Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-28
DEMOCRATS STAND AN EVEN
CHANCE

vi OtSuAIhh lho CSblGu Vi uGlT ObdLe
Ticket in October-Radicals Pouring
Out their Money Like Water in Their
Frantic Endsavors 10 Save the State.
CoLUMBUs, o., September 27.-The
managers of both great parties in Ohio
are preparing To wage q terrible battle
this week. The next ten days will settle
the fate OF the State at the October eleC.
ton. Thus far the tide has been run
ming in favor OF the Democrats. The
people, and not the politicians, have
been running the Democratic campaign.
Ii the Democrats hold their own this
week, they will certainly carry Ohio; or,
itthcy lose the State, 1t will be by SO
small margin that defeat vii! oyertake
Garfield in his own State in the "melan-
choiy days OF November" that he
prOphctically V let escape him at the Chi
Cdgu convention.
There is not Dollar in the Democratic
Treasury.
The campaign so far has been run on
money contributed at home, and this
has not aggregated $1,000. John q.
Thompson has been absent in New
York for several days trying to get some
aid. He returned to-day without a dol
lar johns connection with the Exec.
utive Committee, and his prominence
and actiyi V in the campaign has reused
| q opposition of tie Armstrong fac
ton in Northern Ohio. Billy Arm
strong, OF the Cleveland Plain Dcd'cr,
the Ohio member OF the National Com
mitjce, backed by the Paiges, has made
= g Nn,.. Nnpl, l'tttv for thn
purpose OF persuading Barnum that it
would never do to send any mules to
the State Committee. Bllly's ambition
has been to bring the "mules" out him
sell. Owing to this jealousy Of factions
Chairman Barnum has wisely
Concluded to Ignore these Factions,
and all the aid that comes to Ohio will
90 directly to the Congressional districts,
TO be spent under the immediate super
vision OF the Congressional candidates.
The Republicans have been seriously
embarrassed Tor the want OF funds, and
the money at their command has not
been iudlciOusly spent. BY raising q
cry that Ohio is in danger, money that
was intended for Indiana has been di-
vertcd to this State. On Thursday last
George X. Nash, accompanied by Gen
eral ). ). Warner, one OF the Republican
candidates for Eiector at Large, went to
Dcshleo's Bank and deposited draft
for $4,000 on Washington City.
They want 4o,OooMore this Week,
aud will get at least half OF 1t. This
money will all he spent TO manufacture
Republican enthusiasm. Not less than
- 900 will be expended on the great
Republican meeting to be held here
next Thursday night. Both COnklng
and Blaine are announced TO be here,
which means that neither one OF these
cordial haters OF Hayes and each ether
will appear. The intention il to make
the meeting the most imposing demOL-
strati1n ever seen in Columbus, and If
money can accomplish this end they
will succecd.
Charley Fosters campaign last year,
when he ieit money in every county in
the State, has demoralized the Republi-
can County Committees, and the cry
that assails the State Committee from
every section II,
Send Us Money or We Can Not Stem
the Tide"
The reports that are coming into the
Democratic head quarters were never
more encouraging. The same sOne Of
confidence pervades all the correspOn-
dcnce, and it may he summed up as fol.
lows: Eve Will poll full vote, and
make heavy gains" Out OF eighty
eight counties there are only four where
the Democrats are not well organized.
Their" is some dissatisfaction in Pike
and Erie, and there is squahble going
on in Cleveland against the Pid0Ided'Cr
crowd, who are trying TO run the cam
paign; but in Cuyahoga the Germans,
under the leadership OF Lieutenant
Governor Mueller, the able and cour'
aueouS editor of the lIUcht,r am Erlc, are
superbly organized, and it is claimed
that CuvahOga can not give over twenty
five hundred majority against Lang Tor
Secretary OF State. HanCOck's superb
letter has restored confidence to the
timid and conservative, and its timely
appearance will bring many waverlng
ones to the Democratic standard IN ONO.
"Fosterian" Tactics.
AiNlceS are DelnS TtCtINtu ueIc tH"'
the Fosterian tactics OF last year are to
be repeated, and negroes are to be col
onized in strong Republican counties.
Forty strange negroes are reported IN
one ward in Lima, Ohio. 1t is estimated
that fully two thousand illegal colored
votes were poled last year III the coun'
ties OF Warren, Greene, Champaign,
Madison, Logan and Hardin. Mr. James
Newcomer, editor OF the Crbana LnIon,
has in his possession confession oil one
OF the agents employed last year to
Locate Negroes and Vote Them
in Logan and Hardin counties. The
Democrats understood the plan, and ar
are being completed to ar
rest all illegal negro voters on the dav
al the election. A special fund is to De
raised in the negro counties for this pur'
pose. The negro is first to be chaIleng'
ed and compelled to swear his vote, IN,
and is then to be arrested for perjury
and illegal voting. ~
It's estimated that each party will
have over two hundred stumpers out
this week storming school houses and
mass mse,invs Over thousand