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Show FEW OLD PA8H "; Young fa Are low I : in CootroL ! Many Big Leaders in Re- u publican Ranks Have Hj'jt Been Called. j : Past Eight Years Has Mado Many Hi ' Changes Among the Old H j Heads. lij NEW YORK, Nov, 7. When Sonator I Scott Hhut his deek at Republican Natlon-H' Natlon-H' ', ' headquarters Saturday night ami left H t tlio offlco for good, halving closod up the -work of the speakers' bureau, ho did It Hj with a reminiscent sigh, becauso he had H! announced to his associates on the com-H( com-H( t mittco that he proposed to abandon ac-Hj ac-Hj ' tlvo political work for the future. Tills i l declaration by tho "West Virginia Senator Hj i;i brings to mind the fact that there has H V been an extraordinary change In tho pcr- j Honpel of tho Republican party so far as B, ij the active management Is concerned. Many Changes In Eight Years. HLt It was only eight years ago that Ic- Hi Klr.ley ran for tho Presidency tho first H sj time, and yet In this period of only two H' i1 Presidential administrations the .mortality j among the big men of the Republican H! ' party has been astonishing, and with It H r there has come a general retirement of ) ( the old party whoelhorscs. so that today an entirely new generation Is in control of the destinies of tho Republic so far as H' 1 the Republican party Is concerned, i I Grout men drop off Just as little men do, l ;. but it docs seem as if they went in waves, H! because the most casual memories of the j f last eight years will serve to show that j J almost every prominent actor In tho drn- Hjj matlc campaign of 1S0C Is now off the stage H i of activo politics and a lamentably large i number of them have been removed by i death. ' A young, spectacled man who wna a Hi clfrk In the "Whlto House when McKlnley 1 t v.as first elected Is now chairman of the ' Republican National committee, nnd the present candidate for tho Presidency was 1 only too glad to get an under secrctary- ' ship at the beginning of tho llrst McICln- H, ley administration. j Young Men Bun Campaign. II This campaign has been run by young men almost exclusively. Mark llanna has 1 i be tn succeeded by Cortelyou and Joe Ma nicy has been almost forgotten in the k vigor of tho administration of Elmer Dover as secretary of the great party or- , gi.nlzatton. The same process has been j going on in the various State committees. In the local representatives on the nation- . al committee, and to an even greater ex- ' tent among the men of nntlonal rcputa- 1 Hon. who only a few years ago were as fnmiliar figures on the streets of Wnsh- i ii gton as In their own homes In various v. parts of tho country. M! ' It Is not necessary to convert this dls- j ' I a ten into a mere obituary record or to H 1 go over the catalogue of the great men 1 h who have passed away. But a visit to tho Mi Republican headquarters .In Chicago and j ,i In New York, coupled with various trips V about tho country, brings to mind lrre- j plstibly the thought that a complete rovo- u lutlon In the controlling personnel of the Hf Republican party, and, through that, of H( ' the Nation, has been effected within a number of years so few as to bo counted ij on the fingers of the two hands. ' Allison a Lonely Exception. When the preliminary campaign opened H; r In the winter and spring of 1S9G Thomas , 33. Reed. William B. Allison and William jl McKlnley were tho threo chief candidates . for tho Presidency. It soon becamo ap- 1 . parent that the principal light was be- tween Reed and McKlnley. Both of them r are gone. Allison remains the dignified u and venerated "father of tho Senate," but his Influence In the councils of the Repub- '. llcan party has largely disappeared, and. 1 I, he contents himself with being the trust- j ed adviser of one President after another j I; from his point of vantage at the head of y the United States Senate. ." McKlnley's running mato in tho memo- I rable campaign of Garret A. Hobart ,1 of Now Jersey, also Is gono Hobart had HT i an intimate relation for many years with Hf the management of one campaign after another. Ho belonged distinctively to ; what was known as "the old crowd" on L 1 the National committee. That Is to say, , ho belonged to the generation of political i managers represented by Tom Piatt of 1 V New York. Matt Quay of Pennsylvania, W' II Mcnry Payno of Wisconsin and John Tan- Mi nor of Illinois. They have all passed out of life since the National election of eight ,1 i years ago, which, It must be admitted, is h j ' an extraordinary mortality for a party I A7hlch Is professedly tho organisation of ' young and progrcsBlvo men. H:1' Hanna and Tom Heed Gone. '! Ma,r!c Hanna 'hed at the samo hotel in -i WaHhington and under the samo clrcum- Ktances a Tom Reed. Tho Illness of both i, I these men, who In their own peraons rcp-resented rcp-resented the two most antagonistic olc- i ' nicnts In the Republican politics, was J tf 8hort. sharp and decisive. Comparatively Hll ill fevi' days ln each 0380 brought about an i ' end to their political and their earthly j '! i labors. Hl ; Henry C. Payne, who wan vlce-chair- 1 I; man of tho National commlttco and who itl had left his Impress on Republican poli- lt j tics to a large extent before 1S3C, died at the samo hotel, although his Illness was t a more lingering one, and although tho J 2d..?v?3 forecasted through a long period l of 111 health. Hvi1 There was a Senatorial coterie In those days which has a vast amount of lnllu- F if $nco on tho party management In tho dlf- l)1; icrent States, and, of course, ln the Na- H h tit nal committee Ingalls. John Sherman. Hp' J Matt Quay, McMillan of Michigan, Gear ! ?! Iow,L- Morrill of Vermont and Cushman I'l,; K Davis of Minnesota, all havo been tn- ii I ken away ainco the St. Louis convention i J or eight years ago. ,j Notables Now Retired. Hi I Many other men who had national ropu- l ij tations at that time and