Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-05-16 | Page 1 | Political Interest is Centered on Ohio, Where Roosevelt and Taft Are Dividing Attention with Bryan, La Follette and Harmon, All Spellbinding

POLITICAL INTEREST IS CENTERED ON OHIO, WHERE ROOSEVELT AND TAFT ARE DIVIDING ATTENTION WITH 1 BRYAN, LA FOLLETTE AND HARMON, ALL SPELLBINDING 1 Columbus. O., May 15. Tho political politi-cal pot Is cerLiinly boiling Just now iu Ohio, and with Taft, Roosevelt, Bryan. Harmon and La Folletto acting act-ing as stokers during tho last week of the primary campaign it will keep on bubbling. It Is generally conceded that President Taft must carry his own stato If ho Is to be nominated at, Chicago, and he Ikib shown that ho appreciates the Importance of the situation sit-uation by arranging for a zigzag journey jour-ney ovor the state, in which he will make 100 speeches and will bo heard lu practically ovory town of moro than 5,000 Inhabitant. Mr. Taft will not cud hlB campaign until a few hours before the balloting begins. His biat SDOech. wjJl bu mado Alnnriny evening. May 20, at Dayton, and tho next day he" will voto in Cincinnati and will then start back to Washington. Washing-ton. Colonel Roosevelt reached this stato yesterday and began a speech-making speech-making tour that will keep him busy until primary election day. His campaign cam-paign managers have carefully mapped out his route, so that ho will not waste time In territory that Is hope loop or that ho ia certain to carry. Ho will devote bis efforts to debatablo IH ground. Interest In tho Democratic UW, situation Is centered on tho contest H between William Jennings Bryan ad IH Governor Harmon Governor Harmon IH will be making speeches dally during j JH the last week of the campaign Sea- I IH ator Robert M. La Folletto Is also JH making speeches in the interest of hij jH campaign for tho Republican .noml- I jH nation for tho presidency . IH I