Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-13
REPUBLICAN FAILURE IN OHIO MEANS
POLITICAL DEATH.

Probably there has been no political
campaign in the history of the United
States on which so much interest is at
present concentrated as on that which
has been running at food tide in Ohio.
1t almost rivals in interest that between
Douglas and Lincoln. in 1858, in Illinois,
which returned Douglas to the United
States senate as his own successor, and
which ultimately made Lincoln presi-
dent OF the United States. 1t is of
vastly greater interest to the Republi-
can than to the Democratic party. Ohio
is distinctively Republican state. The
instances in which it has gone Demo
cratic in the last. forty years can be
counted on the fingers of one hand.
The Buckeye state voted for the first
Republican candidate for president in
1856; and, from Fremont to Ben Harri-
son, she has voted the same way ever
since. She has not, in single instance,
failed to show her preference for the
national Republican party. The fact
that she elected Bill Allen governor, A.
G. Thurman and Mr.. Payne United
States senators, and Bishop and Camp
bell governors at later date, in no
sense initiates against the determined
Republicanism of Ohio. 1t is really
case of one election for the Demo-
Gratis to twenty for the Republicans.
And here is just where the interesting
feature of this election comes in. If
Mckinley shall be elected it will simply
prove that Ephraim is joined to his
idols. To put the matter in different
| form, it will prove that the Dutch have
captured Holland.
But if, on the other hand, Campbell
shall have conquered the Republican
citadel, it will mean that the great
American people are tired of the game
OF bloviation and spoliation which has
signalized the Republican ascendancy
in the United States. The leaders of
the Republican party are thoroughly
alarmed at the conditions which con-
front them in Ohio. The ''fat-fryers"
have been summoned to the rescue. 1t
is clearly apparent that the Quays,
Dudleys and Wanamakers must again
come to the front, while they must
figure decently in the background.
While they will put up they will shut
up.
Already Ohio is being inundated with
Republican money. The extreme pro-
tectionists have challenged the coun-
try, with Mckinley as their fugle-
man, and they know that defeat 4 in
their favorite stronghold means annihil-
alton for their party. While the Demo-.
cratic party may lose in Ohio, and still
win splendid victory. Republican de-
feat in the Buckeye state means surcease
of all hopes Of their victory in the ma
ton.
The Democratic governor of Ohio
holds the fort very much in the sense
in which James Fitz James held the
rocky cations of the Scottish highlands
against Rhoderick Dhu. If he wins, he
looms into great prominence as an eli
gible Democratic candidate for presi-
dent. If he fails, he and his party have
simply lost state which has been for
forty years recognized as impregnably
Republican.
Certainly no Democrat should have
any misgivings as to the result in Ohio.
Ii the Republicans win, they simply
carry state which is distinctively their
own, and which unlimited money has
enabled them to carry again. If they
lose, the proposition is unmistakable
that, in the next presidential election,
the only states which will cast their
electoral votes for the Republican call
didate will be Vermont, possibly Iowa
and Kansas, and scattering state, here
and there. 49,
1t is grand political tournament, as
to whichno Democrat would care to
eyade the issue, McKinley's triumph
in Ohio would only introduce him into
the national arena, in which his chances
would be reduced to minimum. If he
should be defeated, there. is scarcely
any line profound enough to describe
the depth to which himself and his
party would be reduced. Our Republi-
can contemporaries calmly assume that
Mckinley is certain to be successful. In
these sanguine estimates they overlook
the fact that the Alliance is fully
equipped in Ohio, that this element
hates Sherman and Mckinley, and that
nine-tenths of the votes of the new
party will be drawn from the Republi-
can ranks. Well may Mckinley clamor
for "fat fried' from the protectionist
ranks. By all accounts that is just
what he and his followers are doing to-
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