The Washington herald., 1914-01-12
POLITICAL PROCESSION.
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Senator Psnrose WIN hardly reach hi
apartments at the ,fillArd In time for tn
opening Of Congress. a. he 10 needing tn
advice Of 4 doctor in Philadelphia, bu
other real Republicans Of the Pennsyl
vania delegation will tell Of the big Sen
ator's ceaselsss activity IN the thre'
weeks vacation" and wonder how h
has borne tn, burden without IN aetna
breakdown. The Psuross method OF or
ganixing his etste for the great campaigi
of this year has some features OF tn
old Quay procedure-the method summed
up In the famous sentence. Don't write
send q man." and II In the unending Der
sonal Interview. continual conference sys
TEN that has probably gotten ON the Pen
rose nerves- Back OF all his personal con
tract with leaders from every locality 4
an organisation with captains Of tens
and OF hundreds. In the townships wher'
Republican majorities can be gotten ou
OF farm houses, and the miners cabin
of the Lycoming Valley. or the head
waters of the Monongahela- No othel
State leader, senator or chairman. hai
such compact organization and IL 4
falls to reach In the coming campaign
other States than Pennsylvania win pom
der some and wonder II the Organization
system pays after all.
Tho Hon. Bird Segle Mcclure, of Paw
nee, who writes himself down as q Re
publican with no adjective indicating fur
bellows Of the Progressive sort. Is moi
as agitated about the addition Of Demo
cratic counties to his Oklahoma district
as some other Republican friends who
seem swfulIy anxious to put him on the
Senatorial tramway.
II occurs to the imperturbable Mcclure
that after a dozen years In Congress, two
terms as delegate, he ought to know his
people by this time and well enough to
overcome a little matter Of 1000 Demo
cratic majority kindly handed him by the
opposing managers. It Is not forgotten
that the Hon. Bird Segle served two
terms representing what is now the whole
State of Oklahoma, and had opportunity
for building up a personal organization
In every county, including those now in
his new district. II he decides to con-
tinue in the House there will be much
doing in his new district, or IL the Sena-
torial nomination comes along he will be
ready. but the House election seems a
somewhat surer proposition, even with
the promise Of considerable opposition to
Senator Gore in his own party. II one
or more candidates get busy against
Gore the McGuire hopes for the Sem
atorship may take a definite form and he
certainly continues the one big Republi-
can OF the State who sas earned the
honor.
Judge Warren Gard. member from the
Dayton district, and a Democrat, comes
back to his Congressional duties Just a
little nervous because OF the recent
Foraker speech in the Gard home town
OF Hamilton. The Foraker eloquence in
behalf OF business rather than politics
was also an incidental thrust at a
Democratic Congress and the assaults
of the administration on corporations
and capital generally.
Judge Cards district is much given to
and IL has a habit every
few years OF going slap-bsng for a Re-
publican Congressman. especially when
the industrial voters get busy. The
Foraker speech came along just before
some of his confidential friends began
some gum shoe excursions TO really pow
erfully Republican leaders in several
sections of the State seeking advice and
Offering some on the proposition of put
ting Foraker to the front as a candidate
for Senator
They may not have known Of the
Hamilton speech, but it fitted in with
marvellous coincidence and aid.
The Foraker demand for a cessation
of attacks on business. and especially on
the railroads, has been given much
since his address before an
audience of less than a thousand in a
county seat town of less than 5000
people on the banks OF the Big Miami
1t was noted that Foraker carefully
refrained from any personal or political
references. but that gave the greater
force to his talk and made 1t easier for
his political friends to go out among
the righteous and urge a getting back
to old leaders and old-fashioned Repub-
lican views.
Cassidy Cook. lawyer, cosmopolite. and
A captain in the late affair with Spain,
looked in on things in Washington this
week without any exclamation points in
his conversation. He observed with the
calm sarcasm Of a polished club man
that it seemed rather quiet compared
with the old rush of Republican days,
but possibly the new Democrats in Con-
Rress have hardly become used to the
novelty OF drawing $3.50 a year. Com
uS lTOIH .>eW 1Ork, capt. COOK re-
marked that there was some languor, not
to mention worry. In the financial dis
trict, but also some hope that there
would be a general stirring up once 1t
seemed apparent that the administration
and Congress would refrain from any
frenZied assaults on corporation.
There was almost condescension in
Can't Cooks view of things here in
but a few years of legal
activity in the circumscribed circle OF
Wall Street by day and the highly per-
fumed atmosphere of exclusive clubs by
night, has given him the reversed opera
View of things when he is 90 miles dis
tant from dear old Manhattan.
When questioned about the possible
election of several Republican Congress-
men below Harlem this year. as against
he one lone BROOKLYN member. Capt
Cook admitted he had heard there were
hopes of such a performance, but on
closer questioning he could not tell in
whose Confessional district he was
roter. but he promised to find out before
November. Years ago when the captain
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