New-York tribune., 1878-10-02
THE POLITICAL FIELD.
o,,r, oov ~ OHIO AND NEw-YORK.

Il ,yo,fTNATIONS AND MEElANNo'
THE Ohio Republicans now hope to elect
,sp Congressman, and the Democrats are
yerv uneasy. In the XXAth Congress
,ional District in this State the original
creenback candidate refuses to withdraw
Earnest approval of the platform and candl-
5ate of the Saratoga Convention was
a~nressed last evening by the New
WI and Kings County Republican
Central Committees The Blair Nationals IN
tbis citv nominated F. B. Thurber for Mayor.
The Kings County Independent Democrats re-
tused to approve the Syracuse platform and
candidate.
THE CONTEST FOR CONGRESS IN OHIO.
SURVEY OF THE WHOLE FIELD WITH THE
CHANCEs-HoPE NOW FOR TIN CoNGREssMEN
WHERE ONLY SIX WE'RE EXPECTED
,poN AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
frrvF1ANp Sept 27.-Some features in the Con-
essional canvass in Ohio possess more than local
II crest and throw good deal of light on the gen
erl drift of politics in the State. The Toledo DIS
n ct is the seene of triangular fight OF peculiar
vyacitv. The stronghold of the Nationals is there,
and there if anywhere they may hope for success
4 eir candidate is Henry KahlO who has the lnirm-
a Of most men hastily picked up for leaders by the
G,eenbaekers, workingmen and other odds and ends
a. politics which form the National organization
h is a CAPITALIST Worse still, he used to be Ma
Z onal banker, and once stood behind counter IN
little town and shaved the notes of his fellOW-clti
ems at the rate of 10 per cent dlscouhl' III "
radv and remorseless manner. he Is pushing DIS
canvass with energy, however, and has dallY
newspaper and half dozen weekhes TO BACK MN
mn. The Democratic nominee is Frank Hurd' VINO
! irned the Ohio grand sOmersault on the money
,roytion only a few months ago, and is now trying
r.,kh hfch horI I-vr1pu pXTlt
testing his love for the greenbacks. Hurd was
, ,ominated over General Sreedman by ways that
yere dark and the bitter feud between him and the
gteedman faction still RACES, and cannot tall serl-
onsly to weaken the Democratic strength at the
rolls. The Republicans have put up Captain
Iuckey, popular young business man with good
war record. He is no speechmaker, but a practical
politician who gets the district and makes an
effective personal canvass. HIS election looks as
certain as anything out of the dead sure districts.
In the XXth District, composed of the City of
cleveland and the County of Cuyahoga, there are
four candidates, each of whom can claim to have
Marty NJ his back Mr.. Amos Townsend, who is now
servinq his first term has been rCnOminated by the
Repnblicaus He has the confidence of his party.
and the respect of the business public, with which
he has long been identified a wholesale merchant
Tie only thing urged to his prejudice is that ms
rocsrv firm sells liquors. This fact has given the
small SQUAD of nveteTate PrOhibitiOnist politicians
abapdle use against him, and they have succeeded
IN developing a local movement Of considerable
strength Their candidate is w. II. DOan, man oil
wealth. who built huge barn-llke structure ABOUT
wear ago. called Doan's Tabernacle, for
temperance and religious uses" The Tab
srnacle has been q great benefit to CIeVe-
land as a place for holding large gatherings,
INT as il is furnished free for temperance meetings
Il became the centre of an agitation which IS now
readily turned into political channels. The Prohi-
Sitionists have probably enlisted 1000 voters,
nearly all Of whom are drawn from the Republican
party liberal estimate of the Nationals strength
in tie district would be 1000. Their nominee is
Gilbert Shove, a shoemaker by trade and a talker
bv practice. He is one of those hard-headod, argu-
n,entative men who are always ready to let business
20 TO the dogs if they can get chance to intilct
fbeir crude ideas on listener 1t must be said Of
shove. however, that he is no capitalist like
Kablo hut is a genuine wOTkingman, OF was until
he took to politics. The Democratic candidate is
Iossph Poe, whom the Republicans rdculed INTO
the Legislature last year by calling him
.Jopo," and making fun of his country ways
,Dd cowbide boots Poe is a pcrYpatetic
demogogue of plausible address, who goes about
the country, often on foot shaking peoples hands
and asking for their votes and it must be said that
he picks up good many votes by this way Of can
yassing Ordinarily the Cleveland District is good
for three or four thousand majority, bat In the
mixed condition of things this year Alr. 1oWnsebd
cannot count On more than q thousand
Professor Monroe, who has represented the
Oberlin District for nearly eight years,
Is forced to fight q combination of Nationals
and Democrats supporting Lewis Miller, of
Akron. a wealthy manufacturer, a former Re-
,ublcau and the head Of the Chautauqua Lake Sun
gav-Scbool Association. The coalition is formidable
but with An excellent record and large Republic
ean majority In former years to rely upon Mr.. Non
roe has no great cause for anxiety. In General
CarReds District the Democrats refused to coaesce
with the Nationals and each party is running cam
didate Garfeid's majority Will not be less IMAM
7OOO Charles Foster is making of his peculiar
and effective personal canVasses IN a usiiIcJ tnaJ
would be hopeless to any other candidate. 10 f0s-
t.r no undertaking IS hopeless, j should not be
surprised if the big Democratic majority OF nearly
1000 IN the With wholly disappeared at The elec-
ton.
A gerymander almost always returns to plague
'ts inventors Although the Democrats thought
hey had carved out fourteen districts that were
sure for them, there now only three where they
feel entirely at ease Candidates who can fall back
figures showing 5000 majority in 1876 and
almost twice as much last year, are evidently un-
comfortable. Ewing is frightened. Mcmahon is
uneasy and lie Fevre, in the benighted Auglaize
District, Is struggling with an ugly bolt in his own
party. An independent Democrat is running
AGAINST Converse in the Columbus District with a
fair prospect ofelectiOn by the aid OF the Repub-
lIcsn vote. Governor Tom Young will beat Ban
ning's successor Goss, in the I'D, Butterworth
is pushiug Sayler closely in the Ist. In the XIth,
emf ont for q Democratic district, Dickey, the
Rspubl;can nominee has rather more than an even
chance. and in the Athens and Marietta
District reshaped TO unseat Van Worries, Republic