The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-02
OHIO DEMOCRATS
ARE TALKING our IN FAVOR OF
 JUDGE HARMON.
Boom VIII Be Sprung Tn Few Days and 1t Is Said He win Get Solid Delegation-Wsll Be Op- posed by Mayor Tom
 Johnson.

Cincinnati Special to The Pittsburg Jackson day is perhaps better ob- served by Ohio Democrats than the Democrats of any other Northern state. In nearly every city. in almost every large town of the State there Is a Jackson day banquet and Jackson day It was learned today that at either one or several of these banquets the name of Judson Harmon, of Cincinnati will be presented as the choice of Ohio Democrats for President in the Demo- cratic National Convention. which is to asselnble in Denver on July z For some time past there has been a growing feeling among the Democrats of the State that the Ohio delegation should be instructed to vote in the Na- tionai Convention as unit for Judge
 today. may crystalline at Columbus on
 January 6, when the Legislature assem- bles.
 On that day there will be at ohio's
 sressionaiS districts of the state. Most of. thes Democrats of the State are
 aware of the Democratic feeling for
 Judge Harmon. although as yet no sys-
 tematic work has been put in for him.
 There are no differences of a per-
 sonal nature between Judge Harmon
 aud William J. Bryan
 There were Democrats here today
 who ventured the prediction that Judge
 gation at his back in the National Con vention.
 Mayor Tom L. Johnson. of Cleveland. who controls the two congressional dis tricts of Cuyahoga County, bat inas-
 much as the delegation in National Convention votes under the unit rule.
 Mayor Johnson, it is expected. will be
 swept off his feet by the Democratic sentiment of the State for an Ohio Democrat, that Democrat being Judge Harmon.
 Few Democratic politicians are aware of the exact position to be taken by
 Harvey Garber, Democratic State Chairman. ;, MT. Garber like Mayor Johnson, is Bryan man, but there is
 a. very severe personal and political
 altereation going on between the two
 tional Committeeman for the State only by the appointment of Chairman Thomas Taggart, whereas the Demo-
 cratic sentiment of the State favors the
 elevation of Mir. Garber as Democrat ic Committeeman.
 The differences between Mir. Garber
 and Mayor Johnson, it was said today, l will not in any way interfere with the sentiment of the State that the Demo- crats should send delegation to the National Convention pledged to Judge | Harmon. The differences between those | two men also, 1t was stated would not l conflict with tho personal relations ex- isting. between Colonel Bryan and | Judge Harmon.
 Influential members of the Democrat.
 ic state Committee said today that with didate for President next year, Ohio | would swing easily and gracefully into smoeratic column.
 The opinion of these men was based upon Judge Harmon's availability, his
 career as a pubiic man, his worthiness as a judge. hts capabilities as a cam
 paigner and his clean and honorable 1 life.
 men also went on to say that few out
 side of the State are aware of the bit- terness of the controversy which Pres
 %n s hss aSS s: a.hs
 and Senator Foraker and his adher- ents. This controversy has been rag ing for number of months. It becomes more bitter, more intense,
 as each day passes. and as the time | for the primaries approaches and as | the day for the Republican State Con-
 actual .animosity between the Taft peo- pie and the Foraker people cannot be easily described.
 RepubIicans counted as friends of | Secretary Taft do not hesitate to say in personal conversation that the ,Presi- | dents onslaught on Senator FAraker
 was so cruel. so needless, so unwar- the long run to be immeasurably jn- | jured by the Presidents course. 1 Even friends of Congressman Bur-
 ton. whom Tom Johnson defeated for under their breaths that it was Pres | ident Roosevelt and Secretary Taft in the needless warfare declared on Sem l toms defeat.
 It was made known for thes first time today that in the recent Cleveland
 mayoralty campaign a number of nes
 man Burton and asked him if he sym pathfzed with the effort of President
 Roosevelt and Secretary Taft to elim-
 and that Representative Burton re-
 fused to answer the question.
 Thereupon it was stated that the made made known the result of their visit to Representative Burton, and as a consequence, 3.500 negro voters in the county, all naturally Republican, turn-
 ed about face and voted for Mayor
 This single episode will furnish an example of the intensity of the Repub- furnish evidence as to the faith that
 the Democrats have that with Judge
 Harmon as their standard bearer for
 the Presidency next year. they can
 The Democratic State committeeman and others who believe that with Judge Harmon as the Democratic Presiden- tial candidate Ohio can be carried for
 him also point out that only two years ago John NJ. Pattison, a Democratic candidate for Governor, was elected by a plurality of 45,o00, because of the factional quarrel in Republican State matters precipitated by Secretary Taft
 in his speech at Akron.
 sta9e wora ss,sttiva sne heRuoanI tba sst or Ene gree to. what they term foreign in- terference. and on the occasion spoken
 of Secretary Taft left his seat in that speech at ANron which defeated Governor Myron T. Herrick for re- election.
 men who believe that with Judge Har- mon as the Democratic presidential candidate Ohio will join the Demo- cratic column are, it was learned, de- termined that from this time until the Democratic State Convention assem- bles in May to put forth their best ef- forts to send solid delegation to the National Convention for Judge Har- mon.