The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-11-24
'WHODO YOUWANT
FOR PRESIDENT
Vote a Mirror Ballot in Or
der That Preference be
Shown.
HOW DOES MARION co. STAND
Vote Not in Interest Of
Anybody - Simply a
Matter of Record.
Four Leading Candidates
in Each Party-Take
Your Choice.
Ohio Was Refused Preference Law
by the Legislature But i'm This
Manner the General Sentiment OF
the County Can be Fairly Wei
Asccrtaincd.

The Daily and Weekly Mirror viii
afford the people OF Marion county
an opportunity. denied them by the
last legislature. of expressing their
presidential preference.
Ohio has two presidential candi-
dates of it's own-william Howard
Taft, Republican incumbent, and Gov
ernor Judson Harmon.
The Buckeye state, will probabiy
send 4S delegates to each of the f9t2
national conventions OF the two great
political parties. The Ohio delega-
tions may hold pivotal positions IN
the conventions. Upon their attitude.
TO a large extent. will depend the
nomination or defeat of Taft and
Harmon. o. 9
The delegates Will be burdened
with tremendous responsibility to the
nation. Obviously, they should at
least have the advantage of some
definite indication of the will OF the
100000 people of their own state
whose preferences they are supposed
to represent.
Lost One Chance to Tell.
1t was upon this theory that
member Of the seventy-ninth general
assembly Of Ohio introduced a bill to
permit the voters to write their pres
identlal preferences on the ballots
they will cast at the primaries next
May when candidates for congress
the legislature and county offices will
be nominated The bill failed to pass
Without specific authority of law.
there is no certainty that provision
can be made for presidential pref
erence' vote on the primary ballot
That will be for party leaders and the
courts to determine If the proposal
is made. M HH
Without some definite expression
from the people, the Ohio delegates
to the national conventions, even
though they may be perfectly com
sclentious, are quite as likely to mis-
represent the people as they are to
represent them M
Both Taft and Harmon have ar
dent supporters and cordial enemies
within their own political parties. To
differences OF opinion on great ma
tional and international economic and
social problems with which the next
president must take aggressive action,
may be attributed the political un-
rest of the people, M
Without attempting TO prejudice or
influence its readers. the Mirror asks
for an unbiased expression of prefer
ence for all presidential candidates
who have loomed large on the Repub-
| lican and Democratic horizons
Candidates Mentioned.
OF the Republicans, there are Pres
ident william H. Taft. of Ohio; for
mer President Theodore Roosevelt,
Senator La Toilette, of Wisconsin,
and former Governor Charles Il.
Hughes, of New York, now judge
of the u. S. supreme court.
Democrats most frequently men
toned for national standard bearers
are Governor Judson Harmon, of
Ohio; Governor Woodrow Wilson, OF
New Jersey; Col. William Jennings
/ Bryan, three times nominated and
defeated, and Congressman Champ
| Clark, of Missouri speaker OF the ma
. tional house of representatives. 1t
Expression Of choice should not
f, only be a privilege, but duty, to in
+, dicate the will of erpeople to the
delegates fs
Indirectly, through the Daily and
Weekly Mirror, the people of Ohio
may participate in the national con-
ventions.
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