Evening star., 1897-07-30
NEXT FALLS FIGHT IN OHIO.
CoL Ike HIN ConAdent Of Democratic


'If we don't carry Ohio this fall well
never carry It." said Col. Ike Hill, the vet
eran Ohio democrat I'm summers day tn
terview with a Star reporter today. But
We will not fall down this trip. We've got
a hold on the situation and we Will swing
it. I am going to put every dollar that I
can raise on the wager that we whip the
republicans out, end I will make killing
this fall as sure as shootin'."
Col. Ike Hill has just returned from a
visit to Ohio during which, as he says, he
rubbed elbows with the boys" and ''got
aown to hard-pan facts" Everybody who
knows politicians knows Col. Ike Hill and
his breezy methods of expression.
silver is going to do the job" ne con-
tinued. More than majority of the vot-
ers in Ohio want free coinage. Why didn't
they get it last November, then, you say?
I'll tell You, and will illustrate 1t. There s
ers and reapers through four counties this
summer. Now. you know that talking ma
cbinery to farmers naturally brings up
lard times and politics. Out of thirty
republican farmers with whom he talked
eighteen of.them said they were going to
fall.
1--WE believed in free coinage last year,
they says to Jim.
e Then why didn't you vote It" says
Jim
1--WE were persuaded says the farmers
The big republicans In the county came to
us and begged us to hang to the old
party little longer. Here's an Ohio man
at the head of it,, they said Just as good
silver man as you are. You just wait
and see. He'll get something for silver a
heap quicker than them 1ong-haired luna
tics and anarchists. We believed it and we
hung on. But they fooled US and we are
gofn' to quit EN-
But you know" continued Col. Ike, 'the
republican Darty is nearer the gold Standaf fd
today than 1T ever was in Its life, and it
amt going to get any further away. Those
old farmers know that. They want some
thing done for silver. and they see they will
have to turn to the democratic party to get
it.
II tell you, my son, 1t was personal ap-
plication that saved the republican party in
Ohio last fall. 1t was the entreaty and the
coercion Of the business men, the bankers
and the influential men in the community
but 1t won't go now. The tide is settin:
our way. l saw 1t beginning to creep up
when was at home.
Money amt goin to stop it. I maintain
that the time is bound to come at last " hen
a man viii vote his opinions. The Aus
tralfan ballot system is bringing that time
around now. don't say but what the boys
will take the money just the same You
use money In elections for few times and
the people get used to 1t and expect It,
They will go around looking for It. But
when they get tucked away into that It'll
booth where no eye can see them fold their
ballot there's nothing in the world 20 hinder
mans better nature from gettn' the
upper hand, and he'll vote his sentiments
My son, your Uncle Ike Hill has been
mixing up in Ohio politics for nigh cnto
forty years. He has seen the current se.tin'
first one way, then t'other, and then sloshin'
around till you couldn't tell which way
twas goin'. But, 1 tell you, now it's a
risin' tide, and free silver and democracy IS
on the crest Of the wave.'