who were depend- Sf ed UII0M lo do n Krcat deal of the hard work of the party havo drifted out of ac- live service and -todaj really have little jh to do with tho detail management of tho 1 li Nntlonal campaign. ? Clarkson of Iowa was then the personal 'J campaign manager for Senator Allison. A a?d ho nad b-cn ior a dozen years one of tj the moat trusted men at headquarters, ho 1 matter who happened to he running for . President. Now ho is surveyor of the port of New York, but while his advlco con- j slantly Is sought In a National campaign, 1 .U he no longer appears In tho active man- 53 ayment. John P. Jones of Nevada and l;l Teller of Colorado both left the party for B good and destroyed their own personal ln- H I $ fiuenco thereby. ,3 Ssnator Chandler oS New Hampshire, I who was associated with the party mau- ; j Rgemont from Hayes to McKInloy, and -who sat In the Cabinet ln the meantime, H , ! was defeated for re-election to tho Sen- H r ate and now holds a minor hut lucrative ; I position on the commission which Is set- i, '( tling the Spanish war claims with becom- L lng deliberation. .' Hawley a Confirmed Invalid. Senator Hawley of Connecticut, once an aggressive factor at headquarters, has boon In actual retirement for a long while, owing to tho comploto falluro of both mind and body, ana the Conncotlcut- mom-bur mom-bur of tho National commltteu ln tho old-on old-on days, Sum Feasunden of Stamford, Is tho leading candidate for tho vacancy. T. C. Piatt, tho New York "easy boss," was onco tho recognized dictator of tho policy of tho Republican parly as expressed ex-pressed through Its National committee, lie and Quay tried to beat McKlnley by putting up not only Tom Reed, but Cushman Cush-man K. Dnvla, Cullom and half a dozon othor favorlto sons In various parts of the country. Today Piatt cannot evon control con-trol his own Stato. IIo has been supplanted sup-planted by Odell, who grow up In hia own ofllco, and has been deprived of tho privilege priv-ilege of running tho parly machinery in New York. HIb Influence at Washington luus been dissipated, and ho Is tolerated somewhero near tho center of tho political Htago merely out of dofcrchco to what ho onco was. Tho colleague of Conkllng, who dared to resign through hia quarrol with Garfield, is in reality far removed from the turmoil of tho National campaign, although al-though he still is permitted to be a political politi-cal figurehead for the soke of the personal person-al iullucnco ho exercises upon affairs In New York State. Tom Carter Quietly Shelved, Tom Carter, who ran Hnrrlson's unsuccessful unsuc-cessful campaign, and who wa3 as Jolly and as witty a chairman as tho National committee ever had. Is caivfullv. shelved on the St. Louis exposition board, and hopes to get back to tho Senate if Croesus Croe-sus Clark of Montana does not interpose his veto. Joo Munley, who for so many years was tho mouthpiece of tho National committee. com-mittee. Is hidden eomowhero u) ln Maine, and his Influonco on tho national campaign cam-paign Is nothing. Ho is not allowed evon tho poor privilege of Issuing the usual perfunctory per-functory Illlll Whnllv naoloou rnrnnnut I'.in Saturday boforo the election, his functions func-tions In tills regard having been usurped, I apparently forever, by G-cn. Grosvcnor, the Ohio Santa Clans. Cornelius R. Bliss of New York cltv pmctlcnlly Is the only Republican of prominence left lodny In an oftlciai capacity ca-pacity at national headquarters who participated par-ticipated actively in the wonderful cain-paign cain-paign within the ranks of tho party which marked the triumph of William McKlnley McKln-ley and which brought to tho front tho unique political force of Marcus A. Hanpo of Ohio, who was sneered at by the old-timers In 1S5G exactly a3 George . Cortelyou has been scoffed at In 1001. Ecw Changes in OtlTcr Party. So great has been the change In tho Republican Re-publican ranks that one Is lmrdly pro-pared pro-pared to Und exactly the opposite Is true, or nearly so, on the Democratic sldo of tho fence. Apparently the Republicans havo boon the gainers by the steady Infusion of new blood and by turning over tho party management man-agement to the younger men, as tho Democratic Dem-ocratic party is to all Intents nnd purposes pur-poses on the verge of a defeat even greater great-er than that of 1800, becauso then thero was open revolt on a matter of principle, princi-ple, while now the party seems to bo marching to defeat with little more than dry rot as the Impelling reason for iho disaster. Gov. Altgcld of Illinois, Gov. Russell of Massachusetts. Dan Vorhces of Indiana, In-diana, William L. Wilson of West Virginia, Vir-ginia, who framed the tariff law which precipitated the Republican landslide of ten years ngo, and a fow others have passed over the divide: but it is remarkable remark-able how many of tho Democratic leaders lead-ers who were prominent In ISM. and even before that time, aro still more or less actively trusted ln tho party management. manage-ment. Former Leaders Still Activo. Grover Clovelnnd is actually making speeches for Parker, and Hoke Smith. Vilas, Francis, Harmon and Olnoy of his Cabinet aro still In close touch with national na-tional headquarters. Dave Hill and Gorman aro still In the thick of tho light, and Bryan, whllo he does not represent the dominant faction, as he did eight years ago. Is yet tho Idol of Democratic multitudes, and is depended depend-ed upon by the party managers to help them In doubtful States. James K. Jones of Arkansas, who managed man-aged the disastrous Bryaji campaign; Tom Johnson of Cleveland, who ran things to suit himself in Ohio, aro still allvo and kicking: and Tillman of South Carolina Caro-lina continues to make his periodical Incursions In-cursions Into tho Northern States, shouting shout-ing against tho negro and leaving behind be-hind a trail of Increased Republican majorities ma-jorities wherever he goes. |