The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-27
WASHINGTON, March 27.

 political cockpit of America!"
 That is the way national political leaders of the Capital are sizing up the rough rectangIe formed by the sister States of Ohio and Indiana. It was so in 1920, they say, and it will be so again in 1922 unless all signs fail, and all political forecasters fall down utterly.
 Off-year elections, with control of Congress at stake, are still eight months away. Yet in this battle scared cockpit, the party tocsins are already being steadily beaten to at- tract the wary voters, and things are lining up for still another "battle of the century" Scarcely 400 miles in length and 200 miles wide, this | irregular square furnishes more po- litical fireworks than any other sec tion of the country three times it's size. St is truly the political battle ground of nation.
 "As goes Maine so goes the na- tion'' is a political axiom that does not always hold true. Sometimes it fails. But if Indiana and Ohie once get on the same side of the political fence, history proves that the ballot counters might as well throw down their pencils and quit figuring. Oc- casionally they differ, but not often. Only four times in recent political history have Indiana and Ohio split politically, and one these widely separated occasions the differences have been very slight.
 HISTORY IS CITED In 1876 Indiana gave Tilden a slight majority, while Ohio scratched out bare victory for her native son, Rutherford B. Hayes.
 In 1884 Indiana gave a slight lead to Cleveland, while Ohio granted Blaine a narrow majority.
 In 1892, Cleveland won Indiana by 1000, while Harrison took Ohio by the extermely uncomfortable margin of 1000.
 Again, ill 1916, these two sister States split-Hughes carrying 1ndi- ana and Wilson taking Ohio. But the margins always were narrow, and in the main Ohio and Indiana can be said to bask in the same political shade.
 Always the campaigns are heated and usually they are close. The con- ing elections, toward which Congress sional lawmakers in Washington al ready are turning their eyes, promise to be no exception.
 SENATORSHIP FIGHTS HOT In both States the fight over a single Senatorship promises to eclipse all else and hold the atten- ! tion of the entire nation. In Ohio the political stakes in the Senatorial race are particularly high. A Presi- dency and a possible Presidential nomination two years hence are bound up in the Senatorship fight in Ohio next November.
 Senator Atlee Pomerene, Demo- ] crat, of Canton, is coming up for re- election His Republican opponent has not been selected yet, but whether it be Governor Harry Davis, Carmi Thompson, Congressman Sim con Fess, Representative Nick Long, worth, son-in-laW of T. R., or AttOrn- ey-General Harry M. Daugherty him. self, the fight promises to be spec tacular and hot.
 The Democrats are convinced that He is popular, he has good record, and besides they are fighting on @ lot of discomfort with Republican policies to manifest itself in the form of Pomerene votes.
 IF POMERENE WINS If they are right and Pomerene can win, then the bald-headed Ohioan will be brought forth in 1924 as the foremost Presidential candidate of the Democracy-the man who de- feated the President of the United States in his own home State and