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bathcd in cold pcrspiration for fear
Campbell was going to carry Ohio.

bathcd in cold porspiration for fear
Campbell was going to carry Ohio.
DiTTEE TALK.
an Ohio alone the issue which Glove.
land forced upon the party was on trial,
and It was Ohio alone which received
no encouragement from him. lie could
paddle around In the puddle In which
Tammany and Tom Plat were doing
their laundry work. and he could 20 to
Massachusetts to help Russell win n
purely personal victory on purely local
issue, but he had no time 10 help in
Ohio man who had always been his
loyal supporter, and who was leading
his party in fight In which every other
issue had been sacrificed to that OF tariff
reform. Hill could como to Ohio TO
help beat Mckinley in u personal fight
in one congressional district, but when
4 great principle was nj stake and the
whole state was the battle ground, he
locked himself up IN the stateroom of
his parlor car, pulled down all the blinds
and hung out a card, Not ut Home for
fear his train might somehow get
switched off into Ohio on the way up
from Georgia and no DO called upon to
make speech.
"Therc has never been but one excuse
offered for this neglect OF Ohio by East
crn Democrats. When We had McKin-
ley hard pressed on tho tariff question
he began to howl about silver Tho
Eastern Democrats, when We asked
them for assistance set up the same cry.
Some mems ideas have run to silver
ever since tho days OF Judas.
"There is one satisfaction about it
cowardicc always brings itsown punish
mcnt. The men who were SO afraid
they might do something to help Camp
bell have helped Il worse rival without
knowing it. They have downed Camp
bell, but they have elevated Mckinley,
and by so doing have ccmcnted an
alliance between the manufacturing and
financial interests OF tho country and
the Republican party, which will result
in the raising next year OF campaign
fund the like OF which was never before
known in this country. With Mckinley
defeated and further hope OF extreme
high protection gone the manufacturers
and monied men would have divided
next year upon natural lines OF political
opinion. Now they will all hang to-
gcther for more protection from bust
ness reasons. With Mckinley rs the
Republican candidate the Democratic
leaders in the country will face next
year the same situation which Ohio
Democrats have faced this year. hope
they'll enjoy it."
pAYSE AND pEICE.
OF course, the opinion OF Ohio Demo-
Gratis is not always SO vigorously ex-
pressed as by the gentleman quoted
above, but there is no doubt that his
words fairly reflect the feelings OF 4
majority OF his party in the state. There
is especial bitterness towards two men
with millions, nominally OF Ohio, but
all OF whose interests are in the East,
the scandal oil whose elevation to the
highest offices in the gilt OF Ohio Demo-
Gratis has cost the Democracy the con-
troll of the state forthe last seven years,
but whose assistance in the present
campaign was in one instance limited
to few hundred dollars in cash, and
in the other included brief visit to
the state, an examination OF n Lima
safe to make sure that certain tax re-
ceipt evidence OF residence was all right
and one speech to two hundred people
in backwoods school house. There
will be few Democratic mourners in
Ohio when ex-Secretary Whitney's
father-in-law retircs from political life,
and Foraier's election to the United
States Senate would almost be forgiven
il it involved the retirement OF Calvin
S. Brice.