| Show BITTER POLITICAL Al STRUGGLE Gl IN OHm OHIO CARRIED ON Writer riter Reports on Defensive Defensive Defensive sive Battles patties of Gov Donahey Donahey Donahey Don Don- ahey and and Senator Willis SEEK ELECTION RE-ELECTION ELECTION Solon Asserts Only Is Issue Issue issue is- is sue Is Approval or Disapproval Disapproval Disapproval Dis Dis- approval of Cool Coolidge dge This is is the the first of a series by The Telegrams Telegram's t 1 dent who is is making a survey of election conditions in the country By FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Exclusive Dispatch Copyright 1926 COLU COLUMBUS IBUS O 0 Oct 1 At I-At At Columbus Columbus Columbus Co Co- lumbus within the shadow of ot the turreted dome of ot the old state statehouse statehouse house a Democratic governor and anda a e. Republican United States senator senator senator sena sena- tor are carrying carr on their tive defensive battles for retention of ot power A A. A Vic Vie Donahey seeking a third term as chief executive of ot Ohio Is fighting with the aid of a strongly organization o ot of 10 1009 OnO Democratic office holders am and wide popularity among among- the tho horny handed handell citizenry I Frank B ii b. Willis is struggling for a second period of ot six years cars carsin In the United States sena senate tp as i h n marked hall-marked dyed in the woo the wool apostle of the Coolidge e tion and of ot the oldest at title In Inthe inthe the Republican creed the creed the protective live Uve tariff CITES RECORD CITES RECORD Governor Donahey publicly asks ask another term on his record of honest state government conducted conducted conducted con con- ducted against the handicap of ot a hostile Republican legislature and roster of state officers What Donahey Donahey Don- Don ahey privately cherishes is lg the ambition am- am am ambition m- m to be Ohio's Democratic candidate candidate can can- for the presidency in 1928 1925 and the heir to a nomination likely once again to go to compromise because se of ot the eternal Smith Smith-Mc- Ic- Ic Adoo doo feud Senator Willis who formally en entered entered entered en- en the campaign with a keynote meeting at Newark 0 O on September Septem Septem- ber bel 29 declined to permit tire life Democrats Democrats Democrats Dem Dem- to define the issues of the senatorial contest He lie asserted there is but one Issue in Ohio and andIn andin In the nation at large That Issue and la ia approval or disapproval of the Coolidge administration and the Republican policies to which It Is committed WILL FORCE FIGHT Willis seems determined to treat as ag fleabites Unworthy his serious attention the Ne Newberry slush h fund Issues s. s the th fa herty issue and even the prohibition issue as 01 typified typified fied fled by by the hopes which Ohio wets attach to Atlee Ateo Pomerene Willis Willis' Democratic foe loe None of these things thing the senator contends Is Isi i really pally at stake He lIe refuses to permit the Democrats to overemphasize over- over emphasize their Importance He lIe insists that he will force them to fight and fight tIght solely on the relevant relevant rele rele- vant ant question whether it is good for foi industrial c agricultural agri cui cultural ural to endanger endanger- the continuance continuance continuance con con- of ot sound Coolidge policies policIes policies poli poli- cies and time tried Republican principles principles' by sending Pomerene Instead d of Willis to the senate of ot the seventieth congress Ohio even its farmers falmer is prosperous prosperous pros pro Coolidge seems to be given Iven chief chiet credit for prevailing pre opulence and stand d bv by the dent Is unquestionably a seductive seductive seductive tive campaign slogan BUSINESS INTERESTS The Willis managers are aware that Pomerene Pomerene's S strength apart Irons Horn the thirst vote in the big titles cities lies with the thc great business Interests of M the state It has therefore decided to concentrate the heaviest fire on breaking down Ohio business men mens men's s belief bellet in the wisdom of swapping senators in the midstream of ot national prosperity There Is is to be a particularly fierce barrage of ot Pomerene's Pomerene s tariff record in the senate lIe He is to be as a a. a consistent consistent consistent con con- low Io tariff man Ills His support support support sup sup- port of ot the Simmons Underwood-Simmons Simmons cod bill which opened In every industrial city in Ohio as asa asa asa I a Willi- Willi tract has it is to be raked fore and aft aU it will be shown that Pomerene never voted once in fa favor VOl I of an amendment to increase any duties dutle although he had frequent opportunities to do so On the tho Fordney McCumber bill Willis declared declared de de- dared that Senator Pomerene voted times and every time for lowering lowering lowering low low- ering of proposed duties Finally as the In the fiscal Indictment in indictment indictment in- in of ot Pomerene Willis told of ot the Democratic senators senator's vote In 1921 against the large tax re reduction