Evening star., 1901-05-30
NASH STILL IN RACE
Ohio Governor Gives Out Statement
to the Public.
DENIES RUM0RS ABOUT bis HEALTH
Politicians, However, Regard His
Prospects Handicapped Thereby.
TALK OF JUDGE TAFT
)ENIES RUMORS ABOUT HIS HEALTH
K OF JUDGE
TALK
TAFT

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 30.-F. N. Sinks
the private secretary of Gov. Nash, gave
out the following statement today relative
to the condition of the governors health
and his wishes as to a nomination for 6
second term: ''Since the return of Gov
Nash from California some doubts have
been expressed as to whether he would be
a candidate for denomination owing to the
condition Of his health. Some rumOrs have
it that he has positively declined to allow
his name to be considered. There Is abso
lutely no foundation for such doubts anc
rumOrs The governor stands today in tht
same position he did some months age
when he said that if the republican part
desired to honor him with denomination he
would accept it. There is no probability 81
Gov. Nash's health interfering with the
work of undertaking a campaign. The
governor is improving in a manner entirely
satisfactory to his physicians, and they are
confident of his early and complete recov-
cry
Party Leaders Anxious.
Previous to this statement there has been
a great deal of comment among the party
leaders as to the effect the condition of
the governors health would have on his
chances for denomination.
The blood clot that his physicians say has
formed either in his brain or spinal cord
may be absorbed and the rupture healed
but they have enjoined absolute quiet for
three weeks. This will bring him up to
the time set for the republican state con-
vention. In other words. the party will be
called upon to make a choice of candidates
before it can be definitely known whether
the governor will recover or be confirmed
invalid.
Such is the political condition in Ohio
this year. All are agreed that the nomi-
nation of a man to head the ticket Is
equivalent to drafting him to lead a siren
uous campaign. One of the governors best
friends said to The Star correspondent yes
terday: mo friend of Governor Nash will
urge his nomination in his present condi-
ton 1t would certainly mean his death
for him to undertake vigorous campaign
work"
The trouble is of an apoplectic nature
and the governor is of the typical apoplec-
tic build He is almost sixty years old,
and apoplectic attacks at that age are uSu-
ally the beginning of the end.
Otherwise Sure of Nomination.
But for the governors failing health there
would have been no question about his
The prominence of George b.
Cox In the movement to retire the governor
with but a single term was sufficient to
arouse in the governors behalf the whole
moral element of the party who looked
upon 1t merely as an attempt to discipline
Gov. Nash for interfering with the Jeffries-
Rubin prize fight. This issue seemed to
be made all the clearer when it was re-
ported from Cincinnati that Cox had con-
n Ind n civ an nj iTIu utiIr, 70 ha Sfa q
that either both Nash and Cald-
well should be renominated or neither
should be. After all, it looks as though the
movement to "shelve" Gov. Nash was only
a feint to help Lieutenant Governor Cald-
well, whose chances for nomination are
very small. 1t has at least brought out a
significant expression from the American
Issue-the organ of the Anti-Saloon League
Prefacing the declaration with the state
ment that it found many things in Gov.
Nashs administration to criticiSe and re-
garded his appointment of two brewers to
his staff as an unnecessary rebuke to the
temperance element of the party, it says
that it desires it distinctly understood that
in an effort to punish Gov. Nash for enforc-
Ing the state law against prize fighting it
will stand squarely by the governor"
Should the governors health prevent his
nomination, it is not improbable that Judge
VIM. H. Taft, who was suggested some
time ago, when the first talk of "shclving'
Governor Nash was heard, will be placed
az the head of the ticket-friends vouching
for him that he would not refuse the nomi-
nation OF such excellent reputation is
Judge Taft that the fact that the sugges-
tlon Of him as Il candidate came first from
the George B. Cox element could not weak
en- him in the moral clements of the party
But, pending the developments in the gov
apoplectic trouble, efforts in ticket
will wait.
On the Democratic Side.
ali md ippc
point to the complete control of the situa-
tion by the Kilbourne- Mclean combination.
If this proves SO, the undoing of Tom l..
Johnson may be credited to Johnson him
self. Two weeks ago it seemed wholly i'm
probable that there could be combina-
ton of his opponents. kilbourne and Nc
Lean had nothing in common, and never
did have. But in declaring for Lentz for
United States senator, Mr.. Johnson sup
piled the thing that was necessary to bring
them into an alliance For their mutual
safety they formed combination which
Is very strong, for Mclean controls the
state committee, and Kilbourne has a large
ma ajority of the state delegates 50 far
chosen.
If this combination succeeds there will
be no Endorsement of any one in the state
for United States senator, but
Mclean will be the candidate when the
legislature meets-if it is democratic.
kilbourne will, of course be the candi-
date for governor, and the platform will be
modelled after those used by the party ten
years ago. The theories and fads borrowed
Of the populists and used in all recent plat
forms of the democrats will be cut out and
an effort made to get back to the original
principles of the democratic party. Moth
ing will be repudiated but a great deal will
be ignored. In that way it is hoped that
Tom Johnson will not be driven to bolt"
the platform.
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