The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-26
Ohio Republicans See In Him
Hope for Winning Roose-
velt's Support.
GARFIELD READY TO lNSURGE
Mas a Platform Prepared to Put
Before the Committee on
Resolutions.

CoLrNBrs, Ohio. July rs TIL" first
session OF the Republican stat" con-
vention which is to nominal" candidlt-I
for Governor and state offices TO Oppose
the Democratic ticket headed by Gov.
Judson Harmon will In called - order
in Memorial Hall at I O'Clock Tomorrow
afternoon 10y Walter p Brown. char
man Of the State committee.
Representative Nichols LongwuTth IT
the First district (CincinnatiD il To be tom
porary chairman of the convention IN
his speech Mr.. Longworth as a IN" n ,"'
OF the House Ways and Means Com nittoB
il To defend tho Taft policy a. - ths
Payne Aldrich bill and other national
measures adopted at Washington last
winter He Is also to defend past Repun-
lican State administrations and TO attack
the Democratic platform on which Gov.
II armon was rcnomina ted at Dayton
several weeks ago
Gov. Harmon and Representative Long
worth are neighbors in Cincinnati and
have long been personal friends although
politically opposed to each other. Pr.-i-
dent Taft and Representative Longworth
are also hons neighbors in Cincinnati
and the Tafts and I,ongworths are inti-
mate politically and socially in Wash
ingtOn and at Beverly.
President Taft has long been fond Of
Mr.. Longworth not because the latter
is ex-President Roosevelt's son-in-law
hut because Of intimate associations
OF years.
While IL To accepted here that Presidsnt
Taft on the visit Of senator Burton and
Senator Dick to Beverly made II clear
that he desired to keep aloof from inter-
fering in the work Of this convention
he nevertheless as citizen Of Ohio had
right to his personal views as TO a can
didate for Governor and it is understood
that the President did not look with keen
favor upon the candidacy Of either Judge
Aren Britt Brown Of Dayton or James
Rudolph Garfield Of Mentor.
Il became known in the inner circles
Of This convention to-day that the NOM
nation Of MIR. ISongworth for Governor
would not he displeasing to President
Taft. hut on the contrary would receive
his heartiest approval. Tn" prediction
was freely expressed tonight that should
the warning factors continue their bitter
work there will be but one out come. the
nomination OF Mr. Longworth
In the scramble and tumble to-day the
warning leaders declared that Judge
Brown would enter the convention with
800 delegates at his back. Warren q.
Harding Of Marion 800. Iauui A. Thomp-
son Of Ironton 9OO and Garfield i25 This
would about absorb the 0o8 delegates
comprising the convention.
| George y Cox the boss Of Cincinnati.
continued to predict Judge Browns
nomination. declaring he had no second
choice. and yet he remembered how
Harding in 1904 eulogized him az the
Napoleon OF Cincinnati Republican poll
tics But while grateful to Harding for
his sentiments Cox was unalt-rably for
Brown.
| Garfield Cox had no use for the
man from Mentor Didn't Garfield as
State senator a number Of years ago
turn out every Cox man who had job
in the State Capitol? or course he did,
and that ended Garfield with the man
from Cincinnati. Longworth? Hadn't
Cox given Longworth every nomination
| he ever had-school commit conan. State
Assemblyman. State Senator and finally
Congressman Certainly he had, and
hadn I Longworth said he wasn't a candi-
date for Governor, Certainly he had.
But as the day wore on the undercurrent
seemed TO favor Longworth. He had
had no factional differences with Cox.
9TH Ha r.tinV narannallv with
Thompson or Garfield.
In fact he seemed 10 be free from
the entangling alliances and disturbances
which have ripped Ohio RepublicaniSm
wide open since William II. Taft Presi-
| dent Roossvelt's Secretary Of War made
that speech at Akron in 1905 which was
the forer,Inner OF Roosevelt attack upon
Joseph Benson Foraker in 1907.
Incidentally James Rudolph Garfield
arrived to-day. He il an Avowed candi-
date for Governor and he brought along a
platform.
Before going any further IL may be
announced that Senator Burton and
senator Dick got wind OF the proposition
Of Arthur I. Vorys and Wade Il Ellis
/ 70 greet Mr.. Garfield with a proposition
20 the effect that IL he would recant his
crficisings OF the Taft Administration
he might be considered a. among tho
acceptable candidates for Governor and
prevented them from greeting Garfield
| with any such proposition.
30 intense was the feeling over this
motion OF vorys and Ellis that thcy were
spoken OF an the leaders Of the mosquito
brigade term OF contumely for the
little headed Republican politicians Of the
State.
Mr.. Garfield said he was to fight in the
committee on resolutions for his plat
form. II is q sumner. In the frs; placo
Mr.. Garflsld In willing 20 give Prssident