The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-01-04
Attack on Harmon Stirs up
the Hosts Of Demo
cracy.
pOMERENE MUCH ANNOYED
Senators in Harmon Wagon
Don't Understand the
Revolt.
Other representatives Claim
Harmon Deserves
Support.


thrown into a semi-panic by the
statement Of Representative John J.
Whitacre Of Canton boltlng Gov Har-
mon for the Democratic presidential
nomination.
Whtacre reached the capital still
breathing defiance. lie not only
stood by his statement made at Cam
ton, but added to IT by declaring for
Gov Woodrow Wilson Of New Jersey
for the nomination
Representative Whltacre increased
the uneasiness among the Ohio Dem
ocrats by intimating his belief that
sooner or later the Democratic organ
izaltion Of Cuyahoga county, headed
by Mayor Newton d Baker. would
desert Harmon ana declare for VIII
son.
The Whitacre statement caused
such a disturbance among Democrats
from many other states that Senators
Hitchcock of Nebraska and Bacon
and Smith OF Georgia demanded an
. explanation from Senator Pomerene
Both the Georgia senators, as well as
| tn'AANANA AAlNNlAN'ANf tAN NAl'i'A fN''A ~
Gently to have pledged themselves to
the Harmon candidacy without reser-
vatlon They were plainly annoyed
by what they construed as positive
evidence of a serious revolt against
Gov. Harmon i'm his own state. The
only explanation offered by Senator
t. Pomcrene was that Representative
Whitacre made his anti-HarmOn
D., fg i,,t 20. t,.,,-
tests.
, Revolt AnnOys Pomcrcnc.
q Senator Pomercne was greatly an-
noyed by the Whiacre revolt After
y saving he expected to see Whitacrc
!. with the hope Of dragging him back
onto the Harmon reservation and
that he would then make state
+ ment, Senator Pomerene later recon
3 sidered and said he would have
j nothing to say. He did not see Whit
:! acre
81 am for Gov. Harmon and
IS think he is the strongest candidate
]. the Democrats can nominate" is al
C Pomerene would say publicly.
o Most OF the Democratic members
= from Ohio ran away from interview
5. ers. Representative James Cox OF
Y Dayton, considered n strong COVER
= norshp possibility, said the Whitacrc
,- statement was a great mistake.
I. 81 am for Harmon said Cox. 81
"a am exceedingly sorry that Whitacrl
4 made this statement Above al
- things / think the Democrats OF Ohio
should avoid fighting among them
= selves at this time. As far as the
: third district is concerned, the dele
gates will he for Harmon ana there
y will be no fight
= Representative Sharp of Elyria
. said:
n II am for Harmon and think al
% this time he Is the strongest man The
e Democrats can nominate. AT Tho
n same time do not overlook the fac
II that the Republican convention may
" so alter the situation that maI
available for the Democratic nomi
nation at this time win be entirel!
unsuitable as II national STANDARD
% bearer "A few months hence. l thinl
this statement can be made withou
any possible justification for. charg
v of disloyalty."
BuIlSlcy Discrcdits Whitacrc.
Representative Bulkley Cleveland
!, said he did not believe the Whitacr
=, statement at all represented the sen
N timent of the Ohio delegation
Representative White Of MARKETS.
,. refused to comment upon the bolt o
n iNhitacre, except to say he was sorr,
. II happened other Democratic con
Al gressmen ether were absent from tn
$, lcaptaI or refused TO make any state
r ment.
Representative Whitacre explain
r. that he felt for more than a year tina
of Gov Harmon would not do as presi
Is dental nominee. 1t Is understood
s. however, that he might have held hi
es Teace If what he says were threat
to put him out OF business POLITICAL
had not been made by representative
40 of the governor. These threats, 1t
~ understood, We're made by Ady, Gel
re Weybrecht'
no Whitacre SAYS he understands thol
s. oughly just what effect the statemer
n ln,ay have on his own political fol
~ tunes. The district which he repr,
er sents has been taken care OF by Il
a Harmon administration in the way
v Important patronage better, probabl
be than any other district I'm the stat
on 1t also is the home district of sta
n Insurance Commissioner Moore, WI
'ot Is at the head Of the Harmon orgal
e. ization directing the work of linir
up the Ohio delegation to the nation
al convention.
The only thing they can do is
ng throw me out or politics" says VIII
cir are. "If they beat me at the pi
In rhrles, they will be conferring
ne favor. will be better off out
nc politics. If / am kicked out then
'ns will have to stay OUT
Whether Whitacre runs as an an
~ Harmon candidate for national co
- Vention delegate from the eighteen
4, district depends entirely upon
,he Democratic voters OF that district
mo 'If the Democrats who do not faN
the nomination of Gov. Harmon wa
ne TO run, will run; II they do N
Bile / win not and that is all there is
r." says Whltocre,
S-a The Whitacre statement appe'