Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-10-24

The campaign in the Eighth district this
year has been nearly aS hot as in a prcsi-
Dental campaign. and We have certainly
the stump as We would have had in pIesi-
dental campaign. The week just closed
has been triumphant and successful for the
republicans, and has won many a vote for
Kennedy. The prospects for a good ma
jority for Kennedy have grown steadily |
brighter for the past few weeks, and the |
week just passed has been the best of all. |
prominent republican said yesterday: Il
have just been having confidential talk |
with some Of the prominent McNIillin boom |
out hope for their man. Up to this time
they have claimed to have hopes of even |
electing him. Now they have given up en- |
tirely, and say that they have conceded the
election of Kennedy all the time, and have
only been working to reduce his majority
in Clark couary. .nd that the best
posted politicians have spoken with, put
Kennedy's lowest majority in the district at
;, 600, the figures named by Chairman Ser
viss some time ago as his minimum ma jOr-
ity. \ large number of bets have been
made on this basis. and it is probable that
the figures will be near that Uncle Jimmy
johnson said the other day that McMillin
will poll the full vote OF the democratic
party in the district, and that he will not
| lose democratic vote. think he is mis-
,F u
| ocrats who have announced their intention
of voting for Kennedy, and | believe the
number will be considerable. 1t is no use
| to try and get up any democratic enthusiasm
over McMllin. Puff and blow and sweat
as they will, McMillin managers cannot
! touch the bourbon heart in this county at
! least, and am told that he has not made
favorable impression in the other counties
where he has spoken.
| He may be successful enough on small
congress. Even his most enthusiastic ad-
herents do not claim that he is well fitted
! for the place, or that he would be an honor
( TO the district. Anything to beat Ken
nedy" is their motto. Think for an instant
of the statesmen who have represented the
Eighth district in congress. Think of send
! ing Tommy McMillin to till the seat of
SamI Shellabarger and of EX-Speaker
/ Keifer. Would not the country think that
the people of the Eighth district had gone
crazy? Fred Muzzy, the correspondent,
calls McMIlIin that old ''SeTiO-cOmic' candi-
date, and the name is well applied. As well
as humorous. Ii would be farce to send
a man of McMillin's limited education and
experience to represent the most interest
ing and important district in Ohio
in the national congress. The
very men who are managing McMillin
know very well that he has no points of
fitness for filling the position of congress
man. and that he was simply taken up on
account of his supposed availability. But
the republicans will take care that McMil-
lin will have no chance to make an eXhibi-
ton OF himself in congress. Kennedy, as
even his opponents admit. is brilliant or
ator and scholar and will be the pride and
ornament of the district in congress. He
fame and achievements. As John Sherman
said: You must send Bob TO congress.
and you had better send carload of gavels
along with him so that he can keep the folks
straight down there" All the speakers
who have been in Springfield, Noyes, Sher-
man. Mckinley and Boutelle, have spoken
the warmest praise OF Kennedy.
II tell you that McDaniels that killed
Mitchell with rock Tuesday night is a
hard case" said one of the officers last
week. He is certainly one of the toughest
toughs in this city. Tie is not afraid to at
tack anyone, and was not surprised TO
hear that he had committed murder.
have seen such fellows As NelS. Jackson
run from McDaniels when he was in pas
sion, and you may put down >as fact that
anyone from whom Ne!s. Jackson runs
must be about as hard as sheet-iron.
don't suppose McDanielS can be hung for
his crime. but after the testimony on his
character is in, he is likely to get heavy
dose In the penitentiary.
The new drop curtain at Blacks opera
house, which consists of a central scene sur
rounded by border Of advertisements, has
met with considerable comment. and many
persons seem to suppose that it is an
entirely new thing to put adyer-
tisementS on drop curtain. Not
at all, some of the finest theateTS in
the world have advertisement on their
curtains. The Eden Theater in Paris is
one of the largest and most beautiful. if
not the most beautiful, theaters in the
world, and every inch of its enormous
drop curtain is covered with advertisements
of Paris business houses, without leaving
any room for a scene on the curtain. Many
other European and American theaters also
have advertisements on their curtains.
The sensation fiend of the Enquirer
seems to have got 'em again. This time
he has discovered gas we'll near Spring
field. which is the largest in the world, and
which throws flames TO the height of so
feet. Crowds of people are represented as
standing in front of the well dumb with
anazement. The account published in the
Enquirer created some comment in Spring
field, and was eagerly jumped at by the
Ohio press, so that Springfield now has the
reputation of having the largest gas well in
the state, notwithstanding the fact that she