Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-18
SAM SMALL'S TASK
Will Make Sixty Speeches for Tenn
peranoe in Ohio.
ACTIVE PROHIBITIONlSHS CAMPAIGN
The Democrats Pleased and Re-
pubIicans Worried.
STATE OF THE FIG H T

| also to conduct lively campaign this year.
| Sam. Small has come here and set up head
quarters. He announces that he is under
| contract to deliver sixty speeches In the
state campaign. This will, of course, cover
practically all the time of the campaign.
He generally commands good pay for his
work. whether in the pulpit or on the
political platform, and it Is question of
much discussion among politicians here as
| to where the money came from that has
brought Small to this state. The prohibi-
tionsts do not IS a general rule, have cam
paign money to throw at the birds.
The prohibitionist leaders say they have
prepared to make a supreme effort this
year to get county prohibition local option
| law. The bill has been up in the last two
| legislatures but defeated each time. The
| margin in favor of the free liquor trafnc
| was very narrow in the last legislature and
| the prohibitionists are very hopeful that
| the measure will become law this winter
They are going into the legislative elections
with a great deal Of vigor, and expect to
pledge every candidate to vote for the
| measure or hold him up to their friends as
an enemy Of the cause and deserving OF de-
| feat
| The adoption of this policy, together with
| the fact that the cold water people are go
1 ing to work with an apparently ample sup
ply of campaign funds, has begun to worry
| the republican managers great deal.
|
| the outlook in this respect. 1t is well known
that largely increased prohibitionist vote
means a diminished republican vote. The
| election statistics in this state show that
the prohibitionists always gain, when they
gain at all, at the expense of the republi-
| can party.
So we'll is this fact known that the belief
is general that some of the funds which the
prohibitionists are now using has come
| from democratic source.
Chairman Kurtx's Eastern Trip.
| A story was sent out from here last week
to the effect that Executive Chairman
| Kurtz of the republican state committee
| had paid visit to Senator Quay to fix up
a deal with him by which Ohio. with Penn
| sylvania was to he thrown against Nc
Kinley and for Reed in the republican ma
| tional convention Of next year.
The fact Is quite to the contrary. Mr..
| kurtz went to Pennsylvania in quest of
| campaign money. Owing to the strong pro-
| tectionist proclivitfes of the republicans
| of Pennsylvania and the prominent part
IN the battles for protection taken by
| Ohio's favorite son. the republicans of this
| state have lately got in the habit of going
over into the keystone state to get some
| of tie snews of war. The contributions
| have generally been liberal, and 1t is I'M
| dcrstood that they will be so this year.
| Given as this aid is 1t means that the
| state is for Mckinley for the presidency
If it means anything bearing upon the re-
| publican presidential nomination.
So Chairman kurtZs visit to Quay. in
stead of being against the interests of Gov
| ernor Mckinley was rather in his favor.
| The Alleged fractional Fighting.
The talk of factional fighting among the
| republicans in this campaign should be
| taken with a grain of allowance. AS Gov
ernor Mckinley expressed it to fellow
| republican few days ago, ''in this cam
paign everybody's eggs are in the basket"
! The leaders of both the factions are in
| terested in carrying the state. If the state
| should be lost. the Foraker faction would
blame the Mckinley faction for it, and
McKinleys chances for the support of the
| state in the rational convention next year
| would not be worth estimating.
In his speech at the opening of the re-
publican campaign at Springfield, Gov.
record as favoring the election of Foraker
| to succeed Senator Brice, and said in so
| many words that he was the only can
| ought to set at rest the stories that the
| governor is really after the office himself
| He could not afford TO accept the senator
ship If offered 10 him against his wishes,
after making such a declaration in his
| public utterances.
The republicans will push the campaign
work on the stump very vigorously from
| every day in the centers of population.
| which will be addressed by campaign
| speakers from this and other states. Gov
ernor Mckinley will place himself at the
| hands of the state committee of his party
| after he returns from the Chickamauga
dedication and give his whole time to the
campaign.
The Democratic Campaign.
The democrats will open their campaign
| here on the 2sth of the month, and after
that Ex-Governor Campbell will speak
every week day until the close of the cam
paign, the night before election.
Gen. Keifcr's Disappointment.
There is some talk Of sulking on the part
| of General J. Warren keifer, one of the
disappointed candidates for the republican
nomination for governor. and It seems that
there Is some ground for 1t. All the other
defeated candidates for the nomination
| but keifer were at the opening meeting at
| Springfield. Poe. Nash, Hoyt and Berger
| all marched in the parade, but Keifer was
conspicuous by his absence AS the open
| was all the more talked about. 1t has
| since been stated that General Keifer was
| at Louisville at the time, attending the
| national encampment of the G.. A. X
and though he may not work enthusiast
tically for the success of the party, no
serious detection Is likely to result from
| the fact. His defeat was a hard blow to
| him. He seemed to believe that he was
| likely to get the nomination. Shortly be-
| fore the vote was taken The Star CORE
spondent talked with MIN ana round MN
| in high glee. A delegation from his old
| army regiment, composed of delegates to
| the convention, had just called at his head
| quarters and announced to him that he
would get their votes. This was aid from
an unexpected source. When the first
| ballot was taken the result showed that
not over forty delegates mad voted for him.
| 1t was plain that many had represented
| themselves as friendly to him who after
ward cast their votes for other candidates.
| This was a hard blow to General Keller.
Trouble at Cleveland.
| A serious local break has occurred in the
republican ranks In Cuyahoga and neighbor-
| ing counties, which threatens trouble for
| that party there Cleveland and Cuyahoga
county had up to this time been regarded as
certain to give large republican majority.
| The republicans of that part of the state
| have always been less prone to take up with
| 'isms'' of the politics of the day than their
| brethren Of the rest of the state For this
reason the party has always looked with
confidence to Cuyahoga county for substan-
| tial pluralities.
| At the republican convention at Cleveland
| to nominate candidate for the circuit court
| bench there was split one faction with
drawing and nominating candidate-Judge
Z. A. Jones of Cleveland-and the other hold
| ing the fort and choosing Judge Marvin Of