Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-02-14
BIC FIELD Of
CANDIDATES UP
FOR 1916 RACE
Republicans Are Already Spec
uIating on Nomination to
Be Made Next Year. Many
Are After II.

tsrreisL coRsusronpEncs TO so-sino JousHsLi
Washington, Feb. 13.--The repub-
hcan party has taken the first step
toward the nomination by peaceful
means of a candidate for the presi-
dency in 1916 by cutting down the
purchasahle delegations from the old
slaveholding states The next task
is to find the candidate.
That this will be difficult, not be-
cause of a paucity Of good men. but
because of the cloud of candidates
who will offer themselves becomes
more apparent every day. The ga
NUT has not yet been run, but al
ready there are n dozen well defined
candidates. in different parts of the
country.
New York Frequent Claimant
TO recount them, begin with New
York. New York frequently has a
candidate for the republican nomina-
ton. In 1850 it was Seward. War
put period to activities of this kind
for three quadrenniums, but New
York bobbed up in 1876 with Roscoe
Conkling, i'm 1850 with General Grant,
In 1884 with Arthur, in 1888 with
Depew. In 1892, 1896 and 1900 New
ming candidates, Harrison and Me-
Kinley In 1904 1t Of course had
Roosevelt, but in 1908 joined the So
called allies who attempted to staVe
off the nomination of Taft
New York thus appears TO have
played an ambitious role in republic
can politics, frequently demanding
the presidency and frequently being
HANDED the vice presidency as in
1876, 1850, 1855, 1892, 1900, 1908 and
1912.
The Empire States Program.
The customary plan of New York
is to play up a favorite son and trade
him off for the man the wise ones
of the state really want, and then To
make such tremendous plea that
the Empire state is doubtful, that the
vice presidency is handed out and
places in the cabinet are vaguely
promised. Thus it is history that
Thomas c. Plat, the easy boss of
New York, went TO his grave COM
planning that Mckinley promised TO
make him secretary of the treasury
and deceived a trusting old man by
not doing it,
New York will be at the front in
the 1915 convention and undoubtedly
will present Governor Charles 5.
Whitman for the presidency, but
whether earnestly or merely for
trading purposes cannot yet he told,
Few who have looked Whitman over
believe that he can develop into
moral scourge. such as Charles Il.
Hughes proved TO be, able to bring
the bosses to their knees. If he can
not do this he cannot become a real
candidate for the nomination. But
he will hold the Empire state dele
cation in line until ii is decided
where it shall go
New England Backs Weeks.
Within a few days the John Win
gate Weeks boom has appeared 1t
has grown so fast that there IS every
indication that it will absorb the New
England DELEGATIONS.
Senator Weeks is what is custo-
marily, for want of a better term,
called "a strong man" He is a
business man and banker. He is
wealthy and yet not of the predatory
brand. He has had large experience
in the house and senate. He is kind
ly, stalwart and iovial
He would be "A nominee acceptable
to the people who know most about
what a president should be, but he
would hardly make a whlrwind cam
paigner. His nomination would be
the signal for a print campaign of the
kind produced for Mckinley by Mark
Hanna in 1896.
Ohio Has Three Possibilities.
Coming west into the Mississippi
valley there is Ohio, the stepmother
of presidents. Ohio, torn temper
arly from its moorings by a tempest
of socialism blown up out of her con-
stitutional convention, and driven in
to the democratic harbor, has not had
the influence on republican politics
that she had in the days of the war
and for decades afterward.
Nevertheless Ohio Is not dlscour-
aged. In her days Of power she al
ways had one candidate for president
In her time of distress and regener-
alton she has three. Senator Theo-
dore Burton. Governor Frank B. Will
lis and former Ambassador Myron r.
Herrick are the possibilities.
Wiseacres eliminate Willis on the
ground that he Is too young, too
green and too uncertain for the stiff
lob that will confront the banner
man of 1916. The fact that he has
the patronage of the state will not
| help him to a national standing. For
! that he must await the ripenlng re-
1 suits of time.
/ Burton Has First Call.
With willis out Of 1t Burton ap-
I pears to stand a better chance than
! Herrick. On form Burton should be
Ohios favorite son. He could gather
some delegates from other states on
the strength of his national charac-
ter He has had wonderful career
| in Washington. In the house he took
the lead on financial and waterways
questions He studied himself into
such a state Of experiences on finance
that he was once or twice offered
The treasury and refused It, He be-
came Americas authority on water
ways. No man in or out of congress
would care to dispute Theodore Bur-
tons figures on Boston harbor or
/ Jim Crow creek. He knows them
| both.
Nor is Burton merely a theoretical
waterways man. When the last ses-
! sion of congress offered to pass a
river and harbor bill that Burton said
/ was full of Jobs, he rose right up in
| the senate and said, You won't pass
/ II until | have had my say about IL.
Thereupon he began his say and stood
up talking day after day until Sena-
! tor simmons In charge of the bill,
velled for quarter and brought in
smaller bill with Instructions to the
army engineers TO spend 1t wisely. 1t
was a great triumph for Burton.
/ He has repeated in the present ses-
sion with a monumental fight on the
| ship purchase bill,
| Burton" said republican men,
| Der of the house, sis not liked by