Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-18
STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRATIC
NOMINATION BETWEEN OHIO
AND NEW JERSEY MEN.
DEFEAT FOR oovERNoRshIP
FOR EITHER DECISIVE
Wilson Is Southerner and Harmon a
Near observation-disclosures Question
May Enter Campaign for Nomination
and Be an important Faetor-Bryan
Still Has Influence.

Washington. Oct 1s-The democrat
pears to be clearing somewhat. Men of
this city who follow national politics
are saying that the nomination will lie
between Dr. Woodrow Wilson of New
Jersey and Governor Harmon, provid-
ing both are elected to the office Of
governor next month. the former in
New Jersey. where he is making a
wonderful campaign, and the latter in
Ohio, where the result is somewhat
more in doubt at the present moment.
Should either be defeated the presiden-
tial stock of the other would advance
at rapid rate. Should one be elected
by a large majority. and the other by a
small one then the former would have
the advantage. Mayor Gaynor appears
10 have taken himself out Of the presi-
Dental race by his recent course in
New York and so, as has been said,
the political prophets are watching
Wilson and Harmon, confident that to
one or the other the democrats will go
in two years for a national standard
bearer.
There are other names in the demo-
cratic mentioned list, but they are
not taken seriously. Folk of Missouri,
Marshall of Indiana, Bailey Of Texas.
Hoke Smith Of Georgia: these are the
names in that list, but they are the
names of favorite sons and nothing
more, and nobody expects any Of them
TO figure largely in the national con-
vention, or to be the real choice of any
large number of delegates.
Wilson is Southerner.
With DR.. Wilson elected governor of
New jersey. his presidential boom will
start almost Immediately following the
election Already the circumstance that
he is southerner by birth, education.
ancestry and prejudices, Is being sys-
tematically spread abroad thruout this
section. thus giving him a prestige
which may easily make him of presi-
Dental size the moment his election as
governor Is assured The further fact
that Mrs. Wilson was born and brought
up in Georgia and, like her husband.
comes of good southern stock on both
sides, is another valuable asset. The
state that was almost persuaded that
il ought to support Roosevelt because
his mother was born there, finds 1t
easy to flop from Hoke Smith, whom 1t
has only recently reelected governor,
to the southerner from whom the north
has removed the ban.
Clark Howell, the Atlanta editor. who
is the embodiment and voice OF the
dem ocracy of his state. and Of much of
the south. it is noted has come out
with a shout for Dr. Wilson FOR the
presidency. The Wilson movement In
Georgia. and all of the southern At
lantic states. and all of the southern
Atlantic coast states, Mr.. Howell says.
will pc taken up Systematically the mo-
ment New Jersey places the seal Of her
approval upon her adopted son. Mr.
Howell. with rare discretion. does not
at this time predict that southern sup
port will nominate Wilson in 1912, but
he does say that, elected governor Of
New jersey by a substantial majority
Wilson will be as formidable a candi-
date for the presidential nomination as
Governor Harmon. the only other man
he now sees in the race. He states it
in these words: IF DR. Wilson and
Governor Harmon are successful this
fall, the democratic nominee will be
one of them" This opinion is enter
tanned almost unanimously by public
men in this city.
Harmon Is Near Southerner.
Governor Harmon Is himself a near
southerner in point of birth residence
and politics. and il is said here is quite
as highly esteemed in Kentucky as is
DR.. Wilson in Georgia. The votes Of
the south in the national convention. it
is believed. would be rather evenly di-
vided between them. Wilson getting
the votes of the southeast and Harmon
of the central south, and perhaps the
southwest.
For more than forty years the south
has effaced itself from the presidential
equation. having no candidates of it's
own, and content to accept at the hands
of the democracy of the north such
candidates and platforms as appeared
best to the north. Without orangiza-
ton or aggressiveness. southern dele
gates to presidential conventions since