Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-19
Democratic Candidate in Ohio Has
No More Speaking Dates.
REPUBLICANS Are VERY ACTIVE
Mayor Jones is Also Canvassing the
State Thoroughly.
HIS STRENGTH IN THE CITIES
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, October 1S, 1890
The political dust is rising in clouds all
over Ohio, but the republicans raising
the most of it Excepting the tour of the
state now being made by William ]. Bryan,
| the work upon the stump that has been
done by the democrats is very little COM
/ pared with what the republicans are doing
| in that line Mayor Jones, the Independent
candidate, is really doing more active cam
| paign work of this kind than John r. Nc
Lean is. Not only is Jones speaking con-
! tirually himself. but he has brought Prof
| Heron of Iowa State College into the state
| to speak for him, and announces that later
| on Rev. b. Fay Mills of Boston will come
| into the state for him.
Mclean has not another speaking date
! for himself for the rest of the campaign
| nearly three weeks. On the books of the
! democratic state committee there are car
ried the names of about seventy-five demo-
| O. ats who accepted invitations to speak in
the state campaign, but not more than a
dozen have been assigned to meetings. and
these speakers nave had each only few
assignments.
1t is evidently Mr. McLean's intention to
conduct a quiet campaign, and the fact
that not a great deal of campaign work Is
being done On the stump is no indication
that no effective campaign work at all Is
publican state, anything likely to arouse
the whole voting population and bring out
full vote would be unfavorabe to the
democrats. In fact, the only victories the
democrats have in Ohio in the last
fifteen years have been won in quietly con-
Quoted campaigns.
The Campaign of 1885.
When Hoadly was elected in 1885 he had
been i'll through most Of the campaign
and spent the time at Atlantic City In
1891, when Campbell was elected governor,
he was unable to do much work on the
stump because of ill health. The next year
also the democrats seemed to put very lit
tie effort into the campaign. and they came
within 1900 votes of elecung their state
ticket. and did succeed in capturing one of
the presidential electors.
The most unfaVorable indication for the
republicans is the unsatisfactory condition
of their party organizations in the most pop
ulous counties. Hamilton, Cuyahoga
Franklin, Lucas and Montgomery counties
containing respectively the large cities of
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus Toledo and
Dayton, have generally contributed in the
election results the republican plurality by
which that party has carried the state
Few republicans in Ohio talk confidently
of carrying these counties this year, and
fewer still believe they can be carried for
Nash. The republicanism of Cuyahoga
county claims to be very reliable, but the
fractional fight between the adherents of
Mayor McKisson and Senator Hanna seems
to be of the unrelenting sort.
Big Vote for Jones Expected.
Mayor Jones will get an enormous vote
there. Harry Wilson. the democratic cOun-
ty chairman, said mere this week that his
poll of the county indicated that the Jones
vote would reach Is, 600 in that county. AS
there only about 10000 votes in the
county this means that Jones will carry
the county. 1t is generally conceded that
Jones will carry his own county of Lucas.
The plurality given Gov. Bushnell two
years ago was $4,000. That is about the
normal republican plurality. 1t Is easy
to how all of this might quickly disap-
pear in the change of political sentiment
| in the large cities. 1t is not expected that
| the Jones sentiment will affect the rural
| districts to any great extent. The condi-
| ton among the farmers in Ohio is gener-
| ally one of cOntentment. Wool prices hold
| good, crops of all kinds better than
| usual and prices of farm products are fair
| to say the least. If the better times we are
now enjoying will bring increased support
! TO the republican ticket from the voters
| employed in shops. seems reasonable to
| expect, the republican ticket may still be
| has trusted agents at work in every coun-
| ty, drawing in every voter he can. In this
| way ne is doing effective campaign work.
| Both the democrats and the republicans
! have excellent organizations.