Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-12-03
NOT MUCH TO BRAG ABOUT.
Mckinley Ran 10000 Behind His
Ticket. Which is a Very Poor SHOW
Ing, Says Gov Campbell Effect Of
the Alliance.
Especial to the Plain DeAlsr.I

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-Gov.
Campbell, who is in New York, was
interverviwed at length in the World
Today. The governor said the Demo-
cracy Of Ohio was neither demorlized
nor discouraged by the defeat it had
suffered and the Republicans had no
especial cause for self-congratulation
~ ran about Is, 900 ahead of my ticket
this year, as | did two years ago." be
continued. "I think McKialey's
plurality is about 10000 and the plur-
alities for the other candidates on
the Republican state ticket will aver
age about $4,000. Considering the
nature of the fight made by the Re-
publicans this is very poor showing.
"In two things" continued the gov
ernor, 1--WE were disappointed" The
first was in the size and character of
the Farmers Alliance vote. We be-
lieved that it would be much larger
than il was and that IL was and that it
would draw little more from the Re-
publicans than from the Democrats.
The result showed that the Farmers
Alliance vote was confined almost
entirely to the Democratic counties
and that about 95 per cent. of it came
from our ranks. We relied upon the
enthusiasm of the canvass to bring out
stay-at-home votes. Our meetings were
the largest and most enthusiastic held
in the state since 1868. We were en-
couraged to hope, therefore, that our
full vote would come out, but it did
not. The Republican victory in Ohio
is in large sense an empty one. They
are in the position of the physician
who was attending sick family. The
mother and child are dead, but we
have pulled the old man through
exclaimed the doctor triumphantly.
"Ohio will certainly go Democratic
next year unless the Republicans aban-
don their campaign in the other forty
three states and devote themselves
exclusively in Ohio. Just as the
October election to Ohio in 1884 pre-
saged a Democratic victory in the ma
ton in November following, the elec-
tion in Ohio this year justifies the
strongest hope of Democratic success
next year throughout the country. In
1884 Blaine spent six weeks in Ohio
and Gen. Logan was scarcely out of
the state during the entire campaign.
And yet they succeeded in carrying
the state by only 11,000 when
they confidently counted on 10000.
The result was fatal. They had so
completely exhausted themselves that
they did not have money enough left
to make an impression elsewhere after
that. That is about the situation of
the Republican party to-day. 1t will
be impossible, in my judgment, for
them to carry Ohio next year without
throwing away their campaign in
other necessary and important states.
"This may sound like an exaggerat-
ed statement to the people of the east,
but l believe it to be true nevertheless.
The Republicans realized in the late
in our state that they were
battling for their very existence. De-
feat meant utter annihilation to them.
Had the Democrats carried the state,
as they could have done with more
help from the national Democracy, the
Republican party would have hardly
gone through the form Of a national
convention next year."
Gov. Campbell was asked about the
prevailing sentiment among Ohio
Democrats regarding the presidential
nomination next year. II think,"I
said he, "that poll of the state would
show majority ofindividual Demo
Gratis in favor of Cleveland. Gov. Hill
is very popular in Ohio and has many
warm friends here. Gov. Pattison has
also many supporters in our state. So
have Mr.. German, Mr.. Gray of Indiana
and Gov. Boies of Iowa. I presume the
sentiment will crystalline before the
meeting of the Democratic national
and that Ohio will send a
practically united delegation to the