Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-31
Interest Manifested by Government
officials in the Results.
ADMINISTRATIONS FATE IN Ohio
What the Democrats Expect to
Accomplish
KENTUCKY COMPLICATIONS

The interest in the elections next week
manifested by government officials and all
persons associated with the administration
is entirely disproportionate to the seeming
Importance Of the events. and the greatest
uncertainty and anxiety are shown by men
Of each party.
Notwithstanding the uneasiness about
Ohio Indicated by the great efforts being
put forth by Senator Hanna to save the
state and the confessions by repuohcanS
that the contest is close, the belief Is not
general among democrats that there Is any
great probability Of Mclean being elected
governor The impression among them ap-
pears to be that the republicans are I'M
necessarily alarmed, the democrats them
selves being unable to see why, with Jones
in the field as an independent candidate,
drawing largely as is supposed, from the
democrats. there should be any serious
doubt as to the result, especially as there
is some dissatisfaction among the demo-
Gratis Of Ohio with their candidate
Reason for Some Anxiety.
A.reasnn for the anxiety within the ad-
noiuistration circles is that much is heard
through correspondence which ONO repuo-
Icans here have from home of disposition
among those who do not like Hanna 10
take this occasion TO turn him down 1t Is
recognized Tnat SlCU q
aviat among republicans, and there IS a
natural uncertainty whether or not II WIN
GO far enough to ma expression a. tti
polls. 1t is on account or the extent ~ I'M
enti-Hanna sentiment that bOth 1ahha
himself and the republican state committee
are exerting themselves 10 the utmost "
make the issue of the campaign one Oh Su i
tanning the national administrator Inc
prasidert accents the proposition that the
defeat Of his party IN his own state AZ tilIs
time would be equivalent to repuul'l' ~. "a
of the administration, and therefore tLe
fate of the President hlrnSeL Is IN ~ II
INFO the balance so that republicans VINO
fail to support the ticket will be put III
Dositio1 10 take responsibility for sap at
the administration while trying 10 rev
themselves on Hanna. II Is letoSIliN u
that the President practically ventures
everything in this one cast OF the uIei a,ti
If ia believed that by making 50 rnusn ue-
pend upon the result the danger Oh ldii"i
is reduced 10 almost nothing
lamentations of the Democrats
Generally speaking all the democrats
bava serfous expectation of accomplish
ms, AT next Tuesdays elections IS to hold
Nebraska for Bryan and to reclaim Mary
land. besides reducing the republican plu-
raIItv IN Ohio. There is little expectation
among well-informed democrats that they
will be able to elect Goebel in Kentucky
and the republicans are confident that ray
Tor Will be elected. The character or poth
CioebeI and Brown, the TWO democratic can
didates IS being SO bitterly attacked while
the republican candidate appears TO escape
personal criticism, that it seems probable
that a great many good citizens OF the blue
grass state will say TO the democrats. a
plague on both your houses, and cast theH
votes Tor the republican candidate. I-lh-
ocratiC leaders outside the state, who nave
become Disguised with the situation there.
confne their interest generally TO the legs
lature. feeling personal interest," IN me re-
turn Of Joe Blackburn to the Unltcd states
Senate The men feeling This interest are
now alarmed lest the legislature, as well as
th, sovernOrship, be lost in the general me-
lee. BY some it is felt that Bryan has COM
promised himself TO some extent by having
anything whatever to do with the Ken
lucky night. A failure by the democrats in
both Kentucky and Maryland would give
the democrats very grave concern lOr t.ie
future.
Bryan's Hold on the Party.
The most common opinion among practi-
cal politicians IS that the democrats will
win in Bryan's state. The republicans are
making an earnest night to carry Nebraska,
but the character of the contest in Ohio
has, it IS said, prevented as much attention
being paid to Nebraska by the republican
national organization as would otherwise
have been devoted 10 It. The motive for
making q special example Of that state be-
cause Of Bryan's Identification with IT is
weakened by the belief that Bryan has sot
such hold on his party organization that
even defeat In his own state and demo-
cratic failure in Ohio, Kentucky and Mary
land would not prevent his nomination in
1850 by the same element who nominated
him in 1895. II IS felt that the democrats
having made their issues so explicit. they
would realize that the situation could not
be changed by dropping Bryan for another
candidate. and that even the eastern demo-
Gratis would conclude that since defeat at
the polls was inevitable, it would b. better
10 let that defeat fall on Bryan carrying