Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-26
POLITICAL GOSSIP IN OHIO
Two Republican Senators for the First
o Time in Years
Major Mckinley to Resume His Law
Practice-Some Fanciful Re-
ports Denied.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, November %, 1895.
AS the most important result of the recent
election in Ohio Ex-Governor Foraker will
be elected to the Senate, taking his seat
March T. 1897. Then for the first time since
the days of Ben. Wade will the Ohio repub-
licans hold both the seats in the Senate
belonging to the state. There is not the
shadow of doubt about Mr.. Foraker's cleo
ton. He was nominated by the last state
convention al the same time the state ticket
was put in nomination, and the republican
members of the legislature-elect have since
their election unanimously expressed their
choice for him.
The serious illness of Senator Sherman and
his advanced age have led to some specula-
ton in the last week as to who would prob
ably succeed him.
Undoubtedly it would be Mckinley. The
governor Will retire from office on the sec
ond Monday in January, and will once more
become a private citizen. He will return to
his old home at Canton and occupy 1t is
said, the little house in which he and Mrs.
Mckinley began housekeeping Immediately
after their marriage, twenty-five years ago.
He will resume the practice of law, nominal
ly, though looking after his presidential
nominal ton interests will undoubtedly en-
gage the most CT his time.
1t is undoubtedly true that all of eX-
Governor Campbell's campaign expenses
were paid by the state committee, and
Senator Brice was the state committees
chief source of revenue. The story that
Ex-Governor Campbell was paid fabulous
salary for his time and work as guber-
material candidate by Senator Brice should
be taken with considerable doubt. There
Vas an opportunity in the campaign for
the ex-governor, 1t should be remembered,
and had he been elected OF come anywhere
near it. he would have become formidable
candidate for the democratic nomination
for the presidency.
OF course. that nomina ton does not seem
70 i ii i,,rt E.,v bod
at from the other side of the fall elections
it seemed desirable enough to work for.
Though the story about Senator Brice
travelling over the state in his private car
gathering facts from station agents as to
political conditions in the state is rather
fanciful. he had found out in various ways
three weeks before the election that the
case was hopeless. He even anticipated
that the republicans would carry the state
by plurality exceeding 1900.
Indeed, he and GovernakaSi kinney seem
to have reached the - conclusion,
though few republicans soyernor
were claiming more tte fmal plu-
rality for their party. Governor Mckinley
voted at his home in Canton in the fore
neon of election day, and on the way down
to Columbus made the pTedio ton that the
republican plurality would not be less than
60,oOO. He said there seemed to be a sui
len disposition manifested by the voters.
which he thought meant storm, and he
could not believe it portended disaster to
his party.
The capital city is much disturbed by the
announcement that GoVernor-elect Bush
nell Will not remove to this city during his
administration. He has Il pa!atial resi-
dence in Springfield, and as the distance
from that city to the capital is short he
is seriously considering a plan to continue
his residence there. Not since the forties
have the Ohio governors lived away from
the capital. and the proposition carries the
people back to the days of Governor Jere
miah Morrow. who continued to live upon
his farm in Warren county during his term
of office, coming to Columbus once a month
to transact official business. II is related
that when the Duke of SaXe-Weimar. who
was then travelling in America, called upon
Governor Morrow he found him busy roll
ing logs in a clearing on his farm.