The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-10-09
A ftERcE BAfThE TN OHIO. !
Both Parties Making Extraordinary Efforts
to Achieve Success. y


Bdth Parties Making Extraordinary Efforts
to Achieve Success.
COLUMBUS, October 4.-Ohio is tax.
ing tho biggest dose of politics. this
year that she has ever digested. Dnie
ing the Greenback craze and again i'm
1850 there were very lively times here.
out no contest that / have ever seen
curing twelve years. close association
WIN campaigns in this State bears any
tair comparison with this one. There
is moro well.directed, systematic effort
apparent on both sides than ever be-
fore. The Republicans have the call
on the noise, but they are also doing a
vast amount of hard earnest work.
Their whole canvass is mapped out on
bi oader scale than ever and is being
conducted with spirit and courage.
Alter nearly week spent in the long
range politics of West Virginia tho
transfer to this big husinoss-like effort
Is refreshing. The Republican State
committee has this year taken whole
house in quiet part of the CITY and
mas at work three times the usual cler-
zeal force. Their speaking campaign
Is ona still broader plane and every
croSsroad has its uniformed club. 1t
Is regular school house, almost indi-
vidual campaign.
stump Speakers Everywhere
In reaching this point INV route law
some two hundred miles throuUh Tho
western and southern portion of tho
State. Everywhere almost everything
else seemed to be neglected for polilics'
AT almost every station stump Speakers
were getting Oh and of the train. and
from all came this same story: "Neyor
saw the people SO aroused i'm NV life -
inns statement is fully verified here nt
the headquarters, with tho addition:
we arc making it hot. Our glue not
Is 1ull and we will carry the State this
OctoDcr election by good majority -
Ii LOOKS very much as though this were
true. "''0
N-Governor Foster and Colonel
dudley arc really i'm chargc.of tho prac-
tlcal part of the fight on the Rcpubli-
can side, and Don Cameron is expect
eel tomorrow with more glue. So
carefully is this side of the contest
being managed that for the first time
the committee has the numc Of every
voter in the State and guess rs to
now he will vote. Although the Doll
has been carefully made Il second can
vass of all the voters is to be made
between now and election day. Upon
the basis of four years ago this poll in
hand would show about 2S, 900 maiori-
~, II all sections voted about the same
as in the Garfeitf campaign. Compar-
ing it with Hoadley's election and csti-
mating that the cities will do about the
same they figure 5000 majority for the
State ticket. This latter estimate is
what the Republicans tic to, but hone
to do better. They are in excellent
shape. There seem to be 10 differ
cnces. All factions appear to be labor
ing night and day.
The Democrats Also United.
The Democrats seem to be cuuollv
fortunate. The Thurman and Pendlc-
ton factions appear to be rs industrious
and earnest as the Mclean and Paync
combination, that has practical charge
OF the party machinery. No GROWERS
can be found. The headuuartcrs of
the party in power in the State govern
ment, even to Governor Hoadlv. arc
out ut the Park Hotel, more than
mile from the business part of the CITY.
they are conducting very different
canvass from their enthusiastic oppo-
ncnts. All their arrangements have
been made with view of making q
still hunt. Their speaking campaign
bears no comparison to that of the
Republicans. It is comparatively in
significant, but they are doing a tre-
mendous amount of hard work. They.
too, have complete poll of the voters.
and are, like the Republicans, going to
make another before election dav.
They are doing all their work very
quietly, and are claiming nothing.
Careful, trained agents arc in most of
the counties, and every arrangement
possible is being made to GET every
voter to the polls. They, like the
Republicans, appear to be in funds,
and to be using them where thew will
40 the most good, without noise or
display. Never before have the Dem
ocrats been So silent or SO earnest.
Their canvass is being well and care
fully managed. So quietly is it being
done that it is difficult for their oppo2
ncnts to catch their methods SO as to
meet and countcract their effect.
In many respects the situation is q
very strange one, entirely unlike any
thing ever known in the politics of
Ohio. This fact naturally brings into
all calculations some uncertain clc-
ments which will play an important
part in determining the issue of this
battle.