Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-12-01
OHIO.

No State in the Union has so Suddenly
AID so widely fuctuated from one point on
the political compass to another as has
Ohio. Going back as far as 1872, the re-
cord shows how the pendulum swung.
That rear Grant had Sc, ,56S plurality. The
next year a Democrat, William Allen, was
elected Governor. In 1875 Rutherford b.
Hayes was called from retirement to run
third time for Governor, and defeated Al
len By 5,254 votes. The victory nominal
ed him for the Presidency, and in 1876 he
ran the figures up to 1917. But in 1877
Democratic Governor. was elected by ., o2O-
Two years later Charles Foster was made
Governor by IL, ,129 plurality. and in 1850
James A. Garfield beat Hancock 32,221
votes. Foster was reelected in 1881 by
"a, 309 but in 1882 the Democrats carried
the State by 1919 and followed up this
victory in 1888 bv giving Hoadley l2,o99
more votes than Foraker could muster
In 1884 James G. Blaine redeemed the
State, his plurality over Cleveland being
81, ,SO2 Foraker tried again IN 1SS and
1888 and was successful by plural. es OF
IL, 1911 and %, 800, and in 1888 Harrison
had 10, 500 over Cleveland: In 1889 Fora
ker made his fourth run for Governor and
was defeated by Campbell, Democrat,
whose plurality was 1851, but in lS9O
the Republican candidate for Secretary OF
State had plurality almost the same, II
being 10, ,970 Then came the battle royal
between Campbell and Mckinley in 1881.
Projections champion down ed Foraker s
conqueror by 81, 511 votes. But in 1s94Ohio
went off on a political stangent that dis
mayed Republicans. One Democratic
elector beat the second highest Republican
/, 400, and the remaining % Republicans
had pluralities averaging 1,072. The un-
certainty of how Ohio would go has made
its voter the most intelligent 10 be found
in the United States. With the advent
of each campaign the best political speak
ers of the country have been thrown into
that great State. Every great political is
sue has been talked into the Ohio man year
after year until he has become thoroughly
conversant with it. Even the smallest
hamlets over there have their political
meetings with addresses from the ablest
stump speakers in the land. The joint de-
bate prevails there, and Democratic
speakers are pitted against the Republi
can orators at the same meeting. Any
misstatements made are promptly refuted
by the opposition, and the Ohio man has
an opportunity to get cold facts, devoid of
any exaggeration. The voter has been
talked to by both sides so long that he
cannot be fooled, because he himself knows
when he is hearing and when he is not
hearing facts. Then where could you find
a more intelligent political juror than the
Ohio man 7 He is more competent through
perfect familiarity, to pass upon great po-
litical issues than the average voter of
any other State in the Union, therefore,
his verdict is likely to be a sound one in
the premises. The only great issue in the
recent campaign in Ohio was the tariff.
Governor Mckinley is the author of the
tariff bill, and the acknowledged leading
apostle of Protection in the United States;
Neal, his opponent, was the author of the
Free Trade plank in the National Demo
rect on the tariff issue. What was the
verdict of the Ohio jurYP McKinley's
plurality was something like 81, 000-l5, 900
more votes than we're ever cast for one
candidate in that State. The Ohio man
had experienced the "change" produced
under the auspices Of the Democratic |
party, and few months of it had given |
MIN all he wanted and more, too. Ohio is |
the second iron producing State in the |
Union. In pig iron output, after Pennsyl- |
vania, she is unapproached save by Ala |
bama and Illinois, and in rolling mill pro
duct, after Pennsylvania, no State but II |
linois produces more than the merest frac- |
ton of her total. Her prosperity depends |
largely upon the prosperity of her furnaces |
ard mills and of the hundreds of shops and |
foundreis they supply. The Ohio men had |
seen that threatened Democratic tarlf re- |
duction had paralyzed the industries of his
State and he called halt Senator Sher |
man, after the election, in speaking OF the |
result in the State of Ohio, well said: at |
was good, very good. 1t was the protest |
of the hungry workingmen against hard |
times brought on by the fear of q
tariff revision. 1t was the voice |
of the people protesting against
the destruction of the great Ameri-
can protective system. When | went
home and saw the condition Of things in
and industrial circles, was
prepared for inst such Landslide. Busi-
ness men and manufacturers. like prudent |
men, When they saw the storm approach,
took in their sails; they contracted their
efforts and run half and quarter time. The
silver question had nothing, in my opinion
To do with the result in Ohio. Both par
ties were in harmony on that question and |
in favor of the suspension of silver pur
chases. The result in Pennsylvania, Mas
sachussetts and Ohio, in all manufacturing |
places, was solemn protest against any |
with the present tariff system"
Surely, Ohio's emphatic protest should |
warn the Democratic party from tariff |
tinkering. New Castle Guardian.