Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-23
LITTLE HOPE OF SUCCESS.
Ohio Democrats Are Showing More
Enthusiasm I'm Their Campaign.
Special Dispateh to ne Evening Star

OnhO DcuAOeR0to Are showing more
Enthusiasm I'm Their Campaign.
Special Dispatch to he Evening Star.
COLUMBUS. Ohio. Oct 23-The demo-
Gratis are showing more enthusiasm in the
campaign work than early In the contest
but rarely are they found hopeful. The gem
eral opinion among the politicians of the
party who will express themselves freely Is
that 1t would be as much of a victory as
the party could expect this year to hold the
plurality of Gov. Mckinley down to the
usual figure.
The coming Of Gov Campbell to Ohio to
take part In the campaign, and the an
nouncement that nearly all the democrats
In the Ohio delegation in Congress. includ-
ing Senator Brice, will be at work on the
stump here the last week of the campaign,
seems to have revived the dropping spirits
of the party.
Mr.. Meals meeting at Youngstown last
week was a large and enthusiastic one,
much more SO than the usual democratic
meeting this year. 1t is significant, for the
reason that Youngstown Is one of the
strongest labor union towns in the state.
No other municipality, large or small, has
so large a proportion Of laboring people
among its citizens.
A remarkable change Of feeling among
the democrats here toward Senator HHl Of
last week toward the free silver obstruc-
uonists. is noticeable. The democratic
press and leaders warmly commend him.
A number Of personal letters of congratu-
lation have gone to the Senator from
hitherto snti-Hill democrats.
Attempts have been made in all the large
cities of the state to hold mass meetings of
the unemployed, with more or less success
and both the old parties have charged that
this has been done by E. j. Bracken, the
peoples party candidate for governor who
turns each meeting of the kind into a peo-
PIES party meeting and proceeds to address
nose who attend In pure political speech.
Thus he secures a very desirable audience
and one that Is from the start in hearty
sympathy with the orator.
The Industrial depression and hard times,
useo IN this way, are pretty sure to largely
increase the vote of the peoples party this
year, and offers to bet that Gov Mckinley
win not have majority (as distinguished
from plurality are freely made with no
takers without odds. The peoples party
Will probably poll $4,000 votes and the pro-
hibitionists may be relied upon to cast 49,
w votes for their ticket; so that to have a
clear majority over all Gov. Mckinley must
get at least $500 more votes than Mr.. Neal
does. 1t Is not at all likely that his plu-
rality will be so great.
The charge that Chairman Dick wrote a
letter to the Aultman Taylor Manufacturing
Company at Massillon. asking them to keep
their shops shut down until after election
Tor the sake OF the effect that would have
OH tne voters does not md credence, even
among the democrats. 1t Is too improbable
II Mr. Dick wished to make any such sug-
gestion to republican manufacturers he
would hardly have done so by written let
ter. - =
Both committees are at work making polls
OF the state. Estimates of the probable
result. based upon these polls, will be given
out the last week of the campaign.
Ex-Gov. Hoadly. who was here last week
to attend q meeting Of the stockholders Of
the Columbus. Shawnee and Hooking Rail-
way Company. declined to talk politics to
newspaper reporters, but to an old friend
said he had little hope of his party sue
ceeding In Ohio this year.
While here some one showed a report
in q newspaper Of a democratic meeting
at Zanesville, addressed by l.. T. Neal
The speaker was introduced by ex-State
Senator John O'Neal who said that for
the first time In twenty years the Ohio
democrats had a candidate for governor
who was q democrat. This was an indi-
rect cut at both Hoadly and Campbell, as
they were republicans until after the close
OF the civil war.
Gov. Hoadiy smiled and said: ''If that is
the way they are Campaigning we will be
licked out Of our boots"
Then he took his pencil and marked down
some figures. which he said would be the
size Of the republican plurality. 1t is said
that 1t looked like 10000