Weekly journal-miner., 1916-11-22

general opinion among politicians
 here, where interest in the political
 trend is greater. perhaps, than in any
 other spot in the United States. The
 editorial of General Harrison Gray ! Otis of California Tn which he read
 the riot act to Governor Hiram John
 son, charging him with party trcach-
 cry, and the governors hot reply arc
 subjects of interesting debate and re-
 fleet the general situation.
 ! For several months, perhaps, the at
 tempt to fix the responsibility for the
 killing of the Republican cock robin
 will go on. In the end there is likely
 to be some rcadjustmcnt This re-
 lates to leaders and to possible can
 didates.
 1 From the region west of the Missis-
 sippi comes the demand that the Re-
 publicans must go west of the Father of Waters" for the next standard
 bearer. That might mean a quiet bid
 for Johnson: it might mean Senator Borah of Idaho. It is pointed out
 that the center of political influence i has shifted west of the Mississippi. That Governor Johnson will figure in
 the calculations for the head of the
 national ticket four years from now is conceded generally. Senator Borah
 would not permit the use of his name before the Chicago convention when State delegations were offered to him.
 He will probably have to bestir him self to prevent his name being made
 the nucleus of presidential support in
 the next four years.
 Mismanagement Charged.
 Names of possible candidates will appear interesting as they represent
 the efforts within the party to correct alleged mistakes and meet the future with some hope of victory. That the
 former Progressives must receive a larger share in the direction of party affairs is conceded Feeling within the party now is high. Attempts to fix the responsibility for mistakes wherever politicians cluster leads to charges that the campaign has been mismanaged. Men are found who say the Progressives had too much to say and others who contend that they did not have enough to do in the man. agement. It was pointed out as significant fact today that in New York and Illinois, where the Progress sives had big voice, results were not at all unfavorable.
 The only State in which the former Progressives were recognized that showed unfavorable results for Hughes was Ohio. and James A. Garfield was not identified with the campaign there, but was attached to the Chica- go headquarters. The Ohio campaign was managed by the "old guard which tried to keep Colonel Roosevelt out of the State Tn St. Louis, where the ! "old guard" influence was sufficiently 1. strong to limit Colonel Rooscvelt's in that State and even alter his itinerary to omit St. Louis, they failed 10 deliver a scnatorship or an cfcrtDrl1 ,-cte fo IuobCS
 Worked at Cross Purposes.
 Certain 1t is that the Republican organization was far from being a harmonious affair. It was known in the midst of the campaign that Chicago headquarters and New l. Yorl, headquarters worked at cross 4 and Chairman Willcox was bcsct by factions each seek ' ing to unhorsc the other. If a repre- sentative of one faction collected money the other side complained, in ,omc cases even to, the contributor. \ Washington banker gave Sl.0OO to Frank H. Hitchcock to assist in the \ few days later con , .crvativc Republican senator called ,n him 10 protest that he should not lave given it to Hitchcock. This is me of many examples of the spirit of actionalism that bcsct the party. a hartman Willcox became so unpop- $ lar with the old guard in the senate T ( one time that they determined to h cmand his removal. The movement. a is needless to say, was short lived t nd did not get far with Candidate n hughes. An organization of "old guard Re O ublicans made up of names very ia. e Iiliar to the country got together in Washington and arranged to serve e oticc on Mir Hughes immediately Inc G as elected that he should not rccog- D izc the ProgrcsSivcS at the peril of sl ,Sing the support of the house for his e program This move o .cut ,,as a t1tatfer of common kuo1yI- r,