New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-23
COVRPNOR FORAKER.

II will be Governor Foraker and that by
good round majority. The campaign in OHIO
has not really opened, and yet the Democratic
marty is in a state of Generalization, with
the election six weeks of. One disaster has
followed another. most of them being due
To the political Stiffness of Judge Hoadly
The latest is the McLea6- Pendleton inlbroglio
in Cincinnati and the queer treaty OF peace which
seems 10 have followed it. Mr.. Mclean owns
a newspaper, and as he runs it himself in
highly vigorous manner, politely declining to
LET other people run it, he has made various
enemies who would like to break down both
him and his newspaper. In the hope of doing
this, new Democratic paper was started,
with large number of Democrats as stock
holders, and Judge Hoadly among them. But
when the local Democratic convention met the
other day, it was found that Mr.. Mclean vas
in complete control. He swept the legislative
candidates who favored Senator Pendleton's
reelection of their feet, and nominated his
own ticket through out. The defeated party
charged him with wholesale bribery, which ia
what the defeated party usually charge, and
which must be taken with grains of allowance.
Then it was found that he had even tackled the
rival newspaper to his triumphal car. Alter
DAYS of silence and of great agitation and
numerous conferences among the Democratic
leaders, The Aecs journal accepts the ticket
while for appearances sake it abuses Mclean.
This is said to be the result of a bargain be
tween Hoadly and Mclean. by which the latter
nuts his shoulder to the wheel for llOadly as he
has not done before, and Hoadly himself is to
work against Senator Pendleton, and do other
things Mclean wants. The discovery of this
treaty seems to have reused respectable
TEMPEST in Hamilton County, where political
| tempests are so common that it takes big
blow TO attract anybody's attention. There
was talk not only of holding a new local con-
| yention, but of forcing Judge Hoadly off the
| State ticket Neither of these things is likely
10 happen now, bat there is such intense dis
satisfaction within the party that they would
probably stand letter chance of winning, If
they should put new ticket in the field, even
at this late day.
The fact is Judge Hoadly's defeat has been
admitted, privately, by leading Democrats, at
| the West as well MS here, for ten days past. He
was the poorest choice the party could have
| made, and almost every day of the campaign
has given fresh proof of it. His political record
was against him, to begin with. 1t was that OF
a man with mania for deserting his party
and his friends. If his motives were good, he
mistook vacllation for independence, if his
motives were not coed, be WAS not to be trusted
at all He was the only man who had the
effrontery to defend the attempted Cronin
steal of an electoral vote. He offended the
rank and file of his own party by his decara-
ton of snew Democracy" which consisted in
an admission that everything the OLD De-
mocracy had striven for was wrong. The COL
ruption by which his nomination was obtained
was Jtorious long before "Jayhawker" made
his charges, and the manner, first clustering
and then timid, in which he treated them con-
sinced the decent public that they were prob
ably true. Between times, he boosted, when
he was down South, and apparently under
some ostrich like idea that he was out of the
hearing OF the newspapers, how he had
bounded Garfield when the latter was alive
These were q few of his mistakes. Now comes
his desertion of his Cincinnati friends to get
McLean's support. The Judge was right
| His nomination did cost him too much"