Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-11-15

the state. and in 1877 we had Bishop and q
democratic legislature. We are used to those
things in Ohio. Garfield carried the state by
an overwhelming majority in 1880. and in
1872 we carried it each time, and in 1888 came
Hoadly and democratic legislature. This
time we have elected all our state ticket except
governor. All the judges of the supreme court
OF Ohio are republicans. The secretary of state
is republican The auditor is republican. The
treasurer Is a republican. So is the attorney
general the clerk of the supreme court the
superintendent of schools and the whole board
of public works. There Is not an elected demo-
crat in the state house and will not be during
1890 except Gov. Campbell 1t does not strike
me that we are in such terrible fix. 1t is true
we have lost the legislature. We lost it be-
cause we abandoned it in our earnest struggle
to save Foraker. Everybody in Ohio who
knows anything about it knows that that state-
ment is correct. We came within two hundred
votes Of electing senator in Stark Carroll dis
trict That alone would have tied the senate.
We came within less than one thousand votes of
carrying a majority of the house Of represen-
tatives. 1t is smaller disaster. less in present
consequences than those to which have Just
referred. 1t is true We lost United States
Senator. 1t Is true We are exposed to a rediS-
tricting scheme peculiar to the democracy.
These are really party misfortunes.
WHAT MAY HAPPEN NEXT YEAR.
''You ask me what of the future. History
will simply repeat itself. Next year We shall
renominate Dan Ryan, one Of the,most popular
men, who has held the Office of secretary of
state for quarter of a century. We shall
renominate strong men on the ticket with him.
The supreme judge will simply be renominated
and the fight will be in the congressional dis
tricts. The state ticket will be triumphantly
elected, and we shall elect Just so many MEM
bers Of Congress as our democratic friends viii
permit and few more than they will intend
and we shall try to submit with the same sort
or good nature they manifested when we made
the present apportionment in that state, and
then we will be prepared for 1891. If the
democrats legislate out of Congress any one of
half dozen members by a redistricting
scheme, we will make him our candidate for
governor and sweep Mr.. Campbell and all his
hopes OF the future out of existence at one
swoop, and if one of the members thus turned
out should happen to be Mckinley, we will put
hlm In the governors chair by majority of
80 1000 and end the dream OF Campbell and
HilP' or "Hill and Campbell"
THE THIRD TERM QUESTION.
GAS to the third term question, 1 answer that
in Ohio the third term question in tine ab-
stract has not now and never had any force; in
the concrete it did have some effect upon Gov.
Foraker. 1t depends altogether upon the
pecuiiarities of administration of an executive
officer whether the matter of third term be-
comes factor or otherwise. The patronage
of the governor of Ohio had been more than
doubled during Governor Foraker's admins
tration. Eighty-one election board officers
with salaries, some valuable, a large number
OF assistant mine inspectors, building inspec-
tors, &C., with canal commission with its
clerks, &C.. all together away over one hundred
offices, had been created and filled, and without
discussing the necessity or propriety of the
creation of these offices-and my opinion
would be generally in favor of the legislation
by which they were created-they added
greatly to the governors patronage, and sig
nihcantly suggested the question of a third
term"