The Washington herald., 1914-02-16
POLITICAL PROCESSION.
Milo Shanks Race for coasress-Sis.
ni6eance Of The Iowa kesuk.
BY r. b. g

Milo Shanks keeps busy up ElmIrs
| way as candidate for Congress in spite
OF his name and the I'VE. the people,
resolutions Of the diminished Roosevelt
contingent in Manhattan on Lincoln Day.
I The latest bulletin from the shanks'
bureau Is his speech for a clean city
movement delivered in an Elmira
church. There is no word OF politics In
such q speech spoken in such a place, but
i Shanks knows his business and expects
! results on primary day. Shanks was Q
| Washington department clerk only hve
| years ago and hastened to Elmira to take
charge Of a Republican newspaper and
run for Congress when actually accli-
mated.
He thinks five years long enough, and
besides is much disturbed to see the dear
old Chenung district sending a Democrat
i twice IN succession.
/ Until 1910 a Democrat had not been
| chosen from the Shanks' district since
1ss2, when there was something of .
slump In Republican affairs all over the
country, and especially in New York
where Grover Cleveland was chosen gov
ernor by over 10000 majority.
4 The natural inclination OF the Chenuns-
| Tioga section is to send a Republican
and Shanks Is reaching out for the nomi-
nation and eloduence and the ceaseless
click of the typesetting machines.
| "The first Democrat. the first native
born and youngest man to represent the
| Monkey, Wrench district"-as Maurice
| Connolly descries himself in his official
biography-has returned from the special
election in the MHscatine district. grate-
tul. OF course. for Democratic success
ont subdued in spirit First of all, Con-
molly known his Iowa and how the shift
Is usually back to the old Republican lines
aiter a season Of spasmodic diversion.
The hgures that sent VslImer. a Demo
crat.- from the Pepper district on Feb
ruary 10. indicate a slump in Progressive
sentiment. and a marked getting back tc
old Republican figures that were best
understood and enjoyed by the Woods
Eversman Republican Congressional COM
mlttee in the Riggs Building. The off,
eial figures give Vallmer plurality OF
2.0eo over Hull. the Republican candidate,
and Tanley, the Progressive nominee,
was tagging behind a very poor third.
II is significant. too. that Hull, a real
Republican. made remarkable gains in
the rural precincts, which indicates the
Iowa farmers dislike a Democratic tariff
The thoughtfui Democrats in Congress-
including the erudite and usually exuber-
ant Connolly, are not especially jubilant
over the Iowa result lamenting most
J ton.
Connolly appreciates also the continued
popularity Of Pickett. who may decide
! to run again. and extend an interrupted
Congressional career that promised re-
markably well both for Pickett and the
State.
Up Maryland way the Republicans ars
planning TO return Thomas Parran to
! CHnRragS hR nj 81 dia.
trict. which includes few outlying wards
Of Baltimore attached to five counties
inclined TO agricultural pursuits and the
canning OF tomatoes.
Parran lost out by less than a thousand
| votes two years ago, and the district hal
not chosen Democrat for twenty years
Until Frank .. Smith, of Dunkirk, who
was revenue deputy during the first
Cleveland term. was somewhat startled to
find himself elected the day after election
in 1872. Smith has hardly recovered from
the shock. but as no less eager TO try it
again even against Parran. who has long
been a popular Republican.
The Smith oficeholding prior to his
election over Parran was not extensive
He had been State tobacco inspector and
a candidate for the legislature. losing by
hfty-four votes He then calmly and
humbly accepted a clerkship in the State
senate and kept hoping for a chance 20
reach Congress The Indications are for
a Republican Congressman this year
from the Smith district and also from tho
Cumberland district lying against ths
Pennsylvania lire and fianked by West
Virginia south and west.
, ! The mountain counties have long in
clined TO the Republican view of thing
and are feared most in every campaign
by the Democrats in the Congested areas
round about Baltimore. Besides, that
Ev,a ID 81
Gen. Felix AGnus continues vigiIant with
his newspaper when the call to arms is
sounded for a getting back to the
true faith, and he will give special
, attention to the Anne Arundel and Cum
, berland districts for weeks preceding the
4 November casting of ballots.
During all the Hobsonizin= and Under
" oodng OF Alabama, Democrats in the
Senatorial campaign. the one unruffied Sc
rene citizen Of the State is John Hollis
Bankhead. Senator and having the record
I for continuous offceholding in the Sta.e
where rolls the Tuscaloosa to the sea
No Democrat ever thought TO ask this
fine old citizen OF Jasper postoffiCe how
: he stood on the Senatorial proposition.
: Reference 10 the HObSon defeat Of John
: Hollis for a Congressional nomination
. was enough and that too after Bankhead
; had served a score Of years without .
: break.
, The Bankhead opinion will be given
, silently at the ballot box. and he is silent
enough now TO aGitate his friends AMI
CO Muse his foes BankhCad began Office
holding with several terms in the lec:s-
: lature. then spent four years in peu-
itentiary as warden before coming to
Congress lie has five years yet to serve
| in the Senate and has no thought OF re-
tiring because of age when only seventy
six years Old.
| The Alabama custom is 10 Keep good
Democrats in the Senate until they pass
; the fourscorc mark, and Bankhcsd at
. the end of third term would be little
over eighty.
Hence he continues interested in tho
pending campaign and the possible effect
OF il on his own political future. Pos
sibly when things are n trifie dull in the
Senate he can find diversion IL not
} amusement in the home newspapers boil
ing over with fcrvid assault and defense.
: ! There must have been bit OF shudder
| when Bankhrad read an editorial by
IIobson's brother declaring that since
the death of Christ no man has lived who
had or has greater purity of personal
| character.
| That is going some. even i'm Alabama.
hut the Hobson brother becomes even
|, more aSitated in his later exudation, II
| believe in the spiritual entity and can
demonstrate it scientifically
! Just what this has to do with the nom-
Iination OF a Senator in the State proud
! ~ the Sewanee and Talladeza Is not