Show 1 OTHER POINTS OF VIEW I OHIO'S OliOS POLITICAL SUCCESS So It has happened that for moro more than a haJt- haJt century halt Ohio has furnished the supreme political rulers o of the thc na- na tin for tor or half haIr th that t period not counting Senator Harding who I is all aU set for an ei year eight Job at the tho White Whito House The Ohio list of ot Presidents begins with Gr Grant nt elected in 1868 and 1872 because he be was the savior of or the nation but being from Ohio helped some The log cabin where Grant was born is yet to be seen on the state fair tall grounds in Columbus if tf it has not been carried away b by souvenir hunters Then camo ame Rutherford Birchard lIa Hayes es elected In 1876 and serving one term The opposition came mighty near skinning Hayes at the Cincinnati convention but I It t somebody turned out tho the ga gas s. It was wa the on way they could beat Blame Blaine and the Ohio save record Hayes was a the of could walk walle bank banI and on a of or piano keys kers from Po ba bay to the Golden Gate without making mak mak- mak 1 ing a sound Then came Garfield elected in 1880 but shot in the tho Baltimore Ohio depot Washington in Jul July I 1881 b by Benjamin Harrison was elected in 1888 1838 but he was defeated b by Cleveland in 1892 The trouble with Harrison was that ho gave credit for hl his election i to God Instead of ot tho the politicians The martyred McKInley elected in 1896 and ond 1900 was killed b by Leon Czolgosz In In Buffalo In September 1901 The record save Harding closes with William Howard Taft elected in 1908 but de de- de tented in 1912 thanks thank to the political perfidy of t somo some of or orthe the men nen who are aro now singing his praises Nineteen bundred hun bun dred and twelve twelve twelve-it it really seems much longer lon than that when only Utah and V Vermont stood up to be counted I tea DJs An Angeles Times j |