Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-03
STRENGTH OF DAVIS
A GREAT SURPRISE
Republican Nominee for Governor of Ohio
Reported to Be Leading Harding
In Rural Counties.

lican ticket. because of the weakness
of his democratic opponent, w. "A.
Julian of Cincinnati. The latter
suffers from the fact that he Is
newcomer in politics, and IS not
good campaigner.
Mr.. Julian is a shoe manufacturers
stands high in business and is very
wealthy. 1t is minated in inner
democratic circles that there IS ans
satisfaction with him in the orSanl-
cation for the reason that ne Is un-
willing to contribute to the campaign
expenses as literally as it was hoped
he would If reports current apoul
the democratic state Headquarters
are correct he has given only S.,VoV
to the committee and indicates thal
he does not intend to give more. w men
told that without a more vigorous
camnaipn than can be financed with
the money in hand his chances TOT
election will not be good his answer
is that he does not believe In New
berrying" the state.
Ignoring the Women.
1t seems to have been decided by ..e
democratic state committee not 10 az
tempt to organize the woman Noters
of their party. At least SO TAR noehihS
has been done in that dlrection anu
there are no indications that there
will be- The fact is that among INC
leaders in the movement for votes LOT
women in this state there is sentl-
men against the democratic state Or
ganization leaders for the reason ina.
most of them were unreleh.lus M
their opposition to Suffrage, MANY ~
them standing firm against II UNI,
it's coming was beyond question. anu
some. like Senator Pomerene, stanu-
ine- onnosed to it to the last. In view
of this it may be that the oplnioii u
the state leaders is that they VIII !are
better at the hands of the new toteis
to let them alone than to agitate Lee
tier at this time and emphasize the
fact that they were opposed TO SUI.
fraee This hostile feeling on tne
mart of the woman voters may a.
count to some extent for the strengtn
of Mayor Davis in spite OF the lat
that he is liberal and admits It,
No Prohibition Ticket.
There will be no prohibition ticket
on the state ballot here-nelther staee
nor national Their petitions were ue
that they will not resort to the courts
in an effort to gain admission to the
ballot in spite of the deficiency. IN
order to cast a vote for their can III
date, therefore, the members OF 1he
party viii. have to wri.e IN nd .le state
candidates-which, Of course, rev
will do. 1t is not matter OF great
however, as the prom
bition vote in the state IS negleiDiy
small, and at that it will be pretty
equally divided if it is forced in TINS
way to support either GOV. COX or
Senator Harding.
Congressional Tickets.
Clark Doughty, a democrat running
for Congress here In
the capital city district. has with
drawn from the contest and ordered
mis- name stricken from the ballot. 10
the extent that he would nave drawn
support from the regular democratic
Arthur P. Lamneck, this
will. of course, help the democratic
candidate. But there seems to be lit
tie doubt that the district will swing
over into the republican column THIS
time and elect Gen. John c. Speaks
Labor, which might have been against
the republican candidate as against
another democrat, on the ground that
he was long a member Of the state
militia and took part in many strike
as such, is supporting
him now mainly for the reason that
has been stout advocate of the open
shop in employment matters.
The democratic congressional dis
pute in the twenty-first district
= between Representative
John ]. Babka and former Repre-
sentative ROBERT CToSSer, TiEdlS Aoi
the nomination of their party, has
reached the state supreme court and
has taken on a new form of party
internal dissension by a move backed
by a Cleveland independent voters
organization to have the head Of the
Cleveland board of elections. HI. E.
French, removed from his position
by the state supervisor of elections,
on the charge of fraudulently con-
Quoting the primary election in this
case. It was a hard fight and single
vote decided it in favor of Repre-
sentative Babka, but it looks as
though defeat at the polls by reason
of dissatisfaction in the party would
be his ultimate portion.
]. H. GALBRAITH.