The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-08-02
FOSTERS FALsEHooDl
THE REPUBLICAN, FALSIFI-
ER BROUGHT TO ACCOUNT
AND BRANDED AS A BASE
SLANDERER!

In a recent interview with an Eas-
tern reporter, Governor Foster asserted
that Judge Hoadly had admitted
that he paid $50, 900 for the Democratic
nomination." AS soon as Judge Hoad-
ley noticed this interview he telegraph
ed as follows:
HOADLY TO FOSTER.
CINCINNATI, July %.
Hon. Charles Foster, Columbus o.:
Is it true, as reported i'll yesterdays
Cincinnati papers, that you said ad-
mitted that bought the nomination
of the Democratic party, etc.? [ de-
maHd the authority for this statement,
and denounce it as false in whole and
in part. 1t is not the fact, and no such
admission was ever made. Answer.
GEORGE HoADLY.
On the same day Judge HOadly wrote
the Governor as follows:
SIR: / sent you this morning a tel
egram to which l expect reply upon
your return to Columbus. Meanwhile
I incIose you from the Commercial
Gazette of yesterday copy of the in
terview of which [ made inquiry in
my telegram, and have marked the
passage which is of special interest to
myself. 1 do not assume, until hear
| from you, that this interview fairly
represents you. / only say to you that
the whole statement is fable from
beginning to end, and l am entitled to
know from whom it emanated, and
upon whose authority it is based. Your
| opinions you have right to hold, and
| I have no right to complain of them,
no matter how Extensively they may
be expressed but the entire statement
embraced within pencil marks is as
wicked a falsehood as was ever stated
in print, the only grain of truth in it
being that your friend Alexander G.
Sands is also my friend, and that Da-
vid r. Paige was warm supporter OF
NV nomination for Governor, and was
undoubtedly efficient in procuring me
| the nomination, as his influence with
those who know him is deservedly
great. Awaiting your reply by tele-
graph or letter, I am,
| Very respectfully yours,
| GEORGE HoADLY.
FOSTER no HOADLY.
On his return from Washington,
| Governor Foster replied to the telegram
of Judge Hoadly, as follows:
COLUMBUS, O., July %.
Hon. George Hoadly. Cincinnati, o.;
I returned this evening, and have
just read your dispatch of this date. II
the interviewer had made me say it is
alleged Judge Hoadly has admitted,
ETC., would have been correctly re-
ported so far as the paragraph to which
you refer is concerned.
A gentleman, who says he had free
talk upon the subject with you, told
me that you said to him that your NOM
ination cost you $4,000, and that Nc
Lean compelled you to pay one-half OF
this sum during the convention. l can
/ not give his name without his consent.
Now that the subject is up, permit
me to add that it is notorious that the
| delegation from Cincinnati to the
Democratic Convention openly sold
their votes to candidates, and the price
paid therefor seems to be well under
stood. Would it not he well for you
to state publicly what it cost you to get
your nomination, and whether it is
true that Mclean made you pay more
| than you would have paid had he kept
out OF the fight, and if so, how much,
SO that this point, relating to the cost
of your nomination, may be definitely
understood? The old Democracy, I
am sure, would like to be informed. /
suggest this because your vigorous ep-
ithets seem to apply to the amount sta
/ ted, and not to the fact, that you did
not pay anything.
CHARLES FOSTER.
:. HOADLY TO FOSTER.
| The last of the correspondence is the
following:
CINCINNATI, July %.
| Hon, Charles Foster. Colnnb bus:
| repeat, the statement is false in all
| its parts. Now produce your informant
and let me confront him.
GEORGE HOADLY.
This is a nice fix for the Governor
of the third State of the Union to be
placed in, to have the brand of slam
derer and liar inefaeeably impressed
upon his brow.