Evening star., 1922-10-29
0.P.P|NS
HOPE ON DRY VOTE
Unrest of Labor and Farmers
Said to Peril Repub|i-
can Victory.
Special Dispatch To The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
COLUMBUS. Ohio. october oS.-It
the apathy which the voters of Ohio
Off before next week. the last before
the election. is ended. it will not be
because of lack of effort on either
side. 1t is to be week of strenuous
work.
In spite of the unfavorable reports
one hears on all sides as to The re
publican outlook. within the republi-
can state headquarters they maintain
the air of perfect confidence in the
ability of the party to win the con-
test. No signs of peSsimism are to be
seen there. If the committee has its
fears, they are well concealed.
Confidence in the success of the re-
publican cause is shown in another
quarter. The drys look for such a
result as an accompaniment of their
own victory. They have the republi-
can cause lined UP with their own.
To the dry, Col. Thompson and DR..
Fess are the candidates of the drys
as much as of the republicans.
How can it be otherwise?' these
people ask. The rural portion of
the state is dry: always has been.
Chairman Hynicka must play fair
with the state ticket. He will GER
tainly hold Hamilton county squarely
in the support of il. Exactly the
same situation presents itself in
Cuyahosa county. Maurice Measchke
Will leave nothing undone to throw a
large vote to Col. Thompson, a resi-
dent of f-the county That is to say.
the big cities and the rural portions
of Ohio will swing together in the
support of the day republican state
ticket and the dry program. That can
only mean the success of the repub-
lican ticket and the defeat of the pro-
posal to permit the manufacture and
sale of light wines and beer
Nevertheless the surface indications
and the polls that are being taken do
not indicate that either Hamilton OF
Cuyahoga county will be carried by
the republicans, and the hard-hea AIDED
gentlemen. who always try to make a
little money betting on the election
results indicate that they place more
faith in the polls and their private
reports than they do on the reasoning
of the dTyS and the manifestation of
confidence at the republican state
headquarters. The result is that while
the betting started off two weeks ago
with offers of 500 to $50 on Thomp-
sons election. it quickly dropped to
even conditions. and now stands 800
to $50 on Donahey. the democratic
candidate for governor. and even bets
of that kind are not to be had here.
1t was published here this week. on
apparently good authority. that the
republican national congressional
committee comedies the election of
Col. 1. r. Sherwood in the ninth dis
trict (Toledo), and that 1t claims only
the reelection of Mr. Burton in the
twentieth district. both the other dis
tricts in Cuyahoga county being re-
gaTded as certain to be carried by
the democrats. No republican comfort
is to be gained from this
The democrats are making no claims
other than that they expect to carry
the state, but they are working
feverishly with their limited resources
and comparatively few speakers. To
an impartial observer it does not
seem that the campaign work on
either side is effective. Not that it
is not ably and skillfully done, but
what is said. done and published is
generally disregarded. Business is
not good in Ohio, Industries are
struggling along hampered by lame
shipping facilities. short material
supplies and uncertain and expensive
and in some lines raw-skinned after
more or less unfavorable strike ex-
periences.
Following year of rather poor
crops Ohio farmers find market prices
for their products lower than before
tlle "dl, "hiie ldTIn implements, gro
ceries and clothing are practically at
war peak points. Most of them will
have to borrow money to pay their
taxes, due in another month, and
banks are demanding and liz per
cent.
If Ohio goes democratic next month
as is at least possible. it will be be-
cause Of conditions, not the candi
dates offered. just as was the case
two years ago, when for only the I'm
tolerable conditions" reason Ohio
went 401.000 against the administra-
ton blamed for the conditions.
The fight against the proposed
amendment permitting light wines
and beer is just beginnin in earnest.
An appeal is being made to the
women to vote against it as a con-
cealed movement to bring back the
old-time saloon. That this appeal is
being made to willing minds is indi-
Gated by the fact that while, in the
polls published, the democratic can
didates always have majority of the
male votes, the republican candidates
have q majority o& the woman voteA