The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-22
Ohio Confused.


 New York.-A dispatch from Column bus. O.. to the Sun is as follows:
 That noble old democratic states man, Allen G. Thurman, used to say: The republicans are hell on the home stretch.' Well, if surface indications are to be accepted the republicans will have to do heap of home stretching between now and election day to save this state for Taft and to elect Gov cupies by reason of the death of Gov ernor Pattison. democrat.
 "The state never has cast its vote for a democratic candidate for Presi- dent. In 1892 one Cleveland elector scraped in by a fiuke. It was in that year that the Australian ballot was first operative. and there was. more or less confusion over it. President Har- rison captured the remaining 22 elec- tors by the measeIy plurality of 1072. It was the labor vote which in that year came within an ace of breaking the record of the state in presidential elections. It is the labor vote which this year is the conspicuous factor in the state, and which, according to sur face indications, is aligned with Bryan.
 Republicans friendly and unfriendly to President Roosevelt say with gentle or vociferous candor in their homes. clubs and the hotel corridors, that the President alone is responsible for the present condition of affairs in this com- monwealth. The statement greets you with a sorrowful or savage welcome in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Day ton Toledo, Youngstown, Canton, Akron, Ironton, Steubenvil1e, Liverpool, Belle Aire, Portsmouth and elsewhere. In most of these cities hundreds and thousands of workingmen are out of employment. In this city alone, the re- publicans tell you there are 5000 Idle workingmen, and the missions have advertised for funds and food in behalf of thousand on the verge of starva- tion.
 Most of the unemployed are rail- road men thrown out for lack of busi- ness because of the Presidents at- tacks upon railroad corporations. The others are idle mill and factory hands and miners thrown out by the effects of the Presidents smashing attacks on other corporations which precipitated the panic.
 "This bank panic was like a live 
 and Indiana. glance at a map shows these three states to be geographically like three links of a sausage. Finan- cially, commercially, industrially, they are as close mixed and jumbled. as the meat in the sausage The President. speaking gastronomically, could not crunch a fat morsa1 without disturbing lean bit, and so in his general smashing he destroyed in true Roose- veltian fashion the richness and fat ness of these three great commercial states. He could not very well destroy the crops of these states, and so the agricultural votes of New York, Ohio and Indiana are expected to repair the damage which the President has wrought in the manufacturing and in- dustrial centers.
 "Ohio isea soft coal state. In great manufacturing cities, like Youngstown, the heavens for years have been blurred with soft coal smoke from a tr rousand factory chimneys. In these days the bright blue sky greets the visitor in Youngstown and in all the manufacturing cities of the state. No business, no smoke and the sight of the bright blue sky is not looked upon by manufacturers and workingmen as compensating substitute. It is very beautiful, but 1t isn't exactly filling.
 "'Ah, but old corn is 90 cents free on board and new corn is 65 cents free on board or 60 cents in the fleld,' cry the republican managers, and the farmers-republican and democrats have no use for Bryan
 This does not jibe with the ex- perience of Harvey c. Garber, demo- cratic national committeeman for the state. MT. Garber sent 10000 letters to republican farmers. asking them to support Bryan because of the bank