Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-02
HEALTH-wREcKING PACE.
Candidates in Ohio Travelled During
Last Days of CAMPAIGN.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, November 2.-It is a
health-wrecking pace the candidates are
travelling at the last of the state cam
paign, and unless there is an exodus to the
sanitoriums after the election, physical man
is not made as fallible as he used to be.
Rest and food have been of secondary i'm
portance and every energy has been bent
toward the one great object.
The outlying counties of the state have
heard all they will on the issues, and are
ready to give their sovereign decision to-
morrow. Efforts are now being directed
solely to the large centerS. Cleveland, be-
ing the state metropolis and the home of
the four chief actors in the drama, is re-
ceiving the lions share of attention.
Never before has, this county seen such
an exciting finish of a campaign. Both
republicans and democrats have saved their
strength and final play for this debatable
corner. The republicans have adopted both
the tent and the auto idea from their oppo-
nents, and every night has seen rival ma
chimes snorting along the citys streets,
carrying speakers from one tent to another.
The republicans have two tents and the
democrats as many. They are pitched per-
haps in widely separated parts of the city,
and it takes quick jump for Col. Herrtck
or Mayor Johnson, to get from one tent to
the other or from the tent to a hall and
keep the second audience from waiting to
tliS punt u AillpdlAcHCe.
Crowds Fill Tents.
Uniformly large crowds fill the tents
every night, no matter whether they are
pitched in a section of the city politically
friendly or hostile. Johnson and Hanna
are the drawing cards at all these popular
gatherings. Crowds sit through long ad-
dresses which apparently interest them lit
tie If at the end they are sure Of hearing
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bare ten or fifteen minutes. A democratic
meeting without Johnson or a republican
meeting without Hanna is almost as bad
as the play of Hamlet without Hamlet.
There is reason for this strenuous en-
deavor on the part Of the two opposing
leaders to carry Cuyahoga county. Both
the city and county were formerly con-
sidered safely republican, and Hanna came
upon the scene during that blissful period
of the past. Then Johnson came.
Now. for five successive contests Johnson
has won, defeating the senator with ever
increasing ease. 1t has become monoton-
GUS to Hanna, who is so constituted that
change is necessary. to his happiness. Han
ma resolved this year to make the fight of
his life to bring about the change desired.
Johnson had an equally inordinate desire to
add a sixth to his string of five straight
victories.
Cuyahoga in the Legislature.
Cuyahoga will send fourteen members to
the next leBiSidtuTc, tHe ldTSeSt UGleSduOn
that will go to the next session That many
votes on joint ballot for senator are worth
working for. The three sections of the
state which are getting the most attention
from the speakers and workers are Cuya-
hoga, Lucas and Franklin counties.
Lucas will send five and Franklin six to
the next assembly. In the last assembly
all the Cuyahoga county legislators were
democrats, all the Lucas men were repub-
licans and the Franklin delegation was
about evenly divided. This year each party
claims all three counties. The republicans
not as sure of Cuyahoga as they wish
they were. 1t is probably true, as claimed
by Democratic Chairman Salen, that the
republicans have spent more in this county
than In any half dozen other counties of
the state.
"Old Figgers," General Charles H. Gros-
venor. who comes up smiling with a pre-
diction of $4,000 plurality for Herrick does
not count much on Cuyahoga, and bases his
prediction of a safe margin on joint ballot
on the loss of this county to the demo-
Gratis.
While there was more money offered than
taken here last week that Johnson would
lose the governorship by at least $4,000. one
had to offer heavy odds to get taker
that the republicans would carry the
county.
Effective With the Young Men.
Johnson is wonderfully effective with the
young men. An observer OF such things
said day or so ago that he had hardly
been able to find first or second year
voter who was not ready to cast his vote
with the johnson ticket. Against this Is
the well known fact that the older, con-
servative men of business and affairs are
strongly against the mayor.
The Anti-Saloon League, In its bulletin is
sued Thursday, passes on the candidates
on the opposing tickets and gives the demo-
Gratis the advantage of but one. The tenn
perance people of the county are asked to
support six republicans and seven demo-
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