The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-28
Ohio Republicans Get Together
Without the Expected
Long Fight.
CANDIDATE is POPULAR
WITH BOTH FACTIONS
Boss Cox and His Man Brown
Are Turned Down by Big
Majority.

COLUMBUS, O., July 27.-With a
candidate for governor who WAS nom
mated by combination Of regulars and
! progressives and platform pronounced
good by the former element and SO per
cent good by the latter section of the
party. the Ohio Republican convention
broke up and went home today in a
state OF much contentment.
| The ticket Includes:
For governor-Warren G. Harding Of
| Marion
| For lieutenant governor-Francis W.
Treadway of Cleveland
For secretary of state-GranvilIe W.
Mooney of Austinburg.
For attorney general-U. Grant Den
man Of Toledo.
For treasurer-Rudy A. Archer OF
Belmont county.
Eor Justices of the supreme court
William B. Crew of McConnellsville and
Augustus N. Summers Of Springfield.
"Everybody's Second Choice.''
Harding, the nominee for governor.
was at various times in the preliminary
squabbles of the onvention described as
Everybody IS second choice.' He is
the editor of newspaper at Marion, O.,
has been lieutenant governor Of the
state and has been tentative candidate
| ioi SOSCAhOI duu Onlbtu SIdtS6 SSudLOTs
de is known as an effective stump
speaker.
Until today, however, it had appeared
beyond reasonable expectation that the
convention could arrive at the consid
Grafton Of any second choices without
a long and bitter struggle.
George B. Cox of Cincinnati had de.
clared he would stay with Judge OreE
B. Brown Of Dayton to the thirtieth
| ballot if necessary; the "progressives'
were refusing to consider anybody but
james R. Garfield, who was not, how
ever, an announced candidates; and the
men ordinarily identified with the ma
tional administration side in state poll
itics were supposed to be hopelessly di-
vided between Secretary of State Carmi
Thompson. and Mr.. Harding.
End Of the Battle.
| The finish of the fight was peculiar
would not be presented as a candidate.
simultaneously Thompson withdrew, and
| like Mr.. Garfield, without any an
nounced reason.
Cox broke the news of Secretary
Thompson g withdrawal on the conven.
| tion floor and the Brown men claimed
they would win on the first ballot How
ever, the Cuyahoga county (Cleveland)
delegation, of which Senator Burton
was chairman, threw seventy-six votes
TO Congressman Longworth Judge
Brown, who was second on the first
ballot with 413 votes, dropped to 1863 in
the second ballot and the Longworth
Nearly all the progressive" were
voting for Harding. The ninety-six
Clcvland delegates, who all voted for
Longworth On the second and third
roll calls. were yelling wildly for the
Cincinnati man. On the third ballot,
by the time the vote had reached Ham
ilton county, the Longworth candidacy
was advancing in great strides.
Boss Cox Surrenders
Chairman Cox surrendered with dis
cretion. He arose and cast the ninety
one Hamilton county votes for Harding.
Ali but 120 of the Brown supporters.
some of whom had voted before Ham
ilton county was reached, went to Hard
ing, and the nomination was made by
the good margin of 55l votes over tho
nearest competitor, Longworth, who
did not want to run for governor. The
nomination was made unanimously and
the fight was over.
The platform adopted. with only a
few scatterd cries of "no,' contains
the strong Endorsement of the president
and of the purpose and tendency of the
tariff law demanded by the "regu
lars 1t contains the conservation
planks wanted by the progressives. -
The omission is that Of the demand for
a law for recall of unfaithful public
servants.
None of the leaders committed them
selves as to the outlook, Mr.. Garfield
saying he would defer any remarks he
might have until he got 10 Cleveland,
and the other leaders indicating that
four almost sleepless nights of work
and worry prevented them from think
ing of anything appropriate to say at
present.
Detail of Convention.
When the convention met this morn
ing and the preliminaries of the ses.
sion had been disposed of, Senator Bur.
ton took charge rs permanent chair
nun.
GA remarkable situation has arisen
in this country said Senator Bur.
ton in hs opening address; ca situa-
tiOn unfortunate as it may be. 10 the
of the Republican party.
sometimes wish that our orators would
talk less about increased bank depos-
its, revenues and iron and steel prod
ucts, and more about human welfare.
There is no question but that there
is n great degree of social unrest.
"Therc is much talk of special in
terests' and their influence on the pub
ic welfare. 1 maintain that there never
has been u time when the individual
nan has had his rights safeguarded as
hey are today.
"Thcre has been much talk about
he tariff bill, A short time ago a
Democratic orator came into this state
md declared that if the duties had
,een reduced 2 per cent the people
would have beer satisfied. / have some
igures with me that / want written
IN the blackboard through this CAM
,nign.' -
The senator then read his figures to
,rove that n reduction much greater than
per cent had been made.
While Senator Burton was speaking the