Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-16
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN,
Mr. Yoder Expects q Democratic Victory. but
Will Not Be Surprised at ANYTHING.

Mr.. Yoder Expects \ Democratic Victory. but
Will Not lie Surprised at Anything.
Representative Mills left Washington last
night in company with ex-Representative Yo-
der OF Ohio for Mansfield, Ohio, where he is
going to make his frs. speech for Gov. Camp
bell. He will talk tariff and nothing else. His
speeches will be radical enough and sufficiently
exciting to Mr.. Mckinley, it is believed, to hold
attention to that subject and make it difficult
to divert attention to the silver question.
Crisp, Mcmillan, Springer. Hatch and Bynum,
the other speakership candidates, are expected
to go into the state soon. Bynum will 60 there
Immediately after his return from his western
tour. They will all talk tariff with the billion
dollar Congress for a variation.
Mr.. Yoder told STAR reporter last night
that he felt confident that Mr.. Campbell would
be elected, though he confessed that the situa-
tion was such as to make all calculations diff
cult and uncertain.
Nothing that can happen in this election"
he said, .'can surprise me, for, though / have
been In OHIO politics good many years have
never seen before just such a state OF affairs as
there is now. l think Campbell will be elected.
should not be surprised if he got fifteen or
twenty thousand majority, yet certain things
may happen to cause his defeat. There may
be some trading on the legislature by the
Farmers Alliance. One thing that seems abso-
lutely certain is that the Legislature will not be
republican. Sherman's successor will be
democrat out aud out or a compromise candi-
date elected by democratic votes. The fight
between the Foraker folks and Shermans
friends is as bitter as it be, and in addition
to that many of Foraker's friends are dissatis-
ned with Mckinley. The alliance speakers are
going for Mckinley and Sherman hammer and
tongs. We have nothing to do with that fight;
Polk, Simpson and the rest of them have their
own objects in view; but if they carry half
the votes they claim Mckinley is bound to be
beaten. Simpson is speaking to thousands of
people and the enthusiasm he excites among
the Ohio farmers would astound you. OF
course it is Sherman they are after particularly
and they are not trying TO help the democrats,
but Sherman is more interested in the legisla-
ture than he is in electing Mckinley governor.
and the harder he is pressed the more atten-
ton he will pay to the legislature and the less
to McKinleys interests. The alliance as well
as the democrats, are pounding the Mckinley
bill, and think two-thIrds of the voters in the
state detest that measure, though there Will
not as many vote as they feel. The fall in the
price Of wool has hurt Mckinley greatly, and
the only reply he can make to the arguments of
his opponents is that if il were not for his bill
the price would have fallen lower, which is a
very feeble way of avoiding the argument. The
republicans are trying to overshadow the tariff
question by the discussion of silver, but l do
not think that will help them any. The tariff
reformers will not be diverted by it and. on the
other hand there are many free-coinage re-
publicans whose votes will be lost to McKin-
lev"