The Washington herald., 1911-05-21
BY JAMES b. MORROW.
Washington, May

washington, May ~.
On some hot dav during the
summer OF 1912. in a city yet to
he chosen. the clerk of the convention
will call the State of Ohio. There will
he cheers from a group of joyous dele
gates on the floor. Hats and coats will
be wildly swung in the galleries. A time
keeper. self-appointed. watch in hand,
will measure the demonstration in min
Ttes for the information of the reporters.
Meanwhile a tall lean. Gark-skinncd,
and black-haIred man will leave his seat
in the main aisle and walk to the platform.
He will wear a short. black coat. black
trousers, and a narrow black necktie.
Those who care to study his face will
note that II is singularly smooth and
unwrinkled, and that his eyes are brown
and round and unusually luminous. Some
will say that he looks like a German
musician, or. If he had a beard. like q
Berlin philosopher. others will think that
he resembles a Paris school-teacher or n
village notary in the hill and vine coun-
try. All will agree that he is precise,
deliberate, and sclf-possessed.
Standing on the platform, he will begin
to speak His voice will fill the building
with sound wisely regulated. But reve-
lation can go no further. Indeed it al
ready has gone beyond the signs and
hints that are the lode stars of all care
. full and sagacious Projectors. Nothing
has been said so far, perhaps nothing
, has been thought as yet. but the logic of
the future points out Atlee Pomerene,
the heir to Mark Hanna's seat in the
Senate. as the nominator of Judson Har-
mon for President
Great Country Lawyers from Ohio.
Since Erice, the speculator-accepting
counsel from the octopus, comrade of the
confederated villains who compose 'the
interests'-the Democrats of Ohio have
/ had no Senator until Pomerene, sud
denly appearing out Of the unknown, took
the mighty and gloomy oath Of Office on
April last. Like Mckinley, he was
Canton lawyer-a country lawyer, to en-
ploy his own language, spoken in the Sc
renity OF self-satisfaction and the knoyl-
edge that there is professional honor In
the designation. Garfield was a country
lawyer and so were John Sherman and
Rutherford B. Hayes. The fame Of Allan
q. Thurman, the robust and simple old
Roman who led his party for years, be-
gan at the bar of Chillicothe, a rural
. CITY DdIlhS Oh lIe SClOld River.
Excluding Henry B. Payne, who was
financial and innocuous and Calvin 8.
Brice, who was sporadic and unsympa-
thetic toward the yeomanry in his party.
Pomerene is the only Democratic Senator
from Ohio since the memorable days Of
Thurman. Il was' twice elected a Sena-
tor" Thurman once boasted in my pres
ence. Neither election cost me a scent
piece" He was wearing carpet slippers
at the time. and was warming his feet at
the Office stove in the plain little hotel
that was his home temporarily.
II know all about farming" Senator
Pomerene said to me without apparent
artifice or acting. Il could manage a
farm and make a living. Law is my pro-
fession, but would rather be a farmer
than anything else"
! Were Pomerene a demagogne, his per-
sonal views on agriculture as an oc-
cupation would be worthless; doubtless
they would be ridiculous even to his
friends. Against the charge Of insin-
cerity. OF talking to the rural and In
! drstr!sl vote. however. may be placed
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