Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-17
STATE CANDIDATES
IN OHIO KEEP EYE
ON HARDING HOME
Date for Gubernatorial Pri-
mary Near, Makes State
Political Barometer.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

MARlON, Ohlos July i'-AS the
date of the Ohio state primaries ap-
proaches. the candidates for nomina-
ton for governor and senator on the
republican ticket are turning their
eyes and their footsteps to the C. o. +.
grand headquarters in Marion There
are three candidates for the repub-
lcan gubernatorial nomination and
a similar number are after the sen
atorial nomination. All of them would
like to have the presidential nominee
support them. But Senator Harding
has made it plain that his hands are
off in these races: it would be poor
politics for him to mix up in primary
fights, his advisers hold. 1t would
cause some hard feeling and ac-
complish little.
There is much interest. however. in
the outcome of these primaries. The
nomination for governor and for SEN
ator may have an influence on the
national ticket in November-in all
proba bility will have an influence on
the vote cast. The primary date is
August TO-
The Three Candidates.
The candidates for the republican
nomination for governor are Harry
Davis, until lately mayor of Cleveland; ;
Ralph ID. Cole. former member of Con-
gress from the eighth district. and
Representative Roscoe G. McClough of
Canton. Davis has three times been
elected mayor of Cleveland. He ear
lrieA Eieyeland against his democratic
opponent by an Overwhelmingly ma
jority, receiving probably three times
as many votes. He is strong with
labor. and during the steel strike he
would not let strikebreakers come into
Cleveland until enjoined by the federal
court on the ground that he could not
interfere with man going to work
where he wanted to.
Davis has been regarded as decided
ly moist" not to say wet too. He
went as one of the delegates to the re-
ond choice after Harding. Hynicka.
the republican national committeeman
from Ohio. was in the same boat But
Davis stuck to Harding to the last day
of the Chicago convention, while
Hynicka swung to Wood along with
lots.
Combination Is Reported.
Now, it is reported, Davis has made
combination with Hynicka to land
the gubernatorial nominal ton and will
run strong in CINCINNATI: that he will
get the Toledo organization and that
in Columbus and other centers he will
run strong also. He is the city can
didate, as opposed to the country. can
didate, Ralph d. Cole. Cole is regard
ed as conservative. He has the in
dorsement of more than half of the
county organization and will run very
strong in the country districts. He is
dry" and was a country boy HIM
self. He served as lieutenant colo
mel dcring the war He is well liked
in Columbus, where he at one time
served as member of the state legis-
lature. Representative Mccullough was
late in getting into the race, and ac-
cording to reports will not figure very
strongly.
wouId Help Harding.
The business men in Cleveland are
dead against Davis, it is reported
Cleveland has been regarded as a
| labor ridden town under the Davis
will have the opposition of buSne SIS
| men in other. cities. But despite this,
he is apt 20 run strong in the in
dustrial centers.
| In some quarters it is believed that ii
| would be a help to the national ticket il
| Davis were nominated. 1t is figured
! that Harding will get the country vote
| and the conservative vote anyway and
that Davis Will swing many of the more
\ radical votes and labor for the ticket il
| he is on the ballot
| In the senatorial race something OF
| the same situat ton exists. The candi
| dates for the republican nomina ton are
| former Gov Frank 3. Willis. Walter F.
Brown of Toledo, former state chairman
and former bull moose, who was the
! Harding floor manager at the republican
national convention. and Supreme Court
Judge Wanamaker of Akron. Willis is
| regarded as conservative and dry.
| Wanamaker is of the Hiram johnson
| type. He is regarded as a strong friend
OF labor
1t has been argued that Walter Brown
will get the selected progressive vote in
the state if he is nominated. But. as a
matter OF fact. it is doubtful if there are
any of the progressives who went into
the bull moose party in 1912 who are moi
now back in the republican fold Fol
instance, in 1914 Senator Harding was
| elected to the Senate by majority OF
100000. indicating clearly that even as
early as that the party had returned.
Burton Making Race.
The same argument used to make il
appear that Davis would lend strength
to the national ticket is being used ir
the case of Judge Wanamaker Some
of the politicians hold that he woult
help Harding get the labor vote in the
state.
Former Senator Theodore f. Burtor
is making the race for nomination tC
the House. He has a fight on his hands
Senator Burton. from his long service
in the House and then in the Senate, be-
| came a national as we'll as a state fig.
ure, and there is much interest in hi:
effort to come back When he wen,
out of the Senate he did so voluntarily
refusing 10 be a candidate to succeed
himself.
What a center Ohio has become in
the political campaign is well demon.
strated When attention is called to the
fact that the democratic national com.
mittee is to hold its reorganiza tior
meeting in Columbus July 20, with Gov
5C01, and Frapklin d. Roosevelt bott