Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-09-13
RACE NEARING THE THREE
QUARTER POLE,
With Democracy JubiIant Over Their
Winning Lead.
Republicans Embarrassed by Fora
kers Stand on Prohibition,
As There is Said to be Dynamite in the
Second Amendment.
Especial Dispatch to the Enquircr.I


COLUMBUS, o., September 9.-The
State election comes off four weeks
from next Tuesday. The last two weeks
of the campaign are called the home
stretch by the committees, and they are
nearing the three-quarter pole. So far
it has been a quiet campaign. There
has been considerable agitation of the
temperance question, the many obnoXi-
Gus laws passed by the Republicans du :
ing the past four years, the reduction of
the tariff on wool ahd various matters
affecting localities; but so far there has
been nothing to indicate material
change in the vote of last year. Most
of the canvass has been of still hunt
order. The brass bands and the big
guns will be out after this week. The
present week will be devoted to the
usual work of organization, scheming
and whooping 'em up.
The Democratic managers are greatly
encouraged over the situation, and eX-
pect larger majority than that given
Newman last year. They have been
for the past week receiving letters from
all over the State, from nearly every
county, show that all were at work and
that the prospects were never better. In
addition to these most fiattering pros
poets two things have recently turned
to their advantage of more moment
than any advices. Judge Hoadly's
physician gives positive proof that the
standard-bearer is getting in excellent
trim, and that he will be able to take
the field again next week. This will
stop the Republican SANDER that Judge
HOadly is not wanted any more on the
stump. He will be there again, and he
may yet come fora joint debate. All OF
the speakers will be in the field on and
after next Saturday.
The turn in the affairs of the cam
paign which the Democratic commit
tee looks on as a tidal wave in their fa'
voi is Judge Foraker's announcement
in his Ludlow Falls speech that he will
not vote for the prohibition business
and that he will not discuss or vote fol
either, of the two propositions of the
proposed Constitutional Amendment
This more than counterbalanced the eff
feet of Judge Hoadly's speech at Zoar
which the Republican press was misin
terpreting and using for effect. In op
posing the first amendment Judge Fora
keris considered to be against his par
ty, which has indorsed regulation b.
taxation, and ia opposing the second h,
is antagonizing the element which ha
now on foot one of the greatest agita
tioDs ever known in the State. In re
gard to this second amendment move
ment, there is no Disgusting the anXiet,
felt over it at bath State headquarters
They recognize there is dynamite in
that is bound to follow somebody Vi
this fall, and the main question to-da,
is, Who are the victims! If the advo
Gates of the Second Amendment carr
out their principles to a logical and con
scientious sequence they will also vot
, the Prohibition State Ticket, and the
, the Republican party will next mont
be found somewhere hanging to the ia
ofGilderoy's kite.
: There is no similarity, either in prir
| ciple or in application, between taxa
, ton and prohibition. The leaders i
the movement claim to be non-partisal
but they are getting over the fence, an
, their tiocks may also leap. They ere
: hard people to- control, and will not 70
r low any one sent among them to d
;. missionary. While this movement is
l matter of so much solicitude, both pa
: ties are doing all in their power to g
i out their full vote, and this will be di
ticult to do this year. There would
great lethargy in the rural districts we
+ it not for second Amendment NOV
= ment, and that is about as uncontroll
BILE as the wind-storm.