The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-07-10
TIE ONO CAMPAIGN.
The Furebas,ne Pow eF of Money in IL
~ : ! Democratic Conyaiitiop.

THE ONO CAMPAIGN.
The PurehasIne Power Of Money In III,
y :, = Democratic ConSsiiuon.
CLEVELAND, July 9.-lhe Leader's Colum
bus correspondent says: ga friend tell
me he saw Ward and ex-School Commis
sioner Burns in close conversation at Del
aware yesterday afternoon, between trains
and heard enough of the talkjto know thai
Burns was detailing his experience in the
late Democratic convention As BurnE
told the same story to numerous gentle
men down at Chautauqua duringthe week
am enabled to lay it before Leader read
ers In allits richness. ItisDsimpiy
ANOTHER REVELATION OF TIE CORRUPT
and venal manner in which that conven'
ton was operated. On the regular call Of
counties Burns had a. decided majority
over Brown, the nominee now on the tick
ct, OF twenty to thirty votes. While the
secretaries were wrestling with the vote a
gang OF Hamilton county delegates ap.
preached Barns, and through spokesman
said that, on the face 'of the vote, he stood
nominated, but unless he would "whack
ups 4 certain sum Hamilton county would
90 over to Brown. Burns was go stirred up
by this cool proposition that he replied
he'd see them damned before he would
give thVm anickel. n He saw, the same gang
rush over TO Brown and friends, and then
back to Hamilton county's seats. Before
the secretaries could announce the vote
Hamilton county had changed to forty for
Brown, and Burns was left. y 60
But nothing better might be expected OF
a convention in which it
COST TnE LEADING NOMINEE $4,000
according to bis own statement to Cleve.
land gentleman last week, to secure a NOM
inatiOn. II is reported quietly here that
Hoadly said 10 Foraker on the train the
other day,y"0h, you're lucky fellow-a
lucky fellow. Your nomination was hand
ed you without opposition or cost. Mine
has cost me- small fortune.os Democrats
are swearing that this remark Is new in
ventiOn Of the enemy, but l don't think
that Hoadly will rush into print to deny it.
GOING FOR GORE.
An oldline Democrat told me last night
that the sland-bysr Of the, party are seri-
ously considering the questionSof letting
the campaign 60. by defanlt as the best
means OF rebuking the h9grant use Of
money in the Bookwalter and Hoadly
nominations. They point to the actions oi
the Republicans in New York, last fall, as
worthy to be followed in this instance.
This is Allen Thurman's idea, and, say
what they may, Democrats even ottke "New
Democracy school, cannot get over the
feeling that Allen is, in great measure,
counseled and directed bynhis. sire Of the
red bandanG.
.p5il ;yB9oKwALrER FLuSKs...
Although Bookwalter established his
friend Dallantine in the secretaryship ofthe
executive committee, which was under.
stood to meana large cash donation to the
fund, Chairman Paige, Of the
central committee, has told It aronnd that
Bookwalttr has pulled out" and will con-
Tribute only d, paltry pittance to the COM
moi fund, for thGi committees, but, not a
dollar to the big pool ior carrying the State
aud Legislature. This marks. Bookwalter
asa man Q, discrimination and judgment.
It is much wiser for him TO mn bis own
ieSlslAtlNescAulpNISull llhH 10 pe monkey
pulling chestnnts for Payne. . There Is no
longer any doubt that Payne and. Hoadly
are working in conjunction, to the con-
fusion OF all the other candidates
for Senator and President. Ward al
ready feels this, and will make trouble in
ths party in consequence; while it ia not
likely Converse, Pendleton, Hurd, and
Bookwalter, will'rest easy under the cosli-
tion. The methods by which, Hcadly Sc
cured his nomination and the.methods by
which Payne broke the back OF the Ohio
delegation ut the last Democratic National
Conyenionare suggestive OF the plans,they
have. for the capture Of 0hio's gubernatcf
rial and seSRtoriaf b6nors. In the Ian
guage Of General Ward, "lf all this is not
stopped, American Institutions will not
outiive the next generation" II the pee.
pie Of Ohio. are true TO Republican and
Observation-Disclosures, these money chang
era in the political temple will be thrust
out in the cold in October with such EN-.
phasis as will hereafter make such bargains
and money transactions impossible" !,
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