Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1912 — Politics [ARTICLE]

Politics

The Ohio Democratic state convention at Toledo by a vote of 579 to 355 adopted the unit rule to govern the action of Ohio’s delegation to Baltimore. It was a victory for Governor Harmon and he will have the undivided support of the state’s 48 delegates in his candidacy for the presidential nomination. Congressman James M. Cox received the nomination for governor. ♦ • • Speaker Champ Clark received the unanimous indorsement of the Arkansas Democratic state convention, the delegation being vote for him long as his name is before the convention. Congressman Joe T. Robinson was nominated for governor. * * « The Ohio state convention adopted resolutions indorsing President Taft’s administration and selected six delegates at large who will vote for him in the Republican national convention. * * * Gov. Francis E. McGovern of Wisconsin, chairman of the Wisconsin delegation to the Republican national convention, in a telegram answering an appeal by William Barnes, Jr., of New York, refused the support of Wisconsin for Senator Ellhu Root as temporary chairman of the convention. » * ♦ West Virginia Instructed her ten delegates to the Baltimore convention for Champ Clark of Missouri. Each of the five congressional districts voted almost unanimously for Clark. • • *' Champ Clarl£*was Indorsed for president by unanitnous vote by the Democratic state convention in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and the national degates were instructed under’ the unit rule to use all honorable means to secure his nomination to the presidency. • * * After a seven-hour conference with leaders in his campaign Colonel Roosevelt dictated an eighteen hundred word statement at Sagamore Hill, In which he defies the Taft cohorts to try to elect Elihu Root as temporary chairman of the Chicagd convention. Call up 315 when in need of any legal blanks, such as mortgages, deeds, releases, etc., and they “will be delivered at your office inside of two minutes.