St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-14
Waiting Till After Election.
lSpecial Telegram TO the Globe

COLUMBUS, o., Oct. 13.-Public and private
business is now practically suspended till after
election. Most of the attaches of the state
no use have gone home to vote, and even he su
preme court has adjourned till Thursday. In
this city business men are longing for the agony
to be over, and will not try to do
much till Wednesday. With publ:
feeling at fever heat on account of the infamous
ways and agencies that have been introduced d
into Ohio politics this year by outsiders, it Is
thought there will be at most general suspension
of business here to morrow, SO that law abiding
and peace loving citizens can
take part in the election and
work to prevent the frauds that must attend
such general importation of negroes, and the
presence of such hordes of reporters, bruisers
and ronstabouts.
There has been nothing up to this evening to
cause the Democratic state committee to change
in the lesst its claim of the
state. Chairman Bargar, Vice Chairman
McConville and many others have been kept busy
to-day receiving messages and visitors from the
counties. At the Republican state headquarters
they were also kept busy and there they still
make claims. The claims of this year by both
are made with more confidence than usual owing
to their perfect organizations. The managers
know what has been done and depend with faith
on it, but neither of them is likely fully to ap-
preciate that the "orher fellows have also been
working night and day and extending their work
to every corner OF the state The
state was never organized before as it
is now. The Democratic organization is
a third better than last year, and
so per cent. better than it ever was before in
presidential year, and therefore Chairman Bargar
CaN Wit
they beat us by money and by fraud" He
counts not only on the perfect and complete or
ganization, but on his reliable and
recent reports from every quarter
of the state. At both the Democratic and
Republican headquarters it is said that much de-
pends on Hamilton county, as the state usually
goes according to its windward. The result may
depend alone that county, although it is one
of the things that no one can tell as to what
tendency the tide of popular SOW
ereignty may take. The Independent Republicans
the Germans. the Irish, the labor organizations,
the ''stay at home" vote, the liquor element, the
tariff sentiment, the Prohibitionists, the wool
growers-any one Of these may turn the scales,
and the hardest fighting, best marshalng of
forces and all possible exertions will be
unable to prevail against them.
With one or two exceptions which
are conceded to be stand-off, sll of these ele-
ments and interests seem to be decidedly in IA
vor of the Democrats, in which event no money
power or organization can do aught to interfere
with the will of the people. The Republicans
seem to be exhaustless in their canards
at the close of the campaign. They say now that
chemical ballots have been discovered all over
the state, in which the name of Gen. Robinson
can be faded ont and that of the Democratic can
didate, Phgnix like, made to appear instead by
exposure to the air. II there is any such trick
as this, it is known only to the Republicans, and
has been gotten by some Republican profes-
sor in the college laboratories.
Great indignation exists among Catholics here
on account of the desecration of the sanctuary
yesterday by campaign messengers who were
distributing Republican documents. The streets
were strewn with copies of the pamphlet of
Freedom of Worship Bill" and Gov. Cleveland's
action thereon. Not content with Insulting the
people as they came from the churches, the men
and boys employed in distributing vicious, scan
dalous documents on Sunday threw many of
them inside the churches. This was particul-
srly the case at the cathedral and caused much
intense indignation, and the disregard not
only of the day but of the sanctity of the
church will cause hundreds who had intended TO
vote the Republican state ticket and for Blaine
to refuse to do so. The affair here is without
parallel. Investigation will be made as to who
instgated the thing, and criminal
prosecution will be tried There
were many of the documents circulated that
the party organization is certainly back OF it, but
it is not known yet as to whether the state or
county caused the thing to be done.