The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-12-17
THE ORGANIZATION
Chapman Got the Biggest
Vote of any Candidate
for Years.
The Republican Expense Was Some
lhing Great and Beyond.

The object of the Democratic
campaign committee was to make
es thorough organization of the
party by counties AS time and
means would permit, and get out
the Democratic vote. They figured
that if they could get 100000
Democrats to the polls they could
elect the whole Democratic ticket
and carry the legislature. Chap
man polled 40l, ,70O votes. This is
the largest vote ever polled by a
Democratic can lijate on state
ticket in Ohio, In 1889, when
Campbell beat Foraker, with the
aid of Hanna and his bucking and
boiling friends, he had &c., ,423 and
and Foraker got 36S,551, with $1,000
votes scattering. Chapman got
$4,000 more votes than Headley
had whom he beat Fol- aker in 1883
He got $4,000 more than Powell got
in 1887. He got $4,000 more votes
than Thad Cromley got in 1890.
Chapman got 10000 more votes
than Mckinley got for governor in
1891, when he beat Campbell, and
Chapman got $4,000 more votes
than Campbell got that year. He
got $4,000 more votes than Law
renee L. Neal got in 1893, when he
ran against Mckinley. He got 1885,
900 more votes than the Democrat
ic candidate for secretary of state
got in 1891, and he got 10000 more
than Campbell got when he ran
against Bushnell in 1896. The re-
suit was accomplished in face OF
the largest corruption fund that
was ever dumped into the state of
Ohio! And if the Democrats had
not had the splendid organic ition
they had the plurality against them
woul | have been 10000! Bat this
OrgarizttiOn has come to stay, and
it will take another million dollars
of ilannu'S Doodle to prevent the
OHIO Democracy from carrying the
rtate next fall. When policy of
Wholesale corruption and buy ing of
votes is started it grows with its
own momentum, and must soon de-
stroy any political organic ,tion in
II free government that depends
upon 1t for success. A few more
) ears Of Hanna aud his Infamous
and brutal methods and his name
will he the concluding word in the
obituary notice of the Republican
party in Ohio.
The Democrats made the most
astonishing gains in every large
city in Ohio, $4,000 in Cincinnati,
8 $50 in Columbus, , 900 in Toledo,
1000 in Montgomery, down to 800
in Cleveland. They also made
steady and uniform gains in "A the
s:r"nS Republican counties in the
SAT-, au'I strange as it may seem,
they iJ"t the st ,ie by the uniform
falling oil Of tie vote and mai ,rities
III the strong Democratic counties,
such aS Holmes, Crawford, Seneca,
Putnam, Monroe, Auglaizn, Mercer,
Allen, Darke and othrIs. The Re-
ruhii"anS made no campiign in
Ines counties for two REASONS
First, there was no chance tOelect
member of the legislature and
Hanna was not going TO waste any
money when he could Nee no game
in sisht; and second, the Bushnell
and Foraker people were apalhetir
and the Democratic candidates
being in no danger no effort was
made to get out the vote.
There was another reason that
has been overlooked that cut n big
sWaih in the Democratic vote in
HE northwest. A cold, heavy and
persistentrai struck mort hwestern
Ohio before the oils opene and
continued without abatement dur
ing the day. 1t did not reach
sJuthern Ohio until after dinner,
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