The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-10-04
OHIO.

OHIO
The next state election OF importance
takes place one week from Tuesday IN
Ohio, and 70 win that election the Repub-
licans are now bending every nerve. 1t is
felt by them that Ohio holds the same re.
lation 10 the canvass that Indiana held four
years ago, and as Garfield went personally
10 New York then TO bargain with Wall
street for money TO buy up Indiana, so
Blaine recendy paid personal visit to Wall
street 10 bargain for money to enable the
party TO buy up Ohio, and as Garfield by
selling out the choice of the treasury port
! folio or the mission 10 France 10 Morton,
and a seat upon the supreme bench in be
half of the railroad monopolists TO Stanley
Matthews, raised anywhere from one to two
million of dollars, so now Blaine, for some
unnamed consideration, but no doubt equal.
ly infamous, is said TO have already OBJ,
tanned IA most liberal contribution from
Wall street, headed by 100000 from Jay
''"1N' IoiioNcu ~ AZ Itdsl al epudl sum
from Vanderbilt, with liberal douceurs
from the other king monopolists, no doubt
again amounting TO million or more
Besides this enormous collection of
soap" the Republican managers have, in
imitation of the famous Conkling Grant
hippodrome of 1880, organized similar
travelling menagerie, of which, however,
in the absence of Conkling, Blaine him
self is the chief figurehead, or jumbo"
Logan, on account of his swarthy complex
ion the big Indian, and Steve Elkins the
baby elephant The aggregation" last
week made progress" through central
New York, and since Saturday has been
giving series of exhibitions in Ohio. Of
course there is an eager curiosity to see the
tattooed knight and author of those charm.
ing epistles TO my Dear Fisher" and i'm
mense crowds gather everywhere to graft
fy their curiosity, One important feature
of the show, however, is lacking. The
Grant onkling- Cameron hippodrome was
accompanied, at each exhibition, with a
ringing speech from Conklirg. But Blaine
makes no speeches, except to besmear each
city or village, as he passes through it, with
a little soft sawder, and the crowds are
more or less disappointed At The same
time, he is under special bonds to the Ohio
not to make political speeches,
for if he did he would be aSsailed by the
Democrats with battery of questions in
regard to the Mulligan letters, prohibition,
&c, that would be both injurious and ex-
cessively embarrassing. For like reason
il is given out that Blaine will not 90 into
Indiana for there he would not only be
bothered with questions in regard to his Ii.
bel suit but might be compelled to 90 into
court and stand cross-questioning on his
secret Kentucky and Pittsburg marriages.
The present "hippodrome," is therefore,
felt to be tar from as effective as it was
four years ago with the splendid political
orator and gorgeous dude, Roscoe Conk-
ling, at its head. At any rate, the success
Of Gen. Scott, Stephen A. Douglass and
Horace Greeley as presidential candidates
On the stump was not such as to commend
the resort as a forlorn hope
Yet while the personal presence of
Blaine in Ohio may not in itself be cir.
to be greatly dreaded, it is but
honest to state that any Democrat who i'm
AGNES that Ohio will go Democratic this
October is reckoning without his host. The
state has not gone Democratic at a presi
lential election in 26 years, aud why
should we expect to carry it now? The
party is not even united there as it was
year ago There is hopeless split on the
aritf question, with Hurd stumping one
end of the state for free trade and Converse
he other for protection, both claiming to
De Democrats. The best the Democrats
IAN hope for is to keep the Republican
majority down TO eight or ten thousand
On the other hand, the defeat of Blaine at
he October election would end the con
est. II would kill him then and there as
lead as hammer ana the balance of the
would be sheer walk away for
he Democrats.
Immense mass meetings are very eXpen-
tive and the Democrats are generally too