Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-09-24
The OHIO FIGHT.
Closing Up For The Bayonst Charge
in October.
The Democrats HaTessed by Quarrels at
Columbus, andthe Republicans 0isap-
pointed on Account of Lazy Can
vass-Hypocrisy Of Foster.
FEATURES OF PoLITlcsIN CINCINNATI.

vass-Hypocrisy Of Foster.
FEATURES OF P0lITlCSlN CINCINNATI.
Special Correspondence of the Sunday Register.
CINCINNATI, September %. - The
Ohio campaign is within about fort
night of its close, andin its most interest,"
ing stage; and that may be valid ex-
cuse for introducing politics to the we'll
behaved and proper patrons OF the
SUNDAY REGISTER. -Four kinds OF
news have been coming from Column
bus lately, alternating with the diurnal
regularity of the fever and ague. One
is that the Democratic organization is
torn to pieces by dissensions am ong the
members of the central and executive
committees, and is awfully poverty
stricken; another is that everything Is
as serene as the unruffled surface of a
duck-pond, and that there is that over
towering confidence in the committee
which will enable it to pull through
financially; still another is that the
Republican committee is disappointed
and detected on account of political
lethargy; and lastly, it is claimed that
Foster and Nash are so jubilant over
the prospect that it takes a squad OF
police to restrain them from dancing
hornpipes daily on the terrace of the
Capitol.
The Hard, Horny Facts,
derived from sources which are as well
informed and respectable Is the official
fountain head, are that the Democratic
committee is in sad need of money which
it is not likely to get; that the Chair
man and Secretary of the Executive
Committee have quarreled, and are
now making a poor attempt to patch
I'D their differences; that the Chairman
respectively of the Central and
Executive committees have had EN-
barrissing contentious; that the Demo-
cratic organization of the State is in
different and incomplete; and that if
the Democratic ticket wins it will be in
spite of inefficient management. All
the stories about material support of
the State Committee by the atfluent
brewers of Cincinnati are simply bold
lies. John g. Thompson has made
several silent visits to Cincinnati, hiding
in his room without registering at the
hotel office and there is not reasonable
doubt that he was after money. But he
got none. The truth is, their doesn't
appear to be confidence in Thompson.
Whatever substantial aid the liquor in
terests give the Democracy will be ex-
pended in Hamilton county, and
Thompson will not be permitted to ham
die the funds.
The Unhappy Phases.
of the reports from Republican head
quarters are the ones nearest the SOL
emn truth. The Republican managers
have been disappointed. have the
most direct information that they give
up Hamilton county to the Democracy,
but claims that the Republican ticket
will have majority offifteen thousand
in the State. The plan of the Re-
publican campaign seems to have been
to let the large cities go to the devil
otherwise the Democracy-and stir
up the moral and temperance ele ments
i'm the country. To this end the most
of their campaign has been in the
remote rural districts. Major Town.
send, heading the Republican ticket as
the candidate for reelection to the Of
flee of Secretary of State, goes hence
every evening covered with spanish
needle and hay seed, and expert geolog-
lists and students of the soil can tell what
part of the country he has been in by
the color and texture of the mud on his
boots. Other Republican politicians of
not less note than Major Townsend
have been securing the sub-school dis
tricts. The result is unsatisfactory
even distressing. The meetings have
been miserably attended. Men who
ordinarily ''do the turns" and expect
to be handsomely embellished with
brass music and sky-rockets have this
wear been disposing themselves to small
assemblages ofhalf dozen to twenty
five or thirty people at crossroads
school houses. It is fain to say that
there is not much more, if any more,
popular interest in the Democratic
campaign. The simple fact is that af-
ter all that has been said, the Ohio can
vass is
LifeIess and stupid,
especially in so far as public speaking Is
concerned. The country people are not
taking the interest in the Temperance
question they were expected to. They
do not appreciate Charley Fosters ter
rife denunciations of the "accursed
traffic" There are few saloons in the
small towns, and they are nearly all
closed on Sunday, with or without law.
The unsophisticated granger, living in
an atmosphere of sobriety and peace,
fails to see that he is standing on
the edge of an awful precipice, but ar
CUES that Charlie Foster and his fellow
missionaries, If they are determined to
run a morality campaign, should
90 into the large towns, where the law
is disregarded, where liquor flows in
tremendous quantities and without re-
straint, and where nobody engaged in
the traffic recognizes the fact that there
is Sunday.
The Smith Sunday Law
is sneered at in Cincinnati. There is no
longer a pretense Of observingit. This,
in spite Of the fact that the conditions
for its enforcement were all in the
hands of the Republicans. The law had
the unqualified support of the.only Re-
publican paper in the city that has
either news or influence, the Gazette;
it had the advantage of a Mayor who
was elected largely through the Gaz-
ette's rebellion against the Republican
ticket in the spring of 1881, and who was
solemnly pledged to the enforcement of
all law-who was in fact elected on that
issue; and it had the advantage of
Republican police judge, ambitious for
the favor of his party, and supported by
Republican lawyers in the prosecution
of all the cases brought before him. All
the means of the enforcement of the
Smith Sunday law have been eminent
" in the hands of the Republican party.
Nobody has been punished. All the
saloons and beer gardens are now wide
open every Sunday. The country peo-
pie naturally want to know why they,
who have violated no law and counte-
nance no violation, are to be preached
to when the metropolitan law breakers
are let alone-indeed, rather encour-
aged-in their deviltry. 1t doesn't fol-
low that because man has hard hands