The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-05
Ohio His by Not Less Than
$4,000 Plurality
ANALYSIS OF SITUATION
on WHICH REP UBLICAN COM
FIDENCE RESTS.
THEY ARE .WAGING A STRENUOUS STRIFE
Their Hopes founded on Late Reports From
Sections Where the Battle is Hardest. Webs
ter Davis Reports Great Dissatisfied
ton Among Soldier Element

ton Among Soldier Element
Special to the Post.
Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 3.-Chairman
Dick. Of the Republican State Commit
tee. late this afternoon gave out the fol-
lowing statement:
THE situation is entirely satisfactory
from Republican standpoint. The
largest vote ever polled in a State cam
paign will be cast, approximating $780,
600 votes. Conceding Mr.. Jones from
$4,000 to 100000, Judge Nash's plu-
raiity will not be less than $4,000 in
the State. The Legislature will be Re
publican in both branches"
Chairman Dicks courage was buoyed
up today by very heavy mail, which
told of improved conditions all over the
State. While these reports came from
partisan county chairmen there is no
doubt that they are reliable, for they
are confirmed to me from impartial
sources of information. The Republican
situation, which has been perilous, is be-
| ginning to improve. For instance,
Jones will not get in Toledo, his home
city. anything like the support which
was given him for mayor, and it is prob
able that his whole vote in Lucas county
will not exceed 5000, drawn evenly from
laotb parties In the Western Reserve
the Republicans are organizing as they
have never been organized before, and
at the eleventh hour are moving heaven
and earth to overcome Republican apa-
thy and the Jones strength, the latter
being admitted to be formidable. Con-
ditions in Hamilton county have also
| improved for the Republicans, the busl-
ness mems movement having proved
! effective. and Mr.. Mclean went to Gin
| cinnati today to give his personal at
! tention to his interests here. All these
things. and especially the fact, as Col.
| Dick admitted this afternoon, that the
Republicans are at last realizing the
danger which confronts them, have
given the Republicans a buoyancy
which they have not had at any stage
of the campaign.
REPUBLICAN DTSAFFECTION.
notwithstanding this, Mr. Dicks
| claim of $4,000 for Nash appears to
me to be without foundation. 1t can
| only be realized through a larger number
| of Democrats than Republicans voting
for Jones and through wholesale
| Democratic detection from Mclean. L
| do not believe either of these things Will
| happen. Jones is certainly stronger
! in Republican counties than in Demo
| cratic, and while Mclean has his enc
| mics, the Democrats are not as bitter
| against him as are the Republicans
against Hanna. The sentiment against
! Mclean ON account of his warfare
| against Thurman and Pendleton IS a
matter of the last generation and Is con-
/ fined to the scattered remnants of the
| dead mems friends. Even many Of
these will vote for Mclean, because they
see for the first time in ten years,
| hope for Democratic victory. The oppo-
sition to Hanna, on the other hand,
| is a thing of today. 1t is the sentiment
| of disappointed oKce-seekers, of men Ill
! the party who haze been cast aside by
| Hanna's tactless methods. These men
are nursing a live and singing wound.
! The best that can be hoped from them
is that they will decide to stand once
again for Mckinley and by the nag.
1t was stated in. these dispatches last
night that the Democrats expected 10
get some support from the old soldiers
or at least keep these old veterans from
voting for Nash. This expectation VIII
| not be III VAIN. ASSlSldHL ocCACt"iS
! Webster Davis, of the Interior Depart
ment. who reached Columbus today
after tour of the State, has had his
pathway lined with old soldiers, who
have poured their complaints into his
ears At one place where he spoke,
where there WAS quite a colony OF old
soldiers, he was warned by the Republi-
can managers not to attempt TO defend
the administration of the Pension Blu
! seau or the old soldiers would boot him
off the stage, their feeling being so in
tense. In nearly every town he has
been to see sick and crippled veterans,
who are confined to their rooms, i'll
order to assure them that thei rapplica-
| tons for increased pensions would not
remain Enacted upon. To all of these
pensioners Mr.. Davis has said that the
President has been too busy with inn
portant war matters to give the Pension
Bureau the attention it deserved, but
! that if they would not desert him now,
| but give him another chance, he would
remove all grounds of complaint MIR.
Davis thinks that in all cases where he
has had the opportunity to talk per-
sonally with disaffected pensioners he
has brought them back into line. lie
admits, however that the situation is
grave one, although he has explained
everywhere that Commissioner Evans
| has been acting according to law and in