Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1882 — OHIO. [ARTICLE]

OHIO.

The Republicans off Tliat State Figuring on ffGettiug I.eft at the Next Flection. [Cincinnati Telegram to Chicago Tribune, Rep. J The weight of opinion in this part of .the State is that the Republican Legislature, which adjourned yesterday with pressing business undone, has turned Ohio over to the Democrats by a majority that will range anywhere from 39,000 to 50,000. The Pond bill, which puts an indiscriminate tax of S3OO each upon all saloons, and the “ St. Smith bill, which closes them on Sundays, has done the work. Until satisfactory amends are made, the Germans and the several branches of the liquor interest will fight with the Democrats. The Germans as a rule have been Republicans, and in Cincinnati the saloon-keep-ers, being usually Germans, have been Republicans. To array this class with the Democrats will therefore mean a dead loss to tho'Republicans of a very large vote. A prominent Republican leader said to day that, though the State had- just been redistricted eo as to give the Republicans sixteen of the twenty-two Congressmen, he doubted if they would get more than three. He estimated that there are 10,000 saloonkeepers in Ohio who have heretofore been Republicans. He thought it more than probable that in the present state of feeling each of these Republican saloonkeepers would carry with him over to the Democratic ranks at least five Republican voters. If his estimate is a true one, the majority of nearly 25,000 which was given for Foster over ayear ago will be changed toa Democratic majority of three times that number. There are those who hope that the stoim will have spent itself before another electiou-day comes around, but the indications are that in this they will l:e disappointed. There are published in Cincinnati four daily German papers. Three of them have been Republican n politics, and one Democratic. Within th- last three or four days all three of t ee Republican dailies have advised t eir readers to vote the Democratic cket at the next election, and state that hey will give that ticket their best support. In the opinion of Mr. Richard Smith, editor of the Cincinnati Gazette, which was chiefly responsible for the obnoxious bills, the Republicans will gain in the country districts fully as many as they will lose in the cities and German localities. Some votes undoubtedly will be gained among temperance and religious people, and perhaps the entire support of the Prohibition element can be secured. But, as the Prohibitionists have never been able to get together more than 16,000 votep, it is hard to understand how they are to offset a change of three or four times that number. Beside, experience has taught that, where there is a contest at the polls between the strictly-moral class and those who have license, the moral people shrink from going to the polls, while the lessscrupulous voters are found there early and sometimes often. Public opinion may change before October rolls around, and the Republican party be saved, but if such is the case it will be through a return of the Germans to their first love rather than by a grand uprising of the better classes. But those who know the Germans know that they are obstinate and tenacious of their rights, and that, under the present circumstances, the Republicans have nothing to expect from them.