The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-30
NOMINATION.
The Origin of the Story that 1t Cost Fifty
Thousand Dollars.

Interview with ''Jayhawker."
81 did not tell Governor Foster that Judge
Hoadly told me that he had spent $500 0 or
any other sum at the Cincinnati convention,
but 1 did tell him that 1 understood from
Judge Hoadly that his nomination cost him
$50, 600. This could have been spent work
ing up county conventions previous to the
State convention. But Judge Hoadly did tell
me that Mclean, of the Enquirer, was re-
ported to him to have bought Hoadly dele
gates at $500 each, and that he had to defend
himself by buying them back. He made
that a ground of complaint against Mclean,
and said that his only satisfaction was that
it had cost Mclean a great deal of money.
l wrote to Governor Foster to-day in regard
to the matter, and made substantially this
statement: What | did say to you was
under the seal of confidence, and l am sorry
you have made any ~allusion to a subject of
which |, as a personal friend to Judge
Hoadly, spoke to you. | believed the Judge
was being robbed, and would continue to
be robbed during the campaign. and the rea-
son [ gave you for that opinion was that on
the evening of July 81 called at the Office of
Judge Headly, in Cincinnati, and had a half
hours talk with him, and informed him
that | was then starting on a trip over the
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candidacy. He spoke at once with regret
that the Enquirer seemed to be opposing
him. and then went on to say that the even
ing before he was nominated he had seen Mr..
Mclean, of the Enquiries, who had promised
that he would not further oppose him; that
Mclean has continued the opposition, and
the Judge said: The only ground of COM
plant which l have is that Mclean made nv
nomination cost me too/1nuch money; but |
have the satisfaction of knowing that he
wasted his own money" | then said: Il
have heard that it cost you $50, 600" well"
said the Judge, that is too much for any,
one to spend for the office, to say nothing of
the nomination" The Judge then went on
to say that after his conversation with
Mr.. Mclean he went to bed satisfied,
but that at 6 o'clock the next morning
word was brought him that Mclean had spent
the whole night with the delegation, and had
captured the. convention by paying as high
as $500 for votes, and that the friends who
brought him this word told him that he must
defend himself. When | stated the reported
amount paid for his nomination he did not
say that it was not correct, leaving the i'm
preston on my mind that this was the SUM.
The conclusion of my letter to Governor
Foster, which l send from here to-day, in
addition to what l have given you, is as fol-
lows: 4 am sorry that o have in IN way
alluded to this matter, because | think the
Judge did not want any publicity given. In
fact he said, "None of this talk
is to be printed" and I know he
did not want the public to know that
the thing had been so expensive. To make
it public was painful to him, and had known
that, after two campaigns of your own, |
would have had so little sympathy for a fell
low-soldier, l would not have told you any
thing about it. expected a better feeling
from you toward my friend, but, instead of
giving him your sympathy, you gave the
whole thing away to the public. This is not
fair to the Judge nor to me. If you cannot
be trusted with an occasional Democratic Sc.
cret, l will not tell you any more of them "