Daily globe., 1883-08-13

sure to win. He found them
vastly confident, he says, and sure of win
ming victory. Doubtless the expecta-
tions of the arrival of the corruption fund
has stimulated these opin1ons,and the man
ayers expect success from its distribution
at Cincinnati and Cleveland and other
large towns throughout the state.
To candid observers, however, it has all
along been apparent that there is really no
prospect of Republican success. There
have been evident signs of distress in Re-
publican circles that the ostentatious and
concerted game of brag has not concealed.
Gov. Foster, who had the honor of provid-
ing weak candidate for Governor, and
weaker platform, has for some time seen
methods would find his party with the ma
jority of 10000 to 10000 against them
when the polls close on
the second Tuesday of October.
His ulterior interest in the campaign be-
ing the securing of Republican legisla-
ture that will elect him to the United
States senate, he has taken the lead in pro-
curing money for corrupt uses. AS Sena-
tor Sherman had said, in reviewing Fosters
bungling work in securing the passage of
the Scott law and his packing the supreme
court to pronounce it constitutional, and
in regard to the foolish nomination of
Fosters man for governor, that the state
is hopelessly lost, that Foraker's defeat is
certainty and no amount of expenditure
can win or buy success, Foster has become
inspired to try the power of money hoping
to produce change of thought, as was
done in Indiana in 1880. To the corrup-
tion fund that he proposes to use, he
subscribed $25,OOO and in Washington and
New York sought for help, and now it is
given out that through Gresham aud other
friends close to the administration $685.
900 has been pledged in addition to his
donation.
Vicious as is this corrupt scheme for the
use of money, there is another element
if possible, the campaign of slander that
has been instituted against Judge Hoad
ly. In this brutal work Gov. Foster has
taken the initiative and the lead. A more
villianous conspiracy than this has never
entered into campaign in this country,
and for very decency's sake those who are
making use of such means deserve the
condemnation of overwhelming defeat.
The old Republican party that Ohio
used to know has disappeared, and in its
place is the Foster party, bossed by as un-
cabal as has ever existed in
politics. These rascals will not succeed.
Under Boss Fosters domination the politi-
cal elements have changed. The German
RepubIicans-the id Dutch, as the
graceful Foster classifes them-have held
the balance of power in Ohio for some
time. Owing to the intolerance and folly
of the Republican legislature last year
this powerful element withdrew from their
support and brought about the Republican
defeat of 1882. This class of voters have
not returned to the ranks which they dis
carded, and they cannot be induced to
do so, by the power of money or from any
other course. The prohibitionists, who
cast considerable vote, have their own
ticket in the field. Desperate attempts
have been made to induce these voters to
abandon their principles and their ticket
and vote for Boss Fosters man. The
effort to gain accessions from that source
has literally and totally failed.
Under these circumstances the use of
money to produce change of thought
is resorted to, and plan very
much like that used in Indiana in 1880
out. Money has already been
heard of in counties where there is large
floating vote, as for instance, good many
hundred dollars have been sent into Stark
county, where there are numerous miners
and transient residents, whom the repeaters
with Fos.e;'s swag, will try to capture.
Those vino are watching the contest in
Ohio must not anticipate the defeat of
Judge Hoadly. A revolt from within the
Democratic party might produce that re-
suit, but instead of there being any
symptoms of that, there is satisfactory
evidence that he will command heartily, the
full vote of his party, including the Ger
mans who retired forever from
The Republican party last year.
That solid vote will prove
to elect Judge ,adly, but there
will be other accessions l. ON the Repubi-
can party. He will receive a great many
votes from the colored citizens of the
state and from independent Republicans,
who will support him as rebuke to Fos-
ter's bossism and Republican legislative
In this contest the interest
and sympathy of all independent men
gravitates to Judge Hoadly, because of his
ability, his personal and
political integrity and because of the
Infamous crusade made upon him by a
desperate cabal of the worst elements that
exist in the politics of this country. Those
who look for and hope for Judge Hoad-
ly's success will not be disappointed.
"COtOneI" Freddie.