The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
Ohio IS FOR BRYAN.
Republicans Under Hanna
Prepare to Lose State.
The Germans Oppose Mtarism. Laborers
Oppose The Trusts. The Jones
Vote Is for Bryan.
Vote Is for Bryan.

Toledo, O., August 2S.-A thorough tour
of Ohio convinces me that Mr.. Bryan will
carry the State in November.
The Republican cry of Prosperity is
answered by the spectacle of multitudes
of idle workmen wandering through this
rich commonwealth vainly searching for
employment while scores of factories and
mills closed by the trusts stand as mon
uments to the brutal and disastrous sys-
tenn which McKinleyism has built up.
The cost of living has increased and
workingmen are feeling the pinch of dis
tress.
Only an hour ago l talked with intelli
gent, skilled mechanics who were earn
ing $3.50 day year ago. and who are
now working in the hot sun with pick
and shovel on the new Toledo Centennial
for $3.50 day. Here in Northern Ohio
there are more men out of work than
at any time since 1898. The trusts have
discharged thousands and thousands of
trained men in order to limit production
and keep prices up.
Let no one deceive himself about the
workingmen of Ohio this year. The full
dinner pail argument has little effect
upon men who see their fellows obliged
to abandon their trades and beg for work
on the public roads or starve.
Organized and unorganiZed labor in
Ohio is united against Hanna and Nc
Kinley, but the change is not to be
found only among Industrial workers. The
Gold Democrats have returned to the
Democratic party throughout the State,
and with a few exceptions are working
earnestly for the election of Mr.. Bryan.
Thousands of former Republicans have
joined the reform forces.
DEMOCRATIC STRENGTH is MARKED.
The indications of increasing Demo-
cratic strength in Ohio are more marked
than in 1892 when Mr.. Cleveland came
within little more than thousand of
victory in the State. 1 went through
Ohio in that year and have a practical
basis for comparison. The change since
1896, when l visited something like thirty
out of the lightweight counties, is re-
markable.
In 1896, with a widespread panic and
with many thousand Gold Democrats sup
porting him, Mr. Mckinley carried Ohio
by only 48,497.
The signs of a great Democratic vic
tory this year have alarmed Mr.. Hanna,
and there is evidence of a bold Republi-
can plot to steal the electoral vote of
Ohio for Mckinley.
Secretary of State Kinney has ignored
the regular Democratic county commit
tee in appointing the partisan boards of
election in Jefferson, Montgomery, High
land, Warren, Sandusky and Union coun-
ties. These county boards appoint the
local election officers. Four years ago
Mr.. Hanna used the election machinery
Df %nk@
Gratis who were supporting Mckinley to
guard the interests of Bryan. This year
he insists upon putting Democrats in
the county boards of election against the
protest of the regular Democratic or
CARNATIONS.
There can be only one purpose in
view. The Republicans realize the diff
Guilty OF carrying Ohio for Mckinley and
are openly preparing for wholesale fraud
In every county l have visited this week
Democratic gains are reported, not by
politicians alone, but by shopkeepers,
workingmen, lawyers, editors and farm
ers.
CINCINNATI GERMAN VOTE FOR
BRYAN.
In Cincinnati there has been marked
movement of the German votes to Bry-
terly opposed in all the German districts.
How great the change will be it is i'm
possible to estimate, as the Cincinnati
German is taciturn, but l have myself
talked with several intelligent German
Republicans there, who assured me that
they would vote for Mr.. Bryan and that
they know of many others who had left
the Republican party this year.
Prominent Gold Democrats like Judge
Smith and Harlan Cleveland, who are now
supporting Mr. Bryan, say that nearly
all of the former Gold Democrats in
Cincinnati will vote against imperial
ism and trusts this year Even ex-Judge
Harmon, who was Attorney General in
President Cleveland's Cabinet. is sup
porting the Democratic ticket. Every man
] spoke to in Cincinnati mentioned Re-
publicans who would vote for Mr.. Bryan.
1t is practically certain that either
Hamilton county will be carried by Bry-
an or that the Republican plurality will
be less than $1,000
Changes to Bryan are reported in most
of the factories. The Democratic in
crease is not so noticeable in Southern
Ohio as in the middle and Northern
counties.
1t must be remembered that last year
Mayor Jones, of Toledo. standing as an
independent candidate for Governor, re-
ceived 106,721 votes. The Jones vote will
settle the election in Ohio this year. That
is admitted by everybody. Mr.. Hanna de-
clares that the Jones Democrats will vote
for Bryan and that the Jones Republic
cans will vote for Mckinley, in other
words that the Jones movement will dis
appear this year.
The truth is that a great majority of
the followers of Mayor Jones' like their
leader, will support Bryan, and are open
ly advocating his cause now. About 60
per cent of the 106,721 Jones voters are
Democrats and Populists. This part of
the Jones vote is undividable for Bryan.
The other 40 per cent were Republicans.
JONES LEADERS ARE SURE OF 1T.
/ have been assured by leading mem
bers of the Jones movement that great
majority of the Jones Republicans will
vote for Bryan. This information comes
from men who have been heretofore Re-
publicans.
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