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There never vas a place dan tso ,rnest
where It was more important TOT an e. ,liti.
seeker after the probable results Oh Pa !.
elf =. than, hsrerantl now in Cipcinnasi. For
oxart,Ip. repaired to the Offices OF the Con'.
.., ,, edit ed minded MniaL
H,ls,ead. and the Enquirer, conducte49 py
tbe cTear,siehted John A. Cockcrilie, ana Tue !,
VolEsbYan controlled by the long.neaucu
Frederick Hassaurek, and last, but NOT ieasl,
the Gazette, managed by the truly gooo
Deacon Richard Smith, and asked them now
| this sharp, bitter fight between Hayes anu
Alien was going to end. They differed each
from the other. aud those who we're on Tue
same side were the widest apart IN tnelr CAL
culatfon. ,,1,,, a. tho
FOR instance, the Commercial ioiks At me me
first asserted that the Republicans woulo
Eweep the State by an immense mpJori.y'
fOn cross. examining them as to the founua-
tions of their belief they were some
fwhqt shaken. AS everybody understand!'
The commercial is an independent kepno'i-
can newspaper, constructed on true journal
tistic principles Until lately it was tue
Leading hard money organ in the STATE, asa
tbis was the original reason why 1t preferred
Hayes 10 Allen, Latterly it seems lnclined
10 rather ignore the currency issues ana 60
in heavily on the Catholic question. in'S ~
undoubtedly due to the pious prochVi'ies VI
its distinguished editor.
The Enquirer is the foremost greehpaCh or'
GAN in Ohio, and ranks high among the Dem
ocrutic newspapers Of The country. IL LAS
m donbt of the election Of Allen by de-
cided majority. 1t believes that all he loses
from the Germans on the currency question
that 10 to saw. those Germans who came over
| To the Democrats in the Greeley ana lem
nerance campairps-- be made up more
than tgo.fold from Republicans who viii
NOW 20 with the Democrats On the green.
back question, and especially III the iron ahu
coal districts.
THESE districts, so often referred to oy
both partes as not unlikely to turn the scaie
in the election, commence above forIS.
mouth. on the Ohio river, anu eHo rice
nearly all the counties lying east OF iine
drawn thence northwardly or northeastern!
till you get well up into the Reserve toWalo
Lake Erie / know from personal oDserIa-
tion that these counties are perDeated with
iron. coal, and greenback doctrines ana lnaI
tho bopes of the Democracy to make gains
in that region on the financial issue afe uo'
without foundation.
THE Ehouirer folks expect to suffer from
the school question. for example, and in this
CAV. No regular. weatherbeaten Democrats
will leave them, whether Protestants or
Catholics; but they will lose not few Llhe'
raj Germans; and, moreover, there will be
an increase eff the Republican vote IN the
twelve thoroughly Protestant counties OF the
Reserve. Nevertheless, they have no DOUBT OF
| Aliens election, because, in their OPINION,
The Republicans are so democrat zed on finance
that they cannot recover by fink movement
against the Pope.
The TolksblaH was for years leading Re-
publican German paper in the west. alf.
Lincoln appointed its editor, Mr. Hassaurek,
| Minister to one of the South American Re-
publics. It went over to the Democrats IN
| the Greeley campaign. and has ever since
| been rather loosely connected with the Demo
cratic party, though calling itself Liberal.
It. now goes for Hayes; primarily, on the
nard money question; seeondarly, on
the Catholic issue. What it ~il do when
| it finds is allies deserving it on finance
to run muck on the schools re-
mains to be seen, for the VCtkSOlaH
people seem to care good deal more abouf
the currency than about the Catholics. Inc
German voters in The State reside chittiy in
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Tcledo, Columbus.
| Day ton, and Sandu>ky, and their numterS
are probably in tie order in Which l have
narnsd these cities. The FOlkSbldH Surposts
that more thin half the Liberal Germans
who went over 10 the Democracy within the
last three years will now vote for Hayes;
bu it seems to regard the general result III
October as verr doubtful.
Artcr thus laundering around 10 4 sea rf
uncertainty awong common InlnGS ii wa
ref cshing to cast anchor IL The Gazette 0lllc"
and lay myself, SO 10 say. alongside OF mah
of clear head and positive conrlc'iors like
Deacon Richard Smith. He ha> fixed opin
ious. and is not afraid to express them; ana
in this he strikingly RESEMBLES the late fuhc
of wellington. Alter few mDu'eS OF plea.
SAINT conversation on general topics We g0t
down TO The pending campaign, and ID lepi!
to question as 10 how The election would
re.,li. Deacon Richard Smith responded
without a moments hesitation n substance
thus: 1--WE shall elect Hays by 10000 M
ioritS, and it will he solely owing 10 the
school question. If we bad stuck to the cur
rency issue we should have been beaten by
10000 or &C, 900. But we have abandoned
IL, and shall non contine ourselves chiefly to
the Catholic aspects Of the contest, and We
shall certainly carry the State by 100000
OF course I regarded this AZ settling the
controversy, and therefore did not ask for
the grounds of this opinion. But the as!uie
editor Of the Gazette went on to give them,
and they in effect we're that last year thou
sands OF Republicans on the Reserve, who
I,o,., ,,ot O ure,t deal nf Tpluion and did NOT
then vote, will now come out and vote for
Hayes, aud that thousands OF Liberal Ger.
nuns who have got no religion at all, and
last year voted with the Democrats, will now
vote against The Catholics.