Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-10-25
THE OHIO DEMOCRACY.
1t Is Said Mr.. Payne May be Sacrificed
to Secure the GOvernOrship.
Special Dispatch tn THE EyrSrSa ,r.p

COLUMBUS, OHIO, October 25
Hon. James E. Neal, chairman of the demo-
cratic state executive committee, expresses the
greatest confidence in the success of the demo-
cratic ticket Mr.. Neal is a shrewd politician.
but he has never before conducted state con-
test, and should he be successful in landing
Mr.. Campbell in the executive chair he would
have the pick Of the offices at the disposal of
the governor. It would be big feather in
Mr.. Meals cap, as he will, before the trouble is
over, have some Of the most capable republi-
can managers to deal with. The contest thus
far has been but preliminary of what
Is to follow, and when such men
as Senator Sherman, Ex-Governor Foster,
congressman Mckinley, Butterworth and Gros-
venor take off their coats and back up the state
committees, as they are now doing, the repub-
icans most generally win. Chairman Conger
is not an amateur in conducting political cam
paigns, aud is one of those steady fellows that
talk but little during the contest. II Mr. Neal
can win half victory by securing the guberna-
torial chair for his old friend Campbell he will
certainly be entitled to all the gratitude his
party can bestow. While Chairman Neal
claims that his party will elect the full state
ticket and controlling number of the legis-
lature the more astute politicians are at loss
to see how the thing can be brought about.
MAY LET PAYNE GO.
It is more reasonable to expect the state
committee to throw all its influence in favor OF
the gubernatorial candidate, as there is but
little chance Of the democrats controlling the
next legislature. In point of fact the Payne
scandal is still remembered and the better ele-
ment Of the democratic party do not, in the
near future, desire to be burdened with another
experience of like character. And then
conditions have greatly changed since the
elections in the new states-a democratic
Senator from Ohio at this time would not
cut much of a caper anyway and it would
hardly pay to run the risk of another scandal
in connection with the senatorship. The re-
ports are growing more frequent now that the
governorship is the objective, and Mr.. Payne q
claims will be ignored by the party managers.
Ii these reports that are growing more pointed
every day prove true Mr.. Payne will be COM
PEELED to trust to history for vindication of
torship.
CONCENTRATING THEIR FIRE.
Gov. Foraker has for the past four or five
days been the only target that the democratic
orators and organs have been directing their
uIc upOA, duu cuICWu poiieiClaub bcc Ill tAib u
confirmation of the rumors that the democratic
leaders had abandoned all for the guberna-
torial candidate.
The attack made by Mr.. Campbell on the
election boards, if not the most was one of the
most damaging blunders of the campaign
The better element of the democracy strongly
indorse these boards and the party that would
wipe them out would be defeated SO. 900 at the
next election. The remedy or the plan that
Mr. Campbell favored in the election of these
boards, it is held by his opponents either de-
monstrated his ignorance of the election laws
of the state or was advocated for the sole pur-
pose of catching the ignorant voter.
NEW SPEAKERS IN THE FIELD.
Congressman Outhwaite and Hon. Frank
Hurd, both free traders, have just reinforced
the democratic force of speakers. Where Mr..
Campbell will lose heavily in the rural districts
will be in the wool-growing section of the
state. There are several thousand voters iden-
titled in this industry and their society has but
recently passed resolutions warmly iudorsing
the action Of the Secretary of the Treasury in
changing or overruling q decision made during
Mr. Cleveland's administration on low grade
woods. prominent democrat, identified with
the Flockmasters, estimates that not less than
Is and perhaps fully 50 per cent Of the wool
growers in Ohio repudiate the democratic plat
form and the candidate.
There may be a possibility of electing Mr.
Campbell il the balance of the state ticket and
legislative candidates are traded off, but il is
question whether all the balance will be will
ing to submit to such an arrangement