Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-03
The Ohio Democracy.

The Bourbon Democracy of Ohio as
sembled in convention at Columbus on
/ Wednesday and transacted the usual
routine business that they go through
with every summer preparatory to their
autumnal defeat. The convention was
as noisy body as ever met under reg
ular call. There were irnumerable free
fights before the convention assembled,
and the telegraph announced the arrest
AMI Imprisonment of several Hamilton
county delegates on charge of disturb
ing the peace. Some of the delegates
Were locked up for drunkenness Tuesday
night and released Wednesday morning
on condition that they would keep
steady, but before nightfall they were
behind the bars again for breaking the
peace.
The platform adopted by the Ohio
Democracy is a piece of transparent clap
trap i'll which the party that saved the
Union is accused of everything that is
unpatriotic, corrupt, and REASONABLE,
while The party which nursed and fos
tered treason and sought to destroy the
Union is applauded to the echo. Its
language is in direct variance with the
history of the Democracy and it lodges
all the questions upon which it is ex
pected to speak openly and above board.
The convention nominated for Secre-
tary of State, James Newman, the pres
ent incumbent; for Supreme Judge, c.
ID. Martin, a lawyer of Lancaster; for
Member of Public Works, John Fl. Beu-
fer VINO this Beufsr is no one knew
except delegate from Tuscarawas.
Durbin Ward, Allan G. Thurman j Ohm |
Mclean and Jacob Mueller were elected |
delegates at large. When it was moved |
to elect Thurman by acclamation the |
motion was amended by adding John |
McLean's name thereto. BY this means
Johnnie went in as an attachment to
the red bandana. Jacob Mueller was |
elected because he insisted night and |
day that 10000 Germans of Cleveland |
would feel very bitterly disappointed at
his defeat, and would not vote the Dem
ocratic ticket unless he was made del
egate. No effort was made to recognize |
the cOlored people. 1t was expected that
the selection of Thurman and Ward |
would placats that class of Democrats
who were so sore over the machine man
agemept of their party during the last
year. The fact is that when Ward
wanted anything worth having he never
could get it, and now, after snubbing
him for years, his party very consider
ately beStows upon him this honor. 1t
is fair to suppose that in case the name
of Senator-elect Payne should come be-
fore the Chicago convention it will not
be pushed with much enthusiasm by
Ward and Thurman, the two first dele
gates at large.
The work of the convention was a
surprise to many of the new party man
ayers. The Hoadly and Payne factions,
with the entire Farley Bookwalter crew,
we're thrown overheard and Johnnie
Mclean slipped in by the skin of his
teeth. Ike Hill, a bitter opponent of the
Hoadly crowd, was made chairman of
the State committee. in the organization
of which the most pronounced enemies
of the Hoadly Bookwalter Payne faction
were brought to the front. 1t looks as
if the machine which last winter as
snmed such despetic control of the Ohio
Democracy was pretty we'll defeated in
the convention. 1t is safe to say, how
ever, that when the Democratic party of
this State has at its disposal any posi-
ton that is worth having, the machine
will come to the front and take it.