Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-30
COOLIDGE AND cox
VICTORIOUS IN OHIO
President Leads Johnson by 10O,-
900 and McAdoo Loses State
by $4,000.
DAUGHERTY WINS PLACE
Former Attorney General Trails
Ticket in Most Counties.

BY the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April S0.-Both
President Coolidge and former Gov
James NJ. Cox of Ohio, the Demo
cratic candidate for President in
1920, won sweeping victories in
Ohios primary elections yesterday
The vote. however. was probably the
lightest ever cast in an Ohio primary
election. it being officially estimated
at about IS per cent of the potential
vote.
President Coolidge not only won
the states fifty-one delegations to
the national convention. but also was
given better than a 6-to-1 indorse-
ment over United States Senator
Hiram w Johnson of California in
the presidential preference contest.
Cox Shows Strength.
Mr. Cox probably will go before
the Democratic national convention
with his home states forty-eight
votes pledged to support him and
backed up by a popular Endorsement
of his party by two-and-a-half-to
one vote over William Gibbs McAdoo.
His probable forty-eight votes will
be represented by f1fty-two, delegates
the eight delegates at large each hav-
ing but half a vote.
Former Attorney General Harry NJ.
Daugherty, defeated four years ago
for delegate at large by almost 1000
carried the state on preference choice
over Gen. Leonard Wood by about
Is. 900. yesterday was elected a mem
Der of the Coolidge slate Of dele
gates at large, but was probably low
member of the Coolidge slate. He,
however, won over the highest John
son delegate by about four to one.
Women Trail List.
Woman delegates trailed the lists
in every instance. except on that
on the Coolidge slate, where they
probably have beaten out former At
torney General Daugherty.
E. H. Moore of Youngstown. who
managed Mr.. CoX's preconyention
campaign four years ago, was elected
a district delegate in the nineteenth
district and probably will be a can
didate for national committeeman as
we'll as taking an active part in Mr.
Cox's campaign for the presidential
nomination again this year. On the
delegation with Mr.. Moore will be
the former governors of the state,
hudson Harmon of Cincinnati and
James Z, Campbell of Columbus, and
former War Secretary Newton D.
Baker, elected as a district delegate
in Cleveland.
Mr.. Harmon was leading the INST OF
Cox delegates at large by slight
margin over former Senator Pomerene
when almost half the precincts of the
state had reported.
Coolidge Leads by 100000.
The vote in 6,14S precincts in the
presidential preferential contest, out
of a total of $3.50 precincts in the
state, showed President Coolidge
leading Senator Johnson by more
than 100000 votes, and former Gov.
Cox was leading Mr.. McAdoo by al
most $4,000 votes. The vote in 6,14S
precincts was: Coolidge, 127,954;
J johnson, 2o,ss7; Cox, 55,S46; McAdoo.
President Coolidge carried every
county in the state by marjorities
ranging from a little more than three
to one in Cuyahoga county to as high
as twenty to one in some of the small
rural counties. Mr.. Cox apparently
has not been so fortunate, as he prob
ably will be forced to yield few of
the smaller counties to Mr. McAdoo.
incomplete returns indicate that Nc
Adoo probably has carried Lawrence,
Portage, Vinton and Harrison coun-
ties, with a fighting chance In few
other small counties.
Fess Leads Slate.
Portage county is the home of
David l. Rockwell, Mr.. McAdoo's ma
tional campaign manager.
United States Senator Simeon D.
Fess was leading the Coolidge slate
of delegates at large in returns from
4,s1S precincts, with his colleague,
Senator Frank B. Willis, running a
close second Mr.. Daugherty made
his poorest showing in Hamilton
county, where he ran more than 5000
votes behind William Cooper Proctor,
who was high in the list in that, his
home county. Mr.. Daugherty also
was outstripped in his old home couE-
ty, Fayette, by both Senators Fess
and Willis, and was last in Franklin
county (Columbus), his present home.
RUNS SOLID FOR COOLIDGE.
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