The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-03-25
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FOR OF SON
For Re-Nomina ion for Pres
ident Says Former Gov
ernor Herrick.
DRlFT NoW POPULAR
MIR. Herrick Tells Some
Things About the Repub-
licans Of His State.

Former Governor Herriek. of Ohio,
says:
The situation In Ohio has recent.
~ 80 cleared that think It may
now be safely predicteI that there
viii be . solid or practically solid
delegation for President Taft to the
Chicago convention from his home
state. We ohioans are never lavish
with praise for the good deeds Of
our sons, until after they are dead
and viii not know about 1t. But weI
are free with our criticism. This is
a Yankee characteristic which We
inherit, However,, 8hen outsiders
attack, It inYariaBIy has the eRectI
Of a third persons interference in al
quarrel between husband and wife,
who soon finds himself confronted
with a united and inYincfble foe.
"of course the popular drift to-
ward the president ia the country at
large. and shs 4fsSa1lng opinion
that his nomination is now ineyitabie,
have had theirinHuenee in Ohio.
But this alone does not account for
the present situation. Ohio Repub-
licans have a way OF thinking things
out for themselves and settling their
own differences. / think l know
them pretty well, and while I as
sumo no authority to speak for
them, / feel that can speak of
them. with the advantage at least OF
having always been one of them.
''In my own experience in public
life In Ohio I have observed three
important characteristics among the
rank and .file,sas well as the leaders,
of the Republican party
@First, they have the courage to
fight, even among themselves, when
ever there is an honest difference OF
opinion. They are not willing to
accept this or that program of party
action Just as matter Of course,
They want to know about things.
They have wholesome inclination
to be critical If question of party
exuediency arises they insist upon
looking at both sides of it. Thew
like to move together, but they will
not be showed. And it is in this
spirit that they have gone about the
matter of determining whether or
not President Taft should be renom-
mated
Second, whatever Ohio Republl-
cans may say or do, in the end they
are Invariably fair. They have not
always arrived at this highly de-
sirable contamination for the state
elections, but have never failed In
the national elections. They will,
believe, now refuse to be unfair to
Taft. They have heard everything
that could be said against him and
they are bound to conclude that the
big, strong achievements OF his adj
m!nistration outweigh every critl-
cism. They know his work without
boasting and without fear, and that
in the midst of all manner Of mis-
representation he has gone faithfully
ahead, serving the best interests Of
the country, getting things done he
promised to do, refusing to play pol
itics-(it is for this refusal that they
both criticise and admire him) jim
every emergency the president of
the whole people.
Third. the Republicans OF Ohio
have a pride in the just fame of the
state as a producer of presidents. 4
do not know whether full import
has even been given to the remark
able fact that every man first nomi-
mated to the presidency by the domi-
nant political party OF the country
since the days of Lincoln was born
in Ohio. What I mean is that for
moro than fifty years, whenever the
American people have elected Re
publican president, nominated first
for that Office and not because, he,
had been vice-president, they have
chosen a native son of Ohio. In
other words, leaving out Blaine
who was defeated, Cleveland who
who was Democrat and Roosevelt
who came into succession through
the vice-presidency, every chief ex-
ecutive Of the United States elected
since Lincoln. was born in the
Buckeye state. Even those who
we're not nominated from Ohio we're
born there. Read the roll of honor
Grant, Hayes, GARFIELD, Harrison.
Mckinley Taft With such a rec
ord to be proud of It would GER
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