Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-03
PLAN
WORRIES COOLIDGE
COHORTS IN Ohio
BY ROBERT T. SMALL
Leased Wire Service to The Journal)
Copyright, 1921

Icased Wire Service to The Journal)
Copyright, 1919
CLEVELAND, Ohio, April .
Harry NJ. Daugherty's evident deter
mination to continue as a candidate
for delegate at large to the Republic
an national convention on the Cool
idse ticket in this state has created
a situation which is puzzling the
politicians more than any condition
with which they have had to Gea!
in a generation.
Odd as it may seem, the break be-
tween the president and the former
attorney general seems to have
strengthened EIr. DauGherty S
chance of election. 1t was freely
predicted two weeks ago that Mr..
Daugherty would be ''cut" on the
primary ballots this year just as
he was in 1920, when even as gen
eral manager of the Harding cam
paign for the nomination he was de,
feated in his ambition to represent
the state at Chicago.
Since he was forced out Of the
cabinet there has been a reaction
which undeniably is favorable to
Mr.. Daugherty, and many of those
who had announced they would vote
against him, say now they will give
him this last honor which he proba-
bly, will ask from the party. MIR.
Daughertys name appears on the
ballot and beneath it is the pledge
to vote for Mr.. Coolidge when the
convention meets in this city. The
former attorney general recently
mas stated that nothing has hap
pened to mar mis- friendship and 10y
atty to his former chief, and that
he will serve his cause in Cleveland
as faithfully as if he were still a
public servant. Ohioans evidently
believe this to be d sincere state.
meEt, and they will support Mr..
I)aughterty accordingly.
The Ohio primaries will be held
Tuesday, April 20, and the Coolidge
delegates are opposed by Hiram
Johnson slate. The Johnson forces
have not made d militant campaign
IN the state as yet, because Senator
johnson, who is bearing the entire
brunt of the campaign himself, has
been too busy elsewhere. The sena-
tor probably will make a Whlrlwind
tour of Ohio just before the pri-
al n
confidently predicting that they
would get at least one delegate at
large from this state, and several dis
trict delegates Their prediction of
one delegate-at-large was based on
their belief that Harry Daugherty
would be defeated.
The Coolidge campaign managers
are not d little worried over the
Daugherty situation, for they have
senSed the popular reaction which
seems to be based upon the belief
that having been permitted to enter
the investigation, the attorney gen
eral might have been permitted to
make some sort Of defense before
being ousted.
Yet the reaction to Daugherty does
not imply the slightest reaction
against President Coolidge as a can
didate for the nomination. AS a mat
ter of fact, there will be no way in
which the friends Of Daugherty could
show any resentment against the
president in the primary. A vote for
Daugherty will be vote for Cool
idge. In order to vote against Cool
idge. it would be necessary for a
strictly Daugherty man to vote
against the latter.
Coolidge Faction Worried
There is no doubt but that the
Coolidge managers would feel more
comfortable if Mr.. Daugherty were
off the ticket, but they do not dare
openly to express their opinion that
he should resign, even il the brief
time before, the primary permitted
such action on his part. The Cool
idge supporters were particularly
worried over the first reports from
Atlantic City that the former attor-
ney general was going to deliver a
veritable broadside against his for
mer chief because of the unexpected
request for his resignation.
Now that the statement has APP
>peared and has included a new pledge
Of loyalty to Mr.. Coolidge much of
the uneasiness has disappeared.
Harry Daugherty is a stormy petrol,
however, in ohio politics, and the
fear that something may happen to
cause him to erupt again is an ever
living one with the Coolidge ,ces.
There is no doubt that Harry Nj.
DauGherty has become quite a local
hero, and there is also no doubt that
il elected a delegate to the Cleveland
convention he will BE even more of
a hero at the Gathring which is to be
held here in his home state. Mr..
Daugherty ordinarily might retire
from the race, but it has been his
life ambition to be elected a delegate
at-larGe to 4 national convention. and
it would seem that this time he has
his best chance, despite the fact
that he could not win the honor four
years ago when he was Booming
favorite son for the nomination.
There is a disposition to regard the
primary race as Harry Daugherty S
swan song. and for that reason some
OF his oldest enemies in state poll
tics are silent Apparently they are
willing that he should have this
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