The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-09-06

The Trouble in Ohio.
| There is heap of trouble in Ohio-among
the Democrats of that State. 1t began with
the nomination of Judge Hoadly who is de-
| scribed as man with mo. /! head and No.
26 mouth" The Judge has ''bar'l.'' but the
wicked opposition of the editor of the Cincin-
natl Enquirer, the leading Democratic journal
of Ohio, so raised the price of delegates that
what will prove the empty honor of nomina-
| ton for Governor cost $4,000. more or less.
Gen. Durbin Ward, the Enqurer'S candidate,
| took his defeat sorely to heart, and in address
| ing the convention after Hoadly's nomination.
declared himself candidate for the United
| States Senate TO succeed Pendleton. who natur-
ally wants to succeed himself. This was the
| beginning of series of internecine quarrelS
among the Democrats, and of blunderS and
mishaps, which would require columns to re-
late in detail. 1t was believed at first that Me
Lean, of the Enquirer was devoting his ener
| gies to ensuring the defeat of Hoadly at the
polls, and this was no doubt true but subse-
quentlN treaty of peace was arranged BY which
Hoadly is to aid Mclean i'll his crusade against
Pendleton. and obey him in other things and in
return the Enquirer is to boom for Hoadly. \
third party to the treaty is Mr. Bookwalter
who controls the State committee. and who also
aspires to the Senatorshp. This trio. of which
| Mclean is the ruling spirit. is now conducting
the Democratic campaign in Ohio Judge IIoad-
ly having collapsed physically, and been COM
PEELED to retire from the stump. the canvass was
opened by Gen. Durbin Ward. who attacked
the Pendleton law for the regulation of the
civil service at length He intmated that as the
result II a Democratic victory in the national
contest the principal offices would be delivered
to the highest bidders. while the rank and file
were to expect repeal Of the Pendleton law
and general distribution of spoils. The
| body of the civil service. he said. ''must give
way to new men selected from the Democratic
ranks" This attempted bribery of voters and
workers by promises of places and preferment,
ne undertook to defend by saying that the alter
| native is direct bribery. cash III hand. This
may be accepted as an authoritative exposition
| CT Democratic morals and methods and a.
such it will hardly advance the interests of that
| party in Ohio. or elsewhere. Indeed it is already
causing rebellion within the party itself. The
| following editorial from The Capitol, Demo-
cratic Journal published in Columbus. is said to
have "created q decided sensation in political
circles, and it undoubtedly reflects the senti-
ments of very large number Of Democratic
voters who refuse TO endorse the methods adopt
ed by the candidate for Governor. which re-
| suited in his nomination." The Capitol says:
We have acted publicly with the Democracy
/ f-t..,
| ers and eminent statesmen were directing its
| deStlnieS, and it is because we would be recrc-
ant to those principles. traditions and teachings
| If we longer continued to follow Uoadly or
! BoOkwalter that at this eleventh hour we fear
| lessy and unhesitatingly call halt. We will
not be paraded as the chattel of John Wesley
| Bookwalter or George Uoady. No convention
of corrupt and purchasable delegates shall trans
| fer its proprietary interest in our allegiance as
a Democrat to the highest bidder. No trading
millionaire in newspaper back offices in Cincin-
natl shall divide the SpOis of the Ohio Democ-
racy without our indignant protest being heard
against the usurping act of the wretch who sells
| and the treason of the autocrat who purchases
the franchises of betrayed people. Hence.
while passively recognizing the honorable gen
| tlemen whose names We're placed on the State
| ticket by unbought sutfrages. we shall oppose
the election Of Hoady. the friend aud ally of
| Bookwalter, whose methods of securing p0iti-
| cal preferment have already received the de-
served and the unqualified condemnation of all
| honest men. The head of the State ticket has
| but simply emulated the example set him by
Bookwalter. and to-day this same Bookwater
has pre-empted the right to purchase the leg>-
| lature (lf DemOcratic). as condition of his
support of Hoadly for Governor. The so-caled
| new Democracy has succeeded in defining the
lines separating it from the party of Jefferson
| and of Jackson. Its fundamental principle that
the offices shall be knocked down to the highest
| bidder VIII never be accepted by men who be-
| lleIe IN republican form of government. and
who have patriotism enough left to desire the
perpetuation of democratic institutions.
This review of the Democratic situation in
| Ohio would not be complete without some men
ton of the quarrel> and heartburnings which
have followed the capture of the Hamilton
| county convention by Mclean the end in view
being to control the legislative nominations 50
as to defeat Pendeton> aspirations. This sue
cessfu stroke of McLean's was what brought
Hoadly and Bookwalter to terms. 1t was Il
victory of the bari, of course. and the Cincin-
| natl Commercial Gazette gives the figures show
ing what was paid to the several ward deega-
lions to the Democratic County Convention for
their votes. The total. divided among the nine
ty-two delegates from eight wards, is put at
S10,925. or about Sl20 for each delegate. There
fact that the member to whom the funds were
lntrusted for division left the city abruptly and
took all the money with him. In another case
| five delegates who would accept only part of
the slate We're locked ten dollars apiece in the
settlement. In another ward the Executive
Committee claimed a share of the piunder, and
the case was left to referee, who decided that
the claim was not valid as the Committeeman
could not vote in the convention. He was in
formed, however, that he could .'get his work
IN on election day. The lowest price paid to
any delegation was $50 each. If the authority
of a Republican journal is questioned. here is
an extract from column and half editorial
in the Cincinnati News Journal, Democratic
organ, touching the same matter
We have no words in which to express the
adherence in which all true Democrats in Ham,
lton county and Ohio hold the attempt of John
t. Mclean to debauch and destroy the party
and deliver over to his fellow conspratorS in
the Republican party the great State of Ohio,
upon whose patriotic devotion to the cause of
mankind so largely depends the favorable issue
OF the next Presidential contest. His methods
are spurned with contempt by every right think
ing Democrat. That he did not destroy the party
| IN Hamilton county was no fault of his. He
possessed the maglignant will and intent. but
his own Vaccinations have risen up to confound
him, and the Democracy of Hamilton county
have shown themselves superior to the accident
that tried to fasten upon them its envenomed
fangs.
The feeling thus indicated has finally cumi-
mated in a bolt against the Mclean machine and
a call for another Democratic convention. Over
two thousand Democratic voters, representing
the most respectable element of the party, are
openly antagonizing the Mclean ticket and de-
clare that defeat is preferable to the evils that
would follow the success of such methods and
| men as have obtained the supremacy in their
| party affairs. AS citizens of Cincinnati they
are not willing to aid in the establishment
| of ring rule, even to ''save the party" The
Democrats carried Hamilton county at the last
election, and it has been concededby both parties
that the control Of the Legislature and very
| likely the election of the ticket will depend up
| on this county. Now Democratic defeat seems
inevitable. And, finally, there is talk of putting
| HOady off the ticket. He was not the choice
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