Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1911-07-22
Attorney General Being Advo-
Gated For GubernatOrial
HOnOrs.
Was Formerly state President
of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians.
HAS VISITED IN THIS CITY

It is not often that anyone gets
such a swell send-off in the Cincin-
natl Enquirer as that given Hon.
Timothy S. Hogan, Attorney General
of Ohio, last Sunday. Attorney Gen
eral Hogan is prominent in Hiber-
nian circles and has been State Presi-
dent of the A. o. H. in Ohio, besides
being delegate to several national
conventions. He has visited Louis
Vile and is much admired by local
members of the Ancient Order. Mr..
Hogan is a first cousin of Michael
Hogan, the Western Union operator
who manipulates the key for the
Courier-Journal and Times. This is
what the Cincinnati Enquirer says
about him:
Looming above the horizon, as
they say in the novels, is a new fig
ure in the Democratic gubernatorial
field of possibilities. 1t is that of
Attorney General Timothy S. Hogan,
of Jackson county. Able, intelligent
and patriotic editors in Athens,
Scioto and Jackson counties have dis
covered his qualifications for the
Chief Executiveship and are pro-
claiming them to the breezes, as the
novelists also say. Indeed, to again
use the language of the romanticists,
they are mailing his flag to their
staffs, or slaves, whichever happens
to be correct.
1t is being descanted upon that the
Attorney General has in the six
months of his incumbency made his
department a vital force in the gov
ernment of the State. Dormant
suits, instituted by his predecessors
and allowed to languish, have been
revivified. Quar- IS have been
opened into the MOI. tain Of unfin-
lshed business, especia ly that relat-
ing to uncollected and contested
taxes, and thousands of dollars will
soon be pouring into State Treas
ury that sadly needs them. FLAP
Jack" opinions rendered by other At
torney Generals, slapped together
overnight to meet exigencies, have
been reversed, greatly to the benefit
of other State departments. Partisan
ship, it is advanced, finds no place
in his labors.
His prompt and effective part in
the prosecution of Democratic graft
ers in the General Assembly has won
for him great encomiums, and his
rulings against public officials OF his
own party in the matter of fees and
salaries unjustly claimed and paid
have been uniformly on the side OF
the common veal. His nonpartisan-
ship has been shown especially in the
retention in a prominent place in his
department of Clarence d. Laylin,
special counsel under Attorney Gen.
eral Denman and the son of Chair
man Lewis C. Laylin, OF the Republi-
can State Committee, who did his
level best to defeat him for election.
These things argue to the minds OF
his supporters cogent reason why
he should in 1912 be chosen to lead
the party.
1t is said in his behalf that he is
campaigner of more than ordinary
ability. Again, he has been a loyal
adherent of Governor Judson Har-
mon and was at his side during the
crucial times when desertion and
threachery threatened the party
through the Vaccinations OF the
yellow dog" group in the Ohio SEN
ate. All in all, an effective argument
is being made in his favor. Should
he consent to becoming a candidate
the Tenth Congressional District will
undoubtedly come into the fiefd In
solid phalanx for him.
1t is a matter of comment that the
name OF the candidate who was de-
feated by Mr.. Hogan, Grant Denman,
Of Toledo. is being canyassed as a
candidate for the Republican nom
lnation 7or Governor. Since his re-
tirement Mr.. Denman has been made
United States District Attorney and
on chat account 1t is far from likely
that he will permit the use OF his
name. Should, however, there come
change and he and Hogan should
be nominated, an interesting situa'
ton would be formed. Both are
clean and capable men with splendid
records for efficiency as legal ad'
visors TO- the State, the voters OF
which could view the contest with
complete complacency, resting Sc
eure.y in the knowledge that no mat
ter which was elected, their Interests