In Ohio

Ohio last week did its nominating for Governor. Democrats voted overwhelmingly to keep their George White at Columbus. They also made Governor White their favorite son for the Presidency (see p. 10). The Republican choice lay between Secretary of State Clarence J. Brown and David Sinton Ingalls, 33-year-old Cleveland lawyer. Candidate Brown, a small-town newspaper publisher, counted on his own State-wide political machine to win him the nomination. "Dave" Ingalls, campaigning by air, had the moral support of his party's national leaders in Washington where for three years he has been the able, popular, squint-eyed Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics. Candidate Ingalls became Nominee Ingalls by a 20,000 primary majority over Candidate Brown.

The November contest between Democrat White and Republican Ingalls is expected to be nip & tuck. Nominee Ingalls may fall to earth trying to carry Ohio for the Hoover Administration. If he does, his friends assure him he .will not be a burnt offering on the altar of the national ticket. His friends assure him he is young enough to take a beating without ruining his political career. Besides, he had nowhere else to go but into the Ohio gubernatorial race. By his energy he had worked himself out of his Washington job, having brought the Navy's five-year air program to completion in four. At his suggestion Secretary Adams has recommended that the Ingalls post be abolished for economy's sake.

But Nominee Ingalls did not expect to lose to Governor White. Ohio is normally Republican. He has many a potent friend including Dan Hanna, publisher of Cleveland's News, grandson of the late great Boss Mark Hanna; Maurice Maschke, Cleveland boss; and Fred Clark of the Crusaders. His wife Louise was a Harkness, his mother a niece of President Taft. His father is with the New York Central R. R. which draws toward him thousands of conservative Labor votes. He was the Navy's only War ace. His smile is engaging, his manner like his nature, open and unaffected.

Last week's voting showed a startling Wet trend in Ohio. Wet Ingalls beat Dry Brown. Wet Attorney General Gilbert Bettman beat Dry Louis Taber, Master of the National Grange, for the Republican Senatorial nomination. Even Governor White, long a white ribboner of the W. C. T. U., lately trimmed his sails by declaring for a referendum.

President Henry H. Curran of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment exulted: "Ohio used to be as Dry as a mummy. Now she is as Wet as Lake Erie."

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