Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-22
HARMON STRONG AS
 PRESIDENTIAL FACTOR
His Own State Is for Him AL most to a Man, lncIud-
 ing Radicals

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 vert emissaries of democratic presi. dential candidates. who have been cautiously travelling about Ohio in.
 vestigating rumors that Governor
 Harmon is to be fought by the state organization. have learned that the row within the Ohio democratic par ty is confined to a fight between the factions to control the party machinery and to rule the next state convention.
 The democratic party in Ohio is having the trouble that all success ful political parties experience. Gov ernor Harmon will shortly retire from the leadership of the Ohio de- mocracy and the leaders of the two factions both want to take over the peins which he will relinquish While the members of the two fac tions have been hammering each other they have never thrown any brickbats at Governor Harmon
 In the 1910 state convention the delegates unanimously indorsed~ him for the presidency, after they had re-nominated him for governor of Ohio by a unanimous vote. The res olution adopted by the state con
 vention reads: We invite the at tention of the nation to Judson liar mon and the work he is doing in Ohio. Two years hence it will have been completed, then we can spare him for larger duties. He believes that guilt is personal Is acting on that belief at home and would act upon it in larger fields. A high sense of duty provides his only mo lives for official actions. and his sense of justice alone compels judg- ment Firmness and strength mark him man to supplant vacillation and weakness. The nation needs a real man and the Ohio democracy here presents and indorses for the in 1912, Judson liar. mon"
 Since the adoption of that resolu. ton the Cuyahoga county democra- cy, during the life of the late Tom L. Johnson, strongly indorsed Uncle Jud for president This is the pro gressiye wing of the Ohio democ- racy. In addition, United States sen ator Atlee Pomerene, who has long been a leader of the Bryan faction in Ohio, is one of the most enthu. siastic of the army of Harmon for President" advocates in Ohio.
 The agents of other democratic candidates for president who como to Ohio to investigate, 1t seems, have heard that Uncle Jud is to b. fought by the state organization opposed by the senatorial candidates who didn't land. knocked by the liquor interests and maligned by the folk. Their vest pocket books. which contain notes writer down in Washington, declare that the progressives are to pound Uncle Jud, and the conservatives are tC beat him into finecut. All of the rumors of disaffection that have been run down by these emissaries lead to the factional fight for con. trOl of the party machinery. Lead CTS of both factions are for Judson Harmon and nothing but death can prevent him getting the solid dele gation of the Buckeye State to the national convention. He is the strongest man in the party in Ohio and but for him, party leaders real lze, democrats would not today be filling every state office but one.
 Democratic state officers are all to get a solid delegation in ohio for Harmon for president, fOI they assert that with him on the national ticket, he will not onIs carry the Buckeye State. but will carry through the entire state demo cratic ticket. as he did in 1910 when he whipped President Taft. his entire cabinet. and ex-President 
 Governor Harmon is undoubtedly the only man being considered for the democratic presidential nomina- ton who can beat President Taft in OhiO," said Secretary of State Graves. a democrat. Should he not be on the ticket. pride for a local will probably cause Presi- lent Taft to carry the state"