The Washington herald., 1914-07-07
new YORK &. 0. ?.
SEEKS A MOSES
Three Candidates for Senate
Are o. K. but Not Quite
Big Enough.
ONLY LOCALLY KNOWN
Ohio Democrats Also Find 1t Hard to
Put Forward Men to Equal
the "OId Guard"
ONLY LOCALLY KNOWN
DE- FRANcIs 3. GEssNER.

By FhhNClS q. SESSNEh.
New York. July s.-The lament Of Ohio
Democrats that their seif-projected can
didates for Senator do not measure up
with the eminent statesmen sent by Ohio
to Washington in other days Is repeated
in New York by Republicans more than
by Democrats The final word from SEN
ator Root declining further friction hon
ors and campaign worries as candidate
for Senator was not unexpected. but
there was hope among the faithful OF
having him reconsider and sacrifice per-
sonal comfort for party welfare. Once
he was absolutely out, three names took
Immediate place in the headlines-Wads-
worth, Hinman and Calder-along with
the announcement that each one would
proceed to go after the Senstorship and
be proud, of course. TO succeed so emil
nent a statesman as the Hon. Elihu Root
-. Only Locally Iinown.
The New York-list OF Republican Sena-
toriaI aspirants resembles the Ohio Dem
ocrats list, in that the candidates are
only locally known and have had no re-
markable record even within State lines
2 Calder's chief claim for recognition Is his
election to the House two years ago
when no other Republican on Long Is
land or Manhattan was able to reach.
A hustling business man, Calder has
been a good Congressman of the type
needed in Washington, but when It comes
to spreading him out over all New YORK
from Buffalo to the eastern part OF Long
Island there Is some hesitation and
looking back at other big Republicans
who have been sent as Senators from
New York by both political parties.
Edwin d. Morgan, Roscoe Conkling. Tom
Platt. Hiscock. Chauncey NJ. Depew. d.
B. Hill and Edward Murphy are names
recalled as nationally famous when the
wadsworth- h-Hinman-Calder aggregation Is
put forward as about all New York Re-
publicans have to choose from in the
present stress OF things. No one ques-
tions the ability or personal qualifications
Of any one of the trio, but New York
State yearns for some of her oid-time
domination in affairs at Washington, and
points with pride to the list Of previous
Senators. not overlooking the high up
grade of the two eminent statesmen
Root and O'Gorman now on the job.
With New York Republicans expecting
a tremendous vote upstate and COM
ing to Harlem with a majority like that
Of 1894 and 1904, the wonder is that Sena-
torial candidates of the Root class and
men who have figured in national affairs
cannot be discovered and put forward
for approval long before the primaries of
September Is When the Republican
Senatorial situation is discussed by the
wise men with frequent lament that the
campaign thus far has disclosed no great
figure Hike Root or his long line Of Re-
publican predecessors. there is the sooth-
ing suggestion that possibly q new man
not now nationally eminent might grow
after assuming Senatorial duties, and
while not achieving much at Washington
might do more in stiffening up the Re
publican organization at home, so that
the electoral vote OF New York two years
hence might insure Republican in the
White House, not to mention the con-
troll Of things at Albany-a control which
Is confidently expected this year by
Chairman Barnes and his adjutants of
the State organization.
Reaction for @. o. ?.
The upstate Republican Congressman
who weathered the storm of two years
ago dropped In on Chairman Barnes ast
they stopped over en- route between home
and Washington, giving him cheering re-
ports of the reaction setting in all
back at the old Republican way of do
ing things both at Albany and Wash
ington.
Indeed, the Republican House members |
like Fairchild. of Oneonta; Mott. Of |
Oswego; Dunn, of Rochester; Dan
forth adjoining of the Rochester dis
trict and Hamilton, Of Ripley, in the |
extreme northwestern county of the |
State. all give cheering reports of their l
own districts, with the added information |
that the adjoining districts lost two years |
ago give equal promise Of getting right |
again. When il Is recalled that New |
York. with forty-three members Of the |
House sent but eleven Republicans to |
Congress in 1910. the anxiety and effort |
of Messrs. Fairchild. Mott & Co. in gen.
eral jiggering up of Republican sentiment |
in districts other than their own is ap- |
preciated.
In other days, when Republican su- |
premacy up State was mournfully con- |
ceded by Manhattan Democrats the dele |
CATION was often more than half Repub- |
lican, with six or ten members from the |
center of Tanmany power here in Goth |
am town. Alas that today one Repub- |
lican, Calder Is alone from the first |
twenty-three districts The other ten. |
PIatt, Of Poughkeepsie: Parker. of Sa- 1
Potsdam; Mott, OF Oswego; Fairchild, Of |
Dunn and Danforth. of Rochester. and |
Hamilton Of Ripley. These eleven Re-
publicans have kept firm in the faith /
with no Progressive delinquencies so that /
there is no fear OF their return with in
creased majorities in November. but they |
are anxious to have the next New York
contain twenty-five instead Of /
eleven Republicans, with few from the
big city by way Of delightful diversion. |