Evening star., 1936-05-10

Col. and Mrs. ChGrleS A.
they aUere recognized by crO1UO
auoid the curious.
the Oregon primary next Friday it is
true, but in that State he seems to
have matters largely his own way. 1t
is in Ohio he must make his mark, II
it is to be made.
Fight Is for Delegates.
Neither Borah nor Taft is entered in
the presidential preference primary,
nor any of the serious contenders for
the Republican nomination. Stephen
A. Day-an unknown-hled his name
and there it stands, alone in its glory
and the vote will mean nothing. Borah
and Taft are fighting it out in the
primary for the election Of delegates.
Each delegate must announce on the
ballot his first and second choice for
President, and the names of the dele
gates are printed in large black type,
while their choices are printed IN
small type.
The candidates for delegate are
listed alphabetically, and not in Borah
and Taft groups. So the voters must
run down the list, marking the names
as they see fit. This is a job the Or
ganization leaders fear that may
result in the marking of ballots for
Borah.
The Republicans will elect eight
Io1ano ~ ~ Tho National
vention. The organization has a full
list of eight entered, Borah has only
seven. In order to promote as much
harmony as possible, the organization
included in its slate of delegates at
large Walter F. Brown, former Post
master General. a Hoover man at
heart; Clarence j. Brown, who has
been a Knox manager in Ohio. and
a number of Landon supporters. Frank
M. Ransbottom, another of the slate,
is reckoned Knox man. at least for
the start of the convention balloting.
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth is
running as Taft delegate at large,
too. But no one here seems to know
just how Mrs. Longworth will vote
when she leaves Taft
Opposed to Hoover.
One thing the Ohio Republicans ap-
pear to be intent on. They do not
intend to send delegation to the
convention to vote for the renomina-
tion OF former President Hoover
Walter Brown or no Walter Brown.
The State Committee early in the
game passed resolution to that ef-
feet. Where Brown will go, if he is
elected delegate at large. in the break
up, is matter of surmiSe The Lam
don people believe he will stand for
the Kansas Governor. despite the fact
that Hoover has not been favorable
to Landon up to date
Brown has fair sized crop of DO
Itical enemies among Republicans in
the State. There is a possibility
though remote-that he may be taken
for a ride and not elected delegate
at large. In that event one of the
Borah candidates would step in.
Daniel E. Morgan, long prominent in
the party, is regarded as the most
likely Of the Borah delegates at large
to win. if either Walter Brown or
another of the Taft slate should fall
by the wayside. Former Senator Ros-
coe G. McCulloch is a Borah delegate
at large candidate and so is John
S. Knight, Akron publisher, who has
been the backbone of the Borah cam
palgn in this State. The Borah peo-
pie originally had an eighth candi-
date at large-Judge j. H. C. Lyon
OF the Youngstown district. On the
last day for filing, however, Judge
Lyon withdrew, saying that he had
become satisfied that the Interests
Of the G. o. P. would be better served
by sending an uninstructed delegation
to the convention and that his dis
tr1ct appeared to be for Landon.
B0rah Weak in Cincinnati.
Borah has no delegates entered in
the Cincinnati districts. In that Sec
ton OF the State he has comparatively
little support. Cincinnati is a strong
Republican organization city. Borah,s
weakness there is likely to initiate
strongly against the election of his
candidates for delegate-at-large in
the Statewide vote. The Borah man
ayers say their best chances are in the
sixth, seventh, eighth, fourteenth, fif-
teenth, sixteenth, seventeenth. eight
eenth, nineteenth and twentieth dis
trlcts. They hope to elect one of the
candidates in the twentieth (Cleve-
land district. Several of these dis
tr1cts are rural and without large
cities. The claim is that Borah will
be stronger out among the farmers,
And he will have support, they say,
from the Townsendites and Coughlin-
ties.
Borah's campaign in Ohio has been
directed against the Republican organ
ization, the favorite son candidate
idea, and monopoly. He refers to
Taft as a synthetic candidate" and
Tart retaliates by calling Borah a
fake" candidate on the ground that
the Idaho Senator stands for what
Roosevelt stands for and that Borah
does not really hope 20 win the nomi-
nation.
early III Ine campaign mere the anti
Borah Republicans made a lot of the
fact that the Idaho Senator had given
an opinion the Costigan anti-lynching
bill was unconstitutional. There are
about 125,000 colored voters in Ohio.
Borah was held up to them as no
friend of their race. Borah has re-
peatedly called on Taft, his opponent,
- ~ l. T.
gan anti-lynching bill constitutional,
during the last two weeks. But Taft
has carefully refrained from answering
the question. If his managers are
correct, Taft is not going to answer
Borah may hold that Taft'c refusal to
n, q ka oneuyer is an onknnmie edoya e,,f