Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-07-21
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.


ton of $4,000 to be paid to the Cam
paign Committee, Mr.. John w. Book
walter, of Springfield, was to-day nomin-
ated as Governor of Ohio, by the repre-
sentatives of the Democratic party as
sembled in Convention. 1t was apparent
early in the day that the young DemOc-
racy still retained the control of the
Democratic machine, and that the spas
modic efforts of the feeble minority
during the night to gain possession of at
least portion of il had only served to
keep the ruling element more yigilant,
more active and aggressive. Many of
the old leaders in the Democratic col
umn. those that had stood the brunt of
many a vigorous contest, who were well
drilled in the ordinary methods adopted,
stood practically defenseless, and even
laZed, when they but half-appreciated
their danger under the new system of
revised Democratic tactics. The secret
workings of things under the new reg
ime were mere fully appreciated ut about
IL o'clock, when two heavily laden spe-
cial trains arrived at the Union depot
from which were poured out on all al
most defeneeless element, 1000 Book
walter boomers. from points on the Hook
ing Valley and Short Line Railroad,
headed by brass band. each and every
excursionist decorated with a badge
which told the story, perhaps more fully
than many dared to believe. When the
Convention assembled in the afternoon.
the galleries were found packed with
people known to none save the guiding
minds that controlled the predominating
element. Finally, when the Convention
was called to order, and the time had
arrived to present the names of candi-
dates for the first place, and Mr.. Book
walters name was presented, the shouts
and cheers, intermingled with the most
hideous noise that ever greeted a civil
lied body, the last lingering doubt was
removed, as Mr. BoOkwalter's hired en-
thpsiasts were no longer strangers to the
delegates assembled. But the events
which followed demonstrated to all the
class of laborers the young Democracy
had placed in their vineyard, for no
sooner had that Irish citizen of Cincin-
natl, Michael Ryan, taken the platform
and presented the name of Mr.. Miller,
than = tempest of misses, sReers and in
sulting Language were hurled at him by
the hired laborers in the gallery above,
while a hired signal officer was stationed
back of the stage to give the signalwhen
to whoop things up lively. The sane
treatment that disgraced the Convention
was accorded to nearly all the candi-
dates from CINCINNATI but in a modified
form, for be it known that Mr.. Ryan
gave the gallery claquers and their
abettors to understand that such treat
ment would net be tolerated.
Mr.. Bookwalter was nominated on the
second ballot, but the means used to
bring that nomination abOut--the in
struments used-can be regarded only
as disgraeeful by all fair-minded men.
The most disgraeeful treatment which
such gentlemen. as Theo. Cook, Judge
Follett and others received at the hands
of the Convention to-day will not soon
be forgotten, nor will the remembrance
OF the event have tendency to increase
the Democratic strength at the coming
election. When gentlemen charge from
tho stage in the presence of vast aud
fence like that which WAS assembled to-
day, that delegates had been bought out
right, further comment is hardly neces-'
sary, especially at a time when the evil
dences of corruption are so clearly Yisi-
BILE to the naked eye.
There were two considerations which
contributed to Mr.. Bookwalter's. nomin-
alton. His having no record to defend
made him eligible, while his wealth and
his agreement to contribute $4,000 to
the Democratic campaign fund rendered
him an available candidate for the young
Democracy, who will, for the next few
months, grow sleek and fat on the money
| squeezed from the dear people by Il 9
sole manager and owner of the water
wheel mOnOpoly-Cn. Com.