New-York tribune., 1910-07-25
MAY OVERTHROW COX
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| for decades been governed by strong lead
| ers Loyalty to them has been a marked
| characteristic of the privates and the SUD-
| alterns. Unauestioned support has always
been accorded the state and national ad-
| ninistrations. There have been many ONO
Presidents. and to them the party has ever
looked for direction. While not seeming
or even wishing to dictate, they have con-
trolled the party councils here at nome, ana
no one considered their actions as unusual
or extraordinary. This mild paternallsm
produced fixed condition Conventions
were not expected to name candidates TOT
the Governorship or enunciate political plat
forms until they had been first vised at
Washington.
Lookinq for the Strongest Man.
When President Taft declared that he
would not follow this system his utter
ances were received with doubt-and, II
NAV be said, strong doubt The incredu-
lcus ones could not picture a state conven-
ton celebrating without Executive guild
ance. They now compose the minority
The majority have the good sense to see
that President Taft is in earnest, and have
done him the honor TO accept his word as
final.
Though he might have suggested the
entire ticket and every plank or the plat
form, he has said with decision that the
delegates must themselves do these things,
and now the task confronts them, all uIl-
used as they are to such labors- When II
is remembered that the Democrats have
nominated Governor Judson Harmon, who
may be the Presidents rival in the Efec-
toral College of 1913. Tafts sacrifice will be
arpreciated at it's true worth. Should the
delegates blunder on either candidate or
platform the President will be greatly I'M
pertlled in his own state, for Harmon's re-
election undoubtedly assures his nomlna-
ton for the Presidency by his own party.
That the delegates and the party leaders
are sincerely seeking for the strongest man
and the most trustworthy means to de-
feat Harmon there is no question It IS
their difference of opinions that creates the
great doubt and division that exist upon
the very eve of the convention There are
four candidates for the nomina ton for Gov
ernor-Judge Oren Britt Brown, of Dayton;
former Secretary Of the Interior James
Rudolph Garfield, of Cleveland; Secretary
Of State Carmi A Thompson, Of 1ronton,
and former Lieutenant Governor Warren
G. Harding, of Marion. Judge Reynolds r.
Kinkade, who had a strong following, took
himself out OF the race yesterday Judge
Browns sponsor is George B. Cox, of Gin
cinnati. whose early declaration for him.
some months ago, has made his candi-
dacy formidable.
Mr. Cox is the last Of the old guard Of
leaders in whose ranks were found Hanna,
Foraker, Mckinley, Sherman and others
of generation nearly extinct His
power at home, after twenty years of con-
inf
through the state still potent Analysis
by him of the defeat of General Andrew
1. Harris. the nominee for Governor in
1908. shows that it was produced by the
desertion Of the party by the German and
the liberal vote. General Harris being
pronounced temperance advocate and the
supporter Of legislation particularly OBJ
noxious to the liquor trade This analy-
sis is fortified by a study OF the results
in the fve large cities of the state, which
gave Governor Harmon a combined ma
jority so large as to overcome the rest
of the state
In Cincinnati which President Taft
carried handsomely. his majority was
slightly in excess Of that given Harmon.
Mr.. Cox believes that Judge Brown, who
will be acceptable to the liberal element
and not offensive TO the Anti-Saloon
League, will hold the wet vote Of the
party in line, and when this is done the
natural preponderance in numbers of the
Republicans Will automatically insure a
victory.
Newark Lynohina Intervenes.
Three weeks age IT seemed as if Cex's
strategy would be adopted Since then
the state has been convulsed by a riot
aoH 1S-,,rbjnO az arIr o$
an effort to enforce the unpopular county
prohibition laws. This has aroused the
ire Of the temperance forces. who are de-
r2anding that there must be no conlpro-
mise with such criminal liberalism Gov
error Harmon, through the quick removal
of the derelict Mayor and Sheriff of the
offending community and the ordering of
the Attorney General to practically super
sede a suspected District Attorney IN the
prosecution OF the rioters. has seized an
important advantage with the temperance
element without sacrificing the support Of
the E'wets"
Though such careful persons as Senator
Theodore z Burton insist that Judge
Brown should not be held responsible for
what occurred at Newark yet it is gen
orally accepted that he has been greatly
weakened. The noralists are also deeply
ofIended by MI cox orfer, made through
e Cincinnati newspaper, TO bet 5000 each
on the three propositions that Brown win
be nominated. that he will carry Hamilton
County (CincinnatD and that he viii be
elected These things and the alleged
slaughter Of the Republican state ticket IN
Cincinnati in 1903 are being used with some
effect in the upstate counties. sixty-two Of
which have voted out the saloons and are
represented by temperance men in the Gen
eral Assembly.
Former Secretary Garfelds part in the
situation is interesting one. At the out
set it was disclanned that he was candi-
date for the nomination, although q year
ago there was a pronounced feeling that he
was the most available man in the party
II is known that this was then the view OF
Senator Burton.
When the Pinchot- -Ballinger controversy
broke out Garfield took sides with the first
named, thereby coming into seeming con-
flict with President Taft. He was promptly
set down as impossible. Some strength has
been lent by the PRONUNCIATION OF his plat
form declaring for the enactment OF laws
creating a public service commission. the
recall for elective officers. the adoption of
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