The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30
JOHNSON RUNNING
 UNIQUE CAMPAIGN
ADMITTED HE IS MAKING FIGHT
 SOLELY AGAINST HANNA.
No Hope of Election-circus Tents and Automobiles Used to Advan- tage by the Candidate. Who
 Never Tires of Work.

Cleveland. O.. Special to Chicago Trib. une CRep.). a There is only one Tom Johnson fin the world, and Ohio is his home. If his i, | not the original smile that won't come off." it is none the less individual Tom
 Johnson without his affabie smile would | be nobody. but, as 1t is. he is to-day the l strongest political element in the Demo. | cratic party in the Ohio valley. doubt if there exists in the country to-day I another man who could conduct a State campaign so entirely alone and kick up as much of a row as does Tom Johnson among the free and untrammeied voters of Ohio.
 I do not believe am betraying any l condolences when I say that Mayor Tom
 has about as much chance of being chos-
 en Governor of Ohio this trip as he has of becoming viceroy of Manchuria A lit- tie matter of from 5000 to 100000 voters will stand in the way and no one knows this better than Mayor Tom himself He would have a hard enough fight for 1t on n strict party basis. although there would be some chance of winning then. ] But with the open hostility of the Mo- Lean element in the Ohio Democracy, l and the certainty that half of the old | line Democrats will stay at home and |
 ticket. there is no way of figuring out
 the maximum of the majority for Her
 rick at the election next week.
 l Runs a Single-handel Ce ntest. l It is this condition of affairs which | makes the single handed contest now | being fought by Tom Johnson such a | remarkable thing in the history of mod
 ern politics. Mayor Tom is nominaIly a
 candidate for Governor, but he Is to all | 1. ,N~ a,,It date for United States senator as well.
 because if the Legislature should be Dem l ocratic of which there Is not the slight est possibility. it never could be com bined upon any other one man but Mayor Tom. A most casual study of the campaign conditions in Ohio this year will show Tom Johnson is undoubtedly the whole thing on the Democratic side of the fence. With the exception of one or two per functory speeches by William Jennings and who Is supposed to have come into the State on the usual financial basis. there have been no outside speakers on the Democratic stump. All the old time Democratic leaders have fought shy of Ohio because each of them was afraid to antagonize the powerful Mclean in- terest. which is supposed to be more powerful OutBlUe the Othte ITdn WItHiH the borders of the commonwealth.
 The result is that the Mayor of Cleve- land has organized n campaign of his own and has covered the entire State from one end to the other in way which could not be done by any other man who aid not possess such extaror- dinary physical capacity and such ability to throw off physical fatigue after only a moments rest.
 A circus tent. a red devil. and suc- cession of claptrap campaign devices have accompanied Johnson in his whirlwind journey about the State. but nowhere can one find the slightest trace of any help either from outside the State or from campaign orators of recognized note within it's borders.
 Johnson's Campaign Unique.
 Johnsons canvass has been minute and
 almost microscopic. He has gone off railroads and has met thousands of peo- pie, as he traveled in his automobile | from place to place. in addition to the
 usual Journeys by steam and trolley rail- roads. Yet one finds at almost every point that Johnson appeared with local legis- lative candidates as his only assistants. | This has been at once both his strength and his weakness. The people have be- come a little tired of his reiterated argu- ments, and. while they come to see him l through curiosity. there is no evidence
 of widespread enthusiasm.
 On the contrary. there Is decided lack of party feeling. and it has come to be l a fight of Johnson against the field rather | than of one political party against an | other.
 The Republicans have shrewdly taken 1 advantage of this condition, and their
 entire campaign is based upon an appeal to the old line Democrats to vote against
 Johnson on the ground that he has de-
 serted the principles of his party. This method of campaign has furnish ed Mayor Tom with an opportunity to hit hack at Senator Hanna in q way which brings out laugh at every meet l ing. ator Hanna is much concerned because he fears I have deserted the standards of Jackson and Jefferson. and the other great Democratic forefathers. l do not notice that he is following them any better than I am. or that he admires the leaders of our party to-day who stand by Jefferson and Jackson. It reminds me or the cowboys who always have maintained that the only good Indians are dead ln- dians. So Senator Hanna believes the only good Democrats are dead Demo- crats. I am not dead enough Tor him.
 Tent a Great Convenience.
 Tom Johnson's circus tent campaign mas aroused a great deal of comment outside oS inc State, but after all It is simple device and one admirably suited especially to inc country districts. where halls wnlcn
 will seat a large number are by no means common. There are two of these pig circus tents and one of them Is pitched on A vacant lot in country town ana inc meeting is advertised loerally Tor d Considerable length of time beforehand
 lust as the crowd gets fairly seated;
 Mayor Tom comes whirling up In ms req | devil. the local band stars up "Hiawatha
 and inc mayor is accompanied to the
 nlatform by the chairman of the town 1 Democratic committee.
 | After the mayors speech there IS
 stereonticon show in which pictures illus
 tratin9 the features of the campaign are
 exnlained by a youthful enthusiast who l follows the mayor about the country and is almost as popular.
 The funniest thing about the stereopti-
 con is where there is barely time to catch
 the train, in which event Peter starts
 off with a little lecture for each view
 and as the train time approaches he
 rushes them through until they look like
 a moving picture with single explanato-
 ry remark preparatory to dive for the railroal station. the rest of the pistures
 explain themselves.
 Tom Johnson is not an orator, but ar