Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-25
REGISTRATION IN OHIO
Voters Beginning to Shake Off
Their Apathy
7. E. BURTON is UNOPPOSED
Taft and Bryan Will Both Make
Speeches.
STATE AND, NATIONAL ISSUES
Some Fears Of Republican slump,
but There is Little Betting
on the Result.
tate AND NATIONAL ISSUES

Special Dispatch to The Star.
COLUMBUS, O.. October 25-Relying
upon their appea; to the voters to elect
republican Congress and to stand by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. the republicans are hoping,
In spite of adverse conditions and fndica
tions. for victory In both the state and
congressional elections next month. The
fact that the registration In both Cincinnati
and Cleveland toward the close reached al
most normal figures. and that republican
meetings have lately been fairly well at
tended. has led them to believe that re-
vival Of interest has taken place and that
the republicans have at last shaken off the
apathy so heavy earlier in the campaign.
AS for Cleveland, however 1t should be
kept in mind that the anti-Dick and For
aker organization Is in control there, and
the candidates presented-from Congress-
man Theodore e. Burton down-were nomi-
mated by the anti-boss faction. There prob
ably will be a full vote in Cuyahoga county.
AS for Cincinnati, 1t has been suggested
that 1t Is the anxiety of the reform voters
to get another chance to strike the Cox ma
chine that has swelled the registration lists
there The registration was slow until the
supreme court handed down its decision
holding the Senate investigating committee
invalid Immediately registration became
lively. In Toledo and Columbus. the only
Otner cities IN the state having compete
registration this year, the registration Is
short Here 1t is six thousand less than
last year-a falling Off of about per cent.
Avoids Large Cities.
Mr. Bryan swings through the close con-
gressional districts on a special train. CIV
ing two days to the Ohio campaign and
making half a hundred short addresses.
Secretary Taft is to make three-one at
Cleveland, one at Logan and one at Lam
caster.
The democrats have carefully avoided the
large cities with the Bryan train, and the
capital district. which Is a close one. Is
not touched by the distinguished Nebras-
kan. At the opening Of the campaign Col
W. A. Taylor. the democratic candidate
asked both the state and county commit
tees to bring no outside speakers into the
district but leave the whole matter to
him. He Is making an attack upon the rec
ord Of his opponent-Representati E. l..
Taylor-when he was states attorney here,
charging that he did nothing to prevent
the trust from holding up the county. So
far Representative Taylor has refused to
notice the charges.
Ignoring State Issues.
Among the old anti-Bryan democrats-and
they still look upon him with some uncer-
tainty, even though he has ceased to talk
free silver-Coi. Bryan coming into the
state Is viewed with some anxiety. They
realize that the campaign far made
has been based, as far as the democrats are
concerned at least, solely on state issues
The republicans have been trying to ignore
and to make national issues the principal
ones. Mr.. Bryan will have to talk mainly
of national issues, and that will not only
help the republicans to bring national issues
to the front. but it will probably drive
many republicans, who were In the mood
to vote with the democrats back into their
old party fold.
The democrats are hoping that Secretary
Taft will repeat his Akron speech Of last
year, OF so much Of it as pertained to boss
ism in republican politics in Ohio. Such a
speech at this time, with the sensational
factional fights of the Dayton state conven-
split the republican party wide open and
make democratic victory absolutely GER
tain this year. Senators Foraker and Dick
are also anxious about the tenor of the
Seeretary's speeches. Senator Dick Is
known to have preferred not to have him
speak IN the campaign, though formal
Invitation was sent to him: He believes
that Secretary Taft Is extremely DESTROYS
that a republican Congress be elected, and
for that reason will be extremely careful as
to what he says in his Ohio speeches. No
one has suggested. however. that the Sec
rotary was not anxious to secure the cleo
ton of Gov. Herrick last year. but the gov
ernor's defeat Is generally credited here to
what Mr.. Taft said in his Akron speech
ABOUT BOSS SOX anu his rue III IluClu.
natl.
As to Mr.. Taft.
1t has not escaped notice here that all Of
Secretary Tafts speeches here will be de-
livered in districts where republicans who
were against the senatorial alliance at Day
ton are candidates for Congress. He
speaks first in Representative Burton's dis
trict. Mr.. Burton Is in no danger, as many
other Ohio republicans are. He has no
opposition at ALL He Is the only republican
candidate for Congress in the state against
whom the democrats have made no nomi-
nation. His other speeches will be made
in the eleventh district, where Albert Doug
lass Is the republican candidate to succeed
Gen. Grosvenor and is in great danger of
defeat. Douglass was the first prominent
republican to protest against the election of
Senator Dick to the position of chairman
of the executive committee this year. In
spite of him. however. the senatorial al
lance captured his district and cast Its
vote for Senator Dick.
The general sentiment seems to be that
a republican slump Is coming In the state.
and that the republican plurality will be
small. IL it is not wholly wiped out. Those
who usually bet on the results are not
active this year. J. H. G..