The San Francisco call., 1899-10-10

~ HlO is at present the storm center OF politics.
| J The contest there has overshadowed not only
- Mr. Bryan's little fight in Nebraska but the
uproarious battle among the Bourbons in Kentucky
which opened with such vgor that orators tainted on
the stump and rival speakers had to be put under
bonds to keep the peace before they permitted
debate with another.
AS the Ohio campaign goes on it becomes more
evident that Mclean builds his hopes for success
upon the factional fights in the Republican ranks
and particularly upon that which RACES in Cleveland
and Cuyahoga County 1t is true that the talk of the
orators the stump deals with questions of trusts
imperialism and bossism, but there is definite is
between the parties either OF those questions
Republicans and Democrats alike denounce the bosses
and the trusts while the issue OF imperialism has not
been advocated by Republicans any more than bv
some of the more noted Democratic leaders and it IS
likely the OF the State will be materially in
uenced by it. Reports from all sources agree that
the main feature Of the campaign is the dssension in
the Republican party, and that if the party be de-
feated the result will be due more to personal antag
onisms than to anything else.
SO bitter are the fights in Cuyahoga County that if
is said Colonel Dick chairman of the State Repubi-
Executive Committee is afraid to visit Cleveland
.es he should have align himself with one party or
the other and he has good reasons for desiring to be
free from such enanglements There are 100000 peo-
pie in the county and il it should go strongly one way
the other it would undoubtedly carry the State with
it In fact the vote elsewhere is regarded as being
equally divided that according to the correspon-
dent OF the Philadelphia Record, even if it should
90 for Jones, the independent candidate he would be
elected
Along with the hopes excited by dissensions among
Republicans Mclean has other grounds for expect
ing success, The correspondent of the New York
Tribune, in the course OF thorough review of the
situation, says:
Mclean counts earnestly on Republican divisions
He counts with confidence, too, on large floating
element which always desires change and under or
dnary conditions votes with the outs Favoring
political considerations it is true have enabled the
Republicans to hold this vote in recent years, but
those conditions no longer exist Mclean believes
that the enthusiasm proceeding from rising conf
dence in success after being long out of power will
finally unite all the Democratic factions in his sup
port Aside from these promising elements, McLean's
chief dependence is upon himself and well-organ-
ized effective campaign. His barrel will be on tap
from start to finish. 1t is to be still hunt"
1t is be noted however that in the State there is
also very lively fight among the Democrats There is
a faction among them known as the Goats" and an
other faction called the Kids" The two are most BIT
in Cleveland. 1t is to McLeans advantage that both
bidding for his support and if he can continue to
keep them in condition of expectancy until after
election he may win In the general confusion of
things however, the independent Mr. Jones has be-
come important factor in the contest 1t is even
possible that in their disgust with the factions of the
old parties the Ohio voters may elect him lust for
luck