Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-10
Mr. HEARST IN OHIO
Neither He Nor the Field Has
the State.
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IF OPPOSITION JOINS IT NAY CON-
troll THE CONVENTION.
# It Don't, Hearst Will Have Dele
gates-at-Large and Majority
Of District Delegates.
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spec,.l Correspondence Of The Evening star.

Of District Delegates.
Specisi Correspondence of The Evening Star.
CLEVELAND, O., May 8, 1904
Buckeye politics always is uncertain.
None of the democratic candidates yet has
Ohio. That is to say, neither the field nor
Hearst has the state.
The conditions are such that 1.-THE OPP
position is able to combine it may control
the state convention II it does not COM
bine Hearst will surely have the delegates
at-large as well as the majority of the dis
trict delegates. OF the latter that have
been chosen up to this time 1t has about
one-half. Some of these are safely an
chored Others would drift away very
quickly.
1t has seemed to me that while The Hearst
movement has the benefit of money and
organization in Ohio, as elsewhere, 1t has
made less real progress here than In IL
linois and Iowa. This is due to several
causes. All the Bryan forces are not work
Ing for Hearst as they appear to be in other
sections of the country. Then the paid adj
yertisng matter in the country papers APP
pears to have had little effect in creating
a Hearst sentiment. Moreover, while he
has been able to employ some skillful poll
ticians Hearst has not as many of these as
| in other states.
The uppermost question now Is whether
the victory gained the other day IN wnat Is
known as the Mckinley district will spread
Clearly it gives some prestige to the Hearst
movement. The delegates were not IN
structed Though they are both Hearst
men the influence is not as great as II posi-
tive Instructions had been given Tor the
candidate.
From democratic viewpoint the old Nc
| Kinley district is an eccentric one. Ii mas
| a few old-fashioned gold standard free
| trade democrats. This class used TO vote
regularly against Major Mckinley for Con-
gress but turned in and supported MIN Ior
President.
Strong Populistic Sentiment.
There is a pretty strong populistic or So
cialistic element in the mining and manu-
featuring towns. When Coxey was organiz-
| ing his hoboes for the march on Washing
| ton, which scared President Cleveland ms
| real motive was politics. When he became
| q candidate for Congress in the Mckinley
| district he polled more votes than the regu.
| lar democratic candidate. That was great
| humiliation to the old-fashloneo oemocra.s-
Coxey has become the head or a manuiac-
| turing company and a capitalist IN ne-en-
! boring city, but these old-fashioneo demo-
| Gratis professed to be as much nuIniiia tss
NV the election of Hearst delegates 70 the
national convention as they were by Coxey
| and his hobo candidacy.
There are many democrats in northern
| Ohio who still think that they can Keep .ns
| state away from the newspaper editor anu
publisher One of them told me tndt TUG
| Ohio democracy always had charafter anu
| in the midst of defeat had maintained Its
| dignity. He named long hne OF eli! lLs
democrats as proof of this. Some OF them
| had the honor of leading their party IN ue
feat but always in dign1fed defeat- iet
| the truth is that the Ohio democracy, "hiie
| 1t has had character. sometimes mas put
| that character out for. rent The OASIS OF
| the Hearst campaign Is the assumption thae
| II is out for rent or hire this year.
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| Hearst movement is not traditions or Old
fashioned democracy. 1t is rather the new
| fashioned mayor of Cleveland NOBODY
knows Thomas Johnson, but everybody IN
the limited states is more or less familiar
with Tom johnson. Mayor Tom Johnson
has been presidential candidate Tor a
dozen years. He has the capitalists op-
lection to Bryan's free silver theories, out
he always has supported Organism. After
his election as mayor OF Cleveland IL was
thought he could keep himself In the pupiic
Bryanites. Somehow this has not happen
ed. AS a state or national leader Mayor
Tom has lost ground. He was In such COM
plete control of the democratic party ma
which Senator Hanna gave him last fall
could only be looked upon as a personal
defeat.
| oyertures to Mayor Tom, but that these
were scornfully rejected. Then they De-
| gan to undermine him, and 1t was disclosed
| that while they may not have captured the
| state committee he had lost his sway over
| it. All these things were making against
| him as political dictator.
Mayor Tom Busy Man.
However, Mayor Tom is busy man, and
when he gets active everything moves /
| have been informed here in Cleveland that
| in a quiet way things have been moving and
| not toward Hearst. But this is all specu-
| lation. The mayor can keep the Hearst
movement crippled, and doubtless 1T is his
purpose to create dtstrust among the
| politicians who climb into the band wagon
| and impress them with the belief that the
wagon has broken down because the john
son spoke will not move with the rest OF
| the wheel.
| It may be that II the opposition to Hearst
| VIII put themselves under Mayor Tom
Johnson's banner combination can be eff
| fected. This would mean harmony with
| John r. Mclean and his friends in the
front ranks of the thermometers. McLean's
| lieutenants and followers stayed away from
| the polls so unanimously when Johnson
| was a candidate that they might find 1t
| embarrassing to make an alliance now.
But there is general agreement that some
| kind of an alliance must be formed. Mr..
Mclean forgaye Cleveland many Sights
| and rebuffs. The meek and gentle dispo-
| sition he has shown indicates that he might
| forgive Mayor johnson. Whether Mayor
| Johnson would forgive him is the really in
| teresting question.
/ Inc weakness VI Inc OpposlliOn TO f16aTSt
| in Ohio ID the lack of a positive candidate.
| Had johnson announced himself six months
ago there are indications that he might
| have had the state. not a favorite son,
| but as a real candidate. But that was not
| the plan of campaign which consisted in
| being receptive and awaiting developments
Col James Kilbourne. who is the osten-
| sible Ohio candidate. is pleasant gentle
| man of business standing and of excellent
| personal character Everybody respects
| him. But politically he never has been
| quite big enough to be a serious candidate
| for governor, let alone the presidency. With
| that feeling prevailing In his own party the
| effort to make him out presidential guam
/ tity is so feeble that 1t cannot be looked
| upon other than as a farce. His position
! and influence may make him one of the
/ delegates-at-large,a and that is about all he
/ can expect. Ie
! If the Hearst people should secure votes
| enough to instruct the delegates they would
have no special objection to Col. Kilbourne
i have even heard that they would take M.
1 E. ingalls,, thesrailway president, who has
made known his Willingness to go as dele
/ gatc-at-large But even with Hearst show
i ing strength does not yet seem probable
| that he will have enough delegates to con-