New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-09-25
A HOPEFUL DEMOCRAT FROM OHIO.
CHAIRMAN M'KINNEY's VIEWS or HE CANVASS
lie SAYS EWING WILL BE ELECTRD.


lie SAYS EWING WILL BE ELECTRD.
Chairman Mckinney Of the Ohio Democratic
Executive Committee. was In the city yesterday
Whatever views Of the canvass he may express In
confidence to his party brethren he betrays no
doubts of General EwinG's success in talking Win
Republican acQuantances. In answer TO the ques-
tions of TRIBUNE reporter he saidi Ewing Is
going 10 be elected. We shall capture twenty or
twenty-five thousand of the Greenback vote OF last
year and that will bring him through. Ewing Is
making a splendid canvass. lie Is on tho
stump all the time. speaking twice day.
For a while he talked five hours out OF every
twcnty-four, but we cautioned him to be more mod
crate and he now makes shorter speeches. Foster
voice broke down. He tried to make I've speeches
day and couldn't do il. Ewlng's meetings are
the largest Democratic gatherings we have hau IN
Ohio since the Buchanan campaign. We have lie"
outside speakers helping Voorhees, OF Indiana
is doing good work. but we have nobody else that is
very famous-nobody from tho Last and nobody
from the South"
Are Won keeping ont the Southern mon Pm
w.'re not keeping them out, but We don't need
them. We have lots Of home orators. They are
no; Daniel Websters, but they do very we'll TO
show y on how thorough canvass are making
and how well we are supplied with talking talent.
/ will say that IN ell OF the close counties on
recent Saturday there was Democratic meeting In
every election precinct"
"You are fighting for the Legislature. arc you
not p" Yes. but we are fighting first OF all to
make Ewing Governor and We are goiug TO do IT,
If Won get the Legislature are you going to send
Thurman back TO the Senate p" 1t will be time
enough to talk about that when the fight is over"
care YOU Ohio Democrats going to stand up for
Thurman in the National Convention next year !"
al don't know. We are not botheTing ourselves
about tie Presidential question. What We are
trying To do is t. elect Ewing"
Didn't the Maine election damage your prospects
IN OHIO ~" Not ar al. If 1t had gone the other
way-if Smith had been elected-it would have
been bad for us. because such result would have
encouraged our GTeenbackers to stick to their own
ticket instead Of voting for Ewing"
REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE WORK.
SENDING THOUSANDS or TRIBUNE EXTRAS 10 ALI.
PARTS OF THE STATE.
General c. A. Arthur chairman of the Republican
State Committee, received many visitors yesterday
at the Committee rooms in the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Among them were Senator James G. Blaine, United
States District-Attorney Stewart l.. Woodford, and
Mr. Rainoy. tho colored cx,Congressman Of South
Carolina. who reports that the party in his State
is badly disorganzc1. The secretary. E. NJ. john
SON. and the clerks have been very busy during the
last few days, aud twenty bags of mail matter were
ready Yesterday TO be dispatched TO different parts
OF the state. On tuesday the Committee received
OF its the first hundred thousand copies OF Its
heavy purchase Of the three TRIBUNE EXTRAS, COM
prlsing Mrs. Chisolm's terrible story, the bourbon
Ballads and the Black List" OF repudlatlng
Southern States. These Extras half filled one Of
the rooms. They are being sent In bundles to all
parts of the State.