Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-10-14
OHIO SEEMS TO LEAN
TOWARDS DEMOCRATS
Revision There Against
Republican Rule.

"OsuSoiOii ttiCI o HYdlilSL
Republican Rule.
Columbus, Otto, Oct. 13.-The pres
ent political situation is complex
and involved and normal for Ohi1.
The state has two avowed candidates
for the Presidency The Democratic
State convention, which nominated
Judson Harmon for governor, also in
| dorsed him for President in 1912. Tie
Republican State convention indorsel
President Taft for nomination for
President two years hence. These in
dorsements have a direct bearing on
the present campaign.
The members of the legislature who
will be elected in November will return
Charles Dick to the United States Sen
ate, or some other man in his place
This is most potent factor in infu-
encing the minds of the voters as to
the ballots they will deposit in Novem-
ber By common consent, both the
Republicans and the Democrats are
| leaving two topics of public and polft-
ical concern severely alone. They are
not saying anything about the Sen
9torship, and they are keeping the
liquor issue suppressed. Two years
| 'go, prohibition was a factor in bring
ing about the election of Harmon, bit
it is such an uncertain problem, and
so splits up the voters, that neither
party is anxious to revive it.
BY tacit agreement, the contest
| over the Senatorship has been defer
red until after election. There will be
half a score of candidates to succeed
Dick, whichever party wins and the
politicians are looking forward to
contest before the legislature when
will be epochal in the politics of the
state
United Behind Harmon.
The Democrats have the present ad
vantage over the Republicans, so far
as the state ticket is concerned. They
are united behind Harmon, WHO has
made an excellent record rs governor.
The party is better organized, one is
told, than ever before. For the first
time in a great many years there W =
be Democratic organization in each
county in tie state. Nor are funds
acking to conduct the campaign. The
party was united upon the expediency
and wisdom of renominating Harmon
There was no question about it AMI
the governor is undeniably making "a
effective campaign for reelection. He
is speaking somewhere nearly evervI
day, ami is combining himself to stat
issues. Only once or twice has II
referred, ami then casually and IN
cidentally, to the new tariff law, whic
is concedediy a cause of Republican
disaffection in the state. Gov. Harmon
has talked about the Republican graft
which has been exposed during his
administration in the statehouse an
in some of the county Offices. He
pointing out where he has increase
tie efficiency and raised the tone O
the state administration.
Nominated By FIuke.
On the other side, Warren G. Har i
ing, the Republican candidate for gov
ernor, was nominated by a fluke His
Nomination was dictated by George B
Cox, the Cincinnati boss, as a pie e
of personal revenge directed agais
Senator Burton and the progressive
element The fact that he was nom
mated through the efforts of Cox is
causing Mr.. Harding no little emhar
rassment. At the Republican state Goa
vention in 1904, in nominating Cox 70
be one of the delegates-at-large to the
Republican national convention, Har
ding said of the Cincinnati boss:
He has elevated his head high
above the storm of calumny and abuse
and won his way to a trusted place il
the party, and We yield Difference and
devotion to George B. Cox, of Hamil
ton county"
This is being contrasted with NJ.
Taft's speech at Akron on October 81
1905, when he said: THE government
under the Cox machine is constantly
described as a very corrupt one. Sue
government generally begets cor
ruption. The Importance of suppress
ing open and notorious graft in order
to prevent defeat at the polls is known
to the engineer of the machine, and
he has perhaps exercised his power tC
suppress the inevitable tendency in
such machine.
1.-The condition is one of absolute
helplessness on the part of amy indie
pendent Republican seeking to take
part in politics and to act independ-
emily of the machine; and the Distress
ing effect is now seen upon all the
young men, ambitious politically, as il
either drives them out of politics and
deprives TIE public of their probab'y
valuable service or if they go into
politics, they must subordinate them
selves to the tyranny of the boss"
| Mr.. Harding is being asked whether
he still yields difference and devo
ton" to the men thus castigated by
President Taft Tie Republican caa-
didate does not find it an easy ques-
tion to answer.