The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-11-03
FIGHTS ON OHIO AMENDMENTS
CLOUD THE PARTISAN CONTESTS
PROHIBITION FIGHT HAS UPPERI
HAND IN THE PUBLIC
INTEREST.
And Both Sides Claim vietory-wiuis
: Confident OF Beating Cox
Hoasn's Defeat Sure.
Inteiltgsnosr Bureau
Columbus, o., NOV. q

o.. ". =
Al the polls tomorrow the voters
Of Ohio will pass nnal Judgment In
one OF the most vigorous campaigns
fought In years on Buckeye soil. Four
amendments to the state constitution
are TO be voted on. and the fights
which have been waged on these
have clouded the strictly partisan
contest between the candidates
The brewers have up for action by
the voters an amendment providing
for so-called home rule in liquor mat
ters. which repeals practically every
Temperance measure on the books. in
GLIDING the county local option law.
The drys. answering the brewers.
have Offered an amendment for state
wide prohibition. The business or.
CARNATIONS of the state have a prop
erty classification amendment up.
and woman suffragists will ask the
voters to give them the right to cast
the ballot hereafter In all elections.
That the state will go dry is a
probability Still many on both sides
are confident they will win The
taxation amendment is little under.
stood and doubtless will be defeated.
The woman suffragists say they have
a chance. and the home rule amend
ment Is believed doomed to defeat.
IL seems almost impossible that
Governor J. NJ. Cox should be defeat
ed In his campaign for reelection.
but the leading Democratic paper of
the state predicts his defeat BY 100.
900. and Democratic paper in north
ern Ohio says II he wins IL will be
not more than 10000 plurality. The
trend during the last ten days or two
weeks has been decidedly in favor OF
the Republican nominee for governor
Frank y. Willis. and his managers
claim his election by AZ least SO. 600.
They say the entire Republican state
ticket win be elected, that the Repub-
hcans will control both branches of
the legislature. that more Republican
congressman will be elected than
Democratic. and that Warren G.. Hard.
ing will be elected senator from Ohio
by larger plurality than that given
Willis.
Hogan's Defeat Certain.
a hight has been waged against Hogan
oy patriotic societies and keen political
observers declare that Hogan's defeat ~
ne only thing certain in the whole bat
That Cox could be defeated. after he
r mas ssii t, up q political machine that
the people. can hardly be believed. but
II Is said that hi@ machine will crumblc
70 pieces under the weight OF charges
COZ mas been placed solely on the defen-
rivs ~ this campaign. His dealings
with biG business before he became gov
etnor have been Ptred IN the opposition
press ana his record as governor and
congressman have been laid bare. Some
ices OF the charges which the governor
mas been called upon 20 face may be
CLEANED from the epltome attached:
The Record.
That he hes built up a powerful polf-
teal machine; that he has had laws
passed placing the appointment OF thou
sands or officials In his own hands: that
ne has deprived the people OF the coun-
ties OF the right TO name their own
has entered into an alliance with tho
Progressive party. giving IL political
positions In return for dividing the Re-
publican party and making his re-elec-
tion possible: that he has been guilty OF
extravagance. that the state Is paving
$4,000 year rent for offices in sky-