reduction re- re duc on bill sponsored by the HardIng Harding Hard Hard- Ing administration WILL BE IMPERILED When Ohio business men talk Pomerene Willis will fling the fo formers former's mers mer's tariff and and taxation record at them Willis asked ed if it Buckeye captains of ot finance and commerce want to repudiate Coolidge economy economy economy econ econ- omy In government Coolidge tax reduction Mellon conduct or of the treasury Hoovers Hoover's achievement In developing the department of commerce commerce com com- merce and all an the other men and matters which in Republican Judgment judgment judgment Judg judg- ment enshrine the present regime at WashIngton In glory All AIl of these hese beneficent works Vii Willis II s claims will be imperiled If it Ohio by jy electing a Democrat to the senate senate senite sen- sen ate ite by that much weakens Coolidge CoolIdge Cool Idge dee control of ot the next congress Such a calamity the Republican candidate te is about to proclaim from the he campaign housetops would be belittle little ittle short of a national ter er Although soft pedaling the pro- pro Joneses F Swarm warm for or Share are in Misers Miser's Estate state MANCHESTER Oct 1 AP More More than a thousand Joneses from all parts of the world are trying to establish their rights s 0 o a share in in the estate of Miss Clara Alice Jones who died here herein herein herein in seeming poverty but left an estate estimated to be worth pounds about Second cousins are entitled und under r th the new law of intestacy to share in in an estate and th the deputy chancellor is is having difficulty dif difficulty dif dif- in in running down the real second cousins among the nu nu- nerous claimants Issue In favor of ot the CoolIdge CoolIdge Coolidge Cool Cool- Idge Issue liquor remains a live factor In Ohio The recently formed Modification league Is see see- lag Ins to that It Is bipartisan and It Is effectively not openly supporting the Pomerene cause SPLIT SUPPORT Like everywhere else prohibition splits the two o parties In Ohio among themselves The league which Is supporting Willis Is doIng doing doing do do- ing its utmost for example to defeat defeat defeat de de- de- de feat Arthur W W. Sweeney Republican can candidate for congress in the Akron Altron district who Is wet and reelect reelect re- re elect the Incumbent Democrat Martin Martin Martin Mar Mar- tin L It L. Davey of ot tree surgery re renown re- re no Willis Willis' dry strength Is out inthe In Inthe Inthe the rural counties amid which the Wayne Vayne B B. Wheeler organization first saw the light of day But according to the Taft paper In ht Cincinnati the Times Star It will not be altogether safe sate for Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Willis to Imagine that the country regions are ale hopelessly dry We Ve see some evidence of ot a c change ange of attitude says the Times-Star Times among old line drys drs In the agricultural agricultural agricultural agri agri- cultural districts served by this journal These men and women do donot donot donot not believe In the theory of ot prohibition prohibition billon less than they did bu but bu they are beginning to have doubts as os to the practicability of ot enforcing it The persistence of bootlegging the wholesale corruption of officials and the steady increase In general lawlessness have made them doubt the he possibility of ot effective prohibition prohibition prohibition tion In the United States in our time No matter how they may vote some of ot the most sincere drys in n Ohio are less sure of themselves than han they were WORLD COURT ISSUE Senator Willis who Is on the Coolidge side of the world court fence ence and our European policy is going to make malte such capital out of those hose two Issues as current developments el de permit He lie Is going to defy the league of nations for example example example ex ex- ex- ex ample to dictate to Uncle Sam the he matter of ot the senate reserva- reserva lons Willis too has been prompt to o snap up the cancellation cha chal- chal i- i 1 lenge recently laid down by that eminent Ohio Democrat former War Secretary Newton D D. Baker The Republican senatorial nomi nomi- nominee nominee nee Is la a red last-red-center on the debts debt He lie thinks Ohio voters oters are with Coolidge not Baker Balcer on the cancellation cancellation cancel cancel- lation proposition Baker holds hold that theres there's a far deeper stratum of international international in In International Idealism In Ohio than thin Coolidge Republicans Imagine ev even n among among their own set DONAHEY'S HOLD For the first tirs time since 1922 Ohio Republicans seem confident nt of ot un- un 92 unhorsing horsing Governor Don Donahey hey In 1 1022 1922 he beat Carmi Carml A. A A A. Thompson now Inthe inthe In Inthe Coolidge Coolidge Cool Cool- the Philippines Philippine for President l idge ge because Republicans overconfident did not turnout turn tum out and vote In 1924 1624 Donahey was as large re-elected re by an impressively g majority despite the Coolidge landslide land