Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-30
HAS HOPE FOR OHIO.
Ex-Governor Foster Sure the Sepub-
licans Will Soon Redeem 1t.
TIE DEMOCRATS ARE TOO GREEDY
To Long Remain in Control of the Great
Buckeye State.
CiMPBELES ELECTION AN ACCIDENT
ESPECIAL TEL LEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l

| ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE D1sPATCH.l
NEW YORK, April 29.-"Ohio is all
right, and will go Republican next fall by
a majority that will surprise the Demo-
crats," said Ex-Governor Charles Foster to-
day at the Fifth Avenue Hotel to DIS
PATCH reporter. The Ex-Governor has not
gone out of active. politics, and his friends
expect to see him elected to the United
States Senate vet from the Buckeye State.
The Republicans in the Legislature voted
for him for the Senate when Mr.. Brice was
elected.
why do you think Ohio will go Repub-
lican in the fall?' asked the reporter.
"The Republicans in the State intend to
| get together Harmony is the word, and l
believe that when the next election occurs
all the Republicans will be united and
present a solid front to the enemy. Why,
does any one for moment suppose that we
intend to sit down, hold our hands and say:
| Ohio is Democratic?' We are not made OF
such stuff. The Republicans elected all the
State officers except the Governor 1t was
merely an accident that Governor Campbell
was elected. Accidents will happen in the
DeSI regulated political families. Confess
honestly that / thought Governor Foraker
would be elected and the result was a great
surprise. But what surprised me to the
point of amazement was the election of
Democratic majority to the Legislature.
LOOKING OUT FOR THE FUTURE.
"Our programme is not to grieye over
split milk but to go ahead and prevent
similar disaster in the future"
hat 81, &c Do, !
be that they are trying to get together also."
1.-THE Democrats are running their chances
of winning again in the future by the way
they are legislating men out of office and
putting in Democrats. If Republican
official holds an Office that is elective, the
Democrats legislate him out and in goes a
Simon-pure Democrat. Well, such action
simply disgusts all fair-minded citizens. 1t
is too open, too fragrant an abuse OF legis-
lative power, and the people will not stand it.
Another outrage is the redistricting of Con-
gessional districts. 1 never saw districts so
cut up and twisted in order to give Demo-
cratic majority. Democrats who are not
biased laugh at and condemn the way the
State has been redstricted. 1t is impossible
to tell how far they have gone without look
ing at a map of the State, and comparing
the old Congressional with the new districts.
OF course the gerrymander is intended to
give nearly all the Congressman from the
State to the Democrats, but 1 think there
will be disappointment when the election
comes. 1t is so patent and so un-American
believe the people will rally and vote for
the Republican candidates.
THE LAST TIME.
"Even if the Democrats succeed in getting
a majority OF the Congressman. it will be the
last time. The conditions and circumstances
that existed to give a ma jority in the Legis-
iature to the Democrats will never exist
again. 1 confess, though, that the Repub-
icans, who are thinking people, are more
apt to divide on great questions than the
Democrats. But we are together now on all |
great questions, and firmly believe we will |
remain united"
"Do you predict success generally for the |
Republican party?"
GAS to national politics I always wait |
until the campaign begins before l look into |
the horoscope of the future. 1 do not think |
the Republican party has lost any strength. |
It's conference is as great as ever. AS party |
it is banded together By principles that ele-
vate and educate. The Democratic party |
has only one aim, one reason for existence, |
and that is spolls. When it gets in power |
the quarrel for division begins and it ends |
in the defeat of the party. 1 am no prophet,
but the Republican party has not weakened |
enough yet to cease gaining victories