Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-16
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN
oPH7Lf DELAWARE
Prominent Politicians From the
Outside Expected by Both.
THE BoLTING DEMOCRATS
eciai Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

| specisi Correspondence Of The Evening Star
| COLUMBUS, Ohio. August Is, 1901.
| The Ohio campaign will be a short one.
| Both sides seem to desire it So The re-
| publicans will make 1t a five weeks fight
| and the democrats seem inclined to cut
| one week from that limit. The democrats
/ want David B. Hill Of New York to speak
| at their opening. and the date Of it will
| not be fixed until he is consulted. 1t ID
/ understood here that he is willing to az
/ cept the invitation If the date is made to
suit his convenience. Secretary Gillian Of
the democratic state committee says the
| opening will not be held earlier than the
last week In September and more likely 1t
| will be set for the first week in October
Three cities are applicants for the open
ing meeting. They are Columbus, Buoy
rus and Franklin. If Senator Hill Is secur-
| ed for the chief orator of the occasion the
chances are that Columbus will be selected
| as the place.
The republicans have practically decided
| TO open their campaign September II
| at Delaware. The state chairman, Gen.
DICK, Gov. Nash and Senator Foraker have
agreed to recommend that date to the COM
mittee. The committee meets here next
| tuesday to decide the matter
| Why Delaware Was Selected.
Delaware Is selected in Difference to the
| wishes OF Senator Foraker The senator
preferred September % as the time. but ac-
coded to the wishes Of the governor in that
matter on condition that the governor Join
him IN asking that the place be Delaware.
| delaware Is the seat Of the Ohio Wesleyan
University, of which the senator Is an
alumnus. At the commencement last June
| Senator Fairbanks Of Indiana was a guest
OF the university faculty. he being distin-
| QhadS Of hn
| troduced by President Bashford as prob
ably the next President of the United
States. A great ovation was given the IN
diana senator. 1t occasioned some talk AZ
| terWard, when 1t was remembered that the
| most prominent candidate for the nomina-
| ton for the presidency by the republicans
! that had been mentioned as against Fair
banks. was not only an Ohioan but also a
| former student of Wesleyan University
| Senator Foraker.
Ohio Wesleyan would like an opportunity
Of doing the amende honorable to Senator
| Foraker and 1t is arranged that this Is to
be the occasion. The academic year win
| have begun by that time and the 900 or
more students will be on hand to add eclat
| and enthusiasm to the reception that will
! be given to the old Delaware man.
| 1t Is proposed to have a distinguished re-
| publican orator from outside the state
present on this occasion. and the names
OF Vice President Roosevelt and John M
| Thurston of Nebraska have been men,
| toned. Both have recently spoken at cam
pa1gn openings IN ONO, MI. Roosevelt no
longer ago than last year. and the PROPOSE
| ton to bring in an outsider may be omitted.
| There Will be enough speaking without
them, as Governor Nash, Carl L. Nippert.
| candidate for lieutenant governor, and
both senator's are to be on the program.
Five Of the seven candidates for state Of
| fees nominated by the conference Of demo-
Gratis who bolted the platform and ticket Of
| the regular democratic state convention
| because 1t ignored Bryan and free silver
| have now Withdrawn from the ticket, hav-
| Ing been placed on the ticket without being
| consulted In the matter This. with Bryan
| himself deprecating the movement and
| urging all Ohio democrats who are friendly
| to him to support the regular state ticket,
| seems to make the boiling movement quite
| inconsequential now. movement has
been started in Cincinnati, however along
the same line that is really threatening to
| the democrats conference of Bryan
| democrats held there this week has re-
solved to place a legislative ticket in the
1 democrats In Hamilton county are also
| strong anti-McLean democrats. They
! would like to do almost anything In their
| power to prevent the election Of Mclean to
the United States Senate Such an indie
pendent democratic ticket in Cincinnati
| would draw off very considerable strength
from the democratic candidates. The dem
| ocrats have on two recent occasions made
| up fusion legislative tickets there with
the anti-Cox republicans and succeeded In
| electing several members of their party to
the legislature in that way, where a
| straight party fight would have given q
solid republican delegation in the general
assembly 1t was arranged that this
| should be tried again this year, but the
| antt-Cox feeling has largely died out now,
| and such boiling democratic movement
| as Is outlined above would leave little for
the democrats to hope for In Hamilton
county unless a general republican slump
| should bring things their way all over the
| state That Is being generally counted up
on by the democrats, but the best that can
be said OF 1t Is that it Is guess.
| Anti-saloOn Leagues Attitude.
The Anti-Saloon League seems to have
| wholly dropped its opposition to the repub-
lican state ticket with the nomination Of
Carl L. Nippert instead Of John A. Caldwell,
the attorney for the State Liquor League,
| for lieutenant governor The Anti-Saloon
| League members do not feel very kindly to-
ward Senator Foraker, who was charged
by their president, P. A. Baker, with the
defeat OF the Clarke local option bill In
| the last legislature There was a wordy
| war between the president OF the league
the senator admitted that he had urged all
republican members not to vote for the
| clarke Dill Tor the reason that In his Opfn-
lon 1t was bad republican politics.
| But president Baker announces that the
| organization will not antagonfze the sena-
| to securing pledges from candidates for
the legislature to support the Clarke bill.
| wnlch Will be introduced again this WIN
| ter There Is no reason to believe, there
fore, that republican candidates for the leg
islature VIII lose many temperance repub-
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