The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-28
'DAUGHERTY
 GIVES VOTE
 FOR HARMON

In npminating Governor Harmon, M. A Daugherty said in part: 'ets
 The commission borne by your nominee will n1ean the betternent and advancement of millions of human be- dngs, a conamisslon to tighten the ever accommodating burdens of taxation, to make corporate power the servant and not the master of the people. to check and curb the growing military spirit that finds expreasfon in the de- mand for large .standing armies and giant navies 70 perfloys to tho liber- |ver to the conquest and sub1ugation sof .. distant people on the other side of the world, no longer to allow the s91e and barter of the tayinE, power to trust and tarin and Monobdiy 1h return for gigantic canpaiEp coptri- bgtiona to destroy the whole protsc- trusts and annihila{e Yonopoiy, and to drive the vampires of privilege from place and power,
 .'In the last O decades in nationaI Democratic convenltfoueO Ohio was on- 1y . Republican state with no impres- sive voice in pemqcratic councilE Eo q Hsuidcfif1c.. coin1ni(oypswealfh redeein- ed and Eegeuerated by Ohioh Eeai DomoCrdtfc governor Nho never 1oat s political battle, who never led hil party to defeat,s who always carried it's banner to splendid victory who trannformed the >stafe from the dead sea of, Republicanisn1 to the paradise of Democracy, who cru6hed and strangled the Republican state ma chine, the most powerful and fAt most corrupt of, modern days, who ex- acts honesty and economy from pow Or. who drove orruption from Ohio's political, life and elevated the stand ard of it's citizenship and under whose leadership Democracy in Ohio has be- come the protector and evAngel of the dominant morals. That the sem Hment was onward and upward iG the essential spirit of represeptatNe gov ernmas4t.
 .sGuined hy. its sgreat Democratit real and true progFession.. the pro greesion that builds up and does not deStroy and that places Ohio first in the advancing progress of the states, than any other commonwealth, and accomplished too and this has been its most distinguishing feature, along and within the Boundary lines of ex- ieting constitutiopal lines, for he be- lieveS in the established institutions of his country, has not lost faith In representatfve@gove and is Un- willing. to exchange it for the legends and the Tables or the memOrialG and the ruins of so-calIed pure Democ- racy.
 No man can take the oath of of flee as President of the United States who does not believe in representa- tive government because every letter and line and sentence of that imper- isha ble document shakes and breathes the very spirit and soul of a, represen- tative Democracy.
 Tn availability, in merit, in mental and moral equipment, in the union of every quality of leadership and. states mafishfp, Ohio does not yield to any for. there stands the most command ing figure in the public life of this land s .57
 Legitimate industry will not halt, Honest business will not tremhle, but the sluggish currents of commerce and trade will leap and bound resp6nsive to the pulsations of new life when his nomination and election are an- nolnced, while trust and monopoly then. will know that their death knelI has been sounded for the sympathies of this great and good man are cen- tered about the Short and simple an- nals of the poor.
 s'Ohio now names as your nominee for. President her gifted and brilliant son of quiet dignity, superb boise and epotless life, pre-eminent in leader ship, in law, in statesmanship, in in- telIectual and moral greatness, the greatest governor in all Ohio history, Judson Harmon