Evening star., 1920-03-14
BIG PAPERS IN OHIO
NOT AIDING HARDING
Wood Espoused by Cleveland
News-Moore May Be
Cox's Manager.
Special Dispstrh to The Star.

COLUMBUS, Ohio. March 13.-Sen-
ator Harding is unfortunate in hav-
ing none of the influential republican
newspapers in the larger cities of the
state enlisted enthusiastically in his
support. Here in Columbus the State
Journal is nominally for the senator,
, but evidently without enthusiasm.
while il leaves nothing to be guessed
as to its unqualified opposition to his
state manager. Harry NJ. Daugherty.
While the paper gives space freely
to real news matter from the Harding
s~aArters. impartially presentea'
the Wood headquarters finds also &C
cess to it's columns with its matter
and ample space to use.
The Times-Star of Cincinnati. now
generally recognized as the repuD-
lican organ of Cincinnati and Ham
week that while the delegates elected
from the two Cincinnati districts would
be fairly pledged to Senator Harding,
they were at heart generally for Gen.
Wood and would probably govern
their course at the national conVen-
,ion by the result of the presidential
preference ballot to be taken April 27.
The Toledo Blade. leading repub-
lican newspaper of northwestern Onio.
rarely makes an editorial expression
as to presidential preference now. but
carly in the year it printed an edi-
torial criticising the efforts of the
party leaders to commit the repub-
licans of the state to the Hardins
candidacy. closing with this Singing
paragraph: The republicans OF ONO
will decide where their support IS to
20 in the national convention. and the
republicans of Ohio are not for Sem
ator Harding.
Cleveland News for Wood.
The ClevcIcnd News. now the only
republican newspaper published in
Cleveland. is outspoken in favor OF
the candidacy of Gen. Wood. The
general hardly has more pronounced
newspaper supporter anywhere in the
country. In the secondary cities of
the state the republican newspa-
pers are loyalty supporting Senator
Harding.
The conference of Wood leaders and
delegate candidates held here last Mon
day was by no means as largely at
tended and as enthusiastic as the an
nouncements indicated. Gen. Wood did
not come, and very few of the district
delegates reported. On the whole the
meeting was such as to indicate that
perhaps the shouters for the general are
more noisy than numerous. Speeches
were made by former Attorney General
Edward C. Turner of Columbus and w.
II. BOYD of Cleveland. candidates for
delegates at large, with Gen. Wood ex-
pressed as their first choice-critical of
the Harding movement in the state. and
- aimed generally at Harry NJ. Daugherty.
his manager.
No program for the campaign was
outIined-or, at least. nothing. OF the
kind was given to the public. Both j.
H. Price of Cleveland, the state man
ager Of the Wood campaign. and Gen.
e F. Glenn. U. S. A.. recently retired
and now giving all his time to the work
told the members of the conference that
everywhere sentiment seemed to be
growing in favor Of Gen. Wood. A num-
ber Of suffra gists were present. by in
vitation, and a woman's central Wood
committee was formed in anticipation
Of presidential suffrage in Ohio by state
law, with Mrs. W. o. Thompson
wife OF President Thompson, of the
State University. as chairman, but she
subsequently declined the position.
The republican state organization still
stands soiidly in the support of Senator
Harding in spite of the assaults of the
Wood leaders and the lack of news
paper support in certain places as in
dicated above.
Following the statement from Gov
Cox's office that former Representa-.
tive T. T. Ansberry will not mana gt
his campaign. the general opnior
seems to be that Edward H. Moore
Of Youngstown. may .be asked to take
this work. He is = member cf the
national committee for Ohio, but 81
he was in 1912 and il did not Dreven,
him from managing the presilantia
interests of Gov. Judson Harmon
j. H.. GALBRAITH.