Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-27
THE CAMPAIGN IN OHIO.

Governor Foraker the first guns were sounded for the coming state campaign | in Ohio. With a strong man to head their ticket-and the indications point to the nomination of such man-the democrats have reason to feel hopeful of carrying the state.
 Foraker's name has lost the magic power which formerly drew men to him. Even in Ohio citizens have come to feel l that the war of the rebellion is finished. and man who can continue to wage hostilities with his mouth when the men who bore arms have demanded peace, who can battle with women for the political hatred he bears their husbands, who can push himself into places where his presence is an insult to self-respecting people, who can pocket a snub and glory in his shame, who is always going about with torpedo snappers on his tongue, is not the man to draw to his support the best element even of those who have heretofore been his allies. His his unconcealed ambition to step into his senatorial shoes are not calculated to fire the hearts of Sherman's followers with a burning enthusiasm for his election. In this connection it is significant to recall the warning sounded on Monday by the Mansfield Herald, Sherman's home or gan, which came out ill a double-leaded article warning the republicans against Foraker's nomination for another term, claiming that the home of John Sher- man, Richland county, would show a democratic gain of 800 if the warrior who is still fighting the rebels should be the choice of the convention. And John Sherman has friends elsewhere in Ohio than in Richland county, and they have generally been credited with having other counties in the Western Reserve are filled with friends of the senator and they are sure to show heavy democratic gains with Foraker heading the repub- lican ticket. It is as certain as anything can be that the post-bellum warrior has lost his grip in Ohio, and that with a candidate of ordinary popularity and a good record many republican votes will be cast for the democratic ticket. The return of John Sherman from his foreign trip is looked to with much anxiety by Foraker and his friends in the hope that a truce may be patched up and char mony" restored.
 The platform adopted by the republi- cans yesterday is veritable curiosity. It reminds one of the reeling efforts of a drunken man who is seeking some place to hold him up. Throwing sop here and another there it thrashes around in
 dustriously with the hope of finding bottom on every interest that might be unfriendly or lukewarm towards the man who is to bestride it. It throws up the glitter of a pension before the eyes of Call honorably discharged Union soldiers and seamen of the late war ;'' excuses Corporal Tanners raid on the surplus by clubbing it ''just and liberal policy" throws out bait for the Irish
 Ireland on the progress of their struggle
 for home rule,' forgetting probably that
 John Sherman did all in his power to
 get damnable British extradition treaty
 through the senate and that the Irish
 people haven't forgotten it and finally,
 with an effrontery that will probably be
 appreciated by himself, unloads lot of
 taffy on John Sherman, with the hope
 probably of smoothing his rutfled
 feathers after the nomination of his bit terest political foe. The whole thing is
 a curiosity, and is very likely to act as a
 boomerang during the campaign in
 which it is to do duty.
 AS we remarked above, with an ordi-
 narily popular candidate and with plat. form that is consistent, concise and
 pointed, the democracy of Ohio ought to
 be very hopeful of downing the man who delights in fighting over the wal that ended at Appomattox. It ought to
 feel decidedly hopeful of sending hin, , into the political obscurity where John Sherman and William Mckinley may be trusted to keep him. And buoyed by its hopes it ought to act with wisdom. pru. f dence and foresight i'll selecting the can. didate and constructing the platform , for victory this year will go far toward , widening the breach that already yawns
 in the ranks of the republican party and , setting the pace that will put Ohio in the democratic national column three years hence. ...
 ,InISTRICT of Waterbury ss Probate Court A June 26, 1889.
 Estate of Anastasia Kelly late of Waterbury in said district, deceased
 The administrator having exhibited his admin istration account with said estate to this cour1 for allowance it is