The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-01
THE OHIO SITUATION.

Mckinley told his Cabinet, so til
Washington Star prints, that the RepuD
licans would carry Ohio by 10000.
James Creelman wires the New York
journal:
MIR. Hanna is drunk with egotism
and boasts to his friends thar he has
proved the political wisdom of boldly
defending the trusts. He has succeeded
in getting a judge of the Supreme court
to prevent the taking of evidence SHOW
ing that agents of the Standard OH
Trust attempted to bride Attorney Gen
eral Monett, who was punished by Mr..
Hanna for prosecuting the trust.
''0hio is the scene of an orgie. The
song of conscious victory swells OIL the
air. And Mr.. Hanna is the leader, the
victor, the redeemer, the God of ctrpo-
rate power.
"Mr. Hanna is flooding Ohio with
money. Mr.. Mclean is showing ~
embarrassing unwillingness to part with
his cash.
Mr.. Harry l.. West, writing from
Cleveland, Hanna's home, to the Wash
ington Post says:
Senator Hanna will struggle this
week to secure Il majority i'll this county
for the Republican candidate for gov
ernor. His task is a difficult one At
present the betting is even that Nash
win not carry the county. Among those
who are placing these bets are many
McKisson Republicans. which lends TO
confirm the general belief that the Nc
Kissonites who were turned down by
Hanna intend to get even with him at
the polls.
AS the situation stands at present
Jones has an even race in the county,
but Senator Hanna believes he can bring
the disaffected members of the party
into line. He has calico TO his assist
ance the projectors of the largest
stores and tN managers of the mills.
The afternoon papers print interviews
with business men who frankly ar
nounce that they propose to check the
Jones boom by telling their employees
to vote for Nash. Superintendent Rich
wood, of the National Carbon Company.
says he will call Il meeting of his men
and tell them that it is 10 their adj
vantage to support the administration.
President Danger, of the Dangler Stove
Company. has instructed his foreman
to get their men in line, while several
still larger employers of labor speak with
equal emphasis as to their intentions.
Mr.. Hanna admits despite his conf
dent predictions that the Jones vote. un-
less it is diverted to Nash before cleo
ton day, will number 10000 or more
in this county, and the general opinion
is that at least 70 per cent OF it
will come from the Republican, ranks.
1T is a mistake to suppose that this
Jones vote is confined to the laboring
element. 1t is to large degree an ex-'
preston of revolt against alanna. Men
are going to vote for Jones who have
no sympathy with his theories. and still
less do they believe that Jones ought
to be elected. They are, oweyer. dis
satisfied vita anna In a stationery
store today | overheard three well
dressed gentlemen say TO each other IN
casual conversation that they hal al
ways voted the Republican ticket. but
that on next election day they proposed
to vote for Jones A prominent manu-
facturer said today that nearly all his
men intended to vote ror Jones. and
that they laughed when he asked them
10 vote for Nash. Il asked them" said
this manufacturer, who is a prominent
Republican, why they should throw
their votes away. They replied that
they were tired of having the Presidenr
dragged in whenever an election was
about to be held, and that they hoped
the time would come when the choice of
even county and State officials would
not be made national issue. Al
though this feeling is prevalent, Mr.
Hanna insists that national policies are
involved"