The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-16
OHIO IS DOUBTFUL.

In the Baltimore Sun yesterday, its
able veteran staff correspondent, Mr.. f.
A. Richardson in communication from
Cincinanti, represented Ohio as a doubt
full State, taking about the same view that
Mr.. Daniels presents in the letter printed
above. He says Hanna is the most I'M
popular man in Ohio and Mckinley is
not popular, and adds
"a long time resident of Canton was
telling this evening that during his So
journ at Canton this summer and au-
tumn all the attention the President has
received has been from the visitors; that
the townspepole pay no attention to his
coming and going and many do not even
take the trouble to salute him as he
passes along the street. The working
men do not like Mr.. Hanna. because of his
close association with trusts. TIE poll
ticians and the men of his own class in
social life are unfriendly to him, be-
cause of his constantly conscious air
of superiority and command. The staunch-
est Republicans say they are glad when
he is out of the State that his pres
ence is no help to the campaign.
Mr.. McKinley's administration and his
policy are not commended by the Repub
lcan masses of Ohio any more than by
many men of the highest standing and
influence in the party. There is no Sc
cret made of expressions to this effect. If
the election next month was simply to
hinge on the record of the Administration
and it's promise for the future, Ohio
would not be a doubtful State; it would
be sure to cast it's vote against the en-
bodiment of Imperialism and the uphold
er of trusts. There is a determinations
10 rid ~ ToL inlo nd
naism The execution of this purpose
may be postponed, but it is coming.
1.-The reliance which the Republican
managers place upon Ohio is based in
large degree upon the sturdy fealty and
fidelity of the Republican voters, for the
Republicans, while they came very close
to the danger line in 1892, have turned
up with the electoral vote of the State
for their party candidate ever since the
party has existed. The Republicans are
sturdy and steadfast, they love their par
ty and they do not love the Democrats.
Whenever the Republicans are in
comparatively harmonious condition and
come to the polls Ohio is as reliably Re-
publican as any other State in the Union.
Democrats here admit the state is natur
ally Republican by many thousand votes.
In the years when the Democrats have
carried Ohio it has usually been the case,
although not always, that the victory
was Unexpected as the Republicans have
the habit of not parading their dissatis
faction
1.-The Democrats of Ohio this year real
ly have hope of casting it's electoral
vote for Bryan, or at least they tell me
so. What possible ground could they
have for any such expectation unless
evidences of Republican discomfort and
indifference were apparent to an extent
never before exhibited?
-Four years ago this big city was
alive with Mckinley banners and sream-
ers; there were Mckinley business mems
headquarters of one kind or another in
nearly every block of the business section.
Noon day prayer meetings for the cleo
tion of Mckinley were in full blast, the
Republican campaign committees were
active and untiring, while the Democrats
were so respondent and disheartened they
did not even make a pretense of keeping
their nominal headquarters open. II there
are so many as half a dozen banners hung
out at this time in all the extensive bust
ness district, where in 1896 there were
hundreds and hundreds, | have failed to
see them.
..What is true of Cincinnati is true of
the other large cities of the State. The
Republican local campaign committees
seem to be doing no business; the leaders
do not appear to care to discuss politics.
1t is less than four weeks from the cleo