The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-07-27
Porter IlEh,s Ia.o Moadly.

II the Hon. Charles Foster, Governor Of
3 Ohio, had not been q great politician he
might have taken a front place in the prize
r:pg. He is broad and solid; his fist with a
little cultivation would have been a batter
ing ram Of resistless force; he has the cont-
are Of A den Of lions. There are a million
men in Ohio better to let alone. Judge
Hoadly knows it now, and this was the way
tho scales were knocked of his "New
Democracy" eyes.
Ina recent interview Governor Foster
said he was informed that Hoadly's nomi'
nation had cost him $4,000. Hoadly's
friends saw that this would never
do as a beginning for the New De
mocracy, and it came to pass that the
founder was pushed to the front to bring
Foster to task. Hosdly was in SO great o
hurry to be run over that he couldn't wait
for the Governor TO receive his first tele-
gram, and so he piled in another IN real
peremptory, Standard Oil Company
style. This was before the strike, and he
stood there expecting an immediate reply.
Well, as soon as the Governor got back to
his ofice-all this happened in one day
he let Judge Hoadly haveie And this is
the blunt.edged instrument he struck him
with:
coIuapus, O., July %.
To Hon. Geo. Hoadly, Cincinnati:
returned this evening and have just read
your dispatch Of this date. 1.-THE interview
or had made me sly j: Is alleged that Judge
Hoadly has admit. eu,' ETC., / would have
been correctly reported, 30 far as the para
graph to which you refer 70 concerned. a
Gentleman who saws he had o full talk on
ihe subject with you told me what you said
to himEthat your nomination cost you S50,-
600. and that Mclean compelled you 10 pay
half this sum during the convention. ! can.
not give his name without his consent. Now
that the subject Is 1p, permit ME TO add 1t 10
notorious that the delegation from CincinnI-
II to the Democratic convention openly sold
their votes TO candidates, and the price paid
these men seems to be we'll understood.
Would It not be we'll for you to state pnb-
licly what It cost you to get your nomination
and whether 1t 10 true that Mclean made
YOU pay more than you would have paid had
ne kept out OF the tght, and, II 80 how
much, 30 that the point relative to the cost
Of your nomination may be definitely under
stood. The old Democracy lam quite sure
would like TO be informed. ! suggest this
because your epithets seem 10 apply to the
amoun stated and not to the fact that you
did not pay anything. sl7 CnAs. FosrKR.
The father and founder Of the new DEM
ocracy didn't do any more telegraphing to
Foster that day. The next day he was
resting easier, his physicians had hope of
his recovery, and he was able to dictate
another telegram-he said once more it
was all false and wanted the informant
produced. But he isn't in a hurry about
that; he can wait while his hurts are mend
ing. NJ
1t is hardly probable that Judge Hoadly
has given for publication the precise cost
OF the nomination. But it is an open Sc
cret that it cost him a round sum, and he
will never have a better opportunity to
give the figures, subject to correction by
the Cincinnati Enquirer. The record ought
to be kept straight as we 60 along.