Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-08-02
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The Cost of Hoat!y's Nomination.
MORE slsfORMATIeN Than THE CANDIDATE OF
IhE !RES. DEMOCRACY CALLED FOR.

IRE .REX. DEMOCRACY" CALLED FOR.
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Wilhelm the East recently Governor
Foster was interviewed, and said in effect
that Hoadly's nomination for governor
had cost him $4,000, and on this subject
quite a correspondence has since been
carried on. Hoadly, as soon as he read
the account, wrote to Foster whether he
was responsible for the statement, taking
occasion at the same time to deny ever
having said so. In reply, Governor Fos-
ter wrote: IF the interveWer had made
me say that it is alleged that Judge Hoad-
" has admitted, ETC., | would have been
correctly reported so far as the paragraph
to which you refer is concerned. \ gen
tleman, who says he had a full talk upon
the subject with you, told me what you
said to him; that your nomination cost
you $4,000, and that Mclean compelled
you to pay one-half of this sum during
the convention. | cannot give his name
without his consent" Mr.. Foster, in a
humorous vein, goes on to advise the
Judge to make public exactly what it did
cost him, and whether it was true that
Mclean made him pay more than was
necessary. Hoadly don't appear to see
the joke, and angrily retorts: Il repeat
the statement is false in all its parts.
Now produce your informant and let me
confront him"
Governor Foster has kindly furnished
Mr.. HoadIy with the information he de-
sired in the shape of ii letter appended
below, from Mr. j. III. Woodward. known
rs "Jayhawker," of the Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Following is the letter of Mr.. Wood
ward to the Governor. together with the
note written by the latter upon forward
ing the same to Judge Hoadly:
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER.
COLUMBUS, O., July 80, 1881
,Judge GeO'gs HoadLy:
MY DEAR SIR hand you herewith
copy of i letter of J. II. Woodward,
the gentleman to whom | referred as
having given me the cost uf your nOmi-
nation as stated by yourself to him.
may add that did not furnish the
correspondent with the information that
Mr.. Woo iward was my authority for
the statrment | made as to the cost of
your nomination. Yours very truly,
CHARLES FOSTER.
p. S.-As Mr.. Wood ward has himself
given the substance of his letter to the
press,I have taken the liberty to furnish
the full text G. F.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL, July ~, 1888.
Hon. Charles Foster, Columbus, Ohio:
DEAR SIR-The Chicago Tribune of
Yesterday contains the telegraphic cor
respoudence between Judge Hoadly and
yourself relative TO what it is said to
have cost the judge to secure his nOmi
nation. The Tribune correspondent adds
to his report the statement that | am
your informant as te the matter under
discussion; and. knowing the relations
between that CORES Spondent and your |
SELF and the reliability of correspond |
ents generally, assume that you told |
him that | WAS your informant There |
fore | write you.
What 1 did say to you was under the |
seal of confidence; and | am sorry that |
you have made any allusion to subject |
of which |, as d personal friend to Judge
Hoadly, spoke to you about And what
you have said places me in an unfair |
light. | believed that the judge was
being robbed and would continue to be
robbed during the campaign, and the
reason | gave you for that opinion was.
that on the evening of July 2, called at
the office of Judge Hoadly in Cincinna-
ii, and had half hours talk with him,
and informed him that WAS then start
ing on trip over the state to gather
Demo ratio opinion on his candidacy
He spoke at once with regret that the
Enquirer seemed to be opposing him,
and then went on to say that Oh the
evening before he was nominated, be-
tween 10 and IL o'clock, he had seen
Mr.. Mclean. of the Enquirer, who had
promised that he would not further op-
pose him; that Mclean had continued |
the opposition. and the judge said: MY
only ground nf complaint which have
right to ilse is that Mclean made my
nomination cost me too much money /;
but | have the satisfaction of knowing
that he wasted his own money"
then said:' Il have heard that it cost
you $4,000"
We'll, that is too much for any one to
spend for the office, to say nothing of the
nomination"
The Judge then went on to say that
after his evening conference with Mr.
Mclean, he went To bed satisfied, but |
that ut 6 o'clock the next morning NUId
was brought to him that Mclean had
spent the whole night with the delega-
tionS, and had captured the convention
by paying as high as $500 for votes and |
that the friends who brought him this
word told him that he mnst defend him.
self.
Judge H0adly did not tell me directly |
that he paid $4,000 for his nomination,
hut he did say hat "McLeln had made
the nomination cost him d great deal
more money than it ought To have cost
him." and when stated the reported |
amount, lie did not say that it was not |
correct leaving the impression on nv
mind that that WAS the sum. | told him |
thea that if what he said WAS true of
MIR. Mclean promising him sHppnrt.and |
afterward turning against him, that Me
Lean had dune him il serious wrong, and
that was probably the reason why Nc /
Lean hated him; but | told him that
did not believe Mclean had spent more
than i've hundred dollars on the conven-
ton, and WAS too careful Of his cash to
invest it whore he could get no return. |
added that had never heard Mclean
utter an objection to him; that had no
instructions which looked that way, and
did not think the judge had been correct
ly informed. lie assured ME that he
was that he had seen Mclean since
the convention. and that Alex. Sands
had told him why and how it was.
| am sorry that You have in any way
alluded to this matter, because | think
the Judge did not want any publicity
given tn il. "In fact, >" he said, None of
this lk is to he printed. and know lie
did not want the public to know that
the thing had been So expensive. TO
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