The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1883-08-08

JulJ 80 Aooos
To Hon Charles Foster, Columbus
Irepeat the statement is false in
all-all its parts. Now, produce
your informant, and let me confront
him. George Hoadly.
The dispatches were badly botched
by the telegraphers,
Your correspondent has no reason
to change his intimation given him
this morning that the informant of
Governor Foster was "Jayhawker,"
Of the Enquirer
Judge Hoadly was asked whether
he was prepared to deny a statement
! by Colonel S. w. Carpenter, Of the
Fourth Ohio, who is attending the
reunion, that as he was sitting at
! breakfast at the Neil House this
morning he heard Judge Hoadly say
to Gil. Barger, the Chairman Of the
Democratic State Executive Com
mittee, that while his nomination
had cost him many thousands Of
dollars, he could not say how many.
The Judge looked much worried
when the question was put to him.
"This comes" he said, "of talking
about anything in the dining-room
Of a hotel. Colonel Carpenter must
be mistaken. He must have over
heard me repeating what the news
papers and Governor Foster have
charged me with, and got it mixed
up. 1 don't know Colonel Carpen-
ter, but l should say that he can have
no malice in the matter, and must
be honestly mistaken. We must see
him"
The Judge called over Gil. Barger,
and the correspondent repeated to
him what he had heard. Mr.. Barger
said the only subject matter Of the
talk at the breakfast table was the
correspondence between Judge
HOadly and Governor Foster.
"Did Judge Hoadly confess to you
that his nomination cost him many
thousand dollars ?"
Gle confessed to nothing of the
kind. He would be a fool to do
that in such a public place as the
dining-rOom of a hotel He did not
confess to me that his nomination
cost him cent"
By the way, it may be stated that
Mr.. Barger emphatically denies that
there is any want of harmony in the
Democratic committees.
The following is the interview
with Governor Foster, as originally
published in the Commercial Gazette,
and which gave rise to the cores
! IpOndenCe above
"What about Hoadly ?"
"He is peculiarly situated. He is
not the choice of twenty per cent. of
the Democrats Of the State, and he
obtained his nomination by profuse
expenditure of money. By his own
admission his nomination cost him
$4,000. He says Johnny Mclean
cost him $500 of this sum.
| HOadly'S methods before and since
the Convention have been decidedly
Tildenish, if 1 may be allowed the
expression. He worked up the Con-
VenuOn tor months. AeCk Sands,
a notorious lobbyist, was in his en-
ploy all last winter. Sands was in
Columbus through the session Of the
Legislature, liking things for Hoadly.
1t is now pretty generally under
stood that Dave Paige fixed the
northern part, and Aleck Sands the
southern part Of the State for the
Judge. Hoadly's methods were
offensive to the Democrats, and the
man is offensive to them. He has
been a victim Of an unfortunate COM
bination of circumstances. He made
a wrong start, and in his attempts to
get square.y on the track, he has
Aoundered around and made a terri
/ bic mess Of it. Every time he has
opened his mouth he has put his foot
in it, and his mouth has been open
most of the time since the Columbus
Convention, where voters were
bought for him in the open market,
and with shameless efrontery. His
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