| Show Two Golfers ers ersI I Judson Harmon Hannon becomes the tho th IF Democratic nominee for president of ot the tho United States In 1912 as aI R B Glenn of ot North Carolina and many other distinguished Democrats believe and If President Taft Is nominated to succeed himself two Ohio golf solf players both from Cin Cincinnati Cincinnati will play playa a finish game against each other on the national links that year rear Both are Inveterate golf golt players more or less expert Both have served on the tho bench and as cabinet officers Harmon having been attorney general In second administration They are aro devoted friends of or many man years ears standing Harmon Is 15 Jud to Taft who Js s Bill to Harmon Despite their political differences each has crowed over the advancement of ot the other though Harmon supported Bryan against Taft In the taro 1908 cans cam campaign and of ot course Taft TaCt was sorry politically when Harmon was elected governor of oC Ohio that year car over the Republican candidate Harmon Hannon in fact gave Taft his first opportunity for tor a Jurists career when he resigned In 1887 from tho the superior court bench at Cincinnati Governor Foraker appointed Taft then a young oung youngster youngster ster of ot thirty to the vacancy and I Judge Harmon returned to the tine practice of tho the law Governor Harmon Is nearly sixty four tom years ears old Should he become pres president presIdent ident in 1013 1913 he will be ue with tine the sin single single single gle exception of William Henry Har Harrison Harrison i rison who served only one month be bo before before fore his death the oldest chief ehler executive executive tive in the history tory of ot tho the nation Glenn undoubtedly spoke for many ninny Democrats the other other day da when he said of Governor Harmon Harmonas as probably the next presidential nomi nominee nominee nominee nee I think he is 15 the best man for tor forthe forthe the place and I snow know from experience for I came canto In contact with him as us at attorney attorney torney torne general of oC the United States when I r was federal district attorney In t tilly my illy state He Ho Is an at exceptionally able ableman ableman ableman man and his ills election as governor on the Democratic ticket in a a state which had ono of Its own sons as the Republican Re Republican lican presidential candidate was a ro 10 political feat Everywhere I Ihne have been in hi my tour of oC tho the country countr I found Harmon was the leading j i date i Ever since the third defeat of or Bryan Bryant and the election of Harmon Hannon to tho the governorship gov governorship gO the Ohio executive has been regarded as distinctly In the tho running for his hla party rt nomination to tho the presidency presidency dency Since the tho death of Governor John A Johnson of or Minnesota by many mau Democrats and Republicans regarded re 10 regarded as the thc most likely candidate to succeed Bryan BIan as aa standard bearer Harmons chances seem to have grown throughout hout the country countr With the tho ex exA A |
