Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-31

CampDels Are coming NuW the fOpu-
lar Air in Ohio.
STAFF Correspondence of Gazette and journal.
Alliance, o., Oct. 2S.-It seems
almost incredible that the Democrats
should have any prospect OF carrying
Ohio at the election which will be held
next week. Twelve short months ago
the State swept past all records and
gave the Republicans a majority Of
1871, 900. That majority on rough
estimate is about as great in proper
ton as majority of 5000 would be in
Delaware. But it is manifest that in
the past year a change has come over
the spirit oil the average Ohio voters
dream, and there will be great whirl
around in the election returns. The
interesting question is: Will the whirl
be great enough to give the State to |
the Democrats? If it should go that |
far, it's significance in national politics
can not well be oyerestimated.
One thing is certain-Ohio Demo |
Gratis are full of hope, and Ohio Repub-
licans are, trembling in their boots.
The higher you get up in the party
counsels, the more confident you find
the Democrats. Gen. Anderson, tho
chairman of the Democratic State com
mittee says that Campbell will GER
tainly be elected Governor and that
| the Legislature will be Democratic on
Joint ballot His confidence has an
echo in the undisguised anxiety of the
Republican managers, who have long
since given up all claim of big ma
| jority. Gov. Mckinley is quoted as
| publicly declaring that 40, 600 Republi
| can majority will be satisfactory. The
Democrats say that since Mckinley
| has been SO kind rs to throw off hun
bred thousand of last years ma
iority, they will throw off the other
81, 600 for themselves and take the
State.
Elk Gov. Campbell has been making
most daring and adroit campaign
His opponents started out to ignore
him az an issue in the fight and to dis
miss him with the contemptuous state
ment that he is Senator Brice's hired
man. They had to give that up some
weeks since. He assumed that protec-
tive tariffs of the Mckinley type are
dead and gone, and that it is like
threshing last years wheat to talk
about them. Then he went for the
kind of State, county and municipal
government the Republicans have been
giving in Ohio. His gun was loaded
for bear and it has proved to be re-
heating rifle He had proof of cor
ruption on the part of Republican
officials in pretty nearly every section
of the State, and he has saved his
fire in every case until he came to
speak in the locality of the offenders.
Then he has fearlessly and plainly
! made charges, naming the guilty men
and demanding explanations The ina
bility of the men he aimed at to dodge
his direct fire has spread CONSERVATION
among the Republican party managers.
| doubt whether there be Republican
politician with a crooked record II
, the State who sleeps well these nights.
He does not know but he may be the
next one to stand in front of Campbell''
bear-kiling gun.
Mr. Campbell has the confidence o
the plain people of the State in some
what the same fashion that Presiden
Cleveland has of the plain people of tn,
whole country. They have implicit
: confidence in his honesty of purpos
:, and unflinching courage. This ap
plies alike to Republicans and Demo
= Gratis. heard an ardent Republican
arguing yesterday that Campbell
z would be defeated because he is to
!, honest to suit the politicians.
last year. They believed the calamit
cry set up by the protectionists. The
believed that the hard times had bee
m caused by the Democratic tariff an
that no relief could come until pre-
lie tective tariff was put in its place. G
1T course they know better now. Obi
Ie has felt in good measure the revival {
1t business prosperity which has come
ls the whole country under the Demo
cratic tariff. The people are far tc
y shrewd to believe the clap trap abor
g good times coming from the Republican
/. elected TO Congress last fall for the
e. understand perfectly well that the Cor
Y, gress elected then has not yet even az
to sembled. Consequently the massC
at are deaf to the chanting of high pre-
I'd tectionists on the stump. Democra
Ie who in last years fright deserted the
ty party are back in the old ranks one
}. more. The general trend of public sci
a. timent is against further tariff agiti
r tion and in favor of more prosperit
r and less politics.
tie The cities of Ohio-the State is flu
a of cities and big towns-give every il
to dication of heavy Democratic gain
e. The municipal election in Columbl
b. last spring, when the city went DEM
er cratic for the first time in years, WI
y. symptomatic. The Democrats eXpe
a. to carry Cincinnati and with it Hami
ty ton county. Doubtless some of ii
70 Democratic strength in the cities
this particular time is due to Il
LIQUOR influence, which is powerful
Ohio politics and which is understoc
Ad to be on the Democratic side in tn
re election. Just why the liquor intere
II should be more favorable to the Dem
40 Gratis now than it has formely been it
ne hard to understand, but that it is SO
l3 generally conceded by well-infoI M
ge politicians
The Democrats are said to be w
re- supplied with the sinews of war |
he deed, the Republicans accuse them
be running "boodle'' campaign. Sen
EAR tor Brice's successor is to be chosen
err the Legislature to BIO elected ne
IRE week, and the Senator is not maxi
for many speeches. He is supposed to
rty a firm believer in the silence which
or, golden. He understands Mr.. Addict
~ line of political argument.
per Incredible as it seems on the face
ne it thata Republican majority of 1877,
. in 1894 should be turned into a Den
I'VE cratic majority in 1895, the Oh
Democrats have so nearly made it p
sible, thai it will be done, that ii "
al be disappointment il James
IF Campbell be not elected. Governor
md November 9th. If he is elected Gov
mo- nor, his figure will necessarily De
nh commanding one in next sunLe
asst Democratic national conveullt
M. Brass bands all over the Union will
. of apt to have much practice on the ~
in now so familiar in Ohio-"The Gum