Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-26
Complicated Condition Of Things as
Viewed by q Democrat.
The FORAK FISHERMAN FIGHT
Sorg May Be Elected Governor,
Then Senator.
REASONS FOR THIS OPINION

1.-THE situation in Ohio Is most peculiar
one, and there is much deception in the
ranks Of both of the great political par
ties: said ex-Representative James A. D.
Richards of the seventeenth district of
the buckeye state to a Star reporter today.
After the adjournment of Congress Mr..
Richards followed the course of macy men,
bers of that body who have become we'd
ded to Washington and prefer making
their home here. Accordingly he entered
a law firm, of which he is now at the head.
Mr.. Richards follows, however, with as
much interest as ever the course CT politi-
cal events in Ohio, which he is the better
enabled to do because of an extended ac-
quaintance with the leaders of his party
throughout that state. Star reporter
found Mr.. Richards today in his office in
the Washington Loan and Trust building.
Mckinley and Foraker.
'In order to thoroughly understand the
condition Of affairs in Ohio continued Mr..
Richards cit is necessary to look into the
political history of that state in its bearing
upon the leaders. Mckinley was a protege
OF Garfield, who assisted him personally in
his campaigns and really brought him to
the notice of the country. Upon his death
Garfield left Mckinley as legacy to Sher-
man.
Foraker is a man of great energy and
of fiery temper, and he has hated Mr..
Sherman since he sought to supplant him
in the United States Senate, and a bitter
feeling has existed for some years in Ohio
between the adherents of Foraker and
Sherman. The nomination of Bushnell for
governor was triumph for the faction led
by Foraker over Sherman and his adher-
ents, and wounds We're made by the Zanes-
vile convention that will never be healed.
At that convention there was another dis
@ IA hoaro onfin oil tod
A free coinage resolution prepared
and went to the committee on resolutions,
which the friends Of silver declared had
been made up mostly of the enemies of
silver for the purpose of smothering any
such resolution in the committee and pre-
venting a fight for silver upon the floor of
tie convention. One of the members of
that committee since the adjournment of
the convention has bitterly denounced the
course of the committee in avoiding an
expression upon the silver question.
The Democratic Trouble.
ITO return now to the democracy of Ohio
Brice is making fight for the leglsla ture
and himself and the situation in the ranks
of his party is a strange one. Many of
the county conventions which have nomi-
mated candidates for the legislature, no.
ticeably at the home of Mr.. Brice. sue
ceeded almost without opposition in plac-
ing plank in their platform demanding
the free coinage of silver This means an
tagonism to Brice on the part CT repre-
sentatives to be elected these plat
forms.
THE people of Ohio have been given to
understand that Mr.. Campbell would be
nominated for governor. 1t is not likely
that Mr.. Campbell will accept the nomina-
ton under any circumstances and the
democracy must cast about for another
candidate. Whom will it be? A success
full business man. who by honest effort
has succeeded in amassing a large amount
of money, has lately come to the surface
in Ohio politics. In the election last fall
when nine democratic candidates for Con-
gress were defeated in his state Zone of
those elected having received less hun
dreds Of ma iority than he received thou
sands in 1922, this man carried his dis
trict by an old time majority. He is prob
ably the man whom the Ohio democracy
will nominate to lead them in the coming
battle, and then should he be elected gov
ernor and the legislature be democratic
it is not unlikely that this man. Paul ].
Sorg, will be elected as United States Sem
man without a troublesome political rec
ord, which long service is apt to make for
almost any man, and he is in accord with
a great majority of the democrats OF Ohio.
But the campaign will be hotly contested
and until the gubernatorial candidates
shall all be nominated and the party lines
drawn, the situation in Ohio will furnish
fine field for political strategy by those
part of the student of politics.
Republican Lack of Harmony.
IT have reviewed the situation in Ohio
in order to more clearly make apparent the
undercurrent of feeling there. which is apt
to determine the result in the election of
governor, the legislature and Senator. The
republicans are claiming that their party
is harmonious in Ohio. We see this stated
oaefnr h,,f for
having harmony, there is feeling of great
est bitterness, which promises to split the
republican party, to elect the democratic
candidate for governor, to give the legis-
lature to the democrats and to elect
democratic successor to Mr.. Brice. AS l
have indicated, Mr.. Sorg appears to be des.
tined as the leader of the democracy in the
gubernatorial fight, and If a democratic
legislature is elected his great prestige
and influence is likely to make him their
choice for United States Senator.
The Foraker forces have gained most
signal victory over Sherman, Mckinley
and their friends, and If Bushnell is elected
governor and Foraker comes to the Senate
Mr.. Sherman and Mr.. Mckinley realize
that their political standing in Ohio will be
embarrassed. Mr.. Sherman would be in
very unpleasant position If he were to
have Mr.. Foraker as his colleague in the
Senate with whom to divide the patronage
of the state, If a republican President is
elected. Mr. Mckinley, on the other hand,
reels no confidence In the friendly declara-
lions of the Foraker people, who Endorsed
his candidacy for the presidential nominal
ton at the GAINESVILLE convention. Mr. For
aker knows that If MIR. Mckinley were
President and Foraker and Sherman Sen
ators, Mr.. Sherman would have-his way
on all occasions while the junior Senator
from Ohio would have to play a subordi-
nate part.
A Campaign of Indifference.
Perhaps these considerations are in
fuencing the Sherman-McKinley faction
of the republican party, for among those
who are best acquainted with the feelings
of this faction many believe that they will
inaugurate a campaign of Indifference
which will result in the defeat of the re-
publican Nominee, MIR. Bushnell, the loss of
the legislature to the democrats and the
consequent loss of the United States ssna-
torshfp. If this plan Is carried out and
Ohio goes democratic Mr.. Sherman will be
the sole representative of the republican
party Of that state in the United States
Senate, and should the country go repuo-
lican his position will be very Important
one.
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