Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-01
STATE Of OHIO.
The Battle Ground Of 1892
Looming Up in the Distance.
THE PRESIDENT IS UNEASY.
Fosters appointment Made to Strengthen
the Party-The President VIII Leave
for California with small
Party on April Is.
The Chief Battle Ground.

Special TO the Gazette.
WAsuISGToS, D. C, March 3t.-There IS
notion ahoat here that the chief political
battle ground of 1899 will be the state OF
Ohio. The president has been disturbed in
mind by recent events there. the Demo-
cratic redistricting of the state was to have
been interfered with BY law if the admins
tration following iii the Fifty-trst congress
had been strong enough and brave enough
to be depended on. As events finally shaped
themselves and nothing was done. the Dem
ocratS are now i'll possession OF fourteen
out of twenty-one congressional districts,
with pretty fair chance of holding fast TO
them unless the Republicans can conjure up
some kind of scheme, not only fer spnttlng
the enemy il two factions, but for healing
the gaps in their own organization. To add
to the delicacy of the situation. the Demo-
Gratis are agitating the idea OF changing the
electoral vote from the state tickets at large
TO twenty-one separate districts. Tickets
which would, they reckon, give them very
handsome majority in the Electoral college
II IS known that when the successor to Sec
rotary Window had been chosen, the presi-
dent was very much diSinclned AZ first to
consider the claims of Ohio to cabinet
place, and what hnaily
BROUGHT HIM AROUND
was the argument strongly urged by Crosse
venor and others that Foster was, perhaps,
one Ohio Republican of prominence who
was not included III some way in the fac
tional warfare in that state, and then Har-
rison began to weigh all the pros and cons
against each other. Another move which
suggested Itself to the President as wise
was to make a satisfactory provision of
some sort for Estes G. Rathbone. also Of
Ohio. The Ohio campaign for 1892 viii
therefore date from the lSt of July, when
Rathboue takes his place as fourth assist
ant postmaster-general. The fight next
fall viii indicate pretty plainly what the
state might be expected to do in 1892 il
left TO itself, and at what points the party
needs strengthening before going into
another struggle. With Foster in the
treasury and Rathbone in the postofice,
both committed to the furtherance of Har-
rison's political fortunes.
HIS REMUNERATION
is not likely to fall for lack of plenty Of
work of the old-faShioned sort.
THE PRESIDENTS TRIP.
The president, as now advised, will leave
Washington Wednesday, April %, on his
California trip. The party that will &C
company him will be small and will proba-
bly, include no ladies'. Several members Of
the cabinet will be of the party, including
Secretary Tracy. The itinerary of the trip
is not yet mapped out, but the president
will probably be away. in all, about six
weeks. Numerous letters of inquiry as to
what cities the president and party will
pass through are daily received at the exc
cutive mansion, but no replies can be made,
IS the president himself has not yet made
up his mind Us to the exact route he will
take. At first he was inclined TO stop at
several Southern cities on the way to Cali
fornia, but this part of the original pro-
gramme he has abandoned, as he is urged
to visit Oregon and may not have time to
tarry long il the South, should he decide to
go to the Northwest.