Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-17
M K I'M te Y TN HJO
Result of the First Poll by the Republican
State Committee.
Relief That Hi~ Plurality VIII BE
About ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Conn
mfttee Not Yet known.

Special Dispatch TO The Evening star
COLUMBUS, Ohio. September I7.-Some-
thing more reliable than mere estimates
Is now at hand by which TO Judge OF the
Result OF the coming election in Ohio The
republican state executive committee has
begun to receive its first polls In two
more weeks these will be in from every
county A month later that is to say,
just before the election another report
VIII be received from the chairmen of the
counties giving the known changes that
nave taken place since the first polls were
made. From these reports the state chair
man may know at an early dale what tho
condition upon which he has TO work is.
and later on what effect his campaign work
mas had, and the conditions under which
ms party goes into the actual election.
What the First Poll shows
The contents of the poll books are usual
ly kept secret, but The Star correspondent
has secured the information that so far
as the polls have been returned they show
republican detection among the farmers
OF the state equal on the average to eigh-
teen votes per precinct. This is not a net
loss but only actual voters who known
TO have been in the habit of voting the
republican ticket and who are now known
TO be intending to vote for Bryan IL does
not include the cities. in which the republic
cans are shown by the same polls to either
hold their own, make large republican
gains. Ii confirms the prediction that ih.
trouble in store for the republicans in this
state lies I'm the country districts.
There are about 1900 precincts I'm the
state, third of which are In the rural
districts. III this rate of republican loss
indicated by the polls received is reliable.
| II means that the free silver plank in the
democratic platform will draw about ls,spJ
straight republican voters from the re-
publican ranks into the democratic party
This direct change is equivalent to a gain
| OF just double that number of votes for
| lne uemocratS-Cr .6.ttp votes. The popu-
| lists cast a little over 80 mo votes last year
and by tie fusion agreement pract .cally
/ all of these votes Will be delivered to the
| Bryan electoral ticket. To this must be
| added about 5000 prohibitionist votes which
Will come from the two branches of that
| party TO the support of free silver The
| sum or these votes, representing the gross
gains of the democratic vote in this state
over that cast for Bushnell for governor
| last fall, is 3l.ooo-exactly the plurality
| given Misunderstanding that plurality out.
McKfnIey's Estimated Plurality.
| 1t has been generally conceded that there
Will be :;o,V,o democrats in this state who
\ Will refuse to vote for Bryan. OF these
probably 10000 Will vote directly for Nc
Finley, leaving only 2o,"1 votes for the In
! Annapolis ticket. Doubling the votes that
| go to Mckinley TO get their full effect, and
| adding them to the 2n,sn votes that will be
! lost from the democrats to the Indianapolis
| ticket, the full loss to the democratic ticket
| in the state is made 5000. This is there
| fore, the plurality for the Mckinley cleo
| toral ticket in this state Few well-posted
| republicans expect that Mckinley will carry
| the state by anything like 1W,Wn. The re-
| publican leaders have felt very confident Of
| the state from the first, and now con-
| firIned in their first estimates, but they are
! fearful of the result in other states with
| losses
| states which it is necessary to carry they
| cannot stand any such losses.
Democratic Committee Not known.
| The democratic state executive committee
| is still unknown. Before the fusion was ef-
| fected the state central committee met and
| chose Daniel McConville of Steubenville eX-
| ecutive chairman and empowered him TO
choose his own committee. He has not
made his selections yet and will probably
| not do so for a week or more. The trouble
| is due to the fusion. The populists demand
| some voice on the executive committee, and
1 ii is to arrange for this that Mr.. McCon-
| vile is holding back his committee. He
| spends most of his time In Chicago. and the
| committee rooms are for the most part in
| charge of Col. W. A. Taylor. A force OF
| five OF six clerks is employed in correspond
Cnce and mailing campaign literature. OF
| the latter there seems TO be great dearth.
a candidate for a local office in Marion
county arrived last evening and made a
demand for quantity of literature. which.
he said. urgently needed in his coun-
ty. He said he had written repeatedly 10
Gen. A. J. Warner of the silver league, 20
Chairman Faulkner of the congressional
committee, to National Chairman Jones and
to John r. Mclean asking for Literature.
all of whom acknowledged the receipt of
the letters and said the request had been
fled, but no matter was sent. This seems
TO indicate that the party generally is in
reed of the "sinewS of war"
The republican state executive committee
is announcing fifty sixty new political
| meetir gs for prominent speakers. every day
| and intend TO have the rural parts OF the
state thoroughly covered before the cam
paign is ended.