The Washington herald., 1914-06-27
PoIitieaI Preeession.
BY y. u. q.

william B. Mckinley. q private citizen
Of Champaign, ILL.,. also Its frst citizen.
thanks to q wholesome and generous
way Of doing things. promises q return
TO Congress this year with a campaign
somewhat different from past perform
ance and with features that win hardly
be matched or duplicated IN any other
district on the map. Only two years ago
the Hon William B. was busy as a
chief manager for President Taft and
no less busy as chairman OF the Repub-
lican Congressional committee. As q
side diversion he was incidentally a can
didate for Congress in a district which
had seldom slipped from the Republican
list Of sure things. The diversified duties
Of William B. In a mighty bad year for
his party. may have had something to
do with the letting In of Democrat
from the Champaign district, but this
year the Mckinley efforts will be con-
centrated on the one proposition Of get
ting back TO Congress with q majority
that will be talked about long after the
Mckinley grandchildren are gathered 70
their fathers
During his two years vacation Nc
Kinley has made a trip around the
world He made a study Of labor and
economic sonditions In every country
where labor counts for much and he
had moving picture operator outft
and all with him on all his travels
Hence. when the Mckinley constituents
como to his campaign meetings this year
they will be given a picture show out
Of the ordinary and see the workmen
OF other lands plodding away In field
or shop at something like cents a day.
There will be nothing spectacular in
the Mckinley moving picture show but
grim presentation of workingmen and
their conditions as Mckinley found
them His speeches will be even more
striking than the pictures and already
there is demand in other Illinois dis
tricts for Mckinley to give at least one
performance in each before the close of
the campaign II the new proposition
goes well this year It will no doubt be
duplicated ad lib. in the Presidential
campaign Of 1916 and the generous Nc
Rinley has no thought Of copyrighting
his new method Of making votes for the
Republican cause.
Republican Congressional nominations
came easily enough up West Virginia
way. and Howard Sutherland, member
at-large, was given this honor again
by default and without the bother and
expense Of a Statewide primary. The
default" expression is no reflection on
Sutherland, but a compliment. No other
candidate had the courage or inclination
TO oppose him, knowing how faithfully
the Hon Howard has served both State
and nation at Washington. and also
knowing that he would have an over
whelming majority. So the delightful
little formality of certifying the Suther-
land nomination will occupy the atten-
ton OF the State Republican committee
when II meets again on the banks Of
the Kanawha- For that matter the ac-
tual election Of Sutherland in November
is already assured, as West Virginia in
dicated two years ago an inclination to
remain firm in the Republican faith. The
State did not go for Taft, but II went
for nearly every other Republican
nominee and sent four Republicans TO
Congress. while l31 votes more would
have sent a solid Republican delegation.
Capt. Samuel B. Avis, Of the Charleston
district, was also given denomination
without primary or opposition. He came
in as the successor of the bounding and
eloquent Littlepage and gives promise
of remaining on the job a long. long
time. LittIepage was wise enough 70
know the futility OF fighting the valiant
young Capt Avis again. so decided to
make A campaign for Congressman-at'
large, with Wiley Beale, Of Wellsburg
a big breezy competitor for the nomina-
tiOn. Judge Hunter Mass, the erudite
young statesman from Parkersburg. will
be given denomination by the Republicans
this week, as no one offered to oppose
him. and the Democratic candidate will
be John NJ Hamilton. who slipped in foI
single term when the Republicans were
IangUid in 1872
Hamilton is very much Of a fox in his
political methods. and he may give Mass
much to worry about in a district always
close. II was represented four terms by
Harry woodward and the pity is that he
is not in the running again.