The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22

c%Innati, as candidate for Governor. General
Durbin Ward, for the tenth time, has been
defeated in his aspirations for recognition by
his party. Ten times nave the representa-
tives of the Democratic party told General
Ward that they could not forget the fact
that he had taken a prominent part in the
work of squelching a Democratic rebellion.
Durbin Ward is a marked man, and he will
political preferment so long as he remains
q Democrat. The nomination of Hoadly is
also a slap direct at the Cincinnati Enquirer,
which has opposed Hoauly by all means,
fair and foul. Only yesterday morning it
turned all its force loose upon the congo
NAL work of ridiculing the Judges chances
and magnifying the opposition to him.. In
so far as it is a defeat of the Enquirer as a
factor in Ohio politics, 1t is a victory for the
Cincinnati New Journal, which has been a
strong advocate of Hoadly, who is under
stood to be a heavy stakeholder in the paper,
which was partially started, as it was said,
to boom the Judge into active political life.
The result is also a blow at ex-senator Thur
man, the veteran, who now lags super
6uous, in the opinion of his own party. The
old Roman threw himself personally into
the contest in favor of Ward, but to no avail.
And in 30 far as it is q rebuke to Thurman it
is a victory for Mr.. Pendleton. The nomina-
ton will tend to still further develop the
strong antagonisms in the Democratic party
in Ohio, and cannot be considered, from a
party point of view, in any respect a strong
one.
In its personal aspect Judge Hoadly's
nomination is a square victory for the liquor
men as against the Scott tax bill. Hoadly
the liquor dealers in their legal contests
against the effort of the State Legislature to
put the traffic under some sort of control.
1t is also a Tilden victory in its broader as
poets. Judge Hoadly has been regarded as
the political heir of the sage of CIPHER alley
for some time, and Mr.. Tilden had a per-
sonal agent on the ground, Mr.. G. J. Candy,
Of New York, whose presence caused about
as much excitement and interest as if Soapy
Sam himself had been there. Judge Hoadly
was the discoverer of Cronin's nose,
and the originator and pusher of
all the nasty corruption clustering about
that infamous attempt to steal one cleo
toral vote for Tilden and Hendricks from
the State of Oregon. Personally, Judge
Hoadly is a fair man, of great legal ability,
which he has used unscrupulously, as in the
Oregon case, for political purposes, and
which is at the call of great railway corpora
tons, and against the people at any time and
under all circumstances. He touches the
people alphabetically nowhere. He is
always against them and their rights, and on
the side of money and corporate power.
Politically, he is a renegade Republican,
having become Democratic only when the
Republican party persistently failed to
recognize his greatness. Verify, he has his
reward, so far as the Democratic party is
concerned. 1t is to be seen whether the
people of Ohio will indorse the payment.
Taking it for all in all, we do not regard the
nomination of Hoadly as strong, popularity,
as that of Durbin Ward would have been.