San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-26
The Daily Gioht.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER U.s. 1889
OHIO WAKING UP.

tones of the republican leaders call a
responsive echo from the popular
heart. Halstead is in harness and
doing splendid work for the guberna-
torial and legislative candidates. All
over the state the utmost enthusiasm
prevails and it is well understood
that it is not alone battle for the
seat of the chief magistrate but also
for the seats of the legislature which
is to elect a successor to Coal Oil
Payne. The democrats have all the
prestige of thirty-siX years success
behind them in their efforts to secure
this legislature. Pendleton and Thur
man and Hoadley and Payne are the
names they cOnjure by, and for thirty
six successive years have these demo-
Gratis held the United States senator
ship which is to be balloted for
this winter. All the democratic
traditions of the period before the
war unite in nerving the democracy of
Ohio for a struggle in which defeat
means death. The third term ira
against Governor Foraker and every
battle cry that can be made to do
duty for the democratic candidate will
be shouted from Lake Erie to the
Ohio. Campbell will make all the
capital that his assurance will COM
mand of his army record, but it can
not be put against the gallant record
of his republican opponent. So also
the attempt to secure for him any con-
siderable portion of the cOlored vote
will fail of its object as his congress
siOnal record is not calculated TO win
cOlored votes, and that record will not
be concealed from the light of day.
The repu blicans have one enemy be-
fore whom they fell in 1883 and before
whom they may again find it neces-
sary to retreat. This enemy is the
barrel that is hid in Payne's house.
1t is an open secret in Ohio that
Payne purchased his way into the
United States senate six years ago.
Even the democracy of the state
do not deny this, and many
honest Buckeye democrats freely
condemn that action and predicate
danger from is in the present cam
paign, if not actual defeat in the leg
islative contests. While the demo-
Gratis are desperate and money will be
poured out like water in all the close
c0un ties, the republicans are closing
up their ranks, healing all their dis
sensiOns, burying all their animOsi-
ties AMI preparing to make united
stand against their common enemy.
While Payne himself is in the back
ground, Calvin Brice is in the fore
front of the battle and his well known
Doodle methods are already observa-
BILE in several sections of the state.
This year almost the en- tire saloon ele-
ment of the state is fighting in the
ranks of the democracy, and fighting
with a will too, in order to wipe out
the regulation, election and high IL
cense laws and redistrict the state so
as to give the democratic delegation in
congress clean majority. So far the
attempts to buy up the republican
strikers in certain localities has fail
ed, but the attempt TO divide the re-
publican party in its councils and up
on its candidates will be pursued
to the close of the campaign.
The state finances are also
a particular subject of consideration,
and the democracy are by no means
satisfied with the promptness not to
say eagerness with which all chal-
lenges to discuss them are accepted.
The democracy of Hamilton county
have failed to work their divisional
schemes in the republican ranks of
that county and are turning for some
other weapon of offence. An alert
ness pervades the camps of both par
ties which bodies no good to the ease
of the other. 1t is close drawn bat
tie aud will only be fought out when
the polls close that determine the is
sue. The democracy have no easy
task before them. They are running
"A trust candidate ON an antitrust
platform; a free wool candidate on a
tariff = trade reform Mills-prOtection
platform and box the compass daily
in mighty attempt to front north by
south. Gas is cheap, and the democ-
racy have gone in for all that there is
in the barrel. Campbell is running
against Foraker on the general
ground upon which the rejected suit
or forbid the bans, "because he
wanted the girl himself" 1t re-
mains to be seen if the people will in
sist on marrying the state to a re-
jected sutton like Campbell. 1t is not
likely that she will.
FRANCE took a mighty stride for