National Republican., 1883-10-11
THE MAN on THE AVENUE.
Small Talk ABOUT Men and Measures

noon.
"Do you moan in that question that Hoadly
is olected?" quericd the judge.
"Isn't he"
mo- sir. You can paste il in the crown of
your hat that Ohio is all right. don't care
what the dispatches of other party say, l
think understand the situation there pretty
WE'LL and tell you wevo carried Ohio. /
confess I'm disappointed, for l expected
we should carry the state by good,
II not large majority but thero we're
! $4,000 saloons turned loose against us. The
republicans didn't indorsc the prohibitory
amendment. They very wisely left IL as q
strictly non-partlsan issue, but the saloon
| keepers were made to believe that we wero
against them, and $1,000 of them poured out
/ beor, whisky, and money freely; guess more
! money than beer or whisky. That's the rea-
son why say Foraker is elected. We hoar
from the cities first, and that's where the
saloons are. Every saloon was q democratic
recruiting station. When we get tho news
from tho rural districts, and that will be the
last, you will find the complexion of things
changed. But Of course tho majority will be
smaller than we expected"
"Then you think the republican majority
is smaller than 10 would have been If it hadn't
been for the influence of the saloon keepers2"
eyes; thoy did tho most Of it. There were
some other troubles, but tho saloon keepers
did the most Of it, You understand that we
have practically had free whisky in Ohio for
thirty years. In 1859 we adopted state con-
sttution which absolutely forbids the grant
ing of license to sell liquor. Tho result
was that mon sold liquor without paying for
the privilege, and when they found them :
selves last year obliged to pay 5000 license
fee they thought themselves abused"
Said prominent democratio Ohio poll
tician: "The wool growers won tho day for
us. The wool question was of much moro
Importance than most people supposed. There
are 10000 wool growers in Ohio, and every
one of them got black eye whom congress
meddled with the wool tariff. They have lost
S1,OOO,0OO this year on account of the
change"
"Will not the republicans suffer for tho
same reason in all tho wool growing dis
tricts?" asked the reporter.
"Not to any such extent. You sec our wool
growers sent delegation down there whom
the question was being agitated They
begged and plead with congress to let the
wool tariff alone, and no attention was paid
to them. They went back home and stuck
to their party, but they were sore. The seeds
of dissension were sown, and when we put a
plank in our platform, as we did this year,
declaring for the protection of homo indus
tries, they came our way. Not only wool
growers but everybody benefited by the tariff
have been suspicious of the democracy for
years because it was supposed that the party
was leaning toward free trade. Now we are
back solid in Ohio at least on the old ground
occupied by Jefferson and Madison"
Didn't the saloon keepers do you some
good ?" .
81 expect that the prohibitory amendment
gained us some votes"
The Hon. George s. Converse, democratic
member of Congress from Columbus, Ohio,
! was at the Arlington yesterday and was
,ILurgedt to say something about the Ohio elec.
ltion, but asked not to be interviewed. He
said that he left Columbus Tuesday at noon
) and could mako no better guess at the result
than anybody else. He said he was con-
} vinced, chiefly by kilograms received by him
yesterday afternoon that Hoadly was elected
and that the legislature was democratic by 6
majority of four or five.
ITS small" said the congressman, with q
comfortable smile, but it's big enough tc
be worth United States senator. Tho legis
lature is of good deal more Importance in
f Ohio than the governor. for the governor has
very little power"
"You consider this, of course, as presage
of victory in 's42"
Certainly. If we have carried Ohio We
shall elect the next president"
#"@
Said the statesman: Considering the fat
that We were astride mule, and that ten oil
a dozen tin cans were attached to the mules
tail, think we made very good time. VIZ
didn't win. but we got in. 1 am satisfied
that sometime the republicans can carry Ohio
} when they make the fight on republican
) issue.
"And-ah-by the way, have heard tha
theissue Of tho next presidential campaign
will be dress reform, but 1 am hardly pre-
pared to believe that. 1t would hardly b.
proper"
4 Secretary Teller thinks that tho situation
is not at all alarming He does not conside
the election in Ohio disaster by any name
of means.
Assistant Secretary Joslyn is able to see
Il blessing in disguise in the possible defeat o
o Foraker although he admits he would rather
G have seen it the other way.
y. IF it should turn out that the democrat
~ have won," said he lit will not do any harm
Local victory will turn the heads of the demo
a Gratis as it has done before. They will TAX
the bits in their teeth and run away with tn
II party, upsetting everything and spreadin
devastation as they go. Thoy will cut a wild
swath this winter in congress, and play smas
generally. The result will be republican
70 president in 1884"
3 80
n Pension Commissioner Dudley is Of muc
- the same way of thinking.
! Although am not reioiced at tho proba
v BILE election of Hoadly," he says, IL canno
s. help thinking it will be benefit to us i
d the end. 1t will make the democrats imagin
IF they have sure thing in 1884, and the.
will cut their throats. They will be sure (
!, do that. The democrats cannot stand tn
faintest suggestion of prosperity. They &
J. wild at the prospect of getting into power
> and cannot be controlled"
-S---
AMUSEMENTS.