The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-04-21
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MAKES BID FOR
THE PRESIDENCY
His Recent Speech in ~
York His First Open
Announcement
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Ohio Republicans Must Elect Him
Governor for Another Term to Make
Candidacy Fact-.-Will Invade Min.
nesota to Beat Out johnson.
Columbus, Ohio, April 2O.-In con-
Quoting his long distance campaign
for the Democratic presidential nomi-
nation three years hence Governor
Judson Harmon is using what he con-
ceives to be a great deal of tact. He
boyishly refrained during the past
few days from exhibiting for publica-
ton numerous congratulatory tele-
grams which poured in upon him
from all sections of the country, prin-
cipally from the south, over his
speech delivered Tuesday night before
the National Democratic club at the
Savoy hotel in New York. That
speech, the principal one of the oc-
casion in celebration or Jefferson Day,
is generally accepted as Harnon's
first utterance in his campaign. He
is naturally plain-spoken man, and
he was unusually plain in that New
York speech. In the light of presi-
Dental possibility his reference to the
old doctrine of states rights and his
emphatic approval of such doctrine
has endeared him to the south in
such way as to give the governor
complete satisfaction, for as attorney
general in the cabinet Of Grover
Cleveland, he has not heretofore had
any strength to speak of in the south.
A lot of the governors congratula-
tory kilograms came from the Pacific
coast states. There isn't any doubt
that Governor Harmon expected some
kilograms from that section of the
country. 1t is evident that the east
accepted him with open arms and the
Democratic press of that section.
what there is Of 1t, accorded him un-
stinted praise for what he said and
what he promises in the guise of a
Must Get Past 1910.
But there is another and a darker
side to the question. Just now Gov
ernor Harmon is no doubt making
preparations to follow up his coup
with additional cid time Democratic
doctrines, as against the fads and fol-
lies OF radical and sectional and cli-
matte Democracy. He has accepted
numerous invitations to speak before
legal. political and civic organizations
In different parts of the country. In
short time he will invade the Old
Dominion to address the annual gath
ering Of the Virginia Bar association.
Then he goes to Minnesota, to Illi-
aois, New York state again. Boston
and almost anywhere he listeth and
he is being listed rather frequently:
For, be 1t known, Harmon is. in all
lerjousness, in the hunt for the nomi-
nation.
The darker side has to do with
Governor Harmon's candidacy for re-
election in November, 1910, which is
admittedly necessary to his success at
the hands Of the next Democratic ma
honal convention. The question has
10 90 with the ability OF Ohio Repub-
licans to read these -Demoratic
htterances OF their Democratic gover-
nor, whom they are entirely RESPONSE
BILE for, and then 60 stolidly to the
polls and elect him all over again.
will not his radical Democracy. the
sort their fathers despised and detest-
ed and the sort they have learned to
denounce and deplore. deter them
from leaving their own fireside
second time? Last fail, in his cam
paign for the governorship. Harmon
was Independent In views. He want
ed to get in Office only that he might
sweep from the face Of the earth the
long established Republican regime in
Ohio. He declared in stentorian tones
from every stump in the state that
the old statehouse was reeking with
tottenness, that the management Of
The ancient Ohio penitentiary was by
Ill odds the most despiable, that not
,neof the horde of Republican Office
holders was without blame. He was
90 earnest in his declaration that the
people took him at his word. great
many Republicans who had not been
in the habit Of straying from the
beaten paths. So the normal Repub-
lican plurality of 10000 in Ohio
dwindled into nothingness and Har-
mon won by nearly 10000.
More Than They Can Digest.
But the 10000 will not want to be
CcdUluS uldiiy NUTS SUCH SpeSCu0S aS
Harmon delivered in New York Tues
day night. That is more than they
can digest. Every sentence that fell
from his lips was charged with in
vective and bitter denunciation of
Republican performances in the con-
iuct OF the national government. past
and present. and dire predictions were
mace touching the alleged inability
rf President Taft to steer the ship OF
state along truly economic. even hon
sst. lines.
And to think that this is to DO re-
peated ana the charges multiplied in
Virginia; that the &. o. p. is to be
fairly nailed to the cross in Minnesota.
where Harmon no doubt will literally
show his teeth at Governor John A.
Johnson of that state, his only appar-
mt opponent for the nomination. and