Bisbee daily review., 1910-06-30
HARMON PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.

FlNRhSEN CANDIDATE. Governor Judson Harmon, of oni has been regarded as one of the lead ing presidential possibilities on tn democratic side for the year 1912. an zhe action of the state convention at Dayton. indorsing him for that hon or. will make him a definite figure in political calculations.
 There are some things in the char acter. life and services Of Goyerno Harmon calculated to make him al interesting factor in presidential pol itics. In knowledge and sympathy h comes into close feeling with all gen eral classes. He lived on a farm unti he was past twenty. He worked his way through college. having beeI the son of a Baptist clergyman witi a considerable family on his hands He earned his reputation as a lawye Iy assiduous study and industriou practice. He displayed such abilit and made such a. reputation that ther was no surprise when Presiden Cleveland called him to the post O attorney general of the United State 10 succeed Richard Olney. who wa transferred to the state department made yacent by the death of Waite c. Gresham. In that office, and al a time when the public was not yet per sisting irresistibly in its demand fo the regulation of the railroads Judge Harmon won two notable vic tories; the breaking up of the Trans Missouri Freight association and it successor, the Joint Traffic Associa tion, illegal pooling combines. ThE record of those achievements woult seem to connect Governor Harmoi properly with the current policy wid reference to common carriers.
 That Judge Harman is politicall! strong in his own state might be as sumed from the fact that he is dem ocratic governor in commonwealth that is normally republican by iron 5Oo0O to 10000 votes Taft carried tn, state by es.OOO, when Harmon wa elected. However. the local optiol question was so complex in 1908 tha party and personal consideration were all awry in the state election Judge Harmon foresaw at once that if his party was to remain in power fl had to earn public confidence. an his administration has witnessed tli accomplishment of certain reform that doubtless have made the goye nor stronger today than he was vine he assumed office. The most impor ant of these reforms have been aIon economic lines. in the eliu mating z graft from the dispo S1on aud han, ling of public frauds-s'9,e. count and municipal--ari ia the estabHsI Ing of system and order and hone service in public business.
 Judge Harmon had some helph preparation for this especial undertal ing. He had been receiver for thr, big. merged railroads. Under the ' ceiyership he handled s2S.OOO. 900. p Ire properties on a paying basis ar restored them to their owners in cor Taratively short order.
 Mr. Bryan obviously regards Co eraor Harmon as too conservative. I seems to have linked him prejudici, to the Cleveland democracy. whi, Mr. Bryan never has forgiven. Bry; urged the Ohio democrats. as a st toward the, improvement of the cha acte- of the United States. to indor a senatorial candidate in the conve ton, in lieu Of a primary nomina.ic for which Ohio has no provision, b w1ich the convention rejected I'll nfst thing tho convention did was
 vote down this proposition, under t dlsecton of the Harmon following.
 But if he is not a radical Govern Harmon. at least has shown stro progressive tendencies. He has sew