The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-05-18
MUCH DEPENDS upon
THE VERDICT IN OHIO
A yeritabIe Political Tempest Is
Sweeping Over the Buckeye
State Today-Primaries
Next Tuesday.
Press Special.

storm of politics which has been
sweeping back and forth over the
Buckeye state for nearly two weeks
became n veritab1e tempest today,
and there Is every indication that it
will continue up to Monday mid
night, a few hours before the polls
open for the presidential primaries.
| Today four aspirants for the presi-
dency are trailing one another over
the state, Tonight Il vast army of
stump-speakers, representing the
choicest oratorieal talent of both
parties, will hold forth In every city,
town and crossroads hamlet, from
! Pennsylvania to the Indiana lines
and from Lake Erie to Ohio river,
The early prediction that the cam
paign would be the most vigorous
ever waged within Ohio's boundaries
has been amply fulfilled.
Ohio has no presidential prefer
to be held next Tuesday are expect
ed nevertheless to make il plain
who is favored by the voterssof the
state for the presidential nomina-
tions The republican voters viii
vote for two candidates for dele
gates to the national convention
| from their district The ballots will
not bear the name of the president
! tial candidates. The voters there
| lore may be somewhat in the dark
| as to whom the candidates for del
egates favor for the presidential
nomination, but workers at the polls
no doubt will find way to indi-
cate to the voters how the candi-
dates stand. In few places there
will be LaFollette candidates for
national delegates, but as a rule
there will be only Taft and Roose-
welt lists. Delegates will be named
in the twenty-one congressional dis
tricts. The six delegatesat-large
completing Ohio's forty-eight in the
national convention will be named
by the state convention here next
month.
! The democratic primaries will be
practically of the straight-out pres
I idential preference variety. Only III
one essential fc2trre does the meth
cd differ from that ALREADY tries
/, OUT in number OF the states. TIL
$ feature is the provision that tn
n winner of the preference primal
e shall be authorized to name Il
d delegates-at-large At first CLAN
n this provision may seem an unwi
E delegation of power, but it is to
remembered that the candidate h
,s much at stake, and, if Govern
IS Harmon's name is to be presented
j. the Baltimore convention he nat
!. rally desires delegates from his ow
3 state whose loyalty TO him cannt
} be under suspicion. The plan wa
: adopted by the state committee a
the suggestion of the Harmon forces
The result of the Ohio primarie
is expected to determine definitely
the chances of President Taft fol
denomination. His friends believe
he will carry his own state, but they
realize that his cause is well-nigh
hopeless if he does not. The Pres
fdent finds his principal opposition
here among the republican farmers.
| In the cities they are believed to be
| more favorably inclined toward him.
! Ohio is near enough to the Canadian
| frontier to feel the effect of tie Ca
madam reciprocity treaty negotiated
by the President, and the Buckeye
| farmers were very much opposed to
the measure.
The results of the primaries tc
the Roosevelt candidacy are be-
lieved to be equally important
| Should the Roosevelt sweep con-
tinue as it has been going lately, it
would not necessarily give the Col
onel enough votes to nominate him.
It would, however, according to the
close students of the situation, eth
err make his nomination inevitable
| sometime after the first ballot or
would bring about condition where
the strong men of the party would
be in a position to unite upon a
third man whom they might have
some hopes of electing
The democratic contest is
straight-out fight between Governor
i Harmon and those who oppose his
nomination for president The OPP
position has been led by William j.
I Bryan, who has stumped the state in
the interest of Woodrow Wilson
who is expected to have the general
support of the Ohio progressive
democrats Friends Of Governor
Harmon declare that he is sure to
win out. They expect him to name
the six delegates-at-large and to car
ry the majority if not all of the con-
gressional districts Among the
farmers the governor is very pop
uIar. BY the operation of his one
per cent tax rate law, which h."
forced through the legislature the
taxes on fam lands have been re-
duced very materially. Tho Har-
mon opposition is confined to the