Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-29
OHIO OL|TICS
Looking Ahead to the Governorship
Next Year.
4 LARGE CROP OF CANDIDATES
The Senatorship Will Play an Inn
portant Part.
TROUBLE IN BOTH CAMPS
TROUBLE IN BOTH CAMPS
Of The Evening Star.

Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
COLUMBUS. Ohio. November 20. 1894.
The list of candidates for the republican
nomination for governor of Ohio was a
| large one before the election, but the I'M
usual success Of the party at the polls has
| had the effect Of enormously increasing 1t,
while candidates by the dozen are announc-
| ing themselves for all the state offices that
are to be filled at next falls election. The
avowed candidates for governor are these:
E. w. Poe of Bowling Green, now auditor
of state; A. NJ Hoyt of Cleveland. now a
common pleas Judge; Asa w. Jones OF
Youngstown, Gen. J.Warren Keifer and Asa
s. Bushnell of Springfield. the former. ex-
| speaker of the national house. and the lat
| ter a large manufacturer, Mayor and ex-
Congressman John A. Caldwell of Cinctn-
| natl Judge j. II. Doyle Of Toledo, Lieuten-
i ant Governor Andrew l.. Harris OF Eaton
and ex-Attorney General George X. Nash
| Nash is the last to announce himself. Be-
| side these, Congressman Charles H. Gros-
| venor Col. Robert NJ. Nevin Of Dayton,
State Treasurer w. T. Cope and Col. Robert
| Sherard of Steubenville are known to be
considering the question of entering the
race, while ex-Congressman H. L. Morey OK
Hamilton and DR.. F. B. McNeal. now state
| dairy and food commissioner, Will probably
| be considered for the nomination.
| Major C. w. F. Dick, who, as state execu-
| tive chairman, has led the republican party
in this state to three remarkable victories.
| was supposed to be nursing boom FOR the
| gubernatorial nomination, but has now an
| nounced himself as candidate for the
| state authorship to succeed Mr.. Poe. w.
| d. Guilbert Of Caldwell. who has been
| Auditor Poe's chief clerk through the
whole eight years he has held the ONCE
| will contest for this nomination with Major
| Dick.
| to elect next year a treasurer OF state, at
| torney general, member Of the state board
| Of public works and judge Of the supreme
| court. Attorney General Richards Is serv-
ing his second term, and the office Will go
| to a new man. There are a number OF can
didates. chief among whom are ex-Repre-
| sentative H. NJ Daugherty Of Washington
G. H., and F. f. d. Albery, prominent at
| torney Of this city.
| Democratic Troubles.
The democrats have hardly sufficiently
collected their thoughts since the election to
| consider the matter of candidates for next
year. The prospect for success is not very
encouraging to them, but they take conso-
| lation and encouragement from the fact
| that their scattering victories have usually
| followed closely upon sweeping republican
| storms like that of this month. The CEN
| trail point in the contest of next year on the
democratic side will be the United States
senatorship. which will be involved in the
| legislative elections held at the same time
| Senator Brice will no doubt try to succeed
| himself and he will make the rest OF the
| campaign subsidiary to this matter 1t Is ex-
| pected that Tom Johnson. who measured
swords with the Senator in the last state
| convention, will be a candidate for the sem
atorship also. though he may not come out
| as such prior to the elections. There Is
| feeling among the younger democrats that
a new man ought to be taken Tor their
| - g., W.
| j. Lentz of this city Is favorably spoken OF
in this connection. He is not altogether &C.
ceptable to the anti-Cleveland democrats
| however.
| The administration democrats here are
| now engaged In trying those members OF
the party who are suspected OF voting
against Congressman Outhwaite. -Four
| prominent members Of the jackson CLUB
| have been required to appear before the
| club in consequence. One Of them. ]. B.
| X. Connolly, editor of the Sunday News,
has answered the clubs summons in All
| open letter, in which he says he made no
| secret of his opposition to Outhwaite: that
| he worked against him and voted against
| him because he believed the Congressman
| had ceased to be democrat and become
| "a sycophantic satellite of Grover Cleve-
| land" whom the majority Of the club did
| not regard as a representative democrat
How storer Was shelved.
| Pandora's box seems to have opened for
| the Ohio republicans while they were In
| the midst Of their rejoicing over their I'M
precedented victory. A new factional fight,
| following somewhat closely the old Shcr-
| man-Foraker division, Is promised. 1t
| started in Cincinnati and grew out of the
| defeat of Bellamy Storer for the congress
sonal nomination in the first district. and
| the defeat Of ex-senator Won Seggern. the
republican candidate for Judge Of the in
| soivency court 1t has corce out since the
| election that the shelving" of Storer was
accomplished through a deal between Geo.
| b. Cox, the Foraker boss OF Cfrcin-
| natl and Editor Charles p. Taft Of tho
| Cincinnati Times-Star, always q Sherman
| republican and an opponent OF what he
| denominated the "Cox gang" According
to Mr.. Storer's statement, and he is talk
| ing very freely about the matter now,
| he was detained in the east by campaign
| work and the illness of Mrs. Storer, and
| though there was a perfect understanding
| between himself and Cox that he was to be
| reromnated for Congress, Cox represented
| to the party leaders that Storer wished to
| retire from political life, and he carefully
| prevented any word from him to the con-
| trary from reaching the people OF the dis
| trict 1t would seem that the editor of
| the Cincinnati commandments For
aker organ, by the way, was privy to the
| bargain, for a statement sent to him by
Storer for publication, stating that he Was
| a candidate for Congress and that only,
| was thrown into the waste basket.
Thomas McDougall Ex-Governor Fora
kerS Olu enemy. mas tOIllt out III StNSIhi
| strong cards, denouncing the treachery by
which Storer WAS retired. Both Storer and
| McDougall plainly intimate that Editor
| Taft, in consideration of the congressional
| seat held by Mr.. Storer, made complete
surrender to the Cox element Of the party,
| and Mr.. Storer says Governor Mckinley
| sat supinely by and permitted this sac
| rif1ce Of principle and Of his friends to
| be made. The Inference Is that while Taft
| got a seat in Congress by the deal, Gov
ernor Mckinley secured the promise of the
support Of the Foraker element Of the
party for his presidential BOOM
The Foraker machine in Hamilton county
has, by the deal. silenced the opposition
Of the Times-Star, which has been for some
years the only opposition from which 1t
had anything to fear.
Reaction of Sentiment.
But the unmanageable McDougall is max
ing the congressional seat very uncom-
| Portable for Mr.. Taft and there is a gen.
eral expression of Indignation from men,
hers of the party all over the state toward
| the member-eect from the first district.
| He WILL no doubt be retired at the end. Of
| his first term. The fact that Hamilton
county, which on the regular election day
gave republican plurality of nearly $4,000,