Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-09
HARDING MAN, DRY,
IS VICTOR IN OHIO
Progressivism and Anti-Prohi-
bitionists Beaten in Presi.
dents Home State
POMERENE IS RENOMINATED
By Associated Press

Columbus, o.. Aug. 0.---Carmi a.
Thompson. Of Cleveland. Harding Ad
ministration and Anti Saloon League
Republican candidate. will oppose for
mcr State Auditor a. V. Donahey. oil
New Philadelphia, the Democratic nom :
inec. In the Ohio gubernatorial contest
/ In November. as a sat OF the bal
loting at yesterdays primary election,
while Congressman s. -. FesS, Of lel-
low Springs. former chairman OF thc,
National Republican Congressional
Campaign Committee, will oppose sen
ator Atlee Pomercnc. Of Canton, for the
United States Senate. Returns from
two thirds Of the precincts OF the state
gave these candidates in both the guber-
Material and senatorial races leads es:
,ablishing their nomination beyond
doubt.
Bone Drys" Triumph
The prohibition issue triumphed over
light wine and beer, while progressivism
was swamped by conservatism.
The nearest the progressives got wns
in the vote of Congressman {. L..
Knight. of Akron. and In 510l pre-.
cincts out OF 1896 in the State, Thomp-
son had plurality Of I1.055. AS for
the light wine and beer issue, 1t was
represented by e. Homer Durand. Of
Coshocton. who in the same number Of
precincts was 81 900 votes behind the
leader. In the third outstanding issue
-labor-thc labor candidates in the
senatorial contest in both parties was
badly beaten.
Congressman Fess was leading former
Senator Charles Dick. of Akron. in.
dorsed by labor. for the Republican
nomination for Senator by 1O1.992
votes in precincts, and Senator Pom
John J. Lcntz, Of Columbus, the labor
Endorsed candidate. for the Democratic
senatorial nomination by p ,046 votes
in 1911 precincts.
Prohibition Leader Gaining
G, G. Crabbp, author of the Crabbe
Prohibition Enforcement Act. was
making tremendous gains on his op-
ponent, Judge l.. T.. Corn. of lronton,
in late returns. principally from the
rural districts. In 5iO2 precincts out
of total of 1896 in the State Corns
plurality had been cut to only 1927.
,'ruhhc made II gain of more than 49,
Geo in the last 1900 precincts re-
porting.
Both wet and dry leaders here now
Y
and Corn as even more representative
on the wet and dry issue than that
between Thompson and Durand.
Little Rock. Ark, Aug. Dry A.
P.)-Governor T. e.. McRae, candidate
for the gubernatorial denomination. re-
garded in Arkansas as equivalent to
election. held lead Of more than . to
l over Judge f. +. Toney when tabu.
lation Of the delayed returns from yes.
terday's State wide Democratic primary
was resumed today.
Representative W. A. Oldfeid. Demo
cratic whip in Congress. the only
member of the Arkansas congressional
delegation having opposition for re-
nomination had lead Of approximately
2la 70 over w A. Hodges, of Bald
Knob on returns from about one. fifth
Of the precincts in the Second Congres.
>ional District.
Neither of the gubernatoral candi-
dates took sides on the Ku Klux Klan
agitation. although Governor McRac
was understood to have been indorseI
by Klan supporters. lie also bore the
Endorsement of organized labor.
Nashville. Tenn. Aug. 0.-(By A.
PD-Completc returns from the Sew
ontn NOnSreSSlOndl DlStTlCt lnulcateU
today that w. G. Salmon defeated
the late Congressman Lcmuel r. Pady.
cit for the Democratic nomination.
Earlier returns gave Padgett, although
dead the nomination by several hun
lreds OF votes. lie died the day before
the primary, August 3.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala. Aug. 9.-(By A.
PD--Judge W. w. Brandon. of Tusca-
loosa. apparently has won the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor OF Ala
hama over Colonel Bbb Graves, Of
Montgomery. by an overwhelming ma
jority. Nomination is regarded as
equivalent to election.
Mrs. w. p. Emundson. the first
woman in Alabama to seek the party's
nomination for Congress, apparently
has been defeated by large majority
in the Eighth district by Z. b. Almon,
incumbent