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“While there ss Life thert's Hope AUGUST 4, 1910 No, 1489 VOL. LVL. Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY JOA. MivoHEtt, Prect, A MULLER, Sec'y and Treas, 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York. HE political cards are be- ing suuffled for a new deal. The Con- gressional cam- are arting. Speaker way last month pounding to the the sinfulness and Insurgency, he issue after anon got under and has been folks in Kansas folly of insurgency. will not be a live this year, Maybe not. Maybe it will win, That would take it out of the list of the live effectually as though it lost. there will be no considerable number of Congressmen to clect after this year until 1912, when the Presidential election will throw the Congressional elections somewhat in the shade. So this is the live year for Insurgent- Republicanism, whatever the future has in store for that movement, and the discussion of it is going to be lively for the next three months, The retort emphatic did not fail to follow the Speaker in Kansas. Bris- tow, Murdoch and others attended to that. The strenuous old man makes 3 gallant figure on the stump, gathering the energies of his three-score and fourteen years and hurling his deti- ances at the disciples of the new light who stand up to him. But his bolt is about shot. He is very vulnerable in his assertions and positions, and it is not in him to turn back the tide of public sentiment that is sweeping in upon and over the sort of politics and the kind of government that he stands for. If it was in him to stand aside, as Senator Aldrich has done, and let things take their inevitable course, it says, issues as Besides, ep RREs woul be a saving of his venerable strength. But that is not his line. The breath of life to him is political ac- tion, and presumably he can get more poison out of his system execrating the Insurgents to the voters than he could, sitting on his porch at home and execrating them ‘ithout the assistance of an audience. VEN more interesting than the campaigns of the Congressmen is the marshaling of candidates for Governor in various States. Espe- cially the Democratic candidates. For various reasons the office of Governor is growing more important and attrac- tive in the bigger States. The short- comings of Legislatures have turned popular expectation a good deal to- wards the cutive, and the courses of some exceptionably able recent Gov- ernors have very much encouraged that tendency. Governor Hughes, for ex- ample, has appreciably raised the stand- ing of the office of Governor in the State of New York. He leaves it a bigger job than he found it, and one that calls for a bigger man to fill it than it did when he was first elected. Besides that, for the first time fifteen years, the road to the White House seems to open to whatever man in the Democratic party can best travel it. The Bryan blight seems really to be over, Mr. Bryan, fighting for county option in Nebraska and getting beaten, seems to be pretty well out of the Presidential game, and not since his blight began has there been so early and so general a search for a likely man to be the Democratic can- didate for President. That is going to make all Democratic Governors of doubtful States look mighty ‘interest- ing for the next two years, and that lends a very particular interest to the election of Democratic candidates that is now going on. OVERNOR HARMON in will run again. If he elected it will make him a strong can- didate for the Democratic nomination Dr. Woodrow Wilson, in response to pressing inquiry, has declared that if the New Jersey Democrats nomi- nate him for Governor he will not re- fuse to run. That they will nominate him he doubts, and indeed it looks un certain, because he has not been mucl in the game of politics in New Jersey and some of the gentlemen who hay been in the game seem to want that nomination. No one of these others however, would stand so tall as Presidential candidate as Dr. Wilsor would if he should carry his Stat this fall. A very engaging, able and _likel. Democrat who carried Massachusetts on a tariff reform platform cither thi year or next would get a ticket to th candidates’ bench at the next Demo cratic Presidential convention, but none offers as yet. The State, of all in the family, o the course of which Democratic at tention will be most centered, is New York, Any Democrat who could carr this State next fall and follow that exploit with an administration showing distinguished executive capacity would receive very careful attention fr President-makers all over the countr If the purged and renovated Democ racy of New York can pick a first-class man and elect him Governor it wil mean a great deal. Their man, to our mind, is Mr. Osborne, of Auburn. He seems to us to have it iv him to go further than any other car didate that has been suggested. It in his favor that he is already an a tive politician, who has accomplished much for good in his party in t! State and is eager to accomplish mucli more. In politics, as in other lines of endeavor, much comes by practice, an by the habitual attention of the mind to the matter in kand. Nominations for Governor are not made in New York State until late in September. By that time the Repub- licans will have to settle in their minds whom they will run, Uxcellent Deme crats, like Mr. Osborne, Mr. Sheppard Mr. Havens, of Rochester, and others, seem willing to run this year, but Re publicans of that order show no eaget- ness for the nomination. comicbooks.com