Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-03
WALK-0VER IN OHIO
Only a Question Of Republic
can Plurality.
DICK SAYS 100000
OTHER ESTIMATES RANGE FROM
10000 TO HIS.
Threatening or Rainy Weather N
Longer to Be Favorable to
Democracy.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star
COLUMBUS, Ohio, November BIN I''o
Ohio cast 1O49, 600 votes. Though she mas
not reached that number since tneh ny
more than 2GO 600 votes, it is generahy eA-
nected that there will be at least 'oo'ooo
votes cast today The issues involved are
of co,,rse. not of vital national Importance
hut the campaign has been conducted in
manner calculated to arouse the voters 10
an interest in them.
Tbs stav-at-home vote will be smaller
than usual in state elections. Ihere VIII
he more mixed-ticket voting on both sides
than has ZEN the case for years. Ihis
fact the ling ticket and the five constitu-
tional amendment propositions will make
the count slow, and definite news from the
Ohio elections late.
Threatening weather prevails, but the
state of the weather no longer has any IN
f1uence on elections in this state. on'il re-
Gently it was customary to refer to rainy
election day as democratic weather. put
if it was so once it is so no longer
Betting All Favors Republicans.
Betting here on the result on the state
ticket is all on the size of the republican
plurality, and it runs from 1o,Ooo to 9oooo
Chairman Dicks estimate OF lGo,ooo pluraii-
ty stiffened up the republican bettors a
little, but few care to place their mony on
that high figure.
Speaking of the chairman's estimate
Governor Nash said today:
II know that newspapers like to get these
prediction estimates from the chairman
but personally | do not put any falth III
them. l have been state chairman, ana
know that the chairman is not in much
better position to make predlcuon as 10
what the election result will be than out
siders He is apt to be deceived by the re-
ports of local committeeman, who are over
enthusiastic and perhaps deslrous or re-
porting something that will please the
chairman. Then what the chairman says
is apt to stimulate betting on the result. II
it don't happen to go that way losing bet
tors lay it on the state committee. For this
reason 1 never indulged in any estimate"
When it was suggested that General Dick
had always been sustained in his estimate
by the result, the governor said:
THAT is true, but General Dick has been
chairman only since Ohio has been going
republican by such big majorites that any
one could catch the trend.
1t is evident from Chairman Dicks esti
mate that he expects the republicans to
carry Cuyahoga county. In no other way
could he figure out a republican plurality
In the legislature on joint ballot of sixty.
What the Conservatives Expect.
Many republican politicians take this with
a gain of allowance. They are willing to
believe that Herrick, republican candidate
for governor, may carry the county, In fact,
they are inclined to belive he will, but they
expect to see Johnson capture the legsla
tive delegation there.
While Johnson has covered the state very
generally in his campaign work. he has
paid special attention to Cuyahoga county,
and there are good reasons for believing
that he would rather lose all the rest of the
state, than to fail to carry his own county.
IL the republicans fail to carry Cuyahoga
county, they can hardly roll up 100000 plu-
rality in the state, nor can they get
high major ty on joint ballot in the legis-
lature as sixty. 1t will probably reach So
0OO on the state ticket and forty on joint
ballot 1t seems probable that in the SEN
atorial election today, the democrats Will
carry the second and fourth districts, the
eighteenth, nineteenth, the seventeenth,
twenty-eighth, thirty-first, thirty-second
and twenty-ffth containing in all ten sena
tors. The republicans will probably elect
all the others. twenty-three members.
Probable Complexion of the House.
In the house the democrats will probably
elect the representatives from these coun-
ties: Butler, Darke, Mercer, Defiance, Hen
ry, Putnam, Allen, Augla ,ze, Shelby, Brown,
Highland, Ottawa. Sandusky, Seneca, Wy
andot, Marion, Clermont, Hardin, Craw-
ford, Pickaway, Richland Ashland. Lick
ing, Fairfield, Coshocton, Holmes, Monroe.
Franklin, Lucas. Cuyahoga, Hancock
Knox, Tuscarawas, Muskngum, Vanwert,
Paulding and Preble counties.
They Will probably also elect Moag, dem
ocrat in Mahoning county. giving them
tifty-three members in the house. This is
conceding them all that they have any
right to claim. With their senate members
it makes siXty-two votes ON joint ballot, in
a total membership of 143, SO that the re-
pubEcans will have majority on JOINT bal
lot of not less than nineteen.