The Washington herald., 1914-02-05
POLITICAL PROCESSION.
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Hon. Edward b. Cooper. coal masnat,
and long alert In favor Of the real Re
publican organization in the Fifth Con
gressional district of West Virginia, ha,
been in Washington this week for q
meeting of mine operators, but was care.
full not to overlook the political PROPOSE
tion in comforting with other Republican,
from the Kanawha and Mingo region
Before leaving Washington Cooper ad.
mitted modestly enough that he aspired
to be the next Congressman from the
Fifth, and had been conducting an honor.
able open campaign for several weeks
with results that justified a confidence
In ultimate nomination.
He was not inclined to much discussion
OF the contest In Washington, believing
! that campaigns for Congress are man.
| aged best at home and not on the banks
| OF the Potomac. Enough was disclosed
| by Cooper to indicate the even-tempered,
carefully conducted sort OF campaign he
| Is making. and others who have known
him longest and best since boyhood in
the great coal region Of his State took
palms while here for the coal convention
to predict his nomination. Cooper is
but forty. and grew up In his section.
though born In Pennsylvania. He knows
every township OF the dozen big popu-
lous counties. and there seems a de-
mand for a young man who can promise
considerable career in Congress and do
much for his State.
Anyhow. he IS making a clean. open
fight, and the younger element OF State
and district seems stirred up in his be-
half. The Cooper district is the most
populous In West Virginia and IL also
piles up each year the big majority Of
the State. In fact. II is depended on to
carry the elections for the Republican
party when there is any danger of a
close vote coooer has long done much
to increase this vote, while others re-
ceiving high political honors for years
have done little for the organization that
has placidly given them so much. The
Cooper Campaign has set things going
in a new direction and Republicans all
over the State rejoice at the stirring up
Charles Warren Fairbanks, once Sena-
tor and later Vice President chosen with
Roosevelt. remains real Republican
with no progressive furbelows, and the
regular Republican organization In In
diana is urging lin as the candidate for
Senator. IL he consents no one else will
be considered. He gave up several years
OF the SenatorshIp to be Vice President
and has no regrets, but there is Just a
natural yearning to serve out that term
and then some as a concluding chapter
in an honorable career. Fairbanks has
ever been noted tor his soft. silken ways
his cat-like tread and all that sort Of
thing in politics. and II he goes into the
campaign he VIII know just where he
is at long before his name goes on the
primary ballot He remains young
enough for many years more OF political
activity and has kept discreetly out Of
all factional troubles which have aided
in giving Indiana a solid Senate and
House delegation of Democrats. not count
ing a Democratic Vice President
II Fairbanks finally goes in there will
be trouble enough for his esteemed DEM
ocratie friend. Senator shively. of South
Bend, who happens to have distress
enough in his own party. thanks to Tag
gart and others long eager and ambitious.
Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, who had q
dozen years in the Senate. coming in
with the Republican food tide that was
started by Fairbanks and the friends of
Mckinley in 1894. is credited with a possi-
BILE desire to be the Progressive nominee
for Senator. but as yet has made no
formal announcement In fact, he has
been too busy making Roosevelt speeches |
in other States proclaiming with eIo-
quence and something like frenzied en- |
thusiasm that the country yearns for a !
return of Roosevelt.
The eternal Roosevelt text of the Bey-
eridSe spelIbinding is growing somewhat |
tiresone to those who admire Beveridse |
as an orator and lament his lack of wis.,
dom in politics.
The Shively campaign managers are
working to the limit the assurance that
the Wilson administration here in Wash |
ington is very much interested in Shiye-
ly's return and will count II an actual
Endorsement Of the Presidents polIciee
This playing up of Shively as backed
by the administration is resented by the
Tasgart and other factions in the State
and may be overworked to the ultimate
danger Of the most eminent citizen In
South Bend.
William NJ. Calder. the only Repub-
lean member of Congress from Greater
New York, and all of Long Island.
chirps with cheer and confidence when
the troubles Of Lathrop Brown with
are mentioned and the Calder
10 that Brown will not be both
cred much after March l. 1915, az the
district will swing back to its old place
m the Republican list.
The election of 1910 left Cocks and
Calder. the only two Republicans from
long Island. and Calder is trifie tired Of
being pointed out as the only Repub-
lean member between Yonkers ana
Westbury. He really yearns for q few
more Republicans from the Brooklyn
lrea and will welcome Cocks back ~
| long lost brother. The confidence Of
Calder In the coming back Of several
,ther old colleagues Is rather startling, /
specially to some rather dubious Re-
'ublicans from up State, but Calder
tnows his business and can do much
or candidates jim districts less secure
han his own.