Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-26
Marked Difference Between This Cam
paign and That Of 1896.
Big "SILENT Vote" IN EVIDENCE
All Indications That State is Safe
for Mckinley.
POLL OF CINCINNATI WARD
Special From a Staff Correspondent.


terest manifested by the people in the cam
paign. 1t is apparent on every hand, and
in striking contrast to the stirring scenes
of four years ago. There are no banners,
no buttons, no groups of men on the cor
ners listening to the curbstone orators no
arguments in hotel corridors and on trains.
Even the political meetings are slimly at
tended. Old politicians say that this state
of things is not apathy; that 1t means that
the people have made up their minds long
ago, and are merely waiting for election
day to register their intentions They don't
care to attend political meetings unless to
see some notable person, because they are
familiar with the argument which will be
presented and which is an old story to
them There is reason, Of course, why
they should feel that way. The issues of
the campaign are not new and most men
had thought them out long before they
were discovered by the Kansas City con-
ventiOn
Out here in Ohio they talked the Philip
pine question over when the treaty of Paris
was signed two years ago. they discussed it
later, when the army was raised to 100000
men, and 10000 of them diSpa tched to Ma
Mia they made up their minds long ago
that the Administrations policy was either
right or wrong. The silver question is
dead one; the trust, like the poor, we have
with us always; there is nothing new. Won
derful or even passing strange in the cam
paign to attract attention. These are some
of the reasons why one finds the political
cauldron to be simmerng peacefully in
Ohio and not boiling yet.
Everybody fs busy.
Another reason is that every one is busy,
and work is taking precedence of politics
This is surely land of plenty and pros
perity. Coming down through the state
ON find he eyervWhpre SDlpn0id
crops; the granaries fairly bulging with
corn, fat cattle in the fields; smoke pouring
from every factory chimney In the cities;
working full handed and long
freight trains at every siding. The people
look contented and though they were
getting their three meals day.
A construction company which has CON
tract to macadamiZe some country roads
has had trouble to get enough, workmen in
the stone quarry at Findlay, and as a last
resort has offered, through Col. Ben. Nevin.
candidate for Congress in the third dis
trict. bonus Of $3.50 to any person who
will secure him $50 men to work in his
quarries at $50 day. So far there has
been no applicant for the bonus. 1t is
pretty hard to make Ohio people ebelieTe
the country is going to the dogs.
They can remember a few years back
when it may have looked so, but that was
not under a republican administration.
Some of the democratic managers, endowed
with sapiency which is little beyond the
ken of ordinary politicians hereabouts, pro-
feSS to have discovered that Ohio is de-
batable grounds, and that there is a chance,
of Bryan carrying the state. No one knows
what they base their hopes upon, but in the
last few days they have begun to put men
and money in the field.
Hopes Based on Neutrality-suspicious..
1t is thought that their calculations are
founded largely upon the supposed strength
of the anti-imperalist faction, headed by
Gen. John Beatty Of Columbus, a distin-
guished republican. Gen. Beattys follow
ing has already been taken into account by
the republican managers and allowance
made for 1t. Bryan may carry Columbus,
he may carry Toledo, he may carry Cleve-
land, as he did in 1896. but that won't pull
him through. Columbus and Toledo are the
stronghods of the Beatty men, 1t is al
most certain, however, that McKineys
plurality of four years ago will be cut down
this year. The disaffected in the republi-
can ranks on account of the Philippine pol
Icy of the administration will reduce it
some: the lack of interest in politics will
reduce it. 1t would be a violent supposi-
tion to say that it will be wiped out. There
is nothing in the situation in Ohio to war
rant such a supposition.
In Cincinnati the labor vote is being thor
oughly organized for Bryan. He is also
strong among the Germans, and will cut
down the Mckinley plurality in this city
and county. but the republicans are conf
dent Of carrying the city and county. One
hears great deal of talk out here about
the silent vote The politicians are some
what nonplussed in their polls because Of
the close-mouthed attitude of a large pro-
portion of voters whom they cannot locate
in the proper column this year. There will
undoubtedly be some surprises this
score. 1t Is believed, however that there is
some connection between the silent vote
and the notable falling off in registration
for the first two days of registration. That
is to say, that some Of the silent vote will
ont Ind al dow
stay at home. In Cincinnati the falling of
in registration occurred in both democratic
and republican wards.
Poll of a Cincinnati Ward.
The Cincinnati Post has taken a mail poll
of the tenth ward in this city. Answers
were received from 25 per cent of the
voters in the ward. The tenth ward was
selected because it Is the. strongest German
ward in the city, and under ordinary con-
ditions strongly republican. Feur-fifths of
the voters in that ward were born in Ger
many or were born in this country Of Ger
man parents. The result of the Post poll is
as follows:
Voted for Mckinley in 1895, and will
vote for him this year. 1913.
Voted for Bryan in 1896 and will vote for
Mckinley this year, 3s.
Voted for Bryan in 1896 and will vote for
him this year, 100.
Voted for Mckinley in 1896 and will vote
for Bryan this year, 90.
New voters for Mckinley, 6.
New voters for Bryan, A.
The returns show that of 427 men who
voted for Mckinley in 1896 there are nine
ty-nine who will this year vote for Bryan
This is change Of 231S per cent in the
republican vote.
OF 16S men who supported Bryan at the
last election there are thirty-eight who will
vote for Mckinley this year. This is a
change Of 22.62 per cent in the democratic
vote.
Judge Harmon, who was Attorney General
in Cleveland's administration, will lead some
of the gold democrats back into line for
the old party to vote for Bryan. But there
is a good deal Of expansion sentiment
among the gold democrats in Cincinnati,
and Judge Harmon cannot get them all to
follow him.
Judge Taft, another distinguished Gin
cinnau man and also sometime Attorney
General. has done much in his service on
the Philippine commission to strengthen
confidence in the Presidents Philippine pol
icy. Judge Taft has the respect OF men of
all parties, and his views ON the Philip
pine situation command attention. After
all, the people In this region are not so
nightly stirred up over the Philippines
They are not worrying much about mill,
tarism Even those who are not altogether