncey NJ.
Depew will be there and would hardly
have remained away had no invitation
been sent.
There is a good deal of the "once was"
n the list of notables, as compiled up to
late. but many are young enough to
promise much for the reOrganized Re-
publican party, after 1t gets a new start
next Friday afternoon.
Congressman George W. Fairchild. of the
Oneonta district who rejolces in a safe
district, is much encouraged by the prom
sc of the Friday conference TO set things l.
;oing in the good old way once more, |
md he is planning to clear up his Con-
yressional business in time to reach the
Iew York meeting and modestly join in
Is deliberations.
Fairchild not only expects a Republican
governor in New York next year. with a
ull complement of Republican State Off
ials at Albany. but predicts a notable in
rease in the number of Republican Con-
,ressmen not only from up State. hut
rom New York City, Brooklyn, and the
Bronx.
There is anguish in the Fairchild soul
hat all OF Long Island, Manhattan Is
and. and contiguous country near to
on the Hudson has but one Re- I
ublican in Congress, Calder, OF Brook
yn. Coming down on the train through ]
ersey the Oneonta Statesman wept again
o think of eight Congressional districts,
II within a radius OF twenty-five miles I
rom New York, with a population of I
early a million and half, sending eight /
democrats to Congress, besides two s
Senators from the same To- 7