The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-18
|OH|O TURMOIL TO
CONCLUDE MONDAY
Primary Campaign RACES
Bitterly Throughout the
Entire State.
tNational News Association,

COLUMBUS, O., May 1s.-The
storm OF politics which has been
sweeping back and forth over the
Buckeye state for nearly two weeks
became a veritable tempest today,
and there is every indication that it
will continue up to Monday midnight,
few hours before the polls open for
the presidential primaries. Today
four aspirants for the presidency are
trailing one another over the state.
Tonight vast army of stump-speak-
ers, representing the choicest orator.
cal talent of both parties, will hold
forth in every city, town and cross
roads hamlet, from the Pennsylvania
to the Indiana lines and from Lake
Erie to the Ohio River. The early pre-
diction that the campaign would be
the most vigorous ever waged within
Ohios boundaries has been amply full
filled
Ohio has no presidential preference
held next Tuesday are expected new
ertheless to make it plain who is fav-
ored by the voters of this state for the
presidential nominations. The Repub-
lican voters will vote for two candi-
dates for delegates to the national
convention from their district. The
ballots will not bear the names of
the presidential candidates. The vot-
ers therefore may be somewhat in the
dark as to whom the candidates for
delegates favor for the presidential
,iynp hut orb OF he
no doubt will find way to indicate to
the voters how the candidates stand.
In few places there will be La Fol-
lette candidates for national delegates,
but as rule there will be only Taft
and Roosevelt lists. Delegates will be
named in the twenty-one congressional
districts. The six delegates-at-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 presi-
dental preference variety. Only in one
essential feature does the method diff
fer from that already tried out in
number of the states. This feature is
the provision that the winner of the
preference primary shall be authoriz-
ed to name the delegates-at-large. At
first glance this provision may seem
an unwise delegation of power, but it
is to be remembered that the candi-
date has much at stake, and, if Gov
ernor Harmon's name is to be pre-
scented to the Baltimore convention he
naturally desires delegates from his
own state whose loyalty to him can
not be under suspicion. The plan was
adopted by the state committee at the
suggestion of the Harmon forces.
The result of the Ohio primaries is
expected to determine definitely the
chances of President Taft for renomi-
nation. His friends believe he will car
ry, his own state but they realize that
his carse is well-nigh hopeless if he
does not. The president finds his prin-
cipal opposition here among the Re-
publican farmers. In the cities they
are believed to be more favorably in
clined toward him. Ohio is near
enough to the Canadian frontier to
feel the effect of the Canadian recip-
rocity treaty negotiated by the Presi-
dent, and the Buckeye farmers were
very much opposed to the measure.
The results of the primaries to the
Roosevelt sweep continue as it has
been going lately, it would not neces-
sarily give the Colonel votes enough
to nominate him. 1t would, however.
according to the close students of the
situation, either make his nomination
inevitable sometime after the first bal
lot or would bring about condition
where the strong men of the party
would be in position to unite upon
some hope of electing.
The Democratic contest is