Evening star., 1900-10-29
Last Week Of the Campaign Opens
Up Lively.
APATHY NO LONGER APPARENT
Careful Estimates Allow Majority
Of 10000 for Mckinley.
A WEEK OF ATORY

COLUMBUS, Ohio, October 29-The last
week of the campaign opens up in this state
with a flourish on the part of both political
parties, and more activity than has been
shown at any time in the earlier stages of
the contest Both on the stump and in the
lines Of mere party management the repub
licans and democrats stratning every
nerve to impress upon the members of their
parties the Importance of the issues in
volved. Less attention is being paid now to
the winning of converts The idea
seems to prevail on both sides that the
minds of the people are made up, and the
thing to be done now is to get them to come
out and vote.
Registration of voters in the large cities
closed Saturday. except for those who
were necessarily absent from the city on
all four of the regular registration days.
Such may present themselves on next Sat
urday evening at their precinct voting
places. and, upon making the necessary
affidavit, will be allowed to place their
names on the voting lists.
On the whole, the registration Is much
larger than the general apathy in the cam
paign that was everywhere noted during
the earlier stages of the contest indicated.
STILL it is sufficient to indicate total vote
considerably below that cast four years
ago. In view of the fact established by the
census, that there has been a very large ad-
dition made to the voting population of the
state in the last four years, there remains
large tay-at-home vote.
Advantage is With Republicans.
In the matter of registration the fact that
the republicans are much better supplied
with campaign funds has given them
marked advantage over thazdemocrats. 1t
takes work to get the vote registered and
the work requires money Probably half of
the voters in both parties have to be seen
in regard to registration. Half of this num-
ber need only to be reminded of the regis
tration days and the hours. Others have to
be recompensed for the time lost from their
work while going to the precinct registra-
ton places. Some must be taken in car
riages-all the aged and infirm voters must
have conveyances., Lastly, there is ele
ment that must be paid a cash price for
registering. Political managers say this
class is larger than outsiders suppose. Since
the enactment of the Australian ballot law
the chance for selling votes has been
greatly reduced. Vote buyers are scarce
when there is way definitely to ascertain
whether the vote bought is actually deliv-
cred. This fact has started the scheme of
selling the right to register A democrat,
for instance, agrees with the republican
committeeman not to register for a certain
consideration Whether he does or not can
be definitely ascertained. There Is no
chance for fraud on the vote buyer. If he
fails to register one democratic vote has
been removed absolutely. This business
makes it hard to get in the last 10 per cent
of the unregistered vote, and time and
money are necessary to do it. In this city
the republicans were able to do far the
more effective work. and reports from other
cities are to the same effect.
Republican DissensiOns Smoothed
Over.
The republican party seems to be freer
from factional troubles now than at any
time in the last dozen years. Both eX- Gov
ernor Bushnell and ex-Mayor Mckisson. the
Cleveland anti-Hanna leader, have been
given assignments recently to speak for the
republicans in the campaign, taking their
assignments from Representative Walter
Weaver, the most radical Hanna republican
in the state-now chairman of the speakers
bureau of the republican state committee.
There is said to be some friction between
the old factions in Cuyahoga county, to be
alluded to later on, which may have some
local effect on the political result, but else
where the atmosphere seems to be remark
ably clear of factional fog--for Ohio.
So it seems that the campaign is to close
without any marked exhibition of factonal
differences on the republican side Unless
all signs fail, however, the campaign next
fights among the republicans the factions
being formed along entirely new lines.
Representative Dick is arranging to try
for the nomination for governor, though
Governor Nash is serving his first term and
would not be adverse to taking a second.
1t remains to be seen whether the governor
will submit to the orders of Mr.. Dick, who
is all powerful in Ohio republican politics.
Hanna even being below him in command.
Governor Nash seems to be non-resistant
so suave and agreeable is he in his political
movements, but his friends claim that when
the lion is aroused In him he is an enemy
that few would care to face.
With Foraker in the legislative election
to secure return to the Senate next year
and Senator Hanna probably inclined to
hang back in the political harness as For
aker did three years ago, and let him
fight his battle alone, the campaign ofS
next year promises some interesting feat
ures.
State Ticket Attracts Little Attention.
The state ticket attracts little attention
1t seems quite certain now that the plu-
rality of the Mckinley electoral ticket will
be about that of the whole state ticket
But little is heard of the fight inaugurated
by the state dairymens association and
the oleomargarine makers association
against j. E. Blackburn, the republican
candidate for state food commissioner, but
they are undoubtedly working against him
with all their power. But for the fact
that it Is a presidential election, in which
the state ticket is lost sight Of, there would
There Is an organization of the teachers
Of the state against State School Com
missioner l.. D. Bonebrake, who Is a can
didate on the republican state ticket for
reelection, and it includes large num-
ber of republican teachers, but their griev-
ances are mostly of personal character,
and for that reason not likely to enlist
large public sympathy. If Bonebrake runs
1000 votes behind the head Of the ticket
1t will be as much as could be reasonably
expected of the movement. With the head
Of the ticket getting a plurality of $4,000