Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-19

them away. That is why they are not
satisfied with the list of gubernatorial
entries that has been submitted to
| them.
The three leading candidates are
Carmi Thompson of Ironton, Secretary
of State Warren G. Harding of Marion,
d former Foraker lieutenant, reputed
to be the best stumper the party has
produced since the days of his fallen
chieftan and Judge O. B. Brown q
| Judge of the Common Pleas Court of
Dayton. OF the three. Harding pos
sesses the most pronounced elements of
personal strength. His popularity,
generally speaking. is unquestioned
His silvcr-tongued oratory has resoun-
ded IN every section of the State. But
some of his oratory and some of his
literary outputs in the paper he pub
fishes have been directed against the
demon rum, ard although the demon
rum has no respectable defenders in
| the large cities any more than in the
rural precints, an outspoken advocate
| of prohibition is not the most popular
political quantity in villages of pro-
nounced German tendencies such as
| Cincinnati for instance.
| Mr.. ThOmpson's chief strength is in
his nome district and in his manner of
! picking off unattached delegates to the
coming convention, which is to settle
the who's who question on July 26-27.
| AS secretary of state he has made
good record. AS stump orator lie, is
| successful mainly in spreading tWen-
| tv-minute speech over two hours and
half
| Brown didn't have any idea that he
| wanted to be governor until he say an
| interview with George B. Cox the Gin
cinnati chief ain, IN the Ohio papers one
| morning Cox said that Brown was
| the one man who would be nominated
| and elected. WhereupOn Brown being
| a good soldier, became the Cox candl-
! date for governor. which action was
| greeted with cheers of derision until
if came to be observed that one Theo-
dore F. Burton, a United States sena-
tor frorn Ohio, who was supposed TO
control the next Cuyahoga County del
egation to the State convention. was
/ smuggling up to the wicked Cincinnati
boss. There were mysterious confer
ences in Cincinnati, Cleveland and
Washington, all of which included
gentlemen so close to Cox and so close
to Burton that it might just as wen
have been Burton and Cox in personal
confab And one day the storm
broke in the form of an an
nouncement that combination
had been made between Burton
and Cox, the former agreeing to sup
port Brown for governor, Cox in return
throwing his strength to couple OF
fayortes of BurtOn-Treadway 1or
lieutenant governor and Speaker Moo
ney of the House of Representatives
for secretary of State.
Jyp to that time the old Taft mana
gers including Arthur /, Vorys, VINO
had been Judge Taft's chief of stan III
the presidential campaign. Waiter +.
Brown the Toledo chieftain, Wade FL
lie the suddenly selected chairman or
the State Executive Committee, an"
one or two others, had been sending up
trial balloons. Every day or two they
.'mentioned" someone for governor
inst to see how he'd take. They tried
ont Judge Reynold Kinkade of Toledo
who once sent a couple of vicious ice
trust offenders to jail, having in TINS
wise beat Mr.. Harmon to the dlscoN-
ery that guilt is personal, and theh
they dropped him again. Ihey TOOK up
others and likewise dropped them. EV-
.r, onca in n while clarion call Tor
Nicholas Longworth would De Souilue"'
only to die away in the Kentucky mus
ar above the waters OF Lake Eric ue
handing on the source of origin or ttle
direction of the wind; and YET dsai,i
the voice of radicals would DE raiatu'
clamoring for James *. tiarneio' INC
nrince of progrcssives. Ana theh asain
all would be still, and to those VINO 'i'
tened intently there seemed hoth'he =.
II save only Brown, with burton ai~'
Cox behind him.
pnt among the listeners was the gentle-
man with the broad smile whose auuie
&, tho White House. Washington. d. e.
ana who has special interest in ONO
affairs He did not like the voices that
oan,a am ont of the stiffness. For the
o,,o<, no aanarted from his policy of non
;n,arference He and some of his ad-
,,isars got together, and they concluded
,bat altooether things had been permit
tod tn run into a blind alley. 1t would
not do to permit a Republican guberna-
torial candidate to be chosen as the re-
s,,+ of a deal. even when SO truly great
and good a man as Burton was a party
to it, The Republicans of the state
might resent the manner OF Judge
Browns selection. Ihere was nothihs
against Judge Brown: but if nominated,
it would be only fair that the convention
| have a real opportunity to register its
| preferences.
| Whereupon Senator Burton promptly
| denied that there was any deal on be
| tween the good Burton and the wicked
| Cox And just to prove it, some of the
delegates whom he was supposed to con-
! troll in Cleveland. announced that they
| were free and untrammeled agents, that
| they liked the progressive platform ad-
! vocated by James r. Garfield, that they
were against Brown and that they pur-
posed to cast their votes in the conven-
| ton for the Roosevelt Secretary of the