Evening star., 1922-10-15

5orittes in the congressional districts
against the wet amendment the Ohio
delegation in the next Congress will
be dry. no matter which party can
ment extends to the state candl-
dates, as it is likely to do, the effect
is likely to be adverse to the in
terests Of the republicans. who for
the most part were favored by the
dry organizations. notably as to their
candidates for governor and United
States senator
Col. Thompson and Congressman
Fess. leading candidates on the re-
publican ticket are on tour of the
state, speaking almost daily, but not
since Senator Beveridge came to open
the campaign for the party has there
been an orator from outside the state
speaking for them. A. V. Donahey,
the democratic candidate for gov
ernor. is the only candidate on that
ticket who is on the stump now, and
no help from outside the state has
been secured.
Democrats Limit Attacks.
The democrats are not vet attack
ing the acts of the federal admins
tration vigorously. confining them
serves SO Tar mainly to criticiZing the
state administration of Gov. H. i.
DAVIS, and making use Of the election
or Senator Newberry and the vote in
the Senate by which his right to his
seat was sustained.
Former Gov. James NJ. Cox is to
speak in the democratic campaign
here next week. 1t will be his first set
political speech of the campaign, and
there is much interest in his course
IN the campaign as to the league of
nations. 1t is known that Mr. Dona-
heY. the candidate for governor. is
decidedly opposed to raising that
question. The party in the state is
IN
would be disastrous.
On the surface of things here in
Ohio there is nothing indicating that
the republicans have accomplished
anythlng since thei:' campaign of edu-
cation started to stay the drift of
sentiment against them. 1t is early
yet to say that the tide cannot be
stemmed, but it is idle for their lead
ers to deny the drift. A republican
slump from the extraordinarily fine
position or the party two years ago,
when President Harding had plural
ity of 40l 900, Senator Willis 300 600
and Gov. Davis 131. 900 was ineyita-
BILE The republicans leaders dis
counted that. but they were not pre-
pared to meet such a current setting
in the other way as they now have
encountered.
c. o. =. Faces Big job.
This is not to say that the repub-
A'|Sii7 'it SoIHS 10 lose 1ie state, but
such result is possible as things
now stand, to say the last, and every
effort that the republicans can make
they will do well to make. The con-
dition is not the result of anything
that the democratic campaign man
agement has done; in fact, to the ordi-
nary observer ii seems that the demo-
cratic state campaign is being run
rather bungiingly. 1t arises out of
conditions, much as the trend TO the
republicans two years ago did.
The women's vote is likely to help
both Dr.. FesS and Col. Thompson. rs
was predicted before the campaign
opened. but the trend there TO the re
publican side, due largely to the
liquor question. does not seem to be
strong enough to offset the trend the
other way with the male voters. Mr..
Donahey Seems to be stronger than
Senator Pomerene, but not as much so
as he seemed a month ago. There is
undoubtedly d considerable Pomerene
vote coming from the republican side
for some reason.