The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-25
NOTES OF THE CAMPAIGN.
An Ohio story.-A+ democratic h,

| Five days ago it was claimed with great
confidence by well known Democrats who
rendezvous around the Hoffman House that
Mr. Mckinley had decided to remain at his
Canton home for considerably longer
period than he had expected to stay there,
! and that the reason of this change in the
Presidents programme was his alarm over
| Ohio. And now along comes Mr.. Hanna
I with the authoritative announcement OF
! Mr.. McKinley's intention Indefinitely to
! linger at Canton. This has the appearance
| OF corroborating an important report winch
nearly a week ago was being circulated
around the Hoffman House by Democrats,
but which received very little credence at
the time for the reason that nobody who
heard 1t could understand how it was pos
/ sible that so vital a political secret could
escape from Mr.. Hanna's organization. The
/ persons who first brought this news to
| headquarters in New York also stated it as
! fact of their knowledge that Mr.. Hanna
was preparing to hurry back from Chicago
I to his headquarters in New York because
! of alarming reports which had reached
/ him of Platts intention to knife the ma
! tional ticket in that State in the interest
of Odell. This statement was received
/ quite as incredulously as was the other
one. But it turns out that Mr.. Hanna is
on his way from Chicago to New York and
I that he stopped for day at Canton avow-
| eddy to discuss the political situation with
the President. From Canton Mr. Hanna
went to Cleveland to see Myron 7. Her
rick. who has been selected>at the Presi-
dents request to raise the fund TO be used
in the campaign in Ohio. This seems to
be corroborative of the second important
report which was carried to the Hoffman
House last week ard received such scant
credence. If many more things like this
happen it will begin to dawn upon some
incrednlous minds that the Bryan cam
paign in the East is in the hands of men
who know something about the game of
politics, and that they at least know how
to watch the enemy and obtain some in
formation of value concerning his move
ments. II is hard for the most optimistic
Democrat to believe that the President
actually is in danger of losing his home
State. but SO many thoroughly sane sup
pcrters of Bryan and Stevenson credit this
report that it is worth talking about any
way. II is suspected that Mr.. Mckinley
will remain in Ohio until he satisfies him
self Of conditions there, and, of course. he
will personally manage The Buckeye cam
palgn while tarrying at Canton. He could
do this without the vulgar public knowing
1t, and therefore no harm could come of 1t.
Golden Rule" Jones. be 1t remembered
got more than hundred thousand votes in
Ohio as a gubernatorial candidate last
year. and it is conceded by nearly every
body that fully 40 per cent of this number
came from the Republican party If the
Democrats down there hold their own in
November and Jones candidacy for Con-
gress draws forty thousand or so from the
Republicans it is possible for Something
TO happen that Will show that all the wis
dom is not possessed by the Republican
managers. and that occasionally the gift
OF prophecy is bestowed by Providence
upon Democrat
An Even DOzen.-Tswelve Presidential
tickets have been put in the field this year
as the result of national movements OF
more or less Importance. This is generally
accounted a greater number of tickets than
has ever been nominated. Bryan and
Stevenson, of course are on three tickets
Democratic Fusion Populist. and Free Sill
yer Republican. The other nine tickets are !
these: Republican-WillIam Mckinley, Of |
Ohio, and Theodore Roosevelt, of New |
York. Middie-of-the- Road Populists : |
Wharton Barker, OF Pennsylvania, and /
Ignatius Donnelly. of Minnesota Social |
Democracy-Eugene V. Debs. of Indiana. |
and Job Hartman, of California Socialist |
Max S. Hayes, of Ohio. De Leon Social |
ists-Joseph F. Maloney. OF Massachusetts,
and Valentine Remill, OF Pennsylvania !
Prohibition-Jbhn C. Wooley. of Illinois, |
and H. B. Meteah. of Rhode Island. United /
Christians-John G. Wooley. of Illinois. /
and 5. C. Swallow, of Pennsylvania Ma |
tionalists-Donelson Cafery of Louisiana /
and Archibald Murray Howe. OF Massaehu- |
sets. Union Reformers-Seth Ellis and s. !
T. Nicholson. The Nationalist party-Mc- |
Kinley ti-impefialists-have been left I
without a ticket by the refusal of both /
Senator Gallery and Mr. Howe TO accept +
their nominations. None of the other nomi- {
nees have declined, however, and therefore, {
on November 6, the voter will have eleven [
tickets from which to make a choice There
is no doubt that all the tickets will get .
some votes. or otherwise they would not
have been nominated. Very few voters I'M
derstand the issues Which have produced
so many tickets but there are people in I
all the States who make it their business
to keep well posted on all political move.
ments of whatever nature, and from this
select class the nine tickets that so very
few persons know anything about will get
some votes.
Roosevelt on Trusts.-It is observed
that the Rough Riders eloquence in the
Far West does not agree very well with
Mr. Hanna's in Chicago. The Presidents
political manager told a Chicago audience
the other day that there were no trusts
in this country A day or TWO afterward
the Rough Rider informed a crowd of
Montana cowboys that there were trusts
in this country, and that they were very
wicked things. In view of the well known
fact that Roosevelt's speeches were care
fully edited by Mr. Hanna before the
Rough Rider was started on his far West
ern tour il is suggested that when he
revised the speeches MIR. Hanna thought
there were a few trusts scattered around
the country in vai ious hiding
places. and that he would search
them out and get contributions
from them The Lone Hero of
the Spanish war denounced to the Mon
tana cowboys in unmeasured terms the
Ice Trust of New York and swore to
them that this trust would soon be smash
ed by him. but in New York it is said that
it is impossible to get him to take any
action against the Ice Trust. VIVA: ether
trusts have been discovered in New York
State by the Rough Rider is not known,
though it is supposed that when he comes
snorting back from the West he will Rave
his attention called to few by the Re-
publican managers in the hope that nv
so doing they will get little more cash
for the campaign fund. Or it is consid-
cred to be not impossible for Mr. Hanna
10 Law down the law to the Rough Rider
TO hereafter contend that there are no
trusts. II this Is not done ii Is thought
some embarrassing revelations will be
made concerning the Rough Riders re-
ations to the wicked Ice Trust.