The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-29
Three Candidates Support.
ed by 800 Delegates.
OHIO REPUBLICANS BATTLE.
Unless Warning Leaders Reach Agrees
nnent Lonsworth May Secure Nomi-
nation For ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
10 Silent Concerning Fight.

tOlumDuS, u, July 2O.-Ine nrSt
session of the Republican state conven-
ton, which Is to nominate a candidate
for governor and state officers to op-
pose the Democratic state ticket head
ed by Governor Judson Harmon, will
be called to order in Memorial hall at
4 o'clock this afternoon.
Representative Nicholas Longworth
of Cincinnati, the temporary chairman
of the convention, in his speech Is to
defend the Taft policies as to the
Payne-Aldrich bill and other national
measures adopted at Washington last
winter. He is also to defend past
Republican state administrations and
to attack the Democratic platform on
which Governor Harmon was renomi-
mated at Dayton several weeks ago.
Governor Harmon and Representative
Longworth are neighbors in Cincin-
natl and have long been personal
friends although politically opposed to
each other. President Taft and Repre-
sentative Longworth are also home
neighbors in cincinnati and the Tafts
and the Longworths are intimate po-
litically and locally in Washington and
at Bevelry
President Taft has long been fond Of
Mr.. LCngwOrth not because the latter
is eX-President Roosevelt's son-in-law,
but because of the intimate associa-
tiOns OF years. While it is accepted
here that President Taft on the visit
of Senator Burton and Senator Dick
to Beverly made it clear that he de-
sired to keep aloof from interfering in
the work of this convention he never
thelesS as a citizen of Ohio had
right to his personal views as to
candidate for governor and it is under
stood that the president did not look
in the keen favor upon the candidates.
of either Judge Aren Britt Brown Of
Dayton or James Rudolph Garfield of
Monitor. 1t has become known in the
inner circles of the convention that
the nomination of Mr. Longworth for
governor would not be displeasing to
President Taft, but on the contrary
would receive his hearty approval.
The prediction is freely expressed
that should the warning factors con-
tinue their bitter work there will be
bur one outcome, the nomination Of
Mr.. Longworth.
The warning Republican leaders de-
clared that Judge Brown would enter
the convention with 300 delegates at
his back, Warren G. Harding of Mar
ion 800, Carmi y. Thompson of Iron
ton 300 and Garfield 125. This would
about absorb the LOGS delegates COM
prlsing the convention.
George Il. Cox, the burly boss of
Cincinnati, continues to predict Judge
Browns nomination, declaring he had
no second choice, and yet he remem-
bered how Harding in 1904 eulogized
him as the Napoleon of Cincinnati Re-
publican politics But, while grateful
to Harding for his sentiments, Cox
was unalterably for Brown. AS to
Garfield, Cox has no use for him.
, All sorts of reports are being circu-
| lated among the delegates to the con-
vention. one of these is the declara-
| tion on the part of Mr.. Garfield's init
mates that Theodore Roosevelt is or
| ganizing an insurrection all over the
country against the Taft administra-
! ton. There is an impression that the
nomination of Representative Long
worth for governor would in a measure
offset this alleged insurrection, for
! Mr. Roosevelt might feel it agreeable
and convenient to come into President
! Taft's state and make a speech or two
| for Mr.. LongwOrth.