Show Ohio Is Safe and Sane SaneO has cast her hor electoral voles for a O OHIO Democratic presidential candidate but once in her history That fall tall from grace four years ears ago when the Republican lican of the Buckeye state divided their strength between the tho two Colo- Colo Colonel nd nel el Roosevelt elt and nd Mr 11 Taft raft althou although h their combined vote exceeded the Democratic vote b by y nearly nearby one hundred thousand Has on anything any any- thins thing occurred in four years ears to turn one onehundred onehundred hundred thousand of ot Republican-Progress- Republican lye Ive ve votes to the Democracy and give Ohio to o Mr irr Wilson m The unyielding of Ohio Republicanism has bar been pro proverbial since that great party was born in the welter and stress of the turbulent period Im immediately preceding tho the war of ot the rebellion Ohio Rep Republicans havo lave been discriminating though loyal When the tho party grown tat rat and flabb flabby through years of or uninterrupted rule rute in state staten n affairs needed a Do season of adversity r to be spent pent in pra prayer er and fasting for tor the good of ot its ts soul its membership has hns attended to tho the task ask by b voting the Democratic ticket but always In an off year ear No Republican national national na- na ional administration c could uld be bad enough sh and no Democratic national administration l good enough to induce Ohio Republicans to desert esert their colors in a national election Two years ears ago Ohio brought forth fruits meet for repentance by defeating the Democratic Democratic Democratic Dem Dem- governor who was a 3 candidate for tor re election and electing electing- a Republican There were three tickets in tho the field tho the Progressive candidate being James R. R Garfield Gar- Gar field fIeld who is now touring the country in behalf of oC Mr Hu Hughes hes The Republican and Progressive candidates polled together ninety nine nine- t ty y thousand votes In excess of tho the Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic strength the Progressive vote shrink shrink- J lug Ing ng from Crom the Colonel Roosevelt re receIved received re- re 4 f in 1912 to for tor Mr Garfield The Republican vote ote Increased from Crom the cast for Mr Taft Tart in 1912 to In n 1914 1014 Governor Cox the defeated Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- I cratic candidate had been an unusually efficient ef et- ef- ef and popular official admittedly stronger than his pa party If It there is any reason why Ohio should not do in 1916 what it did In 1914 and arid and has alwa always s 's done clone except once It Is not perceptible perceptible percept percept- ible at this distance |