Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-18
THE BUCKEYES IMPATIENT.
They Want 20 Hear the Poiiticai Leaders .
the stump.

the stump.
Special Dispatch 10 The Evening star.
COLUMBUS, Ono. August ls.-Campsisnerv of
experience say that q most remarkable feature
Of the campaign in OHIO is the impatience Of
the people TO hear the leading candidates and
the apparently studied delay on the part %
both the democrats and republicans to begin
the open fight II is now two months exactly
since the republicans placed their ticket in
nomination. and the date when Mckinley VIII
formally open his campaign is still one week in
democratic state convention was held, and EK-
ecutive Chairman Neal has scarcely made .
public appearance in Columbus.
Clamor among the people 20 see and hear
Maj. Mckinley and Gov. Campbell has been 80
persistent, however. that both gentlemen have
been quite busy for several weeks making semi
political speeches at reunions OF old soldiers
and farmers picnics.
The dilatorv tactics employed BY both the
old parties indicate that they regard long
campaign as undesirable.
DISPUTED STATEMENT.
The statement made here last week by Editor
Miller Puryis Of the Formers ARidsoe H,ydld.
an enthusiastic peoples party man, that 0.ooo
republicans in Ohio would refuse 90 vote for
Mckinley because Of the tariff question. has
excited great deal Of comment. The repub-
hcans regard him as a visionary and unreliable
prophet. and this view Of his prediction 10
supported by his sweeping statement that
Mckinley will be the worst defeated candidate
Ohio has seen since Brough piled up over
100000 against Nallandigham. Immediately
after the war. and saws he expects TO see Camp
bells majority exceed that OF Brough.
But Purvis has been engaged a a lecturer
Tor the Farmers Alliance and in that capacity
has visited all the rural districts of Ohio and
associated intimately with the farmers. He
has certainly been in a position 10 find out the
true sentiment OF the farmers on the tariff
question.
HOW THE MINERS STAND.
There is another side TO the question. how
ever, that probably escapes him. The third
party movement takes in q great many labor
ing men. In the great coal-mining districts
the miners, who are all knights of Labor are
as enthusiastically supporting the peoples
ticket as are the farmers. large proportion
OF these miners have been voting with the dem
ocrats-probably three-fourtks of them. The
labor contingent Of the peoples party will be
mainly large detection from the democratic
party.
Nor will the farmer members OF the peoples
party all come from the republican party.
While it seems likely that the bulk Of the farmer
vote for the new party candidates will be COM
posed Of dissatisfied republicans the democratic
detection from this sourse will be considerable
Mr.. Purvis probably does not take note Of these
indlsputable facts in making his startling esti-
mate. Let them enter the calculation. and the
figures on the Ohio result again approach the
unpleasantly close line where no cautious
politician will venture a decisive prediction.
FARMERS PUT UP AN ASTI-BRIcE DEMOCRAT.
One of the few democrats in the last general
assembly who refused 10 vote for Col. c. \.
Brice for United States Senator, even after the
democratic caucus had nominated him. was
Representative Munson Of Licking county.
Mr.. Munson refused on several other occasions
to be bound by the caucus decisions of his
party, which, together with his action in the
Brice matter, was sufficient to cause his party
to ''5helve" him. The democrats in his county
having nominated another candidate, the peo-
pies party have taken him up, and with the aid
of the republicans, who are too decidedly in
the minority to hope to elect one of their party,
will probably return the anti -Brice democrat to
the next general assembly.