The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-05
THE ELECTIONS TO-DAY
THE OHIO DEMOCRATS Ar E
CONFIDENT OF A BIG
VICTORY.
THIS is THEIR YEAR TO TWIN

THIS is THEIR YEAR TO TWIN
Gov. Campbell Thinks that Success is
Certain but the Republicans are
Equally Confident. Tammany Likely
to win i'm New Y ork City But the Re-
puhiicans May Garry the State--
Both Parties Claim Maryiand--Re-
mwbEicans will Win i'm Nebraska.
This is what is known as an "of
year, in politics. An "off year. might
be defined as year when people are off
and the bosses are on. Few of the States
vote, and the actual results are not i'm
portant The chief interest in t le result
ia to learn the trend and tendencies of
the public mind. Last year the tidal
wave against Democracy washed the
party in some States clean away from
It's mornings, and some people thought
it had been washed clean away.
To-day's election will show whether
the revolt of 1894 has lost its force,
or whether the people are still deter
mined to put the Republicans in power,
after having turned them out with a
terrible scourging in 1890 and 1892. If
the Republicans practically maintain the
gains they made last year, nothing can
keep them from carrying the country in
1895, except failure to legislate wisely
this winter and submission to boss rule.
If, in addition to holding the States they
carried in 1894, they win in Kentucky
and Maryland, or in either, not even
their own plumbers and crimes can block
their way to success unless something in
the nature of a miracle happens.
The Outlook i'm Ohio.
OHIO is always an interesting State.
1t has more politics to the square inch
than any State in the Union except In
diana. 1t has not failed to go Demo
cratic every sixth year and John Sher-
man has never known Republican col
league. There is a tradition or notion
that he prefers not to divide honors and
spoils with Republican. This is the
year for Democratic success in Ohio,
and but for the terrible whipping of last
year Democrats would be betting on
their sixth year luck. As it is, they are
hoping against hope that their luck has
not deserted them.
Ex.Gov. Campbell is confident of sue
cess. The Cincinnati correspondent of
the Pittsburg Dispatch, Republican, writ
ing Saturday night, says:
never saw Mr.. Campbell so confident
Of victory as he is to-day. The Demo
Gratis are more hopeful in this fight than
they were six years ago, when Campbell
defeated Foraker. Mr.. Campbell says
this election will be Democratic revo-
luton.
81 will carry all the doubtful counties,
which number about thirty. The Demo
cratic counties will Guido themselves.
Hamilton county will be mine, as we'll as
lucas in the northwest"
Then the ex Governor stopped for
breath, and made several gasps to catch
mine, for was feeling faint. AS | re-
member the geography of Ohio, there is
not much of the State left outside of what
Mr.. Campbell claims, and it will be a
sorry day for Bushnell, Foraker, McKin
ley ct al, if his prediction comes true.
am inclined to think that Campbell has
about as much show to win in Ohio as
he Republicans in Kentucky.
Nobody need be surprised If Lucas
county, in which is located Toledo,
should go Democratic. There was a
mighty slump four years ago against Nc
Kinley, due to Republican discussions
about federal patronage and the old sores
have not been healed. | am told the
Republicans are so farapart in Cleveland
that there are not enough feather ticks
IN the city TO hold them, yet, strange to
SAY, Mr.. Campbell does not claim Cuya-
iloga, or any other section OF the rock
ribbed Western Reserve.
Ia Cincinnati there is revolt against
possism that is deep-seated. Like the
Republicans of Pittsburg and Philadel-
nhla, the people are weary of the munich
Gal ring, but whether the irritation will
manifest itself in wholesale slashing OF
the State ticket. as the Democrats fondly
hope, the election day will reveal
Then there are many conservative Re-
Dublicans here to whom Foraker is not
Che demi-go that he is to the younger
.slement throughout the State. Exon
gresham Emory Storer and Ben Butter
worth, who have been ridden over rough
shod by the Forakerites under the lead
ership Of Cox, are not perspiring these
days with the work they are putting in
for the ticket. The Democrats say that
storer is openly pulling for Campbell.