St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-06
QUIET BUT RESOLUTE.
Both Parties in Ohio Went In to
Win


CLEVELAND, Nov. 5.-The election
in Ohio was. like all great struggles,
whether physical or political, very
quiet, but very resOlute. The day was
Trash and invigorating, and while the
the heavens were dark, no rain fell.
Occasionally small fakes of SNOW. light
as air, were driven over city and ham
let by northern wind. which swept to
the south direct from the region beyond
Lake Erie. In Cleveland the day was
marked by no adventure. The election
was faultless in order and general ar
rangement. No tobacco or rum-Smell-
ing ticket-peddlers annoyed decent
citizens when they approached the
polls. No loiterers were permitted
to volunteer information as to
who was worthy of success or unworthy
of it either, for that matter. The sew
enty-three polling stations were in
charge of an equal number of Demo-
cratic and Republican judges and clerks
appointed by non-partiSan board of
elections. No man could vote who had
not registered and whose name had not
been posted in public place for the
scrutiny of all mankind, if mankind
was disposed that way. Two citizens
representing the two great political
parties distributed tickets from booths
connected with the polling place. In
fact everything that was possible to in
sure an
ORDERLY AND LEGAL ELECTION
was done, and not only in Cleveland but
in all the cities of Ohio. No wiSeacre
appeared in any part of the state
with positive prediction that COM
manded attention and confidence.
The result was beyond the ken
of the oldest campaigner any
where Republicans hoped for success ;
Democrats did the same. Republicans
generally felt sure that Foraker would
be ''cut" here and there by cautious
citizens who think two terms in the
gubernatorial chair quite enough for
any man, big or little, and by others
who do not or ever will believe that he
was faithful to Sherman when that dis
tinguiShed statesman was in the preoi-
dental controversy a year and half
ago. Democrats felt confident that
Campbell, their chosen leader, would
suffer at the hands of those members of
his party who swear by ex-President
Cleveland and his policy of tariff re-
form, and at the hands of those consist
ent partiSanS who diSapprove Of the ele-
yatiOn of political renegades," so
called. All this complicated the situa-
ton, and Republicans hereabouts and
elsewhere we're prepared to hear of
| Foraker's election by plurality of TO-
600 votes. or his defeat by plurality
| not quite so large, perhaps, but equally
| as convincing. The whisky question,
too, cut no small figure in the contest.
Under Republican rule salOonkeepers
are taxed $3.50 a year, and townships
| can, by vote, prohibit the sale of all
manner and kind of liquor. The saloon
MEN ARE NOTgINFATUATED
| with these statutes. nor with the sec
| ton therein. which makes it unlawful
to sell intoxicants on Sunday. The i'm
/ preston prevailed that brewers. dis
tillers and dealers generally were Dem
ocratS this autumn, and many members
| of the Democratic party who are in favor
of restricting the liquor traffic, were
quite content to vote the Republican
| ticket, and thus defeat the supposed
purpose of those men who seek tC
amend the present liquor laws. Here
again was another complication, and
| leVel-headed Ohioans were therefore
too discreet to be very emphatic in theil
| prophecies. However, every mar
| claimed a victory. but the claim was
made without the usual threat to back
| it with money or acceptable collateral
There was indeed no "logic of the sit
uation." 1t was a plain case Of un
fathomable uncertainty from the open
ing until the closing of the polls.
Early this evening, as the return:
came in from various precincts through
out the. state, it became evident that tht
Prohibitionists were gaining, which
meant a loss to the Republicans. 1t was
also observed that the Labor party hac
lost heavily over its vote two years ago
an indication of marked gain for the
Democrats. at 1880 o'clock the Demo