Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-10-08
How thsP PsiitIcaI Situation Looks to
an Observer In the Southern s
Part Of the State.
SpscuIatIous - to How Hamilton
County viii Ga---The Ger
man vets.
A Congressional Review which Di-
vldes the Districts Up
Pretty Evenly.
Sxrss, Dssposcn 70 tAs sunday ReOssser.


CIScusxArI, o., ocober 7.-Once more 70
politics. In another week the, battle m
Ohio wilFhsve been fought and journal
ism viii again resolve d pursns the. p2fe
eUE
courage trade : TO descant of the fashioub
and deformiHesof man and woman But
no topics save political topics are tolerated
here now. Cincinnati Is the hotbedoi the
campaign. At other points in the State
the canvass is ascalm as the surfacs, OF q
duck pond; but the indignation Il the
Germans has filed the atmosphere Of Ham
ilton county with fur, which will fly till
next Tuesday evening at o'clock, when
the polls will close and the die win be cast.
There are still people who figure on Dem
Scratic majority Of twenty thousand In
Hamilton county; but this seems too over
. whelming for belief, and Democrats gen.
from 5000 to 10, 900, and hoping for great
deal more. II there are twenty thousand
German Republicans in Cincinnati, as
has been claimed, but which
doubt; and il the German Re
publicans are this time solid for the Demo-
cratic State ticket, which powerfully be-
lieye; and il the vote next Tuesday should
be a full as IL was at the next Presidential
election, II is easy to figure out Q Demo-
cratje majority of $4,000 in Hamilton
county. Witness this arithmetic: The
vote for Garfield was $4,000, and that for
Hancock 10000 Take twenty thousand
Germans from the Garfield vote and we
have 1900 Republican votes left. Add
the 2e,908 Germans TO the Hancock vote
and we have Democratic vote OF $1,000
Fifteen from fifty leaves a Democratic ma
jority Of $1,000. Easy, isn't it? In fsct, it's
easier than lying. But let ns be modest
Let us carry ourselves close to the ground.
so that If We fall the shock will not be so
terrific. Ten thousand is high enough to
20 at this writing. That will make the
State very close. There is a good deal Of
+ Party Prostitutien
in Cincinnati. The Republican bosses are
trying 10 convince the Germans that they
can sufficiently rebuke the Republican party
by giving q large majority against its candi-
dates fer State offices in Hamilton county.
It is manifest that it would be time thrown
away to electioneer for the Republican
State ticket among the German voters, but
editors and politicians who are making
bread and butter out OF politics, are urging
the Germans TO stand by the Republican
candidates for Congress and county officers.
The Volksblatt, German Republican news.
paper, has taken this position. 1t is owned
and controlled by an fice-holding gang.
The Tafts are large stock holders in it, and
Alphonso Taft Is Minister to Austria, and
his son is revenue collector. Markbreit,
business manager of the Volksblatt, is
United States Measurer at Cincinnati. To
keep its offices, and to protect its office
holders, the Volksblatt would probably
sell out every German voter in Cincinnati,
and give up the dearly beloved right of
drinking beer and listening to the music OF
brass band on Sunday. The Times-Star
also urges the Germans to support Ben
Butterworth for Congress. That paper also
belongs to the Taft crowd. Speaking OF
Butterworth, why wouldn't IL be a good
thing to take run through all the Con-
gressional districts Of 0hio' Let us conf
mence with the
First District,
where Butteworth is moving every force at
his command for his re election, aud ii
must be said that the nearer we come to the
day of election the more hopeful do things
look for him. He is an artist in election
eering-a very expert in the management
of an ample campaign fund. This is about
the end OF Butierworth. he is q mere
hands shaker and vote purchaser. As pub
lie speaker he is most humiliating failure
and on topics whichare most conspicuously
engaging public attention he isa common
strnddler. l thoroughly believe Butter.
worth will be beaten, though it will, be
harder to defeat him than il was supposed
IL would be some time ago. ButterwOrth
is not shrewd enough to hoodwink the Ger
mans, even with the assistance of John
Sherman, and Republicans who have been
his frmest supporters heretofore are now
A---s l. IL sa.t dor
defense Of the support he gave the River
and Harbor Bill. Put down. the First for
John II. Foilett Democrat
second Di.triei.
Amor Smith, Jr., lex Revenue Collector.
was nominated by The Republicans. Tom
Young ought to have been renominated,
but wouldn't GO into fight for the place.
Smith is good organizer, on good terms
with the distillers las we'll as Butterworth),
and commands arrogsntly the voting and
electioneering power of the Revenue and
Postoffice Department; but be will lose
large Irish contingent that Young could
always command. Neither Smith nor
Butterworth can disport themselves as they
would like to on account OF the goody-
good" people led by Deacon Smith OF the
Gazette. put down for election in the
Second Isaac M. Jordan, Democrat, man
of brains, q good speaker, an intelligent
worker, and in every way the superior OF
Smith, except possibly in the command of
campaign means.
Third District.
This is where Bill Bickhaus, OF the Day
tom Journal, dictates to the Republican
party. He is the special hacker OF Emanuel
Shultz, Republican candidate for re.elec-
ton, stolid sort OF citizen v th en- abunds.
ance of money, with q Republican major.
ity Of one thousand on the Presidential
vote, and carpet.bag Democrat named r.
M. Murray, for an opponent Murray Is
| from Lake county, and was once the mayor
| of gainesville. He came into the Demo
cratic party on the liberal shoot. Shultz
ought not 70 be elected, but he probably
win be.
Fourth District
Ben. LeFeyre, Democrat, will simply
hayea walk-over. and the same may be said
II II Al i.