Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-11-16
Situation Sized Up
Correspondent SquibbS.

To the Leader.
Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 15.-One cam.
paign in Ohio is no sooner over thar
another is on. There is already tall
regarding next years gubernatoria
and senatorial campaign. The vic
tory achieved at the recent election
was the most glorious in the history OF
the state, McKinley's plurality in
round numbers being about 10000
The next greatest was in 1864 when
Lincoln's plurality was a little in ex-
cess of 10000. The result this year re-
fleets great credit upon State Chair
man Dick and his associates on the
state committee. However, they do
not take all the credit to themselves.
General Dick is disposed to give Sena
tor Foraker, Governor Nash and all
other public speakers their full share
of the credit as well as the members
of the various county and precinct or
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Dick in public statement issued yes
terday is magnanimous enough to at
tribute che great victory to one grand
united effort on the part of the loyal
Republicans of the state rather than
to any personal efforts of his own.
No two men were harder worked
during the campaign than Senator
Foraker and Governor Nash. They
each spoke in fully one half of the
counties and travelled hundreds of
miles, many of the meetings being
held in the open air. In addition to
the splendid service rendered the par
ty which was a pleasure as well as a
duty to each of them, they were more
than repaid in the cordiality of the
greetings they received in their travels
over the state. At the next ensuing
state election Senator Foraker and
Governor Nash will be candidates for
reelection to the respective positions
which they now hold. Who will be
Governor Nash's Democratic opponent
no one knows, but 1t is certain that
John R. Mclean will go against For
aker for the senatorship. The Demo-
Gratis will seek to conceal the fact that
Mclean is the candidate of the party
for the office, for the reason that he
has twice been repudiated by the vot-
ers of the Buckeye State, once as a
senatorial candidate and once as the
nominee of the party for Governor.
The endorsement of his candidacy
would weaken the party in the State,
while many believe that such action
on the part of the Republican state
convention with reference to Senator
Foraker would be source of strength
to the ticket. 1t is expected that the
convention next summer will not only
renominate Governor Nash and endorse
his administration of state affairs,
but heartily endorse Senator Forakers
candidacy for reelection to the office
he now occupies, and which he has
filled with such entire satisfaction and
distinction to the party.
State Chairman Dick says there will
be no opposition to Senator Foraker
within the party so far as he knows.
Rev. P. A. Baker, superintendent of
the State Anti-Saloon League, holds
Senator Foraker partly responsible for
the defeat of the Clark local option bill
which was before the Legislature last
winter, and for that reason he wants
to oppose the endorsement of Senator
Foraker's candidacy by the state con-
Vention. But Rev. Baker has not been
affiliating with the Republican party.
and what he may have to say regard
ing this matter is not likely to have
much weight with the party. 1t is az
matter of little difference to Rev.
Baker, who is sent to the United States
Senate from Ohio. whether he be a
Democrat or Republican so long as
he gets his local option bill enacted
into a law. Rev. Baker seeks to put
Senator Foraker in false light before
the public in an attack made upon the
senator this evening in the Columbus,
papers. He saws the Senator took a
direct hand in the defeat of the Clark
bill, when such is not the fact. SEN
ator Foraker was in Washington at
the time attending to hisofficlal duties.
He was called on the phone the day
before the final vote was taken by
Senator Middleton, of Champaign
county, who wanted advice from the
Senator as to what course he should
pursue with reference to the Clark bill.
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