Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-10
WHITE NOT T0QU|T,
SEEKS STATE POST
Will Remain Chairman of
Democratic National Com
mittee, Is Decision.
OHIO GOVERNORSHIP AIM
Political Ambitions and Fear of
McAdoo Domination Cause for
Change of Plans.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
COLUMBUS, Ohio. January 10
Chairman George White of the demo-
cratic national campaign committee is
not to resign. after all. That fact de-
week. Immediately after the election
it was reported that he would retire
from the committee and permit Ed H.
Moore, who resigned in order to en-
able White. the choice of Gov. Cox
for the craftsmanship, to take his place
in the committee and be eligible to
resume membership. The reason that
he will not do so is that it might
give the McAdoo element in the COM
mittee control of the body and op-
crate it in hostility to the interests
of Gov. Cox.
Gov. Cox does not know now wheth-
er he wants to be a candidate for the
presidential nomination four years
hence or not. But even if he does not
he will wish to have something to say
as to who shall be made the candi-
date. Chairman White. it has been
known for some time. nurses an am
bition to be governor of the state.
and while here last week he intimated
that he might get into the race for
the nomination of his party for that
office next year He has never actu-
ally eHleTeu d Contest 1oI Tic
nomination, though he has tested con-
ditions with a view to doing so on
several occasions.
State Auditor A. V. Donahey. who
today retires to civil life and whose
popularity gave him an open field for
the nomination for governor last year
will, it is understood. retire from pub
lie life. He has business opportunities
which he feels that he cannot afford
to overlook. Chairman White is in
clined to regard the withdrawal of
Donahey as leaving him with a prac-
tically clear field for 1922.
But already democratic leaders of
the Judson Harmon faction are
grooming former chief Juctice Hugh
l.. Nichols of the Ohio supreme court
for that nomination. Nichols has
been state senator and lieutenant
governor. besides presiding justice of
the supreme court. and was brought
into politics by former Gov. Harmon.
He is dry" has an excellent reputa-
ton, and is very much such man as
the late Gov. John NJ. Pattison, whom
the democrats brought out as their
candidate for governor in 1905. and
with whom they defeated the repub-
lican governor. Myron T. Herrick.
Those who are urging the Nichols
movement now anticipate that the
new governor. Harry l.. Davis, who
was inaugurated today. will prove to
be a liberal. if indeed his administra-
ton does not lead the Anti-Sa loon
League to denominate him wet. In
that case Judge Nichols would be an
ideal candidate for the democrats to
stage comeback like that of fifteen
Years ago.
Gov. Cox and Chairman White have
long been close personal and political
friends, and. of course. the governor
would stand back of Whites candi-
dacy if he should come out for the
nomination for governor next year.
At this stage of the game it looks
very much as though the democrats
would have next year an interesting
contest for the nomination for gov
ernor. with the White Nichols fac
tions lining UP almost exactly along
the cleavage that marked the Cox
and Harmon factions of the party in
recent divisions.