Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-01
TAFT AHEAD IN OHIO
Unless All Signs Fail He Will
Easily Carry the State.
BETTING ON HIM is q TO |
Bryan Has Been Losing Steadily in
the Past Month.
DEMOCRATS WANT sENAToRsHIP
Quiet But Vigorous Fight Being
Made to Capture the Legislature.
Campbell the Candidate.

Special Dispatch 10 The star
COLUMBUS. Ohio. October 31.-One
month ago Bryan would have carried the
state by IA large majority But as the
time draws near the line of the repub-
Leans is becoming longer and more solid,
and unless all signs fail. the Ohio candi-
date will carry his own state by safe
majority
/ There has been a wonderful trend to-
ward the banner of Taft in the past two
weeks. The labor vote is getting together
and is making some personal i--vestiga-
tons and is rallying around the banner of
| the Ohio candidate Gov Harris is max
| ing great campaign in the closing hours,
and although past seventy years of age. is
out day and night delivering from ten to
| twenty speeches day.
| Bryan made another hurried trip
| through the state this week. He spent
his time in the northern part around
| Cleveland and Toledo. and hopes to reap
| great results from it, but the tide. has
been turning so strong lately to Taft that
| what little good he does there will he
overcome by the great strides being made
| by the republicans in other parts of the
| state. There has been great rush for
| the Taft band wagon in the past few
| weeks, and when the votes are counted
next Tuesday il will he seen that Taft
will go to Washington with the state
electoral vote solid and every representa-
| tive elected by large plurality.
Betting on Taft 4 to 1.
That Taft will have more than 10000
plurality in the state is the opinion of
those who follow politics. and they are
backing it up with their money All
kinds of bets are being offered on the
success of the entire republican ticket and
all kinds of pluralities and majorities are
being given Taft i'm the betting Odds Of
1ers OF j and to | that Taft will carry
| ONO by more than 1900 are still I'M
| taken and offers of even money that he
will have $1,000 are not being grabbed up
by the democrats who have money to
| bet.
The present campaign has been unlike
| any other ever held In Ohio More
speeches have been made within the past
| two weeks in different parts of Ohio than
| have before been made in two months
/ More money is being expended this year
| than ever before Both parties seem to
have plenty of cash in the treasury. More
circulars have been sent out within the
past week than in any month of any pre-
vious campaign and the billboards of
every city and the barns on every public
highway are covered with streamers and
large bills calling attention to the good
| qualities of the different parties. The
| newspapers are reaping their share of
benefits and the publicity departments of
the two state headquarters have not been
| idle. but the papers are not only filled
with free matter, but paid advertisements
are finding their way into the columns of
the city press of the state.
Fighting For Legislature.
The democrats having virtually given
up the fight to carry the state for Bryan,
\ off
candidates for the legislature They
have two objects in view in making this
| fight, one of them being to repeal the
| Rose county local option law and the
| other to elect a United States senator
| to succeed Senator Foraker, whose term
expires next year.
| From every part of the state come
| reports of the earnest fight that is be-
ing waged by the democratic candidates
| for state representatives and state sena-
tors. The old members who were renom-
| mated and who fought and voted for
the Rose local option bill are being OPP
| posed by the liberal element. while
| those who worked and fought and voted
| against the measure are being fought
| by the Anti-Saloon League. It is not
| SO much question of whether or not
| the candidates are republicans or demo-
| Gratis as it is whether not they voted
for or against the local option measure
AS a result of this peculiar state of af-
success Of the national ticket some Of
these local contests have been overlook
ed and the democrats hope to carry
enough republican counties to control the
| legislature. They have been doing the
work very quietly in every section OF
the state, and only during the past week
has the republican headquarters been
| acquainted with the scheme AS a result
| of the Investigations made the fight is
being waged for these different members
i of the lower and upper house, and al
though late in making the start they ex-
pect to be able to overcome the work of
the bourbons and succeed in holding their
own.
Campbell Democratic Candidate.
| The democrats have had the advantage
of a candidate for the United States SEN
atorship in the field. That candidate is
former Gov James f. Campbell. and he
was not only Endorsed by the state con-
vention but he has been Endorsed by
nearly every county convention of the
democrats in the state, and in the event
of success at the polls of the party
candidates he will be elected senator. On
the other hand the republicans have not
decided upon who will succeed Senator
| Foraker and have had no outspoken can
didate in the field.
OF course. Representative Burton has
been making few speeches and 1t is
we'll known that he is a candidate for
| the senatorial tOSd, out ne Is not located
in the right part of the state to secure
the honor and outside of his own dis
trict he has not been Endorsed by any
county or state conventions. There are
others who, although SILENT expect that
honor. But the republicans have been at
disadvantage in not having an active
candidate for the place making fight
during the warmest campaign that was
ever waged in the state.
The Republican Candidate.
When the time comes for the election
of successor to Senator Foraker it will
be found that the candidate to receive the
support will come from county south
of Franklin. Senator Charles Dick, from
Akron, represents the northern part OF
the state, and the state has never yet
sent two senators from the same district
to Washington 1t is not believed that
this year will be any exception. Senator
Foraker will be candidate for re-elec-
ton, but what support he will have in
the two houses is hard to say Although
it is not expected that he will have
enough to control either branch he may
have enough support to dictate who the
nominee will be. and upon this condition
the democrats hope to reap the benefit
by their solid support of James E. Camp
bell