Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-29
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.
The Probable Result in November "Look-
ing Backward"
New York Sun

New York Sun
Ohio is a queer state in many ways, but
| in none so much as politically. In 1852 it
went 500 Democratic, while the next year,
1863, the Republicans elected Brough gov
ernOr by l0l, 900 majority over Vallandi-
CHAM, Democrat.
In the last thirty years Ohio has gone
Democratic seven times. or once in every
four years and a fraction. Here are the
figures.
Plurality
1852. William Armstrong sec'y of state. $3.50
1885,. lillian Allen. governor. ...... Sl7
1874 William Bell. secretary of state. IL, 202
1871 r.. NJ. Bishop, governor. 90 so
1882. james Newman, secretary of state. .19, lis
ISIS. George Hoadly governor. Il. 529
lSs9. james E. Campbell, governor. l0, So
During these thirty years the Republicans
have not failed to carry the state at every
presidential election, their pluralities in
other years being from s9S3 in 1867, when
Hayes beat Thurman for governor, to 1853,
their highest plurality, 100000.
Last year when the state went 10000 Re-
publican, there were 742, lS6 votes polled, a
loss of $4,000 over 1883. At the last gov
ernor's election, in 1889, the total vote in
Ohio was rs, 721, and it is fair to presume
that the vote will reach 500, 600 this year.
There are four ticketsi in the field-viz. ::
Republican. Democratic, Prohibition and
Peoples. The last two will not cut much
of a figure. John Seitz, the Peoples candi-
date for governor, claims that he will re-
ceIve 100000 votes in the state, but one
fourth of that will be much nearer the
number. Seitz and his friends, however,
are predicting that they will surely hold
the balance of power in the legislature and
will retire John Sherman as senator.
The Prohibitionists polled $1,000 votes
last year, but owing to the hotly contested
fight between Campbell and Mckinley MANY
nf tnaca will frorl brol- into he
party this year, while great many of the
Peoples party vote will be cast for Camp
bell.
1t is claimed that the Democratic GOV
errors of some of the other states are jeal-
Gus of Governor Campbell and want to see
him defeated, fearing that if twice he car
ries a Republican state he will be nom
mated for president next year. The Re-
publicans also assert that Gen. Harrison is
not lying awake nights devising schemes to
help Mckinley
There are so many tickets in the field in
Hamilton county that it is hard to deter
mine what will be the outcome in Cincin-
natl. That city comprises one-eighth of
the whole state, and if Governor Campbell
carries it by anything near what he re-
ceived in 1889 (1O00 plurality, he will
surely be reelected. If the Democrats lose
Hamilton county by large plurality, that
will settle it. Mckinley will be elected,
and Republican legislature also, as that
county has thirteen members Of the general
assembly.
The Republicans make the following claim
as to how the vote will stand November 3.
but the Democrats say it is proper to trans
pose the figures in the first two lines:
Mckinley, Republican. .315. oC0
Campbell. Democrat. ............3 no 90
Setz. Peoples Observation-Disclosures. 10000
Ashenhurst. Prohibition 49,. ....... 1900
Total. 500, 600