The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-01
CAMPAIGN IN OHIO.
Hanna Going After the Jones Vote
Which is Much Feared.
CHICAGO. Nov. INT. Malcolm Nc.

Which is Much Feared.
Chicago, Nov. 1.-Mr. Malcolm Nc
DowelI the Records special CORE
spondent in Ohio, sends the following
telegram to his paper from Cleveland
today:
Mark Hanna started out this week to
break the grasp which Golden Rule
Jones has upon the Cleveland situation.
An intimate friend of the senator said
that Mr. Hanna was extremely DOUBT
full of the result in Cleveland. Mr..
Hanna, however, told me that the Jones
strength was waning, and that before
Saturday night he would have the stu
alton well in hand. But he did not
speak with an air of confidence.
EX-COngreSSman Vincent Tailor,
Republican of considerable prominence,
said today he did not think the Jones
sentiment was decreasing in this coun-
ty. On the contrary, he was inclined 10
believe that Jones was getting stronger
in CuyanOga county, AID he frankly
said he was of the opinion that all eff
forts to dissuade Republicans and
Democrats from voting for Jones would
prove futile.
A welI-knov,n Republican. who is a
warm admirer of President Mckinley
and who belongs to the Hanna group
said today that Jones would carry Guy
ahoga county. He added:
The increased registration in CIeve-
land is against US The registration
over and above the normal figures is an
anti-Nash registration. It's a Jones
vote Unless we are able to head off
| this Independent movement we are mex
ed. There's a Jones craze on, and II
it continues until Saturday night it's
all UP with US, and can see no way
of breaking it up It's band-WagOn
hurrah, with Jones on the driver
seat"
elected governor of Ohio by a plurality
of So 0G0. His campaign managers di-
vide the 100000 votes which it is believ-
ed will be cast as follows; Jones' S4o'-
HTfaT-
Ten days ago the Republican cam
paign managers gave Jones 100000. A
few days later they added from 25.OOO
to 10000 to this figure, all the time
claiming that 60 per cent of the Jones
vote would come from the Democratic
party
This afternoon the editor of 8. Repub-
lican paper in Cleveland, who is an an
ti-Hanna Republican, told me that
Jones would run second to NaSh. he
based this prediction upon reports ne
had received from all parts of the state
He said Nash would get $4,000 votes,
Jones 300 900 and Mclean 100000. There
was no doubt that Jones would carry
Cleveland and the county am thslt most
of the Jones votes would come from the
Republicans
one of the most difficult tasks in
Cleveland today is to find q Republican
outside of Mr.. Hanna'S office and Ete-
publican headquarters who talks with
enthusiastic confidence of the success
of the Republican ticket.
a Canadian fishing expedition. Before
going he told his Democratic followers
to vote for Nash, for the mayor is
against Mclean. The McKissOn Repub-
leans will vote for Mclean and it is
believed the Farley Democratic votes
for Nash and the NcKissin Republican
votes for Mclean will offset each other.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, an anti
Mclean Democratic newspaper, pub
lished reports on the political situation
from ffty-one of the lightweight coun-
ties in the state These reports the
Plain Dealer announced Were from IN
biased correspondents. The paper sum
med up its analysis Of the situation by
concluding that the indications pointed
to the election Of Judge Nash, but by
reduced plurality. While the cOrrespon-
dents reported strong anti-McLean SEN
timent in several of the Democratic
counties, they also reported Republican
inactivity with strong proba bilities Of
a decided Republican slump" in many
strong Republican counties.
This election outlook of the Plain
Dealer must be gratifying to the fol-
lowers of the man without a party, "
for almost every county correspondent
reports a substantial Jones vote. Ac-
cOrding to the report from Cincinnati,
the fusion poll of Hamilton county
shows that Jones will get $4,000 votes,
which it is believed will give Mclean
a plurality of 900 in the county.
Senator Hanna this morning, in answer
in this campaign?'' replied:
THE national administration. Blu the
vote on the head of the ticket will not
| be. significant. If the Republican state
ticket is elected it viii be an indorsement
of the presidents policy and a mark of
( confidence of the future But the McKis-
son Republicans for personal reasons, viii
( vote for Mclean. Next year they wiz not
/ dare to vote against the Republican tick
] ct. That is why I say the vote the
head of the ticket will not be significant
You must look a. the general result"
Q.-"Don't you know you made all kinds
/ of trouble for the Republican party with
your speech in which you said there We're
no trusts? A-"Th9t speech was all
a score. of times to repeat that speech"
Q-"What plurality will Nash get?, A
I don't know, but he will get a satisfac-
tory vote. Just now this Jones vote COM
/ pHcates matters, but Jones sentiment is
waning
Senator Hanna then was told that a re-
port had come from Chicago that if the
Republicans lost Ohio half a dozen Tom
( Reed clubs would spring up in Illinois
: within three weeks after election.
I shouldn't wonder. he said. But
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