The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1922-02-15
DEMOCRATS LOOK FAYORABLY
UPON OHIOAN FOR 1924

UPON OHlOAN FOE 1924
Political Robins Begin to Chirp In
Capital, notwithstanding Early Date.
Look for Big Victory.
Washington, Feb. 4.-The grand old
game Of politics in the national capital
may sometimes doze bit, but it never
sleeps. And even in it's fitful doing
IL keeps one eye open and to the wind
ward.
Ever since the Republican ava
lanchc Of 1920 swept the Democratic
administrations-both national and
state--into the discard, things have
been slumbering, politically speaking.
Now, with the approach of spring,
and Notwithstanding that Warren G.
Harding has been in the white House
less than year and has three more
years to go, the political robins Of the
1924 campaign are already bestirring
themselves and chirping abol n the
,grccnsward of Capitol uIill.
Democratic quictude should not be
t. t-r or Democratic stagnation. The
d .:ocratc o. Capitol Hill honestly be-
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next fall, and cut down the Republican
majority in the senate to almost moth
ing.
The more optimistic believe they
can win the senate too, but the more
conservatives content themselves with
claiming the house.
The first whispering concerning a
Democratic candidate for 1924 are now
going the rounds Of Capitol Hill, and
they center about Atlee Pomerene,
present senior senator from the presi-
dents own state of Ohio, who is to
ccmc up for reelection next November.
The preliminary groundwork TOR
Pomerenc's candidacy already has been
lald. His managers have gone just as
far rs possible until 1t Is seen whether
tho senior senator from Ohio IS coming
back to the senate next fall II he
does not come back, his candidacy, OF
course, dies a-borning, but if he does
come back, then the Pomereno boom is
going to be launched in earnest.
Everything depends upon the sena-
torial outcome in Ohio next fall Even
at this early date, political forecasters
in Washington-and they are thicker
than bees around honey pot-are
predicting that this years by-election
in Ohio will set new record for in
tensity and endeavor. Ohio Is to be the
great political battle-ground Of the
two major parties in 1922, as it was in
1920, and as it will be again in 1924
If Pomerenc Is elected to succeed
himself.
Certain Democrats who are quietly
laying their plans for Pomerene's cam
didacy believe he can be reelected to
The senate next fall without great
deal of difficulty. True, they do not
know yet what tho Republican opposi-
ton will be. 1T may be mick" Yong
worth, Carmi Thompson, Gov. Harry
Davis, Simeon Tess, Chas. l.. knight,
or even Harry Daugherty, the present
attorney general, but Pomerene's back
crs arc confident he can beat any OF
them.
Then their trump card will be this,
with IPomerene elected his victory will
be hcralded to the nation as the voters
Reputation" Of the Harding adminis-
tration in the presidents home state.
They are already taking it for grant
cd that Mr.. Harding will be a candi-
date for second term. And then At
lee Pomcrene can be brought out in
1924 as the hope of the Democracy
the man who defeated the president in
his own state, and the only presiden-
t1al candidate in the party who stands
a sporting chance of again defeating
hm--this time for the White House.
1T Is, in short, a political parley. If
Pomerene wins next fall his friends
are going to shoot him White House
ward. If he loses-well its lost. But
the Pomcrenc hackers are not figuring
On losing. So confident are they of
victory, at any rate, that they have al
ready at this early date, spent consld-
cradle time and some money in laying
the groundwork for an organization
to groom their horse for the race.
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