Evening star., 1895-06-15
.BRICE AND BUCKEYES
The Senator Designs to Make Ohio a
Democratic State.
HIS PLANS AND PROGRAM
Dissensions to Be IndustriousIy
sown in Republican Ranks.
ORGANIZING THE CLERKS

| Senator Brice has decided upon a cam
| paign which he hopes will place Ohio in
| the democratic ranks in 1896.
| The object of this campaign will be to
| throw the republican ranks into much
| dissension possible The very strained
| relations now existing between the Nc
Kinley and Foraker factions puts the po-
| litical soil in Ohio in splendid condition to
| yield disSensions.
| If Mr.. Brice can cause the McKinleyttes
| of Ohio to feel that Foraker and his fol-
lowers are laying campaign to knife their
| candidate and to spoil his chances for the
| presidency, ii is thought that the day will
be won.
Secret Meeting I'm This City.
| The campaign that Senator Brice has
| outlined is a very far-reaching one, and in
c1rdes the small contingent of republican
| voters resident iE this city. The demo-
Gratis here are now making strenuous ef
| fort to organize a Brice movement. The
| first meeting for this purpose was held on
| Thursday evening, and an effort was made
| to keep the work of this gathering secret.
There were thirty-five buckeye democrats
| present, most of whom employees of the
| government printing office and other de-
| partments. The purpose of the managers
| of this meeting appears to be to help Brice
| carry the Ohio legislature. Leaders of the
| movement are r. T. Baker, clerk to Con-
| gresham F. c. Layton, who lives near Mr..
Brice'S home, and ]. r. Dickman, assistant
| foreman of the government printing Office
The Call for Organization.
These gentlemen secured the meeting on
Thursday evening by sending the following
appeal to clerks of the departments who
| have legal residence in Ohio: 1.-The politi-
| cal contest in Ohio the coming fall will be
| of vital moment to the democracy, as on
| our success depends the election by the
democrats of a governor, legislature and
| United States Senator, and the strengthen
| ing of our lines for the battle of 1896.
while the democrats are putting forth
| their earnest efforts to harmonic the de-
| inocracy by organizing clubs, healing fac
| tional feelings and trimming their sails for
| the coming battle, we believe that the Ohio
democrats in Washington who have been
| preferred to their brothers at home in the
| way of recognition, and now hold positions
| OF trust and emolument under the govern
| ment, should also show their loyalty and
| zeal in behalf of the cause of democracy,
| and for the better promotion of this feeling
should at once come together, organize a
| strictly Ohio democratic club and formulate
| plan of action. For the purpose of as
| oertaining the views and ideas of all Ohio
democrats in Washington it has been
| thought best to call meeting of all such,
| and you are accordingly invited to be pres
| ent at meeting at Equity building We'd
Many Leaders Ignored.
Comment has been made on this move
ment by the fact that political democratic
bosses of Ohio were not invited to attend
Invitations were not sent to Attorney Gem
eral Harmon, Commissioner of the Court of
Claims Loerns, Congressman Pearson and
Sorg, Solicitor Hough, Controller Bowler
Superintendent of Free Deliveries August
Machen or Auditor William H. Pugh, who
is one of the leaders in Cincinnati democ-
racy and who has secured the friendship
of Secretary Carlisle by the work of or
ganization he has done for him in the Cow
ington district.
The members who did attend the meeting
adopted the following resolution:
we, the undersigned, democratic voters
of Ohio, residing temporarily in Washing
ton, hereby express our Willingness to be-
come members of the state democratic
organization. whose object will be to fur
ther in every honorable way the perpetu-
alton of democratic principles, and the
advancement of our party's interests
throughout Ohio and the nation"
Among the signers of the roll of mem
bership for this organization were eX-Con-
gresham Donovan, George Foster, ]. E.
Bergen and j. E. Sullivan.
Campbellites Are Suspicious.
At this meeting there were two anti
Brice democrats, who, it is said were there
for the purpose of making trouble if any
resolution LOO greatly IdVOrlnS BrlCe
should have been offered. The meeting,
however, did not have such a resolution
brought before it and the gathering was
not inharmonious.
Since the democrats of Ohio who favor
Campbell for governor have heard of this
organizatio they have become very sus-
picious and inclined to regard it IS
an effort of Congressman F. c. Leyton, an
enti-Cleveland man, to promote the inter-
ests of Brice at the expense of the admin
istration.
These gentlemen had substitute resolu-
| tions with them when they attended the
n'ceting on Thursday night, and they in
had been any movement on the part of the
Brice men to offer any Brice resolution. At
the next meeting of the Ohio organization
it is likely that there will be stormy scenes.
At least the Campbell democrats are pre-
pared to make such scene if the Brice
men attempt to commit the organization to
the support of the Senator.
President Cleveland and MIR. Sorg.
There is rumor in circulation today that
President Cleveland has asked Representa-
tive Sorg if he should become a candidate
Sorg did not give a positive answer, but
merely referred to his former declnation of
this honor by saying that a campaign for
the governorship would seriously affect his
business interests, and that he did not feel
that his strength equal to the demands
that would be made upon it after having
&C ne through his congressional campaigns,
which were very trying.