slide because his opponent former Governor Govern r Harry L L. Davis had i le Je- Je Is gions glons of ot Republican ln enemies This time G. G GOP O. O P. P leaders declare e- e Republicans Republicans Republicans Re Re- publicans will vote united for their nominee Myers Myel's Y Cooper rich Cincinnati Cincinnati Cin Cin- business man Both Donahey Donahey Donahey Dona Dona- hey and Cooper are drys so prohibition prohibition does not enter Into the gubernatorial gu gubernatorial gu- gu as It does Into the s senatorial sen senatorial sen- sen n. n fight Donahey despite Republican confidence confidence con con- Is not going to be easy to dethrone As a statesman particularly particularly particularly of ot the Intellectual brand he does not rank high but Ohioans particularly out In the sticks still cherish honest Vic because of his record as state auditor Donahey achieved statewide fame and popularity popularity popularity larity as a prun pruner r of ot expense pense accounts ac ac- counts He lie took a fiendish delight elIght In making supreme court Judges ride ilde In street cars instead of taxis and eating at armchair lunches In Instead Instead instead In- In stead of at hotels Auditor Donahey Donahey Donahey Dona Dona- hey made the taxpaying patriots of ot the Bucke Buckeye e commonwealth believe that he was the only man inan who h held ld high state office in Ohio who watched the peoples people's pennies pen He lie became governor on that record and he has retained power four years inthis In Inthis Inthis this old stalwart Republican stronghold stronghold stronghold strong strong- hold by convincing the electorate that Donahey runs the state at large laige as he used to run Its expense accounts IS PROTESTANT Despite his Celtic name the governor governor gov gov- is a Protestant he Is also a dry He lie Is furthermore a Roose- Roose par parent the parent the nt-the the father of ot nine children Once he used a cam campaign lithograph ph of himself and his brood of ot and entitled it Nine reasons why you should vote for Donahey An unkind critic says the reasons reasons' are that the governor governor governor gover gover- nor has a 0 penchant for giving his grownups jobs in the state house at Columbus Cooper the Republican gubernatorial gubernatorial gubernatorial candidate Is new at politics but he is Js rich resourceful and aggressive ag ag- Ohio's Ohio s G G. G O O. O P P. leaders look across Lake Erie to Michigan 1 which has Just jus unhorsed at a primary primary primary mary a governor interested In his fourth term Groesbeck and say that Wolverine gubernatorial his his- i- i 1 tory tors is about to r repeat peat itself in this state They're not discouraged i in inthis this rosy view by the Columbus Columbu Dispatch straw poll a regular feature feature feature fea fea- ture of ot Ohio campaigns which Shows Donahey substantially ahead of ot Cooper The same vote incidentally incidentally inci Inci- d dentally shows Willis VIllis leading leadin Pomerene but discloses that a. a at two camps In which Pomerene is L supposed to be weak weak the the women and organized labor labor labor-he he is running neck and neck with Willis Railroad Railroad Railroad Rail Rail- road labor was against Pomerene n nin in his primary duel wi with th Florence Florenc Allen But the Dispatch straw ballot discloses railway supporting Pomerene as 3 strongly as they are backing Willis VIl Willis Willis' II s' s friendliness for tor Harr Harry M M. Daugherty Daugherty Daugherty Daugh- Daugh erty for whom the brotherhoods long have had an injunction rod in pickle is probably hurting him among rail ran workers William Green president of ot the American I of ot Labor Is an Ohio Democrat and he is out for Pomerene Pome Pome- rene VOTE OF CONFIDENCE Here in the commonwealth adorned by Nicholas Longworth there Is more than passing attention attention atten atten- tion In the various cont contests for the lower branch of ot congress At present present pres pres- ent nt the Ohio delegation stands sixteen sixteen six six- teen een Republicans and six Demo- Demo rats The proportion seems likely to o be maintained but there may be bea a gain or a loss of ot two for either party arty Ohio Republicans say that two wo of their representatives Speaker Longworth and his right hand man James T T. T Begg are largely responsible for the expeditious expeditious lous manner in which the house handled public business at the last session of congress They are bent benton on m giving the Republican delegation delegation tion Ion a 0 ringing vote of confidence by iy re elections all aU along the line It t is a little mUe early to predict whether hether their expectations of doing so will wUl be realized The speaker of ot the house enjoys great real popularity everywhere in Ohio hlo He lie plans to stump every congressional district for his pary's parys party's party's par- par tys ty's candidates If It 1928 is a presidential presidential free for all for Republicans Ohio hio will wUl have a favorite son of ot that hat breed and his name will be Nick Longworth |
