New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-02
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OHIO DEMOCRATS.
JUDGE eEDpEs ON CANDIDATES AND ISSUES.

TWO PARTIES STAND IN RELATION TO H.
IRON AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRibUNLl
! MANSFIELD. Nav 2S.-This city is the home OF
| Representative Geddes as well as OF Senator onei
man. The proclivities of the XlVth Congresslonai
! District which includes Mansfield, are sald 10 DO
Republican but no Republican has been apie "
stand against Mr.. Geddes. He was elected 10 .no
last Congress by q majority of 5000 votes on. Oh
poll of 1000, having served also IN INC AL i'I
| Congress-. He stood in last years campaign anu
will have seat in the XLVlllth congress u,"0
meanwhile he should become entltleu 10 oo'
| as Goyernor-elect of Ohio. People IN 'hs sco',V
credit him justly with being very s"cces'i ~, 90
noltical plans Yet few speak OF MN 40
| - no,i,;cs were more than incident
| 90 his life Fifteen years of service on the
| bench of the Court of Common Pleas In the WIN
| Judcial District has given TO manner ha'uIai'y
tbougbtfuI grave and Impressive cast lie stuuieu
| law under Columbus Delano, and began pIacuoo :"
1s45. Since then, except when on the oench' no
| has always kept law Office. to winch NC quo ."
regularly as though his living depended upon IT,
dnring the recesses of Congress. his residence 10
! ON a farm about a mile and a half northwest VI 'no
CITY. and when on week days his MIND is not upon
the law it turns to agriculture. de has peen iol
years one of the foremost lsymen OF the Me'nou'''
| Church in Ohio.
the respect of the Bench and Bar of the farmers ana
| of cburcbmep. His course as Representative IN
Congress has satisfied the people of his district In
State as in National affairs the judicial and deilp
crate habits of mind, confirmed on the oench' nave
established for him reputation for Conservatism
which is Of great help in his candidacy LOT inc
| Democratic nomination for Gouernor. Inc heao
strong impulsive spirit that actuates poN'icai
maueuvring in the cities finds but faint Response
among the "Old-liners" of either party IN the inte
rior. where comparative absence OF excitement anu
ample time for reflection tend to staid ana conse,
vatiye popular temper That explains why full
interior vote is reluctant except when great ssuos
are at stake. and why political managers at Column
bus have in view the cities rather than the country
| in their schemes of hurting billiards into cam
| naipn And for a similar reason is 1t just now that
| Democrats who have never dreamed OF any other
| than straight ticket are aghast and indignant az
| the Impudence of wire-pullers at Cincinnati anu
| Cleveland urging tho candidacy of Mr. Hoadly, who
has faced all ways politically against true party
| veterans like Mr.. Geddes and Durbin Ward
COUNTRY AND CITY DELEGATIONS
| A departing custom once common in the interior
is that of county conventions OF voters IN each
marty at which, after free expression Of opinion
with reference to candidates. the sense OF the Dody
is taken and the result declared to be the
voter of that party in the county to attend as
deIepate the State convention and instructions are
| binding to the end in favor Of the candidate Tor
| whom the mass convention may have declared
| Richland County has not abandoned this custom
| and whoever may compose the Democratic delega-
tion from that county at Columbus next month Will
cast nine votes first last and all the time, for the
.JudceD Putnam County has instructed similarly
for Mr.. Lefevre, and Knox County for Mr. ward.
| 1T will be hard to estimate with anything ike
nrecsion for a fortnight yet" Mr.. Geddes says
| {" what strength each candidate will be likely to
| command at the opening of the convention. All OF
| us know now, | suppose. where we shall look for
! sunnort away from the cities; bat there are no
means vet of Judging how the bulk OF the city vote
| will finally turn. Every one understands the way
| city delegations are chosen. III 1t Is not
| by e-pullng it is apt TO be by caprice
| with rush, and wherever the current
NAV set in convention city delegates soon
fall into it. regardless of former predictions A
candidate is stronger, in my Judgment, win start
of 100 country votes than with 200 from
the cities Country delegates usually go into con-
yention with their preferences clear and deliber-
ately formed. They are earnest and persistent ana
those qualities are exceedingly valuable IN con-
veption. Cincinnati and Cleveland are the most
uncertain factors that enter INTO the composition
of party gatherings The delegations are always
divided and sometimes badly split. Political inter
ests in each of those cities diverse and factional
If the delegations in the two cities could unite,
their candidate would start out well for they num-
Der 100, and 318 votes viii nominate But would
rather start with less numerous support from the
country"
"Is 1t your information that Mr.. Hoadly's
strength is mainly at Cleveland and Cincinnati ~
"Oh, no / think he has following elsewhere.
L ~ I'm fnfa md
there il no doubt kind feeling toward him In other
localities But 1 think that in this part of tho
State and westward north and south. preferences
are divided between Mr.. Ward and myself"
"There will be no party detection in the cities
or in the interior, whoever may succeed at Column
bust"
mo the party will be- united on the cause and
support the ticket"
THE LIQUOR QUE sTIoN.
"Wil the main campaign issue be the liquor
question ~
That will absorb everything else to great ex
tent. SUPPOSE The Republican position is no bet
ter than it was last year. and ours is quite as
advantageous as then Their party councils are 40
beset with e1actng agencies that they have been
led into legislation which, In the opinion Of the
hest LAWYERS in the State, cannot be sustained
under the Constitution, and which think the
people will not sanction. l cannot see that tax
law which permits any to go into liquor selling
, upon payment of fixed sum of money is anything
else than license law. Fit were called q license
law and had been passed as such it would prescribe
} primarily the payment Of a certain sum as con-
ditlon of carrying on this business That is pre-
clsey what this law does, and the Constitution ex-
pressy inhibits license.
d" They say 1t is designed to check intemperance,
| and that it gets its authority from the consttu-
tional provision that the Legislature may by law
restrain the evils arising from the liquor traffic.
But how can this operate in the direction of re-
straint when it allows any person to go into the
business who may pay 500 to sell malt liquors and