Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-18
MIR. FORAKER CONFIDENT.
The Ohio Senator Says There's No Doubt
of Republican Success

of Republican Success.
Senator Foraker speaks most conf
IDENTIFY of the probabilities of the sue
cess of the Republican party in Ohio
this fall. The Senator says the Situa-
tion has been changed wonderfully
within the last few months. and that
while there was some doubt before
Congress adjourned of big Republi-
can victory, there is none now 1t
has been very quiet in the state for
some weeks, but next Saturday the
campaign will open with a flourish,
and all the prominent Republicans
will speak at various meetings.
The talk of an eStrangement be-
tween Senator Foraker and Senator
Hanna is discredited by the fact that
both senators will open the campaign
at Burton, Ohio, and speak from the
same platform, together with eX-
Secretary of State Foster. Senator
paign and will do much hard work.
In speaking about the fight in his
state, Senator Foraker says the Re
publicanS are in excellent condition,
and will go into the campaign full of
confidence and harmony.
1.-The Republicans are enthusiastic,
and we will elect our state ticket and
Senator Foraker. ''That will insure
the election of Republican United
States senator to succeed Mr.. Hanna,
and that senator, of course, will be
Mr.. Hanna himself. The prosperous
condition of the people in Ohio has
greatly changed the situation there,
and the Republican party is getting
the benefit of the BOOM
''1n my travels over the state i have
found hardly any free-silver senti-
ment, and, indeed, it seems only to be
found in the Cincinnati Enquirer and
lrnr Il III
The people are too busy now making
money to listen to free-silyer argL-
ments. The resolutions adopted at
the recent county conventions show
the change in feeling on this subject.
Il found the same prosperous con-
dltlOnS everywhere, not only among
the farmers and business men, but
among the railroads and other indus
tries. The boom came so suddenly
that it caught all the railroads unpre-
pared, and there is not a railroad in
the country today that is not short of
equipment and rolling stock. These
have been obliged to order new cars,
and you can see at once the effect.
Hundreds of men have found employ
menu; there has been a demand for
iron, wood, ana other materials need
ed in the construction of cars and
building of roads.
This means work and employment
IOI various JULIET UTdueS, anu us 0UoCU
is being felt everywhere. 1t is not
only so with the railroads, but other
industries. A great deal has said in
regard to dollar wheat. That is not
the only product of the farmers that
has felt the revival OF prosperity, for
there has been as great d rise i'll the
price of other things in proportion aS
in the wheat. lake, for instance,
sheep The rise in the price ms heep
has been far greater than wheat in
proportion, and there is not a head of
sheep in this country which is not
worth double the price it was before
the tariff bill was passed.
1T is so with corn, oats, barley, as
well as potatoes, horses and other pro-
ducts raised by the farmer. One mas
realize all that 1 have said. The peo-
pie understand it, and in my state
they are not going to be led asUray by
any free-Silver talk. Under the cir
cumstances l don't see why the Re
publican victory cannot be made
unanimous in Ohio"
Senator Foraker expects Secretary
Sherman to speak in Ohio this fall,
and says great interest is manisted in
the speech he expects to make. Dur
ing his stay in the city, which will
end tomorrow, the senator called at
the State Department and had a talk
with Secretary Sherman, AS we'll as
with Assistant Secretary Day. He
expects to return to Cincinnati. and
will go into the campaign in earnest.
Washington Star.
Small precautions often prevent
great mischiefs. DeWitt's Little