Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-16
sULTRY TIMES IN OHIO.

The Democracy of Ohio is heavily hand
icapped. It is TO be pitied. All its cap
ital in trade, the Scott liquor law, has
been exhausted. Not only has the law not
prevented the traffic in liquor from being
carried on, but it has made fast friends
of the liquor dealers themselves in most
cases, while it has vastly increased the
revenues Of the State and of the munich
ps!ities. But what is still worse for the
opposing party, the moment Democratic
Buckeye begins TO snathemAtize the Scott
law, his opponent hsunts in his face the
Downing law of Missouri, passed by a
Democratic Legislature, and enforced by
Democratic officials. This Downing law is
to the Scott law "a the sun is to the moon.
It taxes liquor selling three times as high,
requires heavy bond TO be fled, refuses
the right to anyone TO sell except on Pc
tision presented in Court by two-thirds of
al the voters in the district or town, and
shuts up saloons on Sunday like steel
trap What can Democratic orator do
in such strait? One of these gentlemen,
when confronted at Cleveland with the act
of his party in Missouri, seizsd the nearest
hat he could reach, bounded from the plat.
form and cried out to the crowd
If Democrats have become such cursed
fools az that over in Missouri, it is
k;,.,a Gov 0b,o Do,ooa,ato - -. - IL
kick themselves to death. But ills never
come singly. The father of evil seems
bsnt on mischief TO the party. Judge
Hoadly was charged on the stump with
buying bis nomination, or of saying he had
done so. This he denied Indignantly. The
sum was said TO have been 500, 600. The
Judge grew more than angry, insisted that
the author of the scandal be named, and
wrote letter to his assailant to that effect.
Thereupon there steps upon the scene J.
II. Woodward. 60 ahield Judge Hoadly.
And what is his defense2 Why, that the
sum was only $50. 1000. He goes on to say
that Hoadly complained to him that his
nomination had cost him $50, 1000, and that
it was too much to give for any Office in
the State, let alone mere nomination, but
that he had to put it up, and that one-half
of it was spent in single night on the
primaries st Cincinnati. Woodward ad-
miss that he told this to Governor Foster,
q Republican, never dreaming that he
would moant the rostrum and "give the
business swsy." Hoadly has not denied
W0edwssd's statement, and has grown
morose sn6 sullen, and the political suck
Ing pigs who drew $50. 900, from the Judge
openly declare that man who squeals st
suoha sum as thatdeserves TO be beaten, and
1t is now being debated whether it is not
best to take Hoadly's name down and put
up that Of Durbin Ward, who was emit.
Sled to the nomination In the FIRST instance
By all the rules of right. Old.line Demo
cats are openly expressing themselves as
unwilling TO support 3 man whom they
knew as an extreme Republican only eight
years ago, while very many others are
disguised at the admitted bribery revealed
by the $4,000 matter. Pendleton's
friends are soured at his treatment, and
declare. that they viii shed no salt tears
e5er Hoadley's defeat. Take Ii all in all,
tae party is sadly handicapped in Ohio.
To add to its grief, comes the news that
John G. Thompson has been ousted from
the conduct of the campaign, and now
goes about as a roaring liop, seeking prey
aud sweet revenge. In the face of all
these facts the San Francirco Examiner
caolly predicts for Hoadly majority OF
10000. On the other side, fortunately,
there has bsen no division. except by the
detection Of the Proh;bitionistz, bat I" q
bat to q feather to dress it with " that be-
fore election day the Prohibition ticket
win be pulled down. No che can insure
She Republicans success, and no one now
ventures to predict it for the Democrats.