Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — THE OHIO CAMPAIGN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE OHIO CAMPAIGN

Somethinjr About Gubernatorial Candldates Bracken* Neal and McKinleyAside from the issues involved, the Ohio gubernatorial campaign comes at an opportune time to attract national attention. Only thirteen of the States hold elections this fall, andof these only five ballot for new Governors—Ohio, Virginia, Massachusetts,' lowa and Wisconsin. These five will all be closely watched by the Waole country, but the prominence given to national questions in the Buckeye fight has a tendency to centralize interest upon it. Edward J. Bracken, who is the nominee of the People’s party for Governor, Is a veteran in the ranks of labor agitators. He, was formerly President of the Columbus Trades

Assembly and is a man of more than ordinary intellectual force and intelligence. Recently he has been the Columbus correspondent for several Journals devoted exclusively to labor’s interests, and in this capacity has assisted the passage of many of the bills demanded by working men. Lawrence T. Neal, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Is known the country over as the author of the tariff plank in the last Democratic national platform. He Is a lawyer and was City Solicitor of Chillicothe in 1867 and a member of the Legislature in the same year. In 1870 he was Prosecuting Attorney of Ross County, and In 1872 was sent to Congress from the Seventh District, being re-elected in 1874. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1889, and again in 1891, but was each time defeated by Governor Campbell. He was also before the Democratic caucus for the United States Senatorship when Brice was selected. He is a native of Parkersburg, W. Va., fifty years of age and a bachelor. Of Governor McKinley, who has been renominated by the Republicans, little need be said beyond the statement'that he is fifty years of age and served seven terms as a member of Congress, where he became famous because of his prominence in tariff matters. He was elected Governor in 1891 by a plurality of 21,511 votes. The particulars of the financial disaster which overtook him last winter are still fresh in the public mind.— N. Y. Advertiser.

BRACKEN. NEAL. M’KINLEY.