Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-20
DISCUSSING POLITICS.
Judge HoadIy's Opinion OF the
Coming Campaign.
CONFIDENT OF CARRYING OHIO.
A Member of the Republican State Central
Committee of the Buckeye State Tells
What He Thinks to a Phil .
adelphIa Reporter.

CoLUMBUs, July 19.-Judge Hoadly, in
answer to questions on the Ohio campaign
said to your correspondent few nights
since:
81 regard it as excellent, not to say Hat
teripg, and it will continue to grow better
when the campaign is fairly opened. Our
opponents lack any definite issue on which
to fight the battle of the campaign, and
they will find themselves on the defensive
instead on the aggressive. They will not
be permitted to point out alone the achieve
ments of the earlier and better leaders of
the party. but will be held responsible for
the more recent acts of spoliation, corrup-
ton and extravaganza of the men who con-
troll the party and manipulate the ma
chinery of the party organization. The
people are not so much interested in what
the party leaders of twenty years ago did
as what the leaders OF the dominant party
are doing to-day. There are numbers OF
Republican Voters
who are ready to break away from the par.
" because they feel that it has not fulfilled
its mission, and, as at present organized,
cannot be relied upon for the governmental
reforms which the great majority OF intel
,ieent voters recognize as absolutely neceS-
sary. The Republican leaders do not seem
TO realize that this element will desert
them in larger numbers this year than last.
They expect to retain them by raising false
or ephemeral issues, but in this they VIII
be mistaken"
What will be the line of Democratic at
Al lat Of on
opens"
the plan of battle. do not remember OF
having read of single general who
Wen - Dattle
by layin- his plans before his antagonist"
will the liquor traffic be made prom
nent issue in the campaign
Il think not. So far as am able to OBJ
serve, the ablest Republican leaders are
anxious to consider the question out OF
,olitics We have been repeatedly IN
formed that the Scott law was enacted to
take question out Of politics, and infer
from present indications that they areanx'
ious to have their work regarded as accom-
plished. So far rs the Republican manag.
ers are concerned, they will try to avoid
the liquor question, although 1t Is neither
i'm possible or improbable that their Prohl
stand upon the question. Ii the Democrats
carry the State and secure the Legislature,
as they are likely to do, the
Liquor Traffic
will receive that consideration due to every
public matter that enters into the question
of good government-n more anu no
less
The Democratic State Executive Com.
mittee is now fully organized and engaged
in the preliminary work of the campaign,
and has taken notable departure-retus-
ing TO make public any Of its deliberations
or single outline OF the approaching cam
paign. This greatly disconcerts the Repub'
licans, as hitherto, for a number OF years,
the Republican press have been able to pub
lish the plans of the committee as soon as
they were formed, or even anticipate them.
The Democracy of the State congratulate
themselves that at last they have a commit
Tee that can keep its sscrets-and this IS
worth twenty thousand votes.