The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-23
NEW YORK POLITICS
NOW SIZZLING HOT
CAMPAIGN THERE Is REALLY
OPENING OF PRESIDENTIAL
FIGHT OF 1915.
HiNMAN HAS BACKING
suLZER MAY TURN IN AND HELP
JOHN A. HESNEssEY TO
GET DEMOCRATIC
NOMINATION.
HINMAN HAS BACKING

New York. July 22-Once more
the Empire State sets the stage for a
political comedy ma to add to the
gayety and interest of politics.
National in it's after effect. the cam
paign now on concerns the country,
for in actually 1t Is the opening of
the presidential fight for 1915.
In the lirnelight are characters well
known to all. to command attention
and attract interest. Whether one
likes them or not they must .be reck-
oned with and are at least picturesque.
There is Roosevelt redivivus for the
second time emerging from the jungle
on the eve Of a vital campaign TO I'M
press his virile personality upon the
politics of the country.
There is Sulzer--"same old Bill"
aching to get his finger in the pie,
but just at present being rudely ell
bowed away.
There is Hearst without whom no
New York campaign could be COM
plete, for the moment man of mys-
tory
There is Tammany after the wam-
pun, as usual. somewhat bruised from
the walioping of last fall but with
hunger all the keener and every
rapacious instinct alert, lying in wait
for such prey as may come its way
There IL Governor Glynn, with
splendid record, sitting tight on the
, no, ana rs yet not Will
ing to set boldly forth If there is
prospect of 81 Republican nor'wester.
And besides the picturesque person
alities, there are more political angles
to this compaign than any in twenty
years.
First Direct Primaries.
The determining and dominating ele-
ment Is the fact that for the first time
in history aspirants for nomination are
to submit their claims to direct pri
raries; for governor and other State
offices. for United States senator, and
SO all down the line.
Gone forever are the days when two
or three overbearing men in each party
met in secret conc1ave and sent out
word of their choice of candidates to
be ratified by conventions No more
will there be a Plat or an Odell to
meet In the old cottage. mo. g." at
Saratoga, TO pick candidate for gov
ernor while the henchmen pace up and
down the long galleries awaiting the
dictum,
Why, IL dozen years ago you had
hrophesied this condition Mt State
convention dominated by ths bosses,
bosses would have tapped their fore
heads Significantly, shrugged their
shoulders pityingiy, and sent the house
I detective to watch -ynn--last
you should become suddenly violent
and do someone harm.
Roosevelt Now n Ross.
1t is true that for the moment Col
one1 Roosevelt is practically In the
attitude of a boss, expressing his favor
or disfavor of capdidates for the guber-
Material nomination. but moments
reflection viii disclose the differentia-
ton TO wit; He is trying to suggest
man who Will draw votes at the pri-
4 maries from both Bull A-osers and
Republicans, and hts suggestion will
in the last analysis be submitted TO the
voters OF the State at large, so he is
not such a whale Of boss after all.
would Harmonic Factions.
/ Competent politicians here analyze
Colonel Roosevelt's motives thus. and
In repeating them I am expressing
their own opinion and not mine; they
say that the colonel Is seeking a man
who can harmonize the warning Re
publican factions so as to defeat the
Democratic candidate; that he wants
q man who, is successful. will not i'm
mediately loom large as a presidential
possibility In 1916 thence his re3ec-
ton OF District Attorney Whitman,
they expiatn}
They 20 on TO say that the colonel
realizes that If he should run for gov
ernor ana, by keeping open the
breach, let the Democrat slip tn. he
could not expect to receive New York's
support in his generally expected can
didacy for the presidential nomination
in 1916.
Harvey ID. Hinman. the man whom
the colonel now regards favorably as
Progressive candidate for the guber-
material nomination, is generally con-
coded to be in good position to hear
the Republican breach. While in the
State senate he was strong supporter
of Governor Hughes In all his reforms.
Has Backing OF "Stalwarts."
Today Mr., Human has the back
ing of such ''stalwarts" as State SEN
ator Bracket the boss of Saratoga
county, a regular old hard-shell from
away up at the head of the creek;
OF Seth Heacock. Of Ilion, another old
guard veteran who, besides, has a
bari. with number Of other coun-
~ leaders of like caliber and record
Mr.. Human. who lives at Bingham
ton, In the southern tier" has a good
machine of his own and Is a political
manager Of parts.
The fact that Colonel Roosevelt de-
mands that Human repudiate Barnes
and the present machine doesn't count
for much, Barnes. he wouldn't care"
they say, ''if Human could win the
State back from the Democrats"
Bill Sulzer Is left high and dry for
the moment by the coloners ignoring
Of his existence, but ne is still in the
ring and is seeking support from Bull
Moosers, Democrats and Independents
/ on a kind OF general friend of the
people" platform.
Sufzer May Aid Hennessy.
J. II he sees ne cannot get it. he will
/ probably turn in and help young John
1 A. Hennessey get the Democratic NOM
/ nation at the primaries So we come
: to Hennessey
You remember him, the bomb
shell that exploded in the mayoralty
campaign last fall and helped clean
out Tammany. He Is on the war path
again--Hennessey, the blue-eyed lad
who would rather get something by
( fighting for 1t than get it peaceably,
and who, to quote. has an unerring
instinct for the jugular VEIN
And Mr.. Hearst. keeping in the1
background FOR the present. hiding his
time would like to be United States
senator, If Senator Root insists upon
not running. and In the meantime he