The Portland daily press., 1890-10-30
IN mr.. M'KINLEY'S DISTRICT.
Republicans Taking Courage and
Democrats Depressed.
HIll's Visit Thought to Have Been a
Political Rlunder.
Perhaps the cerrymander Will Not
Work as Expected To.

CANTON, Ohio. October 29.-Major Nc
Kinley's campaign is moving along with a
great deal of spirit. and his friends are feel
ing more hopeful than at any time in the
canvass. Major Mckinley is making a Wig
orous campaign. He is delivering three
speeches day. and they are put where they
are doing the most good. bis popularity
grows daily. On the other hand a great deal
Of the song and dance which the Democrats
allowed to ooze into the campaign has disap-
peared They are not at all enthusiastic
now, and there Is an amazing lack of spirit
in the way in which they are doing things.
The plaintive wall of Major McKinley's OPP
ponent, John G. Warwick. uttered in the
presence Of Democrat, who had called
upon him for money, is straw which shows
which way the Democratic zephyr is blow
ing. Mr.. Warwick is rich, and his obese
purse Is fair target for the hooks of the
boys, who are Democrats for revenue only.
This Is the plant poor Mr.. Warwick made
last week to the patriot who sought him for
money: II can't do 1t. They are all trying
to rob me-even my own party"
The Democratic managers are now fearful
that the gerrymander, under which they
gave Major Mckinley a district so over
whelmingly Democratic that they were CON
light, will be Ineffective to defeat the great
exponent Of protection for American indus
tries. They gave him Stark. Wayne, Me-
dina and Holmes countless. each of which,
2200. Medina is Republican by about 1900.
The popular vote of the district is Demo-
cratic by fully 1000. 1t gave Cleveland 2,1OO
majority, and President Reemelin's friend,
Governor Campbell, raised that figure almost
600 last fall. Having made up this distrr ct,
the nQm0QrQtQ QhaarQd than QpIvnc xBith ha
belief that the Major wouldn't be sin it"
when the campaign was on. Holmes coun-
ty, they fancied. would roll up its conven-
tional majority of 1000. 1t will not. This
county contains a populOus settlement of
Amisch, sect. somewhat like the Shakers,
and as they have had to make good the def
alcatiOns Of Democratic officials in the sum
of $4,000, they aren't so staunch this fall.
Many of them assured Major Mckinley of
their support. Here sin Canton there has
this fall, compared with that of two years
ago. Nearly all this increase is Republican,
for 1t is composed of the employees of the
great shops that have been established here
within the past two years. The Democratic
majority of 500 in Stark and $500 in Medina
will be minimized by Major McKinley's pop
ularity and the increased registration. Every
one realizes that the confess is more equal
now tn n 1t was month rgo. and the Demo-
Gratis deplore it.
The Democrats are not going very extern
sively into oratorical campaigning or public
display, or exerting themselves to bring into
the state outside talent. Governor Hill
came into the state, but his visit was mostly
in the interest of himself and the anti Cleve-
land Democrats, who sent him here to help
his Presidential candidacy. The almost hys-
terical condition of admiration and adula-
tion into which the Cincinnati Enquirer was
thrown by Hills presence In Ohio, was a
good enough pointer as to how the land lay.
The anti Cleveland men are already declar-
ing that If Mckinley is defeated, the credit
how shrewdly planned that part of the
scheme was.
Dispatches from Washington quoting Cal
vim 5. Brice as predicting the election of
Major Mckinley do not make the Democrats