El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-28


Mr.. TeW spoke in part as follows:
This is the peoples inning, 1t IS the
peoples year. Their mandates are too
clear to be misunderstood, too emphat-
ic to be denied. They demand the nom
inatiOn of q man of intelligence and
integrity a man of experience, not in
theory alone, but in actual contact with
public affairs. Such a man brings old
Missouri, a man rich in years of public
life without a scar upon his record
without a tarniSh on his name
The man who did so much to banlsh
czarism from the speakers chair and
reestablished the house as the Amer1-
can commons. Such a man is for the
east as well as for the west north as
well as the south. In the name of the
west, the centennial state-Colorado-
dominates as the president Of the re-
public that time-tried tribune OF the
people-that son of the soil of missouri
Hon. Champ Clark
NJ A. Daugherty, nominating Har-
mon, followed, when Ohio was called
HarmOn's Nomination.
Mr.. Daugherty spoke in part as foI-
lows:
IN the last ten decades in national
Democratic conventions Ohio was only
a Republican, with no impressive voice
in Democratic councils To 20 today
Ohio pleads the right and prays the
privilege Of salutatiOn from Dem
ocratic commonwealth, redeemed and
regenerated by OhiO's great Democratic
governor; who never lost a political
battle; who transformed the state from
the Dead Sea of Republicanism to the
paradise of Democracy, confirmed by
decisive numbers in two successive
elections, and firmly anchored there
by more than 100000 Democratic ma
iority; who crushed and strangled the
Republican state machine, the most
powerful and most corrupt of modern
days; who has purified the public serv-
ice in Ohio, and under whose leader
ship, Democracy in Ohio has become
the protector and evangel Of the arOus-
ed and dominant moral sentiment Of
its people, that sentiment which is the
onward and upward and essential spirit
of representative government.
-"OhiO's just Tax System"
"Ohio's great Democratic governor has
planned and put into execution IN that
state a system of taxation and revenue
so just, so simple, so comprehensive,
so efficient that it marks its author as
a constructive statesman of the first
rank.
Compensation to the toilers injured
in workshop and factory and to their
dependent families if accident ends in
the tragedy of death appeals to every
man whose heart is not closed to mis-
cratic governor outlined and approved
4 workmenS' compensation act, the
most advanced and what promises to be
the most beneficent that obtains
MI 4Cdu6 AGA y gave d ShGlSl OI GOh-
Harmon and his work in the enforce
ment of anti trust laws, and closed as
follows:
"Ohio now names as your nominee
for president her gifted and brilliant
son of quiet dignity, superb poise and
spotless life, pre-eminent in leadership,
in law in craftsmanship, in Intellectual
and moral greatness. the greatest gov
ernor in all her history, Judson Har-
mon"
At o'clock the convention was still
listening to nominating and secOnding
speeches. Presidential candidates,
Messrs. Underwood, Clark, Wilson, Har-
mon, Baldwin of Connecticut, and gov
enor Marshall, of Indiana had been
placed before the convention and only
seconding speeches remained to be
heard before the first ballot was taken
The convention chad been I'M session
since S p. m, last night. The dele
gates were many Of them asleep in
their seats, the galleries were all but
empty, the policemen were red eyed
and weary, but the flood of OratOry
went on.
Gore Takes Shot at Taft.
Senator Gore woke up the drowsy
delegates when Oklahoma was called
and he remarked: During the past
three and one half years, president
Taft has been busy as a bee, carrying
out the policies of Theodore Roosevelt
on a stretcher."
The delegates and spectators cheered.
Senator Gore emphasized Republican