Daily globe., 1883-06-28

self. L say that small part, because no man
knows better than | that l have been chosen ov-
er older and better soldiers of the Democracy
not because personal confidence and affection
toward me existed, but because it was the. hope
and belief that through my nomination notice
might be given more effeCtually to the world
| that the fences were down, that the gates were
open, and that the hospltable heart of the OHIO
Democracy open to receI'e recruits, no
matter of what race, color, previous partl-
sanship. To be nominated by such a conven-
ton over such more worthy antagonists is an
honor that ought to fill the ambition of ones
lifetime and completely occupy his mind-to be
nominated by a convention pres ded over
by my oldest friend, by whose side
from 1910 to 1914, fought boy in my col
lege society the battles of the Van Buren, De-
mocracy.''
Below may be found sample of current
Republican comment, which is worth
putting on record as an exhibit
of the depth of unmanli-
ness to which the frantic old spoils-eaters
descend to do despite to the bravest and
purest man as we'll as The ablest, who has
been a candidate of any party in Ohio in
well nigh forty years.
Here is fat confession by the candidate him
self that he ought not to have been nominated,
with almost Pecksnif1ian profession of humll-
ity, concluding with lot of sentimental gush
about his college life boy of forty years ago.
Democratic candidate for any Office, any
where, must be made of sterner stuff than this TO
insure success. Then the fnical judge excuses
himself for having ''gone over'' to the Free Soil
and Republican party nearly forty years ago on
tee ground that he hated slavery, which DE O.
Gratis loved. But fearing, and justly, that he had
gone too far in his confession, he begs to be
hl nd nj having hated
slavery! Having thus in a weak and dastardly
way laid himself open to slap in the face, Gen.
Ward, the defeated Bourbon candidate, pro-
ceeded to administer it in good set terms, de-
claring that he Judge Hoadly) had not rem
dered One-tenth part of the service to the Demo-
cratic party that he (Wardl had.
Such stuff is heathenish, and the jackals
of partisan hate are overriding the matter
Who was ''Gen. Ward the defeated Bour-
bon candidate.' Why an old silver-gray
bunker whig, of the school of men who
have stood still for fifty years, man who
has been in the Democratic party more by
sufferance than from any sympathy be-
tween himself and the organization, and
during whose whole association with it his
constant cry has been that of the horse
leech's daughter, "Give," 'Give," 'me
Office Who was Salmon p. Chase? First
Democrat, then Republican, and last d
Democrat, who left the Republican party,
as did Judge Hoadly, because of its cor
ruptions, yet Mr.. Chase was highly
enough esteemed as Republican
to have been a prominent candidate
for its Presidential nomination, having
the support of Ohio for the position. 1t
has been esteemed no great sin for Dem
ocrat to have come into the Republican
party, as for instance, Stanley Mathews,
who was Mr.. Buchanan's United States at
torney for the southern district of Ohio,
| and is now United States supreme judge,
appointed by Garfield and confirmed by a
Republican senate and Malone. Carl
Schurz affords another cons nspicuous in
stance of Democrat going over to the
Republicans, but nobody has booted him
out or attacked his motives, and so the list
might be multipl for Ohio is full of Dem
ocrats now Republicans and Republicans
now Democrats. Horace Greeley left the
Republican party and accepted the Demo
cratic nomination for President. He was
abused and maltreated after the manner in
which the blood hounds are pursuing
Hoadly, but it was the noblest act of his
life turning his back on the party which
had grown 50 corrupt he could
not longer abide with it. Judge
| Lyman TrumbulI, of Illinois a dis
tinguished statesman who sat in the United
| States Senate as a Republican, saw the
work and drift of the party with which
| joined the Democracy, and is now acting
with that party to-day. Hon. L. +. Spaiding,
one Of Ohio's most distinguished jurists,
was first Democrat, and in 1S4S found
himself first in sympathy with Van Buren,
and the free soil movement which followed
! the "barn- burners" He served in Congress
as Re epubIican. but the serried infamies
of the Grant regime caused him to believe
it TO be the duty of patriotic men to turn
away from the party whose misfortune it
was to have fallen into the control of cor
rupt and graceless men. Following his
convictions of his highest duty he has
since acted with the Democratic
| party anu was iISAtOSI
of the convention which nominated
Hoadly. Judge R. F. Paine, of Ohio, is an
other conspicuous man who fought the
battles of free soil and anti-sIavery with
Wade and Giddings, and stood by the Re-
publican party until the moth Of corrup-
ton made him cease to hope for better
things, and he is in the Democratic ranks.
Geo. W. Julian, of Indiana, the son-in-la
of Joshua R. Giddings, the anti-slavery
leader, is now as earnest and avowed a
Democrat as can be found in the country
His anti-slavery sentiments rendered him
the peer of Gerritt Smith and VIM. Lloyd
Garrison, but when the Republican party
cast off its garment of purity, foreswore
its best traditions, and became cove
nant with rottenness and spoils,
he cast his lot with the
Democratic party. These instances, which
might be added to at any length, show that
Judge Hoadly does not by any means
stand alone, in having ceased to act with
the Republican party from motives of the
highest patriotism and purity, 1t is not
in the bounds of decency for the Republi-