Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-09
DICK TO ENTER RACE
FOR SENATE AGAIN
Says That He will Seek the
Nomination Before Pri-
maries Next Year.
ACTION MAY COMPLICATE
PRESIDENTIAL SITUATION
Course Expected to Cause Mr.. Bur.
ton to Take Decided Stand as
to His Intentions.
BY N. o. MESSENGER.

NEW YORK, July 9.-Former Senator
Charles Dick of Ohio will be a candi.
date for the republican nomination for
United States senator in Ohio before
the primaries next year. This develop
ment will make things Interesting in
Ohio politics.
1t had generally been agreed that
former Senator Burton had everything
his own way In Ohio and that he could
come back to the Senate or get ohios
support for the presidential nomination
as he might choose
But now comes former Senator Dick
VINO says he will give Mr.. Burton a
run Tor that senatorial position, any
now. Whoopee! Politics will be liven-
ing up In Ohio next thing we know.
Mr. Dicks entry into the senatorial
neio may complicate the presidential
SITUATION In Ohio. 1t is probable that
~ sould train with the Willis and
Harolng factions. although I am not
aDle to make definite statement to
such effect. ~
"hen Mr. Burton was in Washin zton
recently he was uncertain as to y-heth-
er ne would allow his name to be put
forward as candidate for the presi-
Dental nomination or would run for
the Senate. 1t is thought likely that
the candidacy OF former Senator Dick
Will necessiate Mr.. Burton's taking a
decided stand for one office or the
other.
Old standpatters Active.
Mr.. Dicks determination to return to
politics and make bid for the senator
ship shows how the old standpatters
are beginning to sit up and take note,
thinking that the times are propitious
for their political reincarnation
OF course. Mr.. Dick is associated with
the McKinley-Hanna republicans of
Ohio and the traditions of the old
guard. He thinks that there is rennais-
sance of that sentiment in the coun-
try. and that it Is time to get on boa rd
You can see how the scheme Is build
ing up: Penrose. in Pennsylvania, def
ant and aggressive; Elihu Roots candi-
dacy, admitted to be a potential possi-
bility; everywhere the old guard get
ting ready to make a display of
strength.
Former Senator Cranes Views.
But there are some big men in the
republican party who do not Join in
this movement There is former Sena-
tor william Murray Crane of Massa-
chusetts. a man Of whom william 3.
McCombs. chairman of the democratic
national committee. once said to me:
IF I were the republican party. l
would turn the job over to Murray
Crane and go on a vacation"
Senator Crane does not sympathize
with this ultra republican
talk. He Is convinced, as he was at
Chicago in 1912, that the republicans
will make a great mistake If they go
too far in the reaction. He knows that
the pendulum has swung backward to
conservatism, but that 1t should not
swing to the extreme. Although he Is
affiliated with everything that Is con-
servative in business and politics, he
does not believe that the country is
viewpoint.
Revival Of 1912 Spirit.
My aim is to point out the contest
that is going on within the republican
the convention assemblies at Chicago in
1915. for 1t will assemble there. accord
ing to the pledges of more than a ma
jority of the national committee al
ready assured. there will be witnessed
a revival of the same spirit. though on
modified scale, which existed in 1912.
The wisest men of the republican
party are now devoting themselves to
the selection of a presidential candi-
date who will personify happy me-
dium between the two factions 1t ia
very significant that one hears so con-
stant1y the reiteration of the name of
Mr.. Justice Hughes of the Supreme
Court of the United States