Ohio Favors Harding

Article taken from The Charleston Daily Mail October 6, 1920.

Senator Warren G. Harding will carry his home state of Ohio in November by a majority of 250,000 or 300,000, it is predicted by Judge Albion Z. Blair, of Portsmouth. O., who was in Charleston today Judge Blair, who is credited with stopping vote buying in Adams county, Ohio, about 15 years ago, is now attorney for the Whittaker-Glessner steel interests, which operate plans at Wheeling and Portsmouth.

"I have been watching carefully the polls that have been make by the newspapers and other agencies in Ohio" said Judge Blair at Republican headquarters, where he called to confer with Mrs. Ellis A. Yost, associate state chairman, with whom he has been associated in temperance campaigns.

"It is estimated," he said, "That we have 2,000,000 voters in Ohio and if the vote is on the same ratio as the polls that have been taken the stat will give Harding and Coolidge 300,000 majority. I do not believe it will fall under 250,000."

Early in the campaign" said Judge Blair, "there was some sentiment among the organized railroad vote for Cox abut it is gradually leaving him. that was the only disaffection that I ever encountered in the State. There are many counties, like Adams, where I am told that there is not a single kicker among the Republicans."

Judge Blair predicted that Scioto county will give Harding 4,000 majority while Adams, usually a standing would give him from 500 to 1,000. He also declared there was no doubt that Mayor Harry L. Davis, of Cleveland, would be elected governor and former Governor Frank Willis elected to the United States senate.