The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-04-14
BURTON'S ACTION
CLEARS THE WAY
RETIREMENT OF OHIO SENATOR
I'>s xAsS Se casol c,ehH ron
Prospective Democratic Candidates
Hsvlng Hard Time With Their
Platform ard the Law.



rntsliirsncsr Bureau.
Columbus. o.. Aprl H.
Republican skies cleared consider
ably during the last week and II n
believed now that practically all who
VIII enter the race for the nominations
Tor governor and senator on the Re
publican ticket have weighed in
The retirement OF Senator T. r. Bur
ton froLa the senatorial race while a
great disappointment to thousands OF
his sdmirers In Ohio. cleared the way
Tor former Congressman Ralph ID. Cole
Of findlay. and former Speaker of the
'eJhio House Freeman II. Eagleson. 10
announce their candidates.. Cole
would not have entered the senatorial
race had Burton stayed In and II IL
not Improbable that Eagleston, too.
would have declined tO run. These
two. witt former Senator J. y. For
aker OF Cincinnati. the third candidate
promise a lively battle.
There has been an effort 10 ind>lce
state Chairman Harry NJ Daugherty
70 become candidate for Senator
but " II believed he will refuse to do
so. Friends OF former Governor Ny
ron II. Herrlck. who will soon be home
from Paris, where be has served az
Am passador Tor several years. want
MIN 70 run for either senator or gov
erncr. and friends OF former Lieut-Cov.
warren @. Harding Of Marion. are al
ready circulating petitions for his
nomination for senator. but he has NOT
yet announced his willingness Hard
Ing u an old friend OF Foraker and IL
II not believed he will do anything 10
make the race harder for the Cincin.
natl man.
"a David III. Tod of Youngstown a
former state senator. this week an
noupced with a bitter speech attack
Ing Governor J. VI. Cox. Democrat. his
candidacy for the Republican nominal.
tion Tor governor I'm Opposition 10
Congressman Frank r. Willis OF the
Eighth district. In his formal an
nouncement. Tod denounced Cor for
extravagance in his state administra-
ton and declared that he has built
up a powerful political machine nv
me use OF appointments. Former
CONGRESSMAN Paul Rowland declared
after the Tod and Willis men had
been given scare. that he will not
run Tor governor He has. up TO this
time, made no statement as to wheth-
or or not he will seek the nomination
for United States senator on the Re-
publican ticket Judge David Davis
or Cincinnati Is In the race in 40 far
as public announcement goes. but IL
DehaVed now that he will not file
MS petitions. This will leave the
nght TO Tod on the eastern border OF
lhe state and Willis on the western
border as ~ is now believed ID. Meade
Massie OF Chillicothe, will decline 10
become candidate. Massie. who is
FORMER Progressive. would have run
had the nomination come TO him
without hght. but he would not en-
ter a contest for e.
The week was made memorable bv
p vicious attack on Attorney General
y =. Hogan. now a candidate for the
democratic nomination for United
states senator bv CITY Solicitor Row
n. Merriman OF Steubenville. Merit
man accuses the attorney general of
gross extrava aance end SAYS that he
mas been paying political debts with
public Jobs. Hogan's reply Is that he
needed all the help he had enRa ged
because OF the large amount OF work
on hand. Merriman guarantees that
ne can do the work with half the
number OF assistants and, special
counsel that HOGAN has employed
Congressman J. ID. Post or Wash
ington Courthouse made another
vicious attack on Governor Cox this
week. declaring be is not the gov
ernor ~ all. but the mouthpiece for
W. l.. Finley. the Democratic boss OF
the state. He charges that 1rinley ia
eovernor. legislatur" and exervthing.