Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-04-08
THE ELECTIONS OF 1910.
Conditions That Make Them Of Especial
Importance to the Public.

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| Importance to the Puolic.
| The general elections of 1910 will
| be OF especial importance because
they will furnish the American peo-
pie the first opportunity to pass on
| the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill and the
Taft administration. Not only are
all the members of the house of rep
resentatives to be chosen, but thirty
members of the United States senate
and thirty-two governors. In the case
Of The senator's three haNe been elect
ed already-Williams of Mississippi,
Daniel of Virginia and Rayner Of
Maryland. The legislature which
chooses a successor to McCumber of
North Dakota also elects a senator
for the short term in place Of Pur-
cell. The other senators whose terms
expire with the present congress are
Aldrich Of Rhode Island. Beverldge
Burkett Of Nebraska, Burrows of
Michigan, Carter of Montana, Clapp
of Minnesota. Clark of Wyoming.
Culberson Of Texas, Depew of New
ware. Flint OF California, Frazier Of
Tennessee, Hale of Maine. Kean Of
New Jersey. La Toilette Of Wisconsin.
Lodge Of Massachusetts,. Nixon Of Ne
vada, Oliver of Pennsylvania, Page Of
Vermont. Files Of Washington. Scott
of West Virginia, Sutherland of Utah,
Taliaferro Of Florida and Warner Of
Missouri. Since three OF the senators
and Purcell come from the same
state there are only twenty-seven
states to name senator's before March
next. 1t is an interesting coinci-
ty-seven states that elect governors
on Nov. 8, as five Of them choose
their chief executives q month or
more earlier
First Gun Of 1912.
The storm center will be In Ohio.
Being the presidents own state and
also the home Of Governor Harmon.
who, II reelected, will be a leading
candidate for the Democratic presi-
dental nomination, the Ohio contest
becomes the preliminary engagement
to the general battle Of 1912. While
the state is normally Republican by
from $4,000 to 100000 plurality, the
last two governors it elected Were
Democrats, and Harmon had 1892
| in a presidential year, although Taft
carried the state by 1851. In addi-
ton to the state ticket and the pres
idental stake in the governorship,
Ohio also elects one senator and
ltwenty-one congressman.
The Ohio situation has been con-
plicated by the graft exposures. AS
Governor Harmon has had much to
do with bringing the crookedness to
| light and he has favored economy,
the natural effect would be to help
him before the people. OF late this
has been somewhat neutralized, how
ever, by President Taft's insistence
on a thorough investigation. The COM
plication is augmented by the fact
that Harmon has opposed the Demo-
cratic machine, just as President Taft,
while secretary of war, opposed Boss
Cox Of the Cincinnati Republican
machine The result Of all this and
Of other things is that party lines
were never so loosely drawn in Ohio
| as at this time. The Buckeye state
has always had more politics to the
square inch than any other state in
the Union, and partisan feeling ran
high. The condition is past. Ohio
today Is full Of independent voters,
or at least Of nominal party men who
ara willing to kick out of the traces.
The importance placed on the
Buckeye fight by the national admin
istration is shown by the fact that
Wade H. Ellis was sent out to take
charge Of the Republican campaign,
resigning a well paying Federal job
in the attorney generals office to do
so. When a man Is wiling TO sepa-
rate himself from lucrative ONCE 10
become a state chairman at nothing
a year 1t Is a sign that something Is
doing. The administration denies hav-
ing sent Ellis; but, anyway, Ellis Is
there, however he got to 1t.
Looking For Standard Bearer.
There are several candidates for
the Republican nomination for gov
ernor. The first in the field and the
one that has the largest concrete sup
port Is Former Lieutenant Governor
Warren G.. Harding, who intersperses
politics with editing a newspaper. Al
the time Of an Ohio conference In
washington. A. l.. Garford, a Buckeye
capitalist, came on and was dined at
the White House. The statement was
| then made that Garford was the ad-
ministration candidate for governor,
| but since that time little has been
heard of him. Representative Men
olas Longworth was also mentioned
but he blushingly waved aside the
proffered crown, saying that he pre-
ferred to remain in congress.
Recently a new Richmond mas
come into the field in the person or
James r. Garfield. Now, the name
of Garfield is one to conJure with IN
Ohio. There are any number OF Ola
chaps in the state who voted ana
cneereQ 1Or JdllleS -. bdlHSiu tIiii
ty years ago, and there is an afec-
ton for the son because of the fath,
err Then the Roosevelt men-and
the Buckeye woods are full of them
swear by Jimmie Garfield, the form
er presidents cabinet officer and bos-
ON friend. 1t would be novel situ-
alton if the man who is standing by
Clifford Pinchot and who was kept out
of the Taft cabinet, according to sworn
testimony, by the Morgan-GugSem,
helm Alaska coal interests, should
now be called upon as the one avail
able man to save the administrator
from defeat in the presidents own
state. Yet that would be the light IN
which the country at large would in
evitaby regard Gartield's nomination
for governor of Ohio.
Personally Governor Harmon is I'M
mensely popular, and that 1t Will take
a hard fight to beat him nobody real
ICES more keenly than the Ohio Re-
publicans themselves Although six
ty-four years old, Harmon is In the
prime of his Wigor and has virile,
straightforward, Democratic way that
takes with the people. The careers