New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-10

Mansfield, Ohio. Oct. 8. JOHN SHERMAN
GOVERNOR FOSTERS CHEERFUL VIEWS
HE THINKS THE REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET WILL DE
MISREPRESENTATION Loss OF CONGRESSMAN
LIKELY TO BE sMALL-FiGUREs AT THE HEAD
QUARTERS.
tBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEl
CoLUMBUs. O., Oct 0-Governor Foster Is the
bnsiest man in Ohio After two weeks OF contlh-
ous campaigning-travelng bv all sorts OF con-
yeyances to meet his engagements ne arriVeo hoio
late last evening He spent only a fe" hours at
home and departed again to make his last speech
tonight ut Shawnee. A correspondent OF AhL
TRIBUNE found him at his once this morning anu
couversed with him freely about the political situa-
ton. $50 -,
q What arc YOU willing to say for publication 7"
asked the correspondent.
s"Iam Willing to say" replied the Governor
that think we shall carry the State. My lowest
estimate Is 6OOO majority. / believe IL Will DC
more. / think the result will show that with the
exception of two counties we shall hold the m'Jor-
jty of last year and our losses Will he Whatever
those two counties Cuyahoga and Hamilton shall
make Our loss IN Cuyahoga will be from 5000 to
5000. and in Hamilton from 5000 to 10000 we
have %, 900 majority to be overcome"
What is your opinion about the doubtful Ooh'
gr essiOnal districtsf"
the two Cincinnati districts and our friends there
are houeful | have little apprehension about
Uorr's dlstrict-the XIVth still, am pretty strong
in the belief that Horr will get through with his
1000 ajOrity."
"Are You not disturbed about the condition OF
affairs in Ceveland1"
"No. never have been disturbed byit have Just
mt my faith in our there and feel confident
that Everett will get through Nash tells me tbat
his private information is that Everett Il going
through safely His last information from Cuya-
loga County is that we shall carry 1t by from
1900 to 1000 majority. If we do that 1t Will be
q smaller loss than have estimated for"
There is a report that Mckinley is having some
trouble in his district What do you hear about 1t
81 have Just been there. Mckinley has some
trouble in Liverpool; but he will run ahead OF his
ticket in Carroll, Stark and Mahoning counties.
He will run behind | should say, 800 III COum-
biana. He is good for 1000 majority"
what do you think of the outlook in +. II.
uurds dstrictW
"There is Just possibility that we may carry 1t,
and the is true of the Cincinnati districts"
"GOvernor, what do you think Is hbcly " De the
future of this liquor issuef'
Il believe as / have stated on the stump on all
occasions, that "a taxing law that will make the
premises liable for the tax is constitutional. The
LEGISLATURE next winter should pass such a law. If
it does and if it also submits constitutional
amendment to give the people chance to vote
upon prohibition, then the question i'll this state
will be practically settled. Next year when we
come to elect members of the House of Representa-
tlves the candidates will have to declare their posi-
tion and seriously doubt whether single county
in Ohio, except Hamilton, would send men to the
LEGISLATURE who would vote for the repeal of any
such law
In further conversation the Governor expressed
the belief that if the Republican party had not
taken the position it now occupies upon the liquor
issue. the ProhibitiOnists would have po.led from
$4,000 TO 100000 votes. believe" said he,
that out of the 1000 5000 Christian ministers
In the State there are not moro than twenty who
not with No man can tell the enormous
force which they can unitedly WELD Even the
Roman Catholics, from whom We usually expect
little are in many eighborhoods heartily with US.
In my travels the Roman Catholic priests have
often met with u.s. before aud after the meetings
and gwen the most earnest evidences of their good
will. Many of them have formed Catholic temper
ance associations among their parishioners and
have accomplished great results"
Governor Foster then referred TO the equivocal
position taken by some OF the Republican leaders
In Cincinnati, and said he feared that owing to
their timidity and their attempts to save part OF
the ticket only, at the expense of the rest, they
would lose everything, whereas. had they adopted
the bolder course, they would cet tainly have been
in worse plight. and probably would have found
things much Improved.
There have been received at the Republican
headquarters III LniS CITY estimates OF inc TcSulV
made by the chairmen of about one-half of the Re-
publican county committees III the State. AYeTag-
Ing the remaining counties at the same proportion
ate loss aud conceding the Democrats majority OF
5000 i'll Cincinnati and 200 in Cleveland, the
net result will be majority of 1000 tor the Re-
publeans on the State ticket. This estimate IS
probably the nearest approach to exactness which
II is possible to make. 1t should be borne in mind
however, that the Democrats. pursuing the same
general plan figure out for themselves a majority
OF 900.
The weather this evening r. fine. and hopes are
Warranted that it will lie iar TOMORROW.
MIDNIGHT ADvICEs FROM COLUMBUS.
There is excitement here on the Of the
election, except among the gamblers, who at
midnight are Offering odds that the Republi-
car State ticket will be elected tO-mOr-
row. The committee-rooms are closed and
the exhausted workers are at home and
probably in bed. In reply to all inquiries to-day
the now familiar statement has been heard from
Tie managers of either side" There are so many
elements of doubt in this canvass that we can make
no predictions. We think we shall be successful
Tomorrow"
Very little can be said of the situation tonight
that night not have been said when the campaign
opened month ago, or that has not been said in
letters and dispatches to THE TRIBUNE. The forces
which have been at work nave scertaInly
Been favorable to the Republicans but
yet an open question whether
they have been strong enough and have
mad time enough 10 overbalance the disadvantages
under which that party labOred at the outset. Some
hngs have taken place. chiefly affecting the Cen
eressional tickets in tho doubtful districts, which
Me OF interest. Butterworth and Smith, the
nepuDiican nominees In the two Hamilton Coun-