The Washington herald., 1914-01-22
PROCESSION
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/ R0lIIICM 0cESSI0M
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w. ,. Estnbrosk. msmber OF the Re
publican NatienaI COMMITTEES from New
Hampohirs. has bssn In Washington this
we6k >ooaHo9iug on buslnea1 propositions
With hia friend Cppl 8 B. AVIS Con-
gfenGnnan from West Virginia, but found
: time to talk politics with eminent Repub-
licanl leaders from many etates. Eata-
! brook continues to lamant that New
Hampshire, the fne old Granite State.
has IT. .6rst Democratic senate since l6s
/, ana lsments the more that Senator
4 Hcllls talIeo pains to refer 10 the fact
l in his modest biography. There ID the
more -anguIsh IN the Estabf6ok bosom
that : Rspubljcan legislatnre should have
chosen Democrat when 70 many emil
iwsn4 III yGSis IN washington at $500
Ia year exclusive of mileage. IT may
not happen again In nftyyears. but that is
little consolation to Estabrook and his
ptaINart Republican friends In the suna-
pee region. II is recalled, too. with extra
panss of pain that two Republican mem
bers Of the legislature who made the
election OF q Democratic Senator pos
sible have been given good salaried
PlbcG8 06IG W1SulnBAou. &SCv AAo&iiP-
shire Is not q very large State and the
old-fashioned Republicans talk about
such things when they visit back and
forth and they are q bit bitter over the
coming to Washington Of citizens who
made a Democratic Senator possible.
The Estabrook disposition is not in
clined to long continued regret and he
expects a getting back to old form and
condition this year with a Republican
- ~, a ptl Crr-
rier district, which also went wrong two
years ago. Currier himself Is somewhat
broken In health and will hardly seek to
make the campaign. There are other
real Republicans who have figured In
State politics. not overlooking few local
honors, who will take pains to regain the
district for the party and II Ii the fash
ion In New Hampshire TO keep good men
q long time in the Congressional service
IL they indicate general fitness Tor the
fob.
Senator Gallinger has had twenty-three
years III the Senate and with his intimate
knowledge of every Republican in every
township is not very much afraid OF
primary IL he should ask q fifth term.
He served two terms In the House
years ago and declined q third term, but
he possibly has an ambition to serve as
long a. Allison. Aldrich and other old
leaders OF the Senate. who had 1--WE cleo
tions for full terms. DIR. Gallinger is now
seventy-seven and another term would
put him well over the fourscore mark.
but that is not held against him and he
can do much in the campaign Of this year
to get his State back to old form whether
he becomes a candidate or not.
The two Democratic House members
from New Hampshire. Reed Of Manches-
ter. and Stevens, OF Landoff, are always
n bit nervous when they hear that Col
Estabrook is in Washington as they
know his high place in the Republican
national organization and also that he
hardly visits Washington for his health.
in 1910 when there was a general slump
In Republican affairs due in great part
to indifference at the Washington end.
and he won again in 1872. thanks to a
vote of 1901, which was suf-
ficient to put the Hon. Cyrus Sulloway
in the discard a second time.
Sulloway was a fine old figure in the
House for sixteen years and to lose two
elections In succession was woe and bit
terness, not only to the Hon. Cyrus but
to his loyal constituents and to his old
comrades in Congress. He is not so old
nor SO discouraged by two defeats that
he may not come back this year and not
only Reed but other Democrats In New
Hampshire who fear the fickleness OF
Progressives generally have been mighty
watchful ever since election day lsl2
Stevens, who represents the old Currier
district, is q lawyer but has given more
attention to farming in recent yeers
without any special activity In politics
He, too. knows that the Republican Con-
gressional committee, now doing ousi-
ness twenty-six hours day in the Riggs |
has locked upon New Hamp- |
shires two districts as sure OF coming
back to the Republican list in the next
House. 1t Is also, perhaps. dishearten-
ing to Reed and Stevens that the Demo
cratic managers are polite enough to
classify the two districts as doubtful
and to privately admit that aid from |
the national committee Is hardly worth |
while.
Lathrop Brown represents the First
district of New York in Congress, ana
IS now In politics. but he Is learning 1ast
enough, thanks to a few postofnce appoint
ments, and especially the one at Hunting
ION, the metropolis Of Eastern Long Is
and. Brown is rich young man, ana
, Democrat who will be thirty-one years
hid next month, but he will feel much
,lder IL the contest over the Huntington
oostoffice continue, even IL he ends II his
own way. The place pays $500 year,
and carries with 1t considerable political
prestige ir Queens County politics, all OF
which has been made known to Congress-
nan Brown with considerable eloduence
md fervor in the last few weeks. Brown
himself is inclined, along with about hair
# the local committee. to Edwin b.
ousenberry, an old citizen past the three
core and ten mark. who voted for Pres
dent i'm 1860, while Brown cast his hrst
vote in 1904. As he has long
been associated with Douglas Robinson.
| relative Of Roosevelt, 1t Is possible that
Brown was not SO enthusiastic lot bryan
IS other Democrats in his district who
want a younger man than Dusenberry
or postmaster Gentry Williams Is the
.andidate of the younger Democrats, and