Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-25
MATTER OF PLURALITY
NATIONAL AND STATE TICKETS
IN OHIO ABOVE SAFETY POINT.
Chairman Dick Predicts Congressional
Delegation Will Not Be
Changed.
sDec,.l Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
COLUMBUS, Ohio. October 24.-So far as
Ohio is concerned it is only question OF
| the size of the plurality that will be given
| to the national and state tickets. The hg-
ures on the republican candidates for elect
| ors will run far above the safety point ana
| the vote on the state ticket will run not
far behind, This being the fact beyond
question, and since the change of eighteen
members of the national House from one
! side to the other would be enough to give
the democrats control of the next House,
the result of the congressional elections IN
| this state assumes the first place IN I'M
portanoe.
The present delegation from Ohio Is COM
posed of seventeen republicans and four
democrats. VIII Ohio contribute one OF the
eighteen changes necessary 10 throw tne
House into the hands of the democrats
Chairman Dick of the republican state cam
paign committee says 1t Will not. MS
statement is that the Ohio delegatlon IN tue
next House will stand just as the present
one does.
This means that the election of twelve
republican representatives In Ohio is con-
coded In addition to these 1t would seem
that the adjustment OF the repu u.te do omit
about the election of w. E. .Scrosgy' tue
| republican candidate there. The name OF
| W. E. Kennedy. the present republican
| representative and candidate for re-
election, in the eighteenth district, Is not
| given in the above list of republicans sure
to be elected. for the reason that CHAIRMAN
| Dick was known to be anxious ABOUT Inc
| district last week because of the strike OIL
| the iron workers there but 1t seems TO De
quite out of the question now to defeat him. nm
no matter what develops in the strike. Inc
republican plurality Is too large. ,,u
The fight upon B. H. Dawes the repunh-
| can candidate in the 18th district stu goes
on in the republican ranks there, b,lt rev
| expect to see it make a material reduction
in the republican vote IN the uis.rics. a., ~ ~,
| the whole it seems entirely safe to ADD inc
| names of these three republican candidates
| for Congress to the list of one dozen gwen
| above as certain of election-making hfteen
| in all.
Districts Held by Democrats.
The four districts held by the democrats
| now are the fourth, fifth, twelfth and
| seventeenth. They are certain to carry an
other one this time-the thirteenth. 1t was
cut out to be a democratic one and was
| carried by the democrats regularly until
| two years ago, when the unpopuiarlty Oh
the democratic candidate ]. A. Norton, ana
| the opposition of Tom L. johnson, VINO
fought him as a railroad attorney, resulted
! in Norton's defeat and the election OF A r..
| Jackson. Representative jackson Is III
| about the same condition in his party now
| as Mr. Norton was in his two years ago,
and anticipating defeat, declined to take
| the nomination. Grant Mouser Is the re-
| publican candidate but In all probability he
| will be defeated by N. c. Cressinger, the
democratic candidate. The district Is gen.
| orally good for 5000 democratic pluranty.
| Chairman Dick has not expressed HIM
| self as to the result in the thirteenth DIS
| trict but he must recognize the fact that
| republican success there Is hopeless. his
| statement that the next ONO delegation
| would be the same as the present one must
| hot ha
| Iicans to capture a district that Is now
| held by the democrats. The only one IN
| which this seems possible now Is the
twelfth. now represented by u: Z. Badger.
1t is a. district Of close majorities and mas
not given a plurality over a Thousand 1or
| some years. Mckinley carried 1t by S.loo'
hut at the same time democrats were erect
| ed on the local tickets. Mr.. Badgers piur-
| aIitv two wears ago was 600. but his OPP
| moment Cyrus Huling, proved to DE an I'M
| popular man. His opponent TINS tlme Is
| Young man of ability and influence, ana
| while not the vote-getter that Judge Badger
| 10 gives promise of making much better
| race than the republican canddate two
| wears ago did. The republicans are cam
ing the district for Roosevelt ny l - o -
! # goes to him by 1900 Taylor will be elect
| ed and the republicans be thus recoupeo iof
| the loss of the thirteenth.
Estimate Of Situation.
A fair estimate of the congressional sit
| nation In Ohio, therefore places fifteen dis
| tr,cts in the sure republican column, foul
in the sure democratic column, with the
| other two doubtful In one of these two
doubtful districts the republicans have the
advantage In the other it is about even.
Chairman Dick has made no pubic es.
| innate of the result in Ohio on the electora
ticket more definite than that the state VII
give Mr. Roosevelt as large plurality as
She ever gave to any republican candidate
for President. His predictions nave gen
erally proved close to the mark. the larg'
est plurality ever given candidate 1oi
the presidency in this state was that glvef
to Mr.. Mckinley, the second time he ran
SO, 600.
The most interesting development In poll
tics In this state in the past week was the
withdrawal of the democratic opponent OF
Representative T. E. Burton OF Clevelano
because of Mr.. Burton's opposition OF Sen
ator Hanna's ship subsidy proposition
Tom L. johnson favored this action, ano
| when Bourke Cochran spoke in Cleveland
last week Ne paid high tribute to Mr.. Bur
| toms independent stand on this matter
This was a forerunner to the resignation OF
the democratic candidate from the ticket
which came next day. OF course, Mr.. Bur-
| ton was sure of election anyway.
|