Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-03
Practical Business" the Order in the
Campaign Now.
SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE WEST
Republicans in Ohio and Indiana
Are Still Cheerful.
I N TIE EST IN CAMPAIGN N


CINCINNATI, Ohio, November 3.-With
tonight the campaign in Indiana, Kentucky
and Ohio will practically be ended, so far
as the spectacular features are concerned,
and the politicians will get down to ''busi-
ness The stump orators, the brass bands,
the Roman candles and skyrockets as po-
tential features pass out and the check
book and the two dollar bill enter.
Monday will be devoted largely to
Strengthening up the battle lines, posting
the pickets and seeing the boys" Ready
cash and new notes from the treasury will
be seen in communities where silver dollars
and soiled currency had been circulating
before. They tell of one memorable cam
paign in Indiana, when, the day after cleo
ton, settlements Of old accounts were pro-
crossing freely everywhere, and the new
bills offered in payment were not even
clipped apart, but were in sheet form just
as they emerged from the bureau of en-.
craving and printing.
This is wind hammers day," as they
call it out here, the day when the orators
get in their closing efforts, and poor in
deed, is the hamlet crossroads in these
three states which has not it's speakers
on stump, or store box, or in assembly
hall. The papers devote columns to the
dates and lists of public speakngs and
business is interfered with while the popu-
defamation The last clarion trumpet an
nouncing the approaching empire will now
be sounded, and the last call uttered for
the full dinner pail.
In Cincinnati tonight the republicans will
have monster mass meeting to offset the
effect of Bryan's visit here Tuesday night.
The democratic leader certainly set the
democratic population afire with enthusi-
asm and the republicans are taking an
other slice off their estimate of Hamilton
county's vote for Mckinley. Tonight Mr.
Dolliver of Iowa will talk to thousands
of republican voters, and parades and out
door meetings will enliven the town.
Mr.. Hanna's Campaign Joke.
In Indiana the midweek saw Mr. Bryan
and Mr.. Hanna on the stump each playing
for the labor vote, and their echoes still
linger in the state. Mr.. Hanna invented
and has plastered the Indiana industrial
region with campaign posters exemplifying
one of his own jokes upon the labor situa-
ton. 1t represents calf leaving the mother
cow and running down the road after
stray steer. The indignant farmer boy,
after vainy trying to head off the calf,
cries, Durn it! you'll be sorry when sup
per time comesr' Mr. Hanna tells his audi
ences that this typifies labor running after
Mr.. Bryan, whom he is quoted as referring
to as that steer
The local republicans In this section of
the country do not follow Mr.. Hanna's plan
of attacking Mr.. Bryan personally They
Will "Ildch lIe ueilOtTdtlC party
enough, but they let Mr.. Bryan alone.
especially when addressing mixed audi
ences. where they hope to win democratic
votes. In the middle west there still
thousands of people who, while hesitating
to follow Mr.. Bryan's policies now, still
retain something of the devotion to him
personally which he inspired in 1896
Another republican of national promi-
nence who has caused the local republican
managers some embarrassment is Mr.
Roosevelt. "Oh! that mine enemy would
write a book cried the psalmist Mr.
Roosevelt wrote several, and the one in
which he cast reflections upon the Valor
of the Quakers and declared that because
they would not fight they We're not entitled
to freedom is being utilized by the demo-
Gratis.
The Quakers are strong in numbers and
influential throughout Ohio and Indiana
The obnoxious sentences have been print ed
and distributed broadcast among them and
is kept standing in the democratic papers.
This and the canteen question is keeping
the republicans guessing upon the Quaker
vote in the close districts.
Republicans Still Cheerful.
But notwithstanding all their troubles and
the boomerangs of well-meaning friends
the republicans in Ohio and Indiana are
still cheerful and able to sit up and see
friends. In this state the Independent re-
publican vote, which last year scared the
managers SO badly before election day is
not causing any uneaSlQeSS. The demo-
cratic claims from Chicago about. Ohio
have not produced even a ripple of excite
ment among the republicans. If there is
democratic landslide in this state the local
republicans will be the worst fooled set Of
managers in this country and the democrats
the most surprised.
Down in Kentucky today the campaign
winds up with w. c. P. Breckinridge as
prominent figure. Washington has not for
gotten the silver-tongued Breckinridge Mr.
Breckenridge is advocating the republican
| ticket. At a meeting yesterday he was in
tloouced by republican candidate for Con-
gresS and urged his hearers to vote for that
| candidate and for republican governor.
General Buckner Of Kentucky, who ran
with General Palmer on the national gold
democratic ticket four years ago, it is ex-
pected, will vote the straight republican
| ticket, and probably Senator Lindsay and
other leading gold democrats of the state.
The stay-at-home vote in this class will
not be considerable EX-Representative Nc
| Creary has made another shift and gone
| back to the Bryanites. and he Is now a
| regular party man of the most pronounced
type.
| 1t is dangerous, although always popu-
lar, practice to figure on the regiStra ton
returns. The Ohio republicans are very
| much elated over the registration in that
state. it shows an estimated increase in
| the total vote of about 100000 over 1896.
| They claim that a heavy vote in Ohio al
| ways means big republican plurality, and
| they calculate upon getting the lions share
i .
| however. claim that the increase in regis
| traion means that the labor vote has
| been aroused, and that 1t Furthermore dis
| sipates the theory of a large stay-at-hom
| vote among the democrats, which had been
| charged. In Cincinnati, a republican strong
| hold, the gain was only 9i9. In Cleveland
| 1t was 9,5O2. in Columbus 3,02S and in To-
| ledo 3,O67, three cities which the Bryanites
| are claiming as the strongholds OF their
| labor vote. The one thing the republicans
| of Ohio and Indiana are praying for now is
hri0 oh 1ryy uFnn hay m Il ~
| would mean thousands of votes for the re-
| publicans, it would enable the farmers
| to get to the polls. In Indiana especially
| the weather is an important factor.
There is the usual ciamor in the three
| states by both parties against alleged pro-
| posed boodling, intimidation and use of
| federal officials at the polls. 1t is usual,
| am told, in this section, when either party
| contemplates any particular piece of ras-
| cality, to divert attention from it's plans
by raising loud outcry against the other
fellows upon the same charge. There will
| probably be enough all around, and cor
| ha in, olo