The Washington herald., 1912-04-28
GOV. HARMONS CAMPAIGN MANAGER
LEADS IN BUCKEYE STATE POLITICS
Edward H. Moore Formerly Strong Bryan
Supporter, in Charge of Fight for
OhiO'S Executive.
d. JAMEs 3. nroRRow.

Columbus, April E.-Whenever an
Ohio Democrat grows to be over a foot
high, Allen c. Thurman once exclaimed
in wrath, there are those among his
party associates at home who want &c
chop on his head. After the fourth
word he could have added.N and thus
completed his observation: ''or an Ohio
Republican"
interests oftener clash in Ohio than
in most States That's because nearly
all of US are great men, the natives ex-
plain with a puzzling smile, which
leaves the stranger in doubt as TO
whether they are jocular or serious.
And the irritating phase OF the mattel
is that they can call on the names.
even though practically all the men
they mention are dead.
Traditionally. Gov. Judson Harmon
could not escape censure and attack.
Practically, he has been compelled to
bear with both. Every one OF the
grating legislators in the State Is
hghttng him. Edmund H. Moore, the
managing politician of the Harmon
campaign. said to me with sneer on
his face and a knife in his voice. Even
so. but some of Harmon's enemies in
Ohio are not boodlers. TO use a common
local term. They are original progress
sioRists, reaching back In their princi-
pies to the glorious. but unfortunate,
days of 1896 The peerless leader is still
their captain and their priest.
Judges they hold, should be dragged
from the bench now and then. The de-
Cisions Of courts, they insist, ought TO
be put to a vote of the electorate at
times. They call for the initiative and
referendum, which Senator Tom Car
ter of Montana used to say requires
that all the people shall gather under a
tree and Iegislate. Mr.. Bryan has been
here and they were assured by him that
they are justified and are soundly ortho-
doX. Thus the second group of Gov.
Harmon's home antagonists can be cat
alOgued. They say, and it is enough for
them, that he has the nod and coun-
tenance Of Wall Street. 81.
Made $4,000 n Year.
Another group has been deprived of
hOped-for sustenance.- 1t is a grave Of
fense, as President Taft has learned, to
withhold public office from a waiting and
anxious Ohio man. Then Judson Har-
mon has been successful. He made
$4,000 a year practicing law in Cincin-
natl. Ag-in he is the only Democrat
since the civil war who has twice been
elected to the governorship. Envy is
said TO be cumulative. 1t piles up in
finance, in politics, and in ones profess
sion as one goes along. Centered finally
fer an occasion or a contest, It can make
considerable noise. Nevertheless, the
Democratic party Of his State wants
Gov. Harmon nominated for President.
and an old Bryan leader, the same Mr..
Moore, is the unseen worker who is dig
ging the secret trenches and planting the
mines where they will-dO Uncle Jud'
the most good.
When he is engaged in his own busi-
ness, Mr.. Moore practices law at Youngs-
town, the chief city of a manufacturing
district that is ablaze and roaring with
rolling mills and blast furnaces. He is a
good Democrat by his own description.
No living man was ever more passion
ately vocal-and iTrationally vocal, some
say--in behalf of William ]. Bryan than ]
was Moore himself. He led the fight in |
1904 against casting the vote Of Ohio as a |
unit for the nomination of Alton B. Par |
Ier, but was whipped . to y. Bryan !
was still his demigod.
Here his headquarters are in a sky |
scrsper. Harmon literature, some Of II !
in green covers, is pinnacled outside his |
door. Messengers with rubber heels and |
leather heels bear his orders afar. Tele- |
grams rain in and pour out. Postmen /
come with striped bags Across their gray I
shoulders. Gentlemen in tall hats. in /
black coats vanished by wear and in |
trousers a little ragged around the feet |
float in, argue arrogantly with the clerks, |
and disappear A half dozen telephone
bells ring at once. Washington calls and |
So does Chicago. ''Oh, Moore" Here,
Moore" Say, Moore" Are you there,
Moore?'' rs that MooreT' Where's
Moore?" Amid it all he gives me an
hour. He is square bodily. energetic, /
magnetic, shrewd. and intense. In
Youngstown he tries cases in court for
a livelihood. So his wit is nimble and
his tongue like Col. RooseveIts lance,
knows no brother when there is a bit OF
work to do.
Harmon VIII Have 400 Votes.
II am willing to bet that Gov. Har-
non will have 400 votes on the first bal
ot," he said, taking up a pencil and
scratching the figures on a piece of
,aper. Prof. Wilson'S friends claim
co." and Mr.. Moore laughed. "As 1t (;
will require but 729 votes to nominate"
le continued, its all over~now, IL Prof.
Wilson'S friends are rigE, except the
lsual motion to make the nomination s
unanimous. Rem inds me of a RepubIi-
an at Heck's Corners who was a candi- |
late for Governor There were eighty {
our voters in the township, all but FIVE
( whom were Democrats Tn nomi- I
ated, by golly.' shouted the candidate
Fhen he heard the news. I have polled {
he full strength Of my party at the {
'orners with all the rest Of the State {
o hear from II
SO far" Mr.. Moore went on to say, c
We are sure of Kentucky with IS votes, c
ennessee with q votes, West Virginia T
nd Maryland each with 16 votes, Michi- t
an with 80 votes, and Ohio with 4s "
otes. We have plenty Of support else 4
here which l am unwilling to locate I
lst now. No matter what is said or a
rinted, Ohio will be solid for Harmon. I
here is faction against him II is true 4
ut II has lost the confidence of the {
ublic and its opposition will not figure / G
! the results. We are running a safe S
nd dignified campaign. and are not f
-ying to injure~any other candidate.
States having favorite sons we are a
urposely leaving alone. Nothing is be- n
e done in Indiana or Missouri because ];
our respect for Gov. Marshall and d
peaker Clark. We have kept out of q
ew Jersey so far, but the Wilson lit a
ary bureau is busy in Ohio. Wilson's ]
anagers, by the way, are spending &
ore money than are the managers OF a
! the other candidates put together o.
here do they get IT? That's what I II
lould like to know. n
We do not say that Gov. Harmon is
brilliant q man, for instance, as
'seph B. Foraker, but he is industrious, II
ise, a remarkable executive, and a X
lysical and mental giant He is six 81
ct tail and weighs 40 pounds. Some m
his enenufas saw that he fe TO oId 80 |