Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-05-03
o. e. RuTHEN6ERa, OF cLEvE-
LAND SOCIALIST, WILL
HEAD STATE TICKET.
WOMEN ARE ALSO NOMINATED
Despite the Fact That Ohio Has Not
Accorded Equal Suffrage, sIx Lad
les are Among Those Nominated
by the Party for the Various State
Offices. Vigorous Campaign VIII
be Waaed this Fall.

Columbus.-C. e. Ruthenberg, edi-
tor of the Cleveland Socialist, will
head the Socialist state ticket this
fall. He was nominated for governor
on the third ballot by the Socialist
state convention, in session at the
Federation of Labor hall.
Albert Potwell of East Liverpool
was nominated for lieutenant gov
ernor.
On the flrst ballot the following
vote was cast for candidates for the
nomination for governor: G. e. Ruth
enberg, Cleveland, 81; Harry ID.
Thomas, Cleveland, "a; Max Hayes,
Cleveland, IS; George Storck, Lorain,
18; Thomas Clifford. Cleveland, 15;
DR.. d. r. Kinsel1, Columbus. IL; Ivan
Harris. Canal Dover, 4; William
Bessmer, Cleveland. 8.
| On the second ballot all but the
four leaders were eliminated. Ruth
enberg got A, Hayes 10, Storck %,
and Thomas 35.
On the third ballot Hayes and
Storck were dropped. and Ruthen-
berg defeated Thomas 66 to 60.
The names were placed in nomi-
nation without speech making Sat
urday morning for candidates for
governor and other state Offices. Rev.
| Frederick Guy Strickland, chairman
Of Saturdays session, would not per-
NIT speeches or even mention who
the candidates were as they were be-
ing nominated.
Allen Cook of Canton; Scott Will
kins, Socialist mayor of st. Marys
William Patterson of Toledo and
Strickland of Dayton, nominated for
governor, declined.
Clash over Women.
The names of six women were
| placed in nomination notwithstand.
ing the fact that women are incl.
igible to hold office in Ohio. They
were; For auditor of state, Josephine
Bates, Toledo; for state school com
missioner, Mrs. G. A. Storck of Lo
rain; Mrs. Mary Kuhn of Findlay
and Mrs. Anna Swan of Canton; fol
clerk of supreme court, Miss Anna
Mintern, Columbus; for elector, Miss
Lolita Burke of Cincinnati.
Frank Prevey of Akron, whose
wife is a member of the state exc
cutive committee and a delegate tc
the National Socialist convention ad
vised against the nomination of the
women because, he said, the secre
tary of state would not permit theil
names to go on the ballot and the
party finally would be compelled tc
name men to fill their places.
Preveys speech brought reply
from Miss Burke, who called atten
tion to the fact that proposal to en-
franchise women would soon go be
fore the voters of Ohio, and who sale
the women might be entitled to holt
Office before the next election. Ii
order to avoid complications, it Ii
likely that the women will not b,
nominated.
Many For Congress.
Harry D. Thomas, constitutions
delegate, was placed in nomination
for congressman-at-large along will
James Henderson, president of tn,
Columbus Federation of Labor; E. l.
Kitchens of Cincinnati, prominen
labor union man; Bert Nichols o
Mansfield and Illion q. Moore, constl
tutional delegate from GAINESVILLE
Moore's name was later withdraw
when it was brought out that he wa
not nominated for constitutional del
egate by the Socialist party, but b,
the Changers organization. He is
Socialist, however