Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-08-04
HoADLEY's BARREL.

It seems that it cost Hosdley pretty round sum to secure his nomination. A dispatch having been sent out from Ohio. which was given out by Governor Foster who gives J. H. Woodward. of the Cincinnati Enquirer. as his author ity, states that Hoadley's nomination costs him Sj0,0O0 NIT. Woodward, be- ing in Chicago on the day the dispatch made its appearance, was interviewed in relation to the statement. He said "I understood from Judge Hoadley that his nomination cost him S50,0D0" He also stated that Hoadley told him that Mclean, of the Enquirer, was reported to him to have bought Hoadley delegates 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 satIs- faction was that it had cost Mclean a great deal of money" While in Chicago MT. Woodward wrote to Governor Eos ter in relation to the matter, stating that what he said to him was under the seal of confidence, and he was sorry he (Fos- ter) had made any allusion to the sub ject, as he (Woodwsrdl was personal friend of Judge Hoadley; but now that publicity has been made of the inside workings of the democratic party, Mir. Woodward wants the public to know as much as he knows about the matter, and in order that the true inwardness of the Hoadley nominating convention may be known, he gives a conversation which he had with Judge Hoadley, which is as follows:
 "I have heard that your nomination cost you S50,000." We'll said the judge, that Is too much for anyone to spend for the office, to say nothing of the nomnRlion.' The judge then went on to say that after his conversation with Mir. 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 del egation, and had captured the conven- ton 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 I stated the reported amount paid for his nomination he did not say that it was not correct, leaving the impression on my mind that this was the sum-"
 It seems that the Enquirer WAS op- posed to the nomination of Hosdley, and that both Mclean and Woodward have made no effort to conceal the se- crets If the convention, which defeated their man. Hoadley, until within the past few years was a republican, and for that reason was unpopular with the old members of the democratic party. It Is more than likely that General Ward had an inkhng of what had been going on when he made that somewhat remarka- ble speech before the convention, in which he severely rebuked the party for failing to recognize his thirty years serv- ices, and hInted at the manner in which he was defeated. It has been evident from the first that there has been laek of harmony in the democratic party in Ohio. The wounds received by the En- quirer, which Is the leading democratic organ of the state, have never been healed, and its support of the ticket is lukewarm and of little fierce. The de- feat of Hoadley IS now looked upon by the democrats as more than probable, while the republicans are sangulne of electing their ticket.