"old Scratch" In Ohio

The independeut votor was abroad to a very considerable extent at the recent Ohio election. There were four State tickets in the field - Kepublicans, Democrats, People's, and Prohibition - and the county tickets were in many instances even more nunierous and diversified. The voter, too, seeras to have exercised his choice of candidatos frorn the several different tickets with great freedom. For example, though Cuyahoga County, in which Cleveland is situated, gave a Republican majority on the State ticket of over 2,000, ita legislative delegation is divided as follows : Republicans 3, Democrats 1, Liberal, running independent of any nomination, 1. In Hamilton County (Cincinnati, etc), there was an equally striking independence. The vote for Governor stood as follows : Noyes, Republican 16,021 Allen, Democrat 16,784 Collins, People's 4,322 This shows a plurality for Allen of 762, which Is about the average of the Democratie majority on the State ticket. But in the election for meinbers of the Legislature the Republicans elected one out of the three Senators, and three out of the ten Representatives. On county officers the Republican vote ranged f rom 13,95$ to over 20,000 and the People's party vote from 3,870 to 8,000. These are only samples of the way in which the Ohio voter used his right of making up his ticket from all the candidates on all the tickets