The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-10-03
HOADLY ON DECK.
The Next Governor of the State
of Ohio.
His Presence ArOuses the Democracy to
Renewed Hope-A Night of En-
thusiasm at Cleveland.

CLEVELAND, o., Oct. 2.-This has been
a gala day for the Democracy of Cleve-
land. The presence in the city of Hon.
George HOadly, the next Governor of
Ohio, has filled the hearts of Cleveland
Democrats with unbOunded enthusiasm.
Judge HOadly was feeling badly yester-
day after his long and tiresOme journey
from Philadelphia, but the bracing air
of Lake Erie has endowed him with new
VigOr, and today he has felt in much
better health and spirits. He spent the
entire day at the residence of Hon. H. B.
Payne, on Euclid avenue, where he has
busted himself receiving callers and re-
vising his speech, which he delivered at
the grand mass meeting held on the
Public Square last night. He said that
from what he has learned of the situa-
tiOn since his return to Ohio, he feels
confident the Democratic party will
march to glorious victory at the COM
ing election. He feels sure the regular
Democratic ticket in Cincinnati will be
elected by large majority.
Since his arrival in Cleveland Judge
HOadly has been the recipient Of many
kilograms aud letters of cOngTatulatiOn
from Democrats in various parts of the
state.
Many of these have been mislaid or
destroyed, but among the many were the
following:
COLUMBUS, o., Sept. 80, 1888.
Hon. GEO. HOADLY, Cleveland, Ohio:
Congratulate you most heartily on your
return to the State and your recovered
health. GEO. H. PENDLETON.
From Hop. Durbin Ward came the
following:
COLUMBUS, Sept. 80, 1888.
Hon. GEO. HOADLY, Cleveland. Ohio:
With the leader in the field we will
thunder along the line. The enemy's
column wavers. VigOr and courage will
bring us grand victory.
DURBIN WARD.
The following came from the State
Executive Committees:
COLUMBUS, Sept. 80, 1888.
Hon. GEO. HOADLY, Cleveland, Ohio:
Our committee desires to congratulate
you upon your restoration TO health and
return to Ohio. Advices from through
out the State authorize us to say that
the windy boom of the Republicans has
spent its force, and that the Democrats
will win. We hail you now with words
of welcome, and on election day will
send you tidings of victory.
GIL II. BARGER, Chairman.
From Allen o. Myers:
COLUMBUS, Sept. 80, 1883.
To GEO. HOADLY, Cleveland: Welcome
home. Your presence is worth thousands
of votes to the Democracy.
ALLEN o. MYERS.
This has been night of jubilee. Bands
have been playing and the air seems full
of victory for the Democracy. TO-night's
mass meeting in the public square was
without doubt the greatest political
meeting held in Cleveland for years.
Eiffaan thnndaD1 nannIn m
public square tonight at the last grand
rally of the Democrats of this county be-
fore election. In the history of the
Democratic party of Cleveland it marked
the largest and most enthusiastic gath
ering for years. PROFESSIONS from every
ward and township paraded with torch
lights and banners. A novel feature was
the hundreds of tOrch-bearers on horse
back, who surrounded the crowd in the
center.
II wonder if Cleveland is unanimously
DemOcraticP" said Judge HOadly, as he
looked upon the great multitude. This
certainly doesn't look like discOTd in
CuyahOga." Hon. H. B. Payne presided,
and in his opening remarks asked by
whom and by what authority the tariff
had opened in Ohio. There had been no
demand for change; no industry de-
manded it, but politicians and office
seekers had jeOpardized the industries of
the country by representing the Demo
cratic party as free trade party.
Judge HOadly spoke as follows:
| thank you, fellow citizens of Cleve-
land, for this cordial and magnificent
reception tonight, and thank the band
which has played that kindly tune of
which | feel unworthy, Hail to the
Chief" because Oh saturday night the
elements played the same tune for my
brother Foraker. LLaughter.l | am here
to try to address you tonight, not be-
tween quinine and morphine, but
between sick chamber and a
Governors office-nearer the sick
chamber from which l have come
within a week than the Governors office
in point of time-but L hope as certain
of the future as | know 10 my sorrow the
distress am sure of in the past. When
the thirty eight votes of CuyahOga cOun-
tY were cast for my nomination as the
Democratic candidate for Governor of
OhiO-and with their aid | was selected
it was my hope and purpose to make
thorough canvass of the State, as tho
rough, persistent and energetic as my
health and strength would permit.
1t has been my misfortune to be strick-
en- down with illness almost at the be-
ginning. The hope has been disappOint-
ed, the purpose frustrated. l come here
now to the company of the friends of
my childhood; come here now to one
place where my father and mother, hon
Ored and beloved parents, were buried;
/ come here now to place with which
my youthful eyes aud youthful hopes
were filled, but which has grown up from
my remembrance almost in the majesty
of its maturity; l come here almost in
the last hours of the canvass. hardly con-
valescent, to thank the Democracy for
their kind fOrbearance of my shOrtcOm-
ings, and, with all my heart, to thank
those noble and gallant leaders who have
borne the burden and heat of the strife
for me. (Applause)
Democrats of CuyahOga county, con-
gratulate you on your union and spirit
and hope of success. Fifty years in the
minority, you are at last triumphant;
your clarion voices and vOciferOus out
bursts at the head of the column called
Democracy of Ohio to duty. 1t is no
small thing to bear with defeat for half
a century and not lose courage; it Is
much more at the end of this long peri
cd, during which Whig and Republican
triumphs have been tempered only by oc-
casiOnal pluralities during the brief