transcribed by Dorothy Wiland
Harmon Not a Candidate for Vice
Presidency.
Friends Are Urging Him for the Presidential
Nomination Only-
Ohio Friends will Do Good Work for Cincinnati
Man in St. Louis.
Judge Harmon’s Cincinnati
friends have determined to leave nothing undone to add to the
impressiveness
of his boom for the presidency. Several score of his close friends and
admirers will go to St. Louis next week, for the purpose of adding to
the
Harmon showing at the beginning. Michael Devanney, who, with
Harian
Cleveland, assisted to organize the State for the Harmon interests,
will
leave for the Mount City Wednesday to prepare the Harmon
headquarters.
Mr. Cleveland will follow soon afterward. Mayor Yaple of
Chillicothe
and Judge Miller of Lima, both of whom are enthusiastic Harmon
delegates,
called on Mr. Cleveland during the morning. They, like others of
the Harmon faith, say that if the nomination does not go to Parker or
to
Mr. Cleveland Judge Harmon will have a find chance to land the
prize.
The news that Judge Gray has said he is not a candidate, and does not
want
the nomination, is counted by Harmon’s friends as a good bit of
news.
Mr. Devanney said: “That is all right. It takes a rival from the
field.”
Mr. Devanney also expressed the opinion that some enemy of the Harmon
army
sent out the report that J. Pierpont Morgan and James J. Hill have been
working on the quiet for Harmon for months; as to the positive
knowledge
of his friends nothing of that sort has been going on. Mr.
Devanney
said that Ohio will give her support to Judge Harmon from the
first.
He did not think that the Kilbourne movement has lasting powers.
The story that the ticket may be Cleveland and Harmon does not find any
supporters in the Harmon camp. And there is no hesitancy to say that
the
Judge is to be pushed for the highest office in the gift of the people,
and for nothing else.
©2003, 2004 by Linda Boorom & Tina Hursh