Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-10-15
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A month ago. when the Demo rats b.
gan talking about carrying Ohio, II was
regarded by the COLL people as new
and manacal outbreak Of the silver
''lunacy." They had forgotten. If thy
ever knew. the vote. in that State IN 1s9 .,
Ohio was a State that had voted f,r n1ne
but Republican candldat.s for P.eiiee1t
for thirty years; 1, was Majcr McKin-
| ley's home. and that settled It, Two
weeks ago that Gispassionote and impair
tial writer. Horny George. made a tour
OF observation through the State, mainly
devoted to talking with the working
classes. At the conclusion of his trip
he announced that the state would vote
| for Bryan without a doubt. This an
nouncement was greeted with great hi
larIty by the sold people. and Mr. George
was assigned TO his proper place among
the silver lunatics, an assignment that
was made against his protest that nc
was not a silver man. and did not agree
with the silver people about the amount
of good free coinage would accomplish.
But some of the gold people stopped
their hilarity long enough to look back
at the official vote OF Ohio in 1892. IL
read:
Harrison Republican, .............. O5.lsl
Cleveland DemocraO ............... 40s,ll5
Weaver PopulisO ................... li,o1z
Bidwell NrohibiiionisD ......."..... Zb'Vlz
with this exhibit the hilarity ceased.
The Republican party In Ohio, on the
popular vote, is in a minority of 1885.
The Populsts are certainly for Bryan;
the Prohibitionists, in view of the split
in their own party, will give Bryan a
large support, and Mr.. Bryan viii get a
large following of free-silver Republi-
cans. With this showing, was Mr.
Henry George so very much of a lunaiic?
The Baltimore Sun gold published
long letter yesterday from its staff cor
respondent in Ohio. The correspondent
telegraphs from Columbus, October 18th,
this:
Four years ago at this time the Repub-
lican managers in Ohio claimed the State
for Harrison by as big a majority az
they are now casting up for Mckinley.
When the votes were counted one OF the
Harrison electors was defeated, ana the
others slipped in by the skin of their
teeth. If the Democrats had been on the
alert they could have baggcd the whole
lot. for the party was comparatively
united and harmonious in lsdz. ONO
has not voted for a Democratic Presl-
dent since before the war, although II
has in intervening years quite often
topped over TO the Democrats, and no
State has been more remarkable for
astonishing and unexpected political
somersaults To these facts must be
due TO some extent the amazing conf
dence l find here among the Bryan man
ayers. They claim that the party was
never so united as II Is now, not even
i'm 1882, for their estimate of the extent
of detection of gold Democrats puts the
number at only 1900, and this, II is in
sisted, is an exceedingly generous esu-
mate Fifteen thousand votes in pol
of close on to 10000 is not likely to exert
much influence. especially as, according
TO the calculations OF the Bryan man
ayers, at least half Of It will be thrown
away on Palmer and Buckner.
The correspondent, who is the we'll
known IF. A. r." adds:
Two of the most prominent men IN the
Republican party in Ohio have not shown
the interest In the cause that was ma
turally TO be expected of them. Sena-
tor John Sherman and Senator-elect
Foraker have lent but little OF their
powerful influence to their poltical
friends and neighbors. Mr. Sherman
made very few speeches in the
beginning of the campaign. Dut
for a long time he has pleaded
indisposition and not opened his mouth.
Mr.. Foraker has been In other States
making speeches. but has not cared 10
saw much in his own State. At Repuo-
ucan headmarters IL was announced to-
day that both of these gentlemen had
at last consented to bear fair share or
the labors of the campaign from now
until the election, and there was much
rejoicing i'm consequence. 1t is, of course
an omen secret that neither one of them,
down in his heart has any use Tor NC
Kinley. They are also quite well aware
that. If Mr.. Mckinley gets into the White
House. Mark Hanna will run things ana
matters in Ohio and everywhere else
and no counsel will be asked of them
In Ohio I'm November the Prohibition
vote will cut some figure as between
Bryan and Mckinley. for large part
of II, IN view OF lntlr ONn party Hf'''
may not go for either of their own two
candidates. Sam Small. who has been
making thorough canvass of Illinois
for Bryan, returned to Chicago Monday
He thinks that Bryan will get four hfths
20 OoO OF the Prohibition votes in that
state. If that proportion Of it is thrown
for BRYAN in Ohio the result will be made
still more certain. Mr.. Small Is en-
thusiastic in his belief that Bryan Will
carry Illinois. He says that the coer-
cion that was begun in that State by
the railroads with their railroad sound
money clubs" has died out, and now you
scarcely hear Of one meeting. The farm
ers in that State cannot be gotten to
listen to a tariff discussion. and are over
whelmingly for free coinage and Bryan
The situation in Ohio Is no better for
Mckinley than that in Illinois. and both
show that there has been no stay Of the
free-silver tide, and that it is now too
late to stem 1t.
HANNA's ASSESSMENTS.