Show I IN THE POLITICAL ARENA A VERY QUIET DAY AT THE HEAD ttUARTERS I Frank Cannon is Banking on Gentile Gen-tile Support to Pull Him TJirons i C S Varian is Right in the Race Bennett Brown and Tram fco All Hard ait Work Matters political were very quiet yesterday yes-terday the average politician being on the underground most of the day In some instances however he was out looking for stray members Of the legislature leg-islature and when he succeeded in capturing him it is safe to assert that the stray member aforesaid did not keep his engagement at church Headquarters Head-quarters of the senators were in the main deserted A few of the bhoys took advantage of the steam heat in Colonel Trumbos headquarters and the free papers on file there to put in a pleasant day Judge Bennetts wigwam wig-wam was deserted entirely when the reporter called Arthur Browns manager man-ager was out Judge Goodwin wasnt seen at all on the street Up at the Templeton matters were different The friends of the Little Napoleon hustled all day Those who did not get out on the Rialto and buttonhole stray members like Harry Cushing sat in the office and solemnly checked off the names of members of both houses from printed lists either borrowed at Trumbos rooms or pilfered pilfer-ed from the oil room of Judge Bennett Ben-nett I appears Frank J has come to realize that his father is a factor in this fight and despite all denials on the part of the friends of the latter to the effect that he is not a candidate he is and will go before the joint session ses-sion with a whole lot of votes Hence his friends are doing a whole lot of figuring fig-uring Some of them have gone so far as to suggest that after the minority has discharged its debt to Thatcher and Rawlins perhaps some of them could be induced to vote for Frank Frank places great reliance on the Gentile Gen-tile members of which there are twenty in both houses and anticipates receiving all of them In fact he is banking on the Gentile vote to pull him through But twenty is not a majority ma-jority by any means and in claiming all these he ha allowed his optimistic qualities to get the upper hand of his judgment Arthur Brown and Judge Bennett yea even Goodwin will be heard of on this account and Varian self is liable to come in with a few him selfHarry Gushing the member from the lower ward known as the Sixth is rustling for Frank with all the energy of his meaty nature He is a vigorous advocate of the doctrine that all the Republican members were elected with the understanding that they were to vote for Cannon although half the voters in Cushings bailiwick never saw the man and know very little of him Cushing is quite a wirepuller and can catch a man by the buttonhole button-hole ninetynine times in every hundred hun-dred at three paces and have half the story poured into his ear ere he gets his victim fairly stopped W P Lynn county treasurer is the manager of the campaign which is being be-ing made by Judge Bennett and Lynn is working very hard He is a man with peculiar tactics Like Chevy Slyme in Dickens book he is perpetually perpet-ually around the corner He is around the corner at this instant He never leads he lets tine other fellow do at And when all have said all they can Old Penny gets in and collars the subject sub-ject and talks him into a state of clairvoyance in which the only thought which flashes through the brain of the victim is Bennett Bennett Ben-nett Bennett Lynn did not work very net much yesterday merely sorted mail and spoke t two or three but his Saturday graft was extensive and his travail tomorrow will befruitful Arthur Brown continues to be sanguine san-guine of success He is the only candidate candi-date who is getting right down to bedrock bed-rock personally Brown never overlooks a point He gets to the man with the vote himself and never lets go He has a different countenance for all For the timid he wears a winning smile for the man who is scarcely convinced a look of wisdom while the fellow who is naturally contrary is overawed and browbeaten by a regular crossexamin ation stare with all the accompaniments accompani-ments As a result there will be men who vote for Brown because he is goodnatured because he is wise and for the reason that it is not safe to vote against him C S Varian is not making a canvass in the manner the others have adopted He is a sort of dark horse and is saying say-ing very little There are a great many men in the house and senate who admire ad-mire him and in the event of a dead lock he will be a strong candidate He is working on these lines and no other and who knows He may succeed Trumbo and his merry men are working right along unawed by the stories which are circulated by those who are working for the other candidates candi-dates to the effect that he is not in i He wears the same smile of confidence that ha adorned his features since the day when Elaine told him to come often of-ten and warm up the office and is a puzzle to the Republicans who do not know what to understand his by conduct con-duct But it is impossible to tell at this I time who will be elected There will be combinations and combinations combinatons combinatons ere the eventful 21st arrives and those who are for one man today are likely to be for another tomorrow The lucky pair i will realize that they have been to a fight ere the result is announced I |