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...strange twist that makes Ohio the mother of Republican Presidents, staunch G. O. P. Senators, and Democratic Governors. James M. Cox, Democrat, was a popular Governor but a Presidential failure even in his own state. And so last week Ohio elected to his third term Governor Alvin Vic Donahey, Democrat, father of ten Children, who employs convicts about his house. But, by the politically learned, he is ignored as a presidential possibility...
Alvin Victor Donahey is Governor of Ohio. A Democrat, he is mentioned along with dozens of others for his party Presidential 1928 nomination. The country generally does not know Mr. Donahey, often wonders just how he would become the White House's dignity...
Last week at Columbus, Ohio, Mr. Donahey conversed with one John A. Cline, Cleveland attorney, over a road paving question. Referring to the undated resignation which Governor Donahey requires his cabinet members to give when they accept appointments, Mr. Cline asked: "Suppose, Governor, the highway director had not conformed to your vote for concrete, would you have put that resignation into effect...
...Donahey answered. Said he: "That's a foolish question. . . . You will act the gentleman in here or I will exercise the prerogative I have, and take you by the seat of the trousers and throw you out of my office...
Governor Donahey of Ohio: "The memory of Warren G. Harding needs no sculptured sarcophagus, or marble temple to insure its perpetuity...