The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
|CHIEFTAIN SLIPS
into new YORK
Chairman of the Republican
Congressional Committee
Looks EN- Over
FORAKER REGAINS GRIP
Buckeye Democrats Fearful of Losing
Senatorship to Former Goyenor.
Whose Chances Grow.
FORAKER REGANS GRIP
ny FRANCIS n. GEssNER.
.ei.i to N. washington Herald.

SPECIAL to The Washington Herald.
New York. July L-The presence IN
New York OF Frank p. Woods. chair
man OF the Republican congressional
committee, during the week was known
to but few OF the faithful. thanks to the
rubber-heeled methods Of the Iowa
statesman in getting around. The politI-
ical wisdom of Chairman Woods de-
claims ever for a quiet going after things
in politics and saying little after getting
! them, SO he put up at the Astor in the
midst OF the Great White Way and not
in. touch with a few local leaders who
could tell best which Manhattan dis
tricts TO let alone.
Knowing what not to do Is counted
wisdom in politics by the Iowa states
man and once his committee has decided
on the districts in New York to let alone.
| there will be concentration of effort on
districts that have been carried by Re-
publieans before and can be won again
with careful work by local managers. aid
ed and advised by the Woods-Eversman
committee in the Riggs Building at
Washington. II will be counted good
work II q half dozeR in the great city
are chosen as against the one Republican
elected two years ago.
A Close Proposition.
SdiOGTs up-SIdIe Is eNpGCl-
ed TO line up in the good old way with
a majority delegation. Coming to Har-
lem and possibly making the entire State
delegation a politically close proposition
in spite of the big Democratic list In
Manhattan. The return Of Chairman
Woods TO Washington will not be cele-
brated with any predictions and more
likely will not be noted for any observa-
tions whatsoever on the New York pros
pect as Il is not the habit of the chairman
to announce intentions or opinions. but
certain Democrats in the present delega-
tion from the great city would be a bit
fidgetty II they knew what was prepar-
ing for them in the coming campaign.
The Republican reading out for several
Jersey districts mentioneH in previous
dispatches. continues under local lead
ers. and it was not told here that Chair
man Woods had look at the Jersey bat
tlefield.
That will come soon enough and with
the administration desiring personal in
dorsement from the home State, there is
promise of a general bolstering up in
behalf OF Jersey Democratic Represent
atives by the First Citizen Of the republic
and his advisers that VIII make Demo-
cratic candidates in other States COM
plain ot~partiality.
ForaISer's Goth birthday.
The unfaillng Ohio visitor in the
Waldorf circle tonight remarked that
today, July T. was the sixty-sixth
birthday OF his ever esteemed and
just now especially exuberant friend, the
Hon. Joseph Benson Foraker. That
brought the nearness OF the Ohio pri-
maries to the center again for discus
sion and the practically admitted victory
of Foraker in the contest for the SEN
atorial nomination. Some one with tho
birthday in mind interjected the sug-
gestion that Foraker might be a bit old
before the end of a term that begins
next March, but those from Ohio who
know the Senator's vigoY and resolute
makeup were willing to predict a term
beyond that expiring in 1921. 1t was
observed by the wise men here in Gotham
town that the reaction in politics which
| restores a statesman from shadow TO
the full glare OF power has been a fire.
quent proposition in American political
history.
The revived Foraker grip on his party
in Ohio is the latest instance and pos
sibly more notable than most OF those
that might be named. Foraker went
out of the Senate five years ago some
what distressed in soul and possibly
resentful that he had not been given 2
fair show. He had been governor Of his