The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-04-27
DAVID tod BOOM
BOOSTEDIN Ohio
Choice Of Joseph G. Butler as
Republican Candidate
for Governor.
BIG BUSINESS LINED UP
Sure of Quorum of State Leaders In
New York and Washington.
Is Report.

srecial to The Washington Herald.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, April $.-With the
return of Joseph L. Butler. jr., from the
East. and a probable conference with
other prominent Ohio Republicans IN
New York and Washington, new i'm
petds, ii is expected. will be given the
booming Of David Tod as Republican
candidate for governor.
II is well understood in Youngstown
that a quorum Of powerful Ohio Repub-
Hcans can be assembled almost any day
in New York with each section Of the
State represented and Butler is bent on
lines for a general getting next to the
most vigilant members Of the party who
have big business connections in the East
without losing a grip on things within
State lines.
The enthusiasm and vigor of Butler in
behalf of the Mahoning candidate re-
minds Of Mark Hanna's activity and zeal
for William Mckinley in the days when
it was considered political wisdom to
first make Mckinley governor Of Ohio
before pushing the Presidential PROPOSE
ton.
Represents BiG Business.
Col Butler, like Hanna, is a big bust
ness man, a magnate in steel operations,
and never forgetful of the Republican
party, even if he has never deserved Of
fee for himself. That was true also OF
Hanna, who had no thought of Sena-
toriaI honors until his chairmanship
prominence in 1896. and it was the CRATE
full suggestion of Mckinley that put
Hanna in the Senatorial running. Butler
has no designs on the Senatorship. but
he has fervor in behalf of candidate
for governor from the old Mckinley dis
trict and Tod seems the man to bring
the party into power again at Columbus,
where every Office in the State house is
now filled by a Democrat for the first
time since the Republican party was
organized in 1856.
The great industrial region of North
eastern Ohio, which William Mckinley
was so proud of as congressional dis
tFict. has had no governor, and no high
place on a Republican State ticket since
McKinley's last election in 1893, and be-
fore McKinley's time had no candidate
for governor. In fact the great Mahon-
ing Valley-a long stretch of foundries,
mills, potteries, and industrial projections
was hardly given its due in political
konors. but was even expected to supply
big Republican majorities in November.
An occasional judge of the Supreme
Court, a State treasurer, or lieutenant
governor was the usual portion of North
eastern Ohio Republicans when con-
Nention assembled to make nominations.
Services VIII BE Rewarded.
Once the Tod managers take hold of
the campaign in earnest all this will be
recalled in the demand for a giving of
first honor 10 a row of counties who
continue stcadfast for the Republican
faith year after year. Now that Burton,
of Cleveland, is out of the Senatorial
running, and there is promise that the
Republican Senatorial nominations may
go TO the Southern end of the State, the
argument for a Northern candidate for
governor grows stronger.
Herrick, of Cleveland, was the last
Northern Ohio candidate for governor,
winning in 1903. and losing two years
later. Since then the nomination has
gone South with dire results, Back of
Herrick the governorship continued
South, with wonderful regularity. Foraker
had four consecutive nominations and
his home was Cincinnati.
After Mckinley. from the Northern
region. the nomination went TO Bushnell,
of Springfield, just north of Cincinnati,
for two terms, then TO Nash, OF Column
bus. south of the State center, with
Harris. of Southwestern Ohio; Harding.
OF Marion, and Brown. of GAINESVILLE. the
candidates later on.
However, Butler did not return bristling
with geographical arguments in favor of
Candidate Tod, preferring to demand &C.
casional naming of a business man fC-
governor and evidently the Butler con-
ferences in the East gave him new zeal
for his friend Tod. 1t is intimated that
he may have met some one-time
eminent campaign manager who won
State victories in the day when Ohio
Republicans had the nabit of electing
their tickets from governor down to
board OF public works. Anyhow, there
was cheerful report to Candidate Tod
ana A general picking up OF the faithful
which may mean a stirring up of things
from now on.
UnfrIendIinesS to Willis.
1t was made clear to other Ohio Wis
itors in Washington and New York dur
ing the week that the old Foraker and
Dick organizations still powerful in the
State could not approve or aid the am
bition of Willis for the governorship
chiefly for the reason that Willis has
never been either friendly or especially
useful to either Foraker or Dick in other
campaigns. In fact both Foraker and
Dick, each with Senatorial campaigns
vantage in the nomination of Willis
Foraker in an active candidate for the
Senate this year and Dick. with wisdom
has taken pains to announce his prefer
ence for the Senatorial honor in 1916 by
which time the old Republican machine
will be fully -geared for an old-fashioned
campaign.
Some Ohio Republicans of the old or
ganization sort appreciate that Foraker
and Dick hardly enthuse for the Harden
County orator. the turning to a more
candidate like David Tod.