The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-18
EVERYTHING QUIE'
Ex-GOV. CAMPBELL.
Ohio's Great Democratic Campaigner
Drops in on the Capital.

Washington, Sept 17.-Ex-Gov. James
e. Campbell of Ohio is in town. Two
years ago he was one of the most talked
of men in the United States. He had in
1889 defeated Gov Foraker for reelection,
and in 1891 ne was again the candidate of
his party for the gubernatorial Office.
Major Mckinley, the great protection
{ champion, was mis- opponent. Campbell
regarded his chances of election as good
in spite of the fact that he turned out of
Office certain ring representatives who
were members of the board OF public
works of Cincinnati and had thereby in
CURED their hostility and lost the good
will of the Cincinnati Enquirer, the lead
ing democratic paper Of that city and of
southern Ohio. The result is known. He
was defeated. The active opposition of
the Cincinnati rlngsters, the sullen cold
ness of the Enquirer, which hardly men
| toned his name from the beginning of the
campaign 20 its close, and which omitted
30 report his speeches and his meetings and
the lukewarmness of Senator Brice and
the other moneyed men of the party, all
contributed TO his defeat. Indeed, long
! before election day came around nearly
everybody except Campbell himself had
given up the fight. He, however, is a
good deal of believer in his destiny. and
| never lost faith until the returns came in.
ONCE PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITY.
After the election Of 1889 Campbell was
generally regarded as a presidential pos
sibility and had he beaten Mckinley, he
would have been looked upon as presi-
Dental possibility with an upper case u.
Mr.. Campbell was thoroughly loyal to
Mr.. Cleveland at Chicago. He refused to
permit the Ohio delegation to vote for
himself, He regarded it as a ruse to get
votes away from Mr.. Cleveland rather
than a genuine movement in his own
favor. He was widely spoken of as apt
to go in President Cleveland's cabinet,
but he frankly said he did not
| want the honor at this time. He
has felt the power of money in politics, at
least in Ohio politics, and he proposes to
"heeln himself before he enters the polit-
ical arena His prospects for so doing
are, am told, very good. His presence
reminds me of conversation had with
prominent lawyer of this city, a firm
! friend of Campbell, two years ago whom
Campbell was here on a fiying trip. This
| legal friend said:
| THERE Is TIME YET FOR HIM.
"In one respect at least Campbell re-
| sembles Henry Clay. He is consumed
| with the desire to be, and possessed with
| the firm belief that he will one day be,
| President of the United States You
| cannot shake him in that belief Shortly
| before he was nominated for governor, in
| 1889, Campbell was in this city on mat
| ter of business. In conversation with me,
| he said: / am going to be nominated for
governor I inquired: But isn't that an
empty honor?' Empty l should say
not p was his emphatic reply. I will be
| nominated and elected as sure as the sun
rises and sets, and, mark you, l will be
reelected in 1891
Naturally, though with a good deal of
cynicism in my voice, 1 asked, And what
neXt?'
' 4 will go for bigger game the next
year
you see, his programme was all
marked out"
Yes, it was marked out, and rubbed
out, too, for that matter But Campbell
is young, vigorous, and active of mind as
ever. If he sets out to bag the bigger
game'' of which he spoke, who will say he
has no chance of getting it, Anyway he
is one of the most interesting figures in
public life, if he can be said to be in public
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