Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-25
MOORE,S RECORD AS WET
FACTOR NP PICKING WHITE
Democrats Regarded 1t Unwise to Place
Him in Charge of Cox$ Activities
in Campaign.

I puted to be wet. and to have the sup
| port of what there is of the old liquor
league in the state. This IS borne out
| by the fact that the republican or
ganization of Cincinnati and Ham1l-
! ton county has Endorsed his candi-
dacy. This makes the farmer and
rural vote generally suspicious OF
| him. But the cities control the NOM
bations: the rural sections decoe
| elections in this state.
| The rural voters are against Mayor
Davis also for the reason that he was
prominently identified last year IN
| a movement to secure an amendmeht
| of the constitution providing Tor the
classification of property for the pu1-
J poses of taxation. That is poison 10
I the Ohio farmer. for he thinks he sees
in it plan to secure ultimately the
single land tax and the saddiing OF
the entire burden of government
upon the owners of land. All OF TINS
! they link up with the reform ideas OF
the late Mayor Tom l.. Johnson OF
Cleveland. who in his time was the
leader of the single tax movement In
this state.
Auditor Also Candidate.
The democratic candidate for gov
ernor will be Vic J. Donahey. now
and for the last eight years auditor
of state. He has made feature OF
the scaling down of expense accounts
of state officials and employees pre-
scented to him for auditing. WIN
keen sense of the value of printer lnk
he has maintained a press agent who
has seen that this work was given
wide publicity To insist that " Is
tod much for judge to pay for
dinner. even in this time OF nign
prices. and compel his honor to pare
it down, makes a big hit with tne
farmer, and Honest Vic Donahey" is
a name to conjure with in all the ag-
ricultural sections of the state. while
it has taken mighty well. too. among
the laboring classes of the industrial
centerS.
Judge Brought Suit.
Judge Willis Vickery of Cleveland.
who is a candidate for election to the
supreme court now, is one OF those
whose expense bills have been re-
duced by Donahey. and in a burst OF
Indignation the judge brought a man
damus suit promptly to compel the
auditor to allow his bill in full, but
on second thought realized that the
more publicity he gave the matter the
less his chances in the election would
be. and filed a motion for leave to
withdraw the suit without hearing.
And, seeing that in that case he would
lose a chance for more valuable pub
licity, the state auditor filed protest
against the motion. but the court al
lowed it.
The nomination Of Davis and Dona-
hey is as well assured now as any
thing in the future can be, and it
it seems to be a good guess that
Dohahey will run far ahead of his
ticket and probably defeat the repub-
lican candidate. The interest that
readers outside the state have in this
lies in the fact that. such situation
will not help Senator Harding to get
the electoral vote of the state. In
this state. however. the candidates for
presidential electors are required by
law to run on a separate ballot from
that on which the candidates for
other Offices run. so that there will
be a distinct opportunity for voters
to vote one way on the state ticket
and another way on the national
ticket. which helps matters quite "a
little in this situation. for the repub-
licans. However. anything that shakes
the solidarity of the party. as the
Davis-Donahey contest is likely to
do. makes for the disadvantage Of
that party. ]. H. GALBRAITH.