Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-19
Big Crowds Turn Out to Hear Promi-
nent Speakers.
ROOSEVELT. A DRAWING CARD
etPaySstate Will Give Nc
kinleY 10000 Plurality.
THE SITUATION ANALYzED
Special Dispatch is The Evening Star.


Bryan and Roosevelt have swept through
Ohio on special trains this week. with the
result that the political situation here has
taken on the appearance of real national
campaign. The meetings addressed by these
principal candidates were everywhere large
~ attended and enthusiastic. The Roose-
Welt meeting in this city exceeded in num-
bers any political demonstration ever held
mere The auditorium in which it was held
accompanies 5000 people, and twice that
number were turned away unable to Sc
cure admission. 1T has plainly aroused To-
cal republican enthusiasm, but the demo-
Gratis recall the fact that the occasion of
VIM. j. Bryan's visit here in 1896 called
together the largest political assemblage
that had ever been seen here prior to that
time, and yet the city and county went
republican at the ensuing election by the
largest plurality ever known here. They
argue that interest in unique candidate is
not always an indication that the people
are going to support him with their votes.
olttlnS prominently among the distin
gulshed persons present at the Roosevelt
meeting here was former Congressman Jo-
seph II. Outhwaite. the head of the gold
democrat movement against Bryan. and
from TINS the, republicans argue that the
gold democrats are coming to the support
OF Mckinley in this state. The fact of the
matter is that the gold democratic organi-
cation has gone to pieces in Ohio and its
strength will be divided some will follow
Mr. Cultivate and Henry Apthorpe into
the republican party. but more than half
OF the members Of the organization will
drift back into the democratic party and
support Bryan on the ground that silver Is
not an issue, though in the platform. and
that Imperialism Is the main question. AS
Tor MI Cultivate. his presence at this
meeting need not be used as a basis for
guess as to his position in the present cam
palgn. He announced in an interview two
months ago that he would support Presi-
dent Mckinley.
Effect of Registration.
The large registration in the large cities
Is wholly at variance with other earlier
but less reliable Indications Of interest
taken by the people in the issues Of the
campaign. 1t Is predicted that on the re-
manning registration days there will be a
falling on in the number of voters reg
lstered, the deeply interested voters being
Tor the n. ost part ALREADY registered. How
ever this may be, as the registration
stands. compared with that Of the same
registration days in former years. 1t indi-
Gates that as much interest is being taken
IN the election as in any national election
held recently.
If this is, correct, 1t is an undemenstra-
tive interest that may have great determi-
nation behind it. 1t may portend politt-
cal surprise in Ohio. Which way will it
aker. who has spent more time on the
stump in this state than any other speaker
and should be at least as well Informed
as to the political situation as any one
says 1t means that the republican plurality
is to be sent this time higher than ever be-
fore. and places his figures at 10000.
Ihere are fve+ninor party tickets on the
Australian ballot TO be Voted in this state
prohibition, union reform, socalist-labor
popullst and social democracy, but none of
Them VIII poll a considerable vote, and it
is safe to say that the total vote of all the
five tickets will not exceed 10000 The
populist ticket Is fragmentary owing to the
withdrawal from the ticket of five candi-
oates for election upon the publication of a
story to the effect that Chairman Dick of
the republican state committee was in
strumental in preparing the ticket in order
that 1t might detract some otherwise demo-
cratic votes
Attempt to DisorEanize Republicans,
Attempts have been made to organize op-
position within the republican party against
the candidates of that party for state school
commissioner and state food commissioner,
but it is being lost in the national contest
The state ticket will follow the national
ticket closely, and unless the election is
close they will both be elected or defeated
together. Sheriff Mcconnell Of Cleveland.
who IS a reliable student of Cuyahoga
county politics, says the vote cast for Jones
Of Toledo, the Golden Rule Mayor" there
last fall will certainly not follow Mr. Jones
this year into the support of Mr.. Bryan,
Jones as a candidate for governor last fall
received more votes in Cuyahoga county
than Nash and Mclean together, and re-
publican leaders have been anxious during
this campaign, since Jones came out for
Bryan lest his example become contagious
among republicans with whom he seemed
to have so much influence last year
The announcement of the former republic
can attorney general F.. s. Monnett that
he will support Bryan, has caused very
little commoton here, for the reason that
it was generally anticipated, and his ac-
ton is likely to have little effect in the
campaign for the reason that he changes
his political coat right upon the heels of
the refusal of his old party to nominate
him for third time for attorney general
He is on the stump speaking for Bryan in
this state now.
The republicans are confident now that
they will capture both the third and twelfth
congressional districts from the democrats
defeating in the twelfth the well-known
John ]. LentZ.
To an impartial observer on the ground
Ohio seems certain republican, If any state
is this year. 1t seems two weeks before the
election safe to predict plurality of at
least $4,000 in the buckeye state for Nc
Kinley.
URGES SUPPORT OF MCKINLEY.