Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-10
HARDING MAY
TAKE HAND IN
OHIO POLITICS
Dispute in Party Ranks May
Make Him Change AvOwed
Policy.
DEMOCRATS UNEASY, TOO

WASHINGTON, April 10.--Ohio, which
held the center of the stage In the
presidential election OF 1920, may be ex-
pected to assume the leading role In the
reflections of 1922.
Even now both Republican and Demo
cratic party leaders, busy as they are
with primary fights In their own State
and districts, are turning anxious eyes
toward developments in the Ohio senate
rial contest, which they realize can not
fail to have direct bearing on the ma
tional leadership Of both parties.
On the Republican side a dispute over
the candidacy may force President Har-
ding to dip into the primary fight. a
thing he has announced that he does not
expect to do IN any States, much less his
own. But the President, It Is pointed out,
could not afford TO permit the return OF
/ a Democratic Senator from Ohio, II 1t
were possible for him to prevent It by
merely smoothing out differences within
his own party. Under such circumstances
II believes the recent White House die
/ tum Of non-interfercnce In party SQUAD
bles would not hold
On the Democratic side, Senator Pom
creme will ha veno opposition as his
party's candidate for re election. to tina,
extent the Ohio Democrats appear to be
/ 0hANNN AN AhNAt up until tpudIs lUtN
regarded the situation in Ohio as Par-
ticulariy rosy, limiting Mt perfect har-
mOny in their ranks. The speech Of
James n. Cox, seen in Washington as a
plain ayoWal OF Cox's intention to re
tain national leadership. has changed all
that The Cox aspirations are bound TO
play au important part In the Ohio sen
atorial fight and perhaps not to the best
advantage Of Senator Pomerene,
TESS WILL SEEK
RENOMINATToN.
Briefly summing up the Republican sit
uation. Representative Tess win be a
candidate for the nomination. His for
NAL announcement Is expected next week.
Congressman Burton who was returned to
he House in the landslide of 1920, after
being beaten for reelection 20 the Senate
six years ago by Pomerene, also is talk
| Ing OF entering the primary, while those
close 10 the White House believe Presi-
dent Harding IS eager for Walter Brown
Of Toledo, to make the race and Brown
is Just as eager to get in It IL he can
obtain the Presidents personal backing
Browns hankering for the Ohio Sena-
torship IS plainly evidenced by the fac.
that since the advent Of the Republican
Administration in Washington. he has
turned down the Enthusiastically TO
Japan and the Under Secretaryship Of
State. Brown has been in Washington
for months working on the Presidential
plan Of Government department reorgani-
cation, and has intimated upon several oc-
casious that he wanted to try again
for the Republican nomination for Sena-
tor from Ohio. He was defeated for
the nomination In 1920 by Frank Willis.
II Presidential Intervention comes In
Ohio. 1t doubtless would be exercised
with the view of averting a three-corn-
cred fight which might endanger the
unity Of the Republican organization alb
solutely essential TO contest the popu-
larity and the record of Senator Pom
creme.
The situation developing on the Demo
cratic side ms the result Of the action
Of Cox in putting his hat in the ring
for another whirl In 1924, Is even more
interesting. The reflection OF Senator
Pomerene, Democrat, in President
Harding's own State, would, 1t Is be-
lieved here. virtually make Pomerene
the biggest figure In his party, and a
rallying point about whom the Demo
cratic factions might unite. Pomerene's
election doubtless would seriously Jeop-
ardize COx's hold on the Democracy in
Ohio and an effort on the part of Pom
creme and his Supporters to get the
Ohio delegation to the next convention,
If undertaken, probably would not be
unsuccessful.
cox TO MAKE
LEAGUE ISSUED.
The announcement of Cox that the en-
trance Of the United States into the
League of Nations will be the issue on
which he will assert himself for the
Democratic leadership establishes his
backing as the Democratic Senators who
recently opposed the Four Power Pacific
Treaty. Senator POmerene. a supporter
of the treaty throughout the senatorial
fight therefore places himself outside
the Cox coterie, although Senator Pom
creme did support the treaty of Versailles
and the covenant of the League of Ma
tions in the senatorial struggle before the
1920 campaign.
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