The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-17
c. 0. P. VICTORY IN.
new YORK STATE.
PREDICTED.
Important Presidential Con;
tender to Be Made or In.
made in Election.
BY EDWARD N. rHIERRY


NEW YORK. Oct. 17.-Advice
from political wiseacres Is 10
watch New York state on election
day. They have 1t figured out that
the 1899 campaign will make or
unmake an important presidentlal'
contender.
The man is governor Nathan l.,
Miller. His political fortunes
make the state fight subject Of
national interest.
: II Miller wins It is argued that
he will be the biggest political fig
ure In the country, next to Presi-
dent Harding That is. among
what may be called regular Repub.
licans. A more spectacular person
Of presidential proportion Will be
Clifford Pinchot. IL he is elected
governor Of Pennsylvania: for his
progressive history and his start.
ling victory over the Republican
machine give him a halo Miller
cannot get.
Miller, however, is being talked
about more as the man who may
get the Republican presidential
nomination. If he wins this year
and more important, il HardIngg
doesn't want 1t again.
No National Issue
There is no national issue IN the
New York campaign for the cleo
ton OF governor and United States
senator, Scarcely any other kind
OF an issue. either. lacking which,
Governor Miller and his Democra-
tic opponent. former Governor A..
fred h. Smith, are engaging in
dry, statistical debate over which
OF them conducted the state gov.
eminent most economically.
The senatorial contendefs are
William NJ. Calder, Republican
senator since 1917. and DR.. Royal.
is. Copeland, Democratic health
commissioner OF New oYrk City.
Tho two tickets are queer mix
ture, In personalities and political
complexion. Smith. Tammany high
priest, known to everybody as
"Al"", is a professional politician,
So is Senator Calder. Brooklyn Re-
publican leader. Miller Is tuu
judge type, poor mixer, a nom
political campalsner. Copeland,
though physician and former
professor in medical college, Is a
champion public!st, who isn't a
politician by training SO much rs
he IL by instinct and absorption
1.-THE latter IN the rough and ready
Hyian SCHOOL,.
Smith is the genial type. with 4
permanent smile that e infectious,
and handshake equally as ready
as hts wit. He was born on New
Ycrk'e east side and still lives
there. At 10 he has been assembly.
man. sheriff. president OF the
board Of aldermen, and governor
from 1919 to 1891. He Is now heal
Of a trucking concern,
Miller, who beat Smith for rD.
election, IS IS and lives IN syra'
cuse. He has been school teacher,
lawyer, corporation counsel OF
Cortland. state comptroller justic9
of the Supreme Court, and ASA.
ciAte Judge Of the Court Of Appeals
He resigned the highest judicial
office In the state to resume prac.
tice Of the law. In 1920 he hit the
national spotlight by booming Her.
bert Hoover for president. nornin,
tion, He went back into politics
ton. We went back into politics
the same year and was elected gov
ernor.
Republican Victory Expected
Calder. So. contractor and real
estate man. was a congressman
from 1905 to 1915 and was elected
senator in 1917.
Copeland Is a Michigan man 81,
one-time practicing physician Ia
Bay City. mayor OF Ann. Arbor
from 1901 to 1903, professor OF
ophthalmology at the University Of
Michigan, dean Of the New York
Homeopathic Medical College, and
New York City health commits
sioner since 1918.
New York state normally Is Re-
publican and New oYrk City
Democratic. Since 1894 there have
been only three Democrats out Of
Is governors, elected In 1910, 1912,
and 1918. III.
Smiths strength Is indicated by
his victory in 1918 by 81 900 votes.
although two years earlier the
state went Republican by $4,000
for senator, 10000 for governor
and 10000 for president: and In
1890 Smith led, Cox by nearly two
to one, losing to Miller by only "a,
900 while Cox. lost the state to
Harding by, 100000.
Republicans see victory Nov. J,
chiefly on Miller's record. And
they also think they will benefit
by pre-conyention strife among tho
Democrats; although Copeland un.
doubtedly was nominated for sem
ator as a sop to thq Hearst Hylap
group when Tammany decreed
Smith and not Hearst should run
for governor. Republicans think
William Randolph Hearst's affec,
ton for the Democratic ticket has
been pretty thoroughly alienated.
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