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Show rOMERENE IN FIELD. 1 It is probable that quite a number of lic-mocra ' s are maneuvering for tho party nomination for president, but not a single one of them is enjoying anything any-thing likfl a. boom. Champ Clark is being groomed for the race in spito of the handicap imposed by age. His candidacy, can-didacy, however, is not seriously taken. Attorney General Palmer is supposed to havo presidential aspirations and tli! same may be said of former Secretary Secre-tary of the Treasury MeAdoo. Governor Gov-ernor Cox of Ohio is being frequently mentioned in connection with the place, and the friends of other Democrats of high and low degree arc busy figuring out the possibilities. J'or instance, Maurice I' Lyons, "national campaign manager of the Senator Pomercne presidential move ment," has recently returned home from what he states was a most important impor-tant trip. Ho tells of conferring with somo of tho big party leaders and of perfecting plans for carrying on the contest in the interest of the Ohio statesman. Mr. Lyons will not invade the territory of otlner Democratic candidates, can-didates, but will endeavor to pick up as many delegates as possible in states whero there arc no favorite sons. lie mentions somo new names when he says, "I shall not contest Oregon, Oklahoma, Ok-lahoma, Nebraska and West Virginia, tho delegates of which, I understand, will support Senators Chamberlain, Owen, Hitchcock and Ambassador Davis, respectively. I shall keep out of Missouri until I know definitely that Speaker Clark will not be a candidate. (iMy progress has been all that could bo desired at .this time. If Senator Pomercne should declare his candidacy ho would sweep Ohio in the primaries and it is my strong belief that he would have about 300 votes on from the first to the tenth ballots in the national coin cation. ' ' Should the Republicans nominate Senator Warren O. Harding as their candidate the chances for Pomercne to secure tho Democratic nomination would lie greatly improved provided Governor Cox keeps out of the way. Ohio is debatable ground and is much given to seesawing in elections. Wilson Wil-son carried it in 1916, when all the surrounding states rolled up tremendous majorities for Hughes. From present indications it will go heavily Republican Repub-lican next November. Yet there is nothing certain about it if the Republicans Repub-licans put up a weak candidate and tho Democrats nominato a "favorite sou" like Cox or Pomerene. However, a Republican presidential candidate can bo elected without the electoral votes of tho Buckeye state. |