Evening star., 1922-10-08
REPUBLICAN LOSS
EXPECTED IN OHIO
Farmers DisgruntIed at Fall
in Prices Due to Della.
ton Policy.
LABOR is DISCONTINUED
Railroad Men Blame Government
for Long, Drawn-0ut
Battle.
LABOR is DISCONTINUED
special pispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
COLUMBUS. Ohio. October 7.-As
state campaign work on both sides of
the party line gets into full swing
it Is evident that the early expecta-
tIons that the Ohio campaign will be
a hot one and the result perhaps
close. will be realized. So far. with
the exception of Senator Beveridge
of Indiana, who came to speak at the
formal opening of the republican state
campaign last Tuesday, the republican
state candidates themselves and men,
bers of the party here have supplied
the oratory; but a deluge of speakers
from other parts of the country is
announced for the rest of the four
weeks of the campaign.
The democrats will have to rely for
the most part upon such speakers as
the party in the state can supply.
Compared with their republican OPP
ponents they are poorly supplied with
campaign funds. With neither fed
eral nor state officials to solicit con-
tributions from. they must rely upon
wealthy members OF the party
sources, that can not be counted up
on for much. But the candidates on
their ticket are for the most part
good campaigners and with few
outside speakers that the democratic
national congressional committee
hopes to be able to send to 1he state
the democrats will probably be able
to hold their end up pretty well.
Republican Loss.
Such expressions of sentiment as
nave come to notice since the issues
were Joined indicate a very decided
'epublican loss as compared with the
be expected, for President Harding
3asFsd ay the et zta,e hHe hs he sump
the other way. so far as indicated
low, may be great enough to wipe
this out 1t is little early now to
suit. but it is plainly possibility
rwo large elements of the voters Of
the state are disgruntled.
First. the farmers of the state are
n a pitiable condidtion. They sold
their 1921 crops on an absolutely de-
are going at even lower prices. At
the same time they are held up to
pay prices for what they have to buy
that are very little reduced from war
time figures. This is no saereotyped
farmers complaint: it is absolutely
true. and the bankruptcy courts
which are becoming clutuered up
with the estates of bankrupt farm
ers. furnish confederation. So far
the tariff put on farm products by
The law is showing no beneficial eff
feet on farm product prices here, and
the farmers are confessing their dis
appointment.
The other disgruntled element of
Ohio voters is labor. and particularly
railroad and mine labor. While the
suffering from six months of idle
ness. and. as they see it. the govern
ment did not use the influence in
their behalf that it might have used
with propriety.
because of this republican leaders
are not sure that the opening speech
Of Senator Beveridge was, on the
whole. a vote winner. His criticism
Of the Adamson law, HIS declaration
that business welfare demanded un-
interrupted operation OF the trans
portation facilities of the country,
circles as a proposition to forbid
strikes in railway employment, ana
his reference to the principle Of the
income tax law. putting the burden
Of the war debt upon wealth. as
economically unsound, which. whether
right or wrong, have already started
a buzz of comment, are being classed
by many members of the republican
party here as fnexpedient. to say the
least.
The Anti-saloon League has not
yet opened its promised Campaign
against the referendum question as
to state prohibition which the vets
managed to get past the state su-
preme court, and it is difficult yet
to gauge the effect of this issue on
the general result. No pronounced
opposition to prohibition has been
Uncovered anywhere, in the state, ex-
cept in Cincinnati. There 1t is over
whelmfnE.