The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-02-03
Prospective Democratic Candi-
date for President is Sixty
Four Today.
FLOOD OF CONGRATULATIONS
Harmon Expects to Seek e-eIection
to Governorship of Ohio After
Which He May Enter Fight
for Presidential Nomination.

pears to be meeting with much favor
IN many parts of the country, and
particularly I'm the South, received "a
Hood of congratulatory messages to-
day on the occasion of his sixty-fourth
birthday anniversary, Governor Har-
mon is not discussing the question
OF his presidential candidacy just now.
He expects to be a candidate for re-
election to the governorshsip. If he
Is successful i'm the coming state cam
paign it is accepted as a foregone con-
clusion that his name will be presented
for the head of the ticket at the next
democratic national convention.
on the basis of precedent, it would
seem that no man i'm public life to-
day could stand much better chance
of being elected president that Gov
ernor Harmon. Any student of the
presidential form" sheet would GER
tainly post the Ohio governor as a
sure winner.
To begin with, he is native of
Ohio, which state has furnished more
occupants of the White House than
|
the single exception of Virginia, which
has one more president to her credit
that has Ohio.
He is lawyer by profession, as
were Presidents Adams, jefferson,
Madison, ]. @. Adams. Jackson, Van
Buren, Tyler, Polk Fillmore, Pierce,
| Buchanan, Lincoln, Hayes. Garfield,
Affh
ley and Taft.
He has served as state governor as
did Presidents jefferson. Monroe.
Jackson. Van Buren,, William Henry
Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Johnson, Hayes,
Cleveland, Mckinley and Roosevelt.
| He has the benefit of experience as
cabinet officer, as did Presidents
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, J. @.
Adams, Van Buren,, Buchanan, Grant
and Taft
The very name of the Ohio COVER
nor is one for the political prophets
to conjure with. He has no middle
name, which is a distinction he shares
with no fewer than eighteen occupants
of the presidential chair His name
contains the letter "a" which occurs
i'm the name of each president except
ing Tyler's and Roosevelt's.
Governor Harmons name ends with
the letter ''n," which is the final sur
name letter of ten presidential names
To make his election absolutely sure
all Governor Harmon will have to do
is to secure a running mate on the
ticket whose surname also ends with
the letter en-" The only presidential
candidate whose name ended with
the letter IN" who failed of election
when the name of the vice presiden-
tial candidate also ended with IN"
was William j. Bryan. Bryan and
Watson. Bryan and Stevenson and
Bryan and Kern furnished the only
exceptions to the rule.
All other presidential candidates
whose surnamcs ended with the letter
en-" with vice presidential candi- |
date whose surname ended with the
letter "n" were elected. as Jeffer- |
son and Clinton, Madison and Clin-
ton, Jackson and Calhoun, Jackson and |
Van Buren, Van Buren, and John
son, Lincoln and Hamlin, Lincoln and |
Johnson and Harrison and Morton.
Campaign Lively in Indiana.
Indianapolis, Ind, Feb S.--This city
was today the mecca for the political
leaders OF Indiana, both democrats and |
republicans. The roundup of the poll
ticians was the largest seen here in a |
long time. The democrats came to the |
capital for a meeting of the Indiana |
Democratic Editorial association and |
a banquet with Governor Marshall, |
Senator Shively and other leading
lights among the scheduled speakers.
A meeting of the new republican state
committee FOR the purpose of reorgan-
izing was the magnet that attracted
large numbers.
Lines are being drawn for one of
the hardest-fo fought state campaigns in
the history of Indiana, and IL looks as
though all the elements of each of the
two big parties would be united for
their respective causes. Indiana has a
normal republican majority of about
thirty-fivc thousand. Last TALL, howeV--
er. the democrats succeeded in elect
ing the governor by about sixteen
thousand. and they also elected eleven
out of the thirteen congressman, sew
eral other state officers and major
ity of the legislators. From this they
are taking hope for the coming fray.
The republicans are counting on a
better organization and greater de-
gree of unitedness to carry them
through on the republican side of
the contest will be such fighters as ex-
Governor Durbin. Ex-Governor Hanly. |
Senator Beveridge and others. on the
democratic side will be Governor Mar
shall. Thomas Taggart Senator shive-
lily. Congressman Korbly, who is sched-