Evening star., 1896-10-06
Some Anxiety About the Position Of
Senator Brice.
4 Big BLANKET BALLOT SHEET
1t Will Undoubtedly Tend Greatly
to Confuse Voters.
MAY BE A LEGAL CONTEST
correspondence of The Evening Star.

ClNCINNAIl, Ohto, october 4, 1895.
There is some anxiety among Ohio demo-
Gratis to know what position Senator Brice
intends to assume in this campaign. He
Is coming to Ohio next week and there is
expectation that he will declare himself
and the national democracy hopes to have
him on that side. Before the Ohio state
convention the Senator was openly and
agsressively on the side Of sound money
and made strong fight in the convention,
but after John r. Mclean captured the
Ohio machine the Senator has been silent
1t is said that he has up to this time re-
mained silent because of consideration for
certain political friends in The orthern
part OF the state who were with him In
the fight in the state convention, but who
have Stree the Chicago convention come out
for free silver, having been led to do SO
soon after the nomination of Bryan not
then having any idea that there would be
gold democratic candidate in The field
Since the Indianapolis convention and the
nomination of Palmer and Bucai..r things
have so shaped themselves In Ohio that il
Is thought Senator Brice cannot much
longer defer taking a stand with one fac
ton or the other. He is so pronounced a
gold man that the managers of the ma
ional democracy expect him to be with
them; while the Bryanites express no such
hope.
Democratic Conference.
The state committee of the national de-
mocracy has appealed to the Democratic
Sound Money League oA Ohio for co-opera-
ton in behalf of the candidacy of Palmer
and Buckner. 1t had been planned to have
the league work Independently OF the COM
nittee, and on somewhat different lines;
that is. To use all effort in behalf of a sound
money victory in Onio, without much re-
gard to whether the democratic vote was
turned to Palmer or Mckinley. But there
mas been a conference. and as far as the
public IS to know. the work Is to be 1nre
on hehalf OF Palmer. The national dsmoc
racy had not found money easy, while the
Democratic Sound Money League has plen-
" Of it. Under the agreement the league
will issue a sound money address and dis
tribute it, and will cooperate with the
committee of the Ma tonal democracy In all
the work of the campaign, including the
providing of and expenditure of funds.
1t is expected part of these funds will
come from Senator Brice, even though he
should decide TO continue his attitude of
silent neutrality. There is a rumor enla-
mating from republican headquarters that
Senator Brice may be expec ted to declare
for Mckinley rather than for Bryan, and
that If he does come out for Palmer he
may ne expected to say something that
will give his friends to understand that he
prefers they should not waste their powder
in the fight against free silver. II he
comes out Internationally there Is reason
10 believe some of his hasty friends in the
northern part of the state VIII renounce
their allegiance to Bryan.
Hopeful of Electins Ne.in.
The republicans are more hopeful every
day of electing Col. Bob Nevin in the third
congressional district. Mr.. Brenner has
been practically abandoned to his fate, as
far as the third district bosses of the past
are concerned. Congressman Sorg has not
returned from Europe. and has not sent
any word of encouTagement. Peter SchWab.
Miles Lindley. Ed Hughes and Governor
Campbell are doing nothing. There is
practically no campaign fund. and big
bill for printing free silver campaign lit
erature has been run up at the office of the
Hamilton Democrat. paper lately put in
charge of free silver republican from
Missouri. Ed. Hughes was asked the other
day what he and his people were doing to-
ward electing Brenner to Congress and
otherwise securing free silver victory in
the third district. ''Oh, nothing. he an
swered, but we will vote In November.
Like Hill, we all democrats"
| There is a story that Governor Campbell
said If the democratic state committee In
suited the decency of the party by placing
| a populst upon the electoral ticket he
would vote for Mckinney and the whole
republican ticket The democratic electoral
| ticket has been made up, and there are six
populists on 1t. A democrat Is authority
| for the report. but there is no confrmaa ton
| of it. Besides. since the ex-governor Is
| reported 10 have made the threat. Palmer
| has been nominated and Cleveland. VINO is
| Campbelrs political weather vane, has
| taken that horn of the dilemma.
| Commercial Mckinley Club.
| The sound money men of Cincinnati hav
| irg organized the Commercial Mckinley
| Club. as stated in previous letter. mad q
| 70 he
manent organization. The president Is Gen
| Michael Ryan. at present assistant Unitee
| States treasurer at this point. a democra
of the cid school and a most fearless mai
| when he believes he is right. One of tht
i vice presidents is Edward Colston, the Ole
| law partner of George Hoadiey ana
| southern democrat, who was In the con
1 federate army. Both these men made ad
dresses and vehemently denounced Bryan
| and the Chicago platform as anarchistic
| dishonest and disloyal Half the offcer'
and more than half the members are dem
| ocrats. yet they have signed to do wha
| they can to insure 4 sound money victor.
| in November and secure the election o
| Mckinley. Gen. Ryan said in his address
| that it would be the first time In mis- lif
of sixty years that he had given any sup
| port or encouragement to republica,
ticket or candidate. but he felt that wha
the country needed was to see The hun
| dreds of thousands Of unemployed at work
.
| yemter should insure their being paid 70
| their labor in honest money.
A big Ballot Sheet.
The official ballot which will be voted Il
Ohio this fall will be the largest ever give
ont tc voters under the Australian system
which is famous for blanket sheet ballots
The ballot will be as wide as seven col
umns of The Evening Star and about tw
inches lorger. There will be seven ticket
! printed on it and in some counties wi
contain early two hundred names. Thes
| tickets are republican. democratic. nation
| alist prohibition. national democrat, sc
cialist labor and popuiist. Six of thes
tickets will nave presidential electors. Ur
der the Dana law. which prohibits an
man having his name twice on the san,
ballot, the Bryan and Watson combinatio
| is ruled off the ticket but If Watson stick
to the ship his name will appear. That
the ropUlist ticket will read. President -
Vice President. Thos. E. Watson. Ther
| will be TO electoral ticket Then will fo
low populist county nominees for Cor
gress and judiciary. where such nomins
tions have been made. In the twelfth di;
| trict the attempt to fuse the democrat
and populists failed and the latter chos
James F. Barr for elector. But the demo
| crafs intend to hiring Injunction DrOceef