Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-30
Thursday, August 30. 1888.
POLITICS IN OHIO.

IN Ok11O
 The outlook for the Republicans in Ohio is constantly brightening. The Democrats are quarreling more or less furiously and some of them very furiously. The state of mind some of them are in is indicated by the Col .umbus Capital, which is called the Demo. cratic organ of central Ohio. The Capital declares: We will not be paraded as the pur chased chatte1 of John Wesley Bookwalter or George HoadIy: No convention of corrupt and purchaseable delegates shall transfer its proprietary interest in our allegiance as 8 Democrat to the highest bidder. No trading millionaires in newspaper back offices in Gin cinnati shall devide the spells of the Ohio Democracy without our indignant protest being heard against the usurping act of the wretch who sells, and the treason of the au- tocrst who purchases, the franchises of betrayed people. Hence, while passively recognizing the honorable gentlemen whose names were placed on the State ticket by unbought sufrages, we shall oppose the election of Hoadly, the friend and ally of Bookwalter, whose methods of securing poli- tical preferment have already received the deserved and the unqualified condemnation of all honest men.
 This is frank and forcible. The editor of one of the leading Democratic weeklies in the State talks about as plainly, though he does not bolt. He says: I would inform the senatorial aspirants that the one who spoke of his ''claims" or allowed his friends to speak of them before election day should never have thing in the gift of the Demo- cratic party. I would never allow Judge Hoadly to go upon the musings without carefully revised speech that must con- tain no word that is not down in the written text. I would give Durbin Ward my blessing and ask him to go home and forget his sores, or at least take them of public exhibition. I would ask Mclean of the Enquirer, and Armstrong of the Plain Dealer, to forgive their Democratic enemies, or at least to forget them until after election day. would order John G. Thomp- son home and tell him to express no more opinions to the eastern newspaper reporters. I would ask Allen G. Thurman to quit grumbling and go to work. I would request John W. Bookwalter to spend what money he wished to get rid of in aiding the Demo- cfaG1c party, ana uOG III SoIt1uB up bOOA- walter pins in all the legislative bowling alleys of the State.
 Another thing that ought to and proba- ply will seriously hurt the Democrats is the action of the liquor dealers convention which openly and warmly embraced their cause. Such support is not as strong as it may seem to be. Senator Sherman put the case well when he said in his recent speech: eff particular interest can organize for selfish ends to control elections, and avail themselves of the aid of one of these great parties, that party ought to be defeated by the aid of every man who believes in whole some restraint upon the traffic. No man should hold his party ties so strongly as to allow them to control his vote on questions like these, when good order, temperance, sobriety and public safety depend upon the exercise by him of an independent franchise. 9 There must be great many Democrats in Ohio who cannot conscientiously vote with the liquor dealers Democratic party.