The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-07-20
NAME HERR|CK
To Preside Over State
Republican Convention
at Dayton-Democrats
Get Busy To-day al Co
lumbus.

Columbus, O., July 18.-Myron T.
Herrick, of Cleveland, will be tenn
porary chairman of the Republican
state convention. This selection gives
Herrick the opportunity to sound the
keynote for the campaign.
The convention will be held at Day
ton, the second week in September.
Governor Andrew L. Harris will be
the permanent chairman, and ex-
State Oil Inspector John r. Malloy
will be the secretary of both tempor-
ary and permanent sessions
1t will be a nominating convention
and campaign opener IN one-a reg
ular hip-hip-hurrah affair calculated
to blot out the recollection of last
falls Waterloo.
United States Senator Dick came
in from Akron in the night, slept in
the car until Wednesday morning and
shortly after daybreak went to the
Hotel Hartman. He found Governor
Harris waiting for him. After break
fast the two were closeted in the gov
ernor's room for an hour. 1t was the
first conference of the head of the
machine and the governor since Har-
lis succeeded to the chair of the late
Governor Pattison. Dick left the ex-
ccutives room with happy smile on
his face.
MANY SEE DICK.
There was waiting list for Dick
! at the Hartman long before he had
| finished his breakfast, and it grew as
the day advanced.
Candidates for places on this years
state ticket focked to Columbus to
meet the district committeeman and
local leaders brought here by the meet
ing. Horace d. Ankeney. candidate
for denomination for food commission
er; Brigham Young, of Ada; Frank l..
Beggs, of Newark, and Representative
Foster, of Ross county, opponents OF
Ankeney; Andrew G.. Comings, of
Oberlin; Speaker Carmi Thompson, Of
lronton; e. P. Riegel, of Wood county,
and B. F. Vert, of Youngstown, all
candidates for the nomination for sec
retary of state, were doing the glad
| rand act
PRESIDENT FEARED.
Fear of leading the state conven-
ton into ambush is said to be the
controlling reason with Senator Lick
and his followers on the state central
committee for taking the gathering
away from Columbus Columbus Is
one of the Roosevelt hotbeds OF the
state, and a movement. such as was
planned to take place. were the con-
yention to have been held here, the
machine claims, would have complete
iy disrupted the Republican party in
Ohio and prevented the winning or
victories for years.
WHAT DICK SAYS.
Nearly all of the aspirants for state
nominations called on Senator Dick
today. They said tonight that he
told them that he would not exert
his influence for any man against the
others aspiring to the same office.
He further told them, they say, that
he was friend to all Of them and
that his only regret was that al
could not be nominated. AS 1t was
insofar as he was concerned, the del
egates to the convention would decide
for themselves who should be the win.
ner in each contest.
| Congressman and political leaders
who interviewed the state chairman
said he told them there was no fac
tionalism between the senators OF
among the congressman and the party
leaders and that the Republicans de
sired and would have in his opinion
the most open kind of a convention
DEMOCRATS MEET TODAY.
"1f Tom Johnson is coming down
from Cleveland looking for fight.