Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-21
CLEvELAND's STRENGTH.
Gov, HOadly's Law Partner Says de
viii Garry Ohio.

Edgar NJ. Johnson, the distinguished
Cincinnati lawyer and the partner Of Gov.
Hoadly, says a Long Branch special of
the 18th instant to the New York Times,
created stir among the fashionable COM
pany at the West End Hotel to-day by
laying a wager of $500 to $500 that CIeve-
land would carry Ohio. He had Just come
from Chicago, where be went as a dele
gate for his personal friend and business
associate, Gov. Hoadly. After it had
become clearly evident, however, that his
first choice could not win he turned in for
New York's son with vim, and has come
back full of ardor for the reform candi-
date. He is a tall, handsome man, with
blum and unpretentiOus manner. He
has an extremely intellectual looking face
and bright brown eyes.
''This bet shows just what / think of
the political situation he said laughing
ly to a correspondent. ''There is no more
doubt in my mind that Cleveland will
carry Ohio than there is that he will win
in Kentucky. More than that, the Demo-
Gratis viii carry the State in October also.
and thus give the ticket boost with the
rest of the country. On what do | base
my assertions? On what l know. Gov.
Hoadly got the largest Democratic vote
ever cast in Ohio, and Cleveland Will get
SUBSTANTIALLY Tie same DaIIOLS. lie is
immensely strong out there"
'Are there many Independents there?''
There are some who are business men.
But the Ohio Republicans are more Sc
riOusly divided than the existence of a
body of what are called Independents
would indicate. The temperance eues-
tiOn has come in to divide the Blaine
forces, just as it divided the Republicans
before in the Gubernatorial fight. The
Ic 70 Of
our citizens, particularly to the Ger
mans, is still in existence, and
the Republicans are running their
most rigorous Scott law man for
Justice of the Supreme Court. He
will be defeated, and the Blaine Electoral
ticket will suffer with him. The Germans
are nearly all against Blaine because of
the temperance question, and because
they don't like the notion OF his spirited
foreign policy The Germans are thrifty,
energetic. business people. They have
enough of soldering and the brass band
business in Germany. In this country
they have peace, and they don't take
kindly tothe idea of official theatricals tha%
may get them and the rest of the country
into trouble at any moment without ne
cessity."
Chow does Gov Hoadly like the nomi-
nation?''
at delighted him. The whole Ohio
delegation, after it saw that Hoadly him.
self, for whom they would naturally vote,
could not be nominated, went for Cleve-
land. The campaign IN Ohio will be
fought out on personal grounds. 1t will
be Cleveland against Blaine-the repre-
sentative of reform against the figure-head
of a corrupt system. The tariff issue,
which will form the chief string to the
Blaine bow, will have no power with us.
The Democratic cOlYention's deliverance
on the tariff question suits us to a nicety.
1t was almost exactly Ohio's own plat
form. Cleveland will carry not only Ohio
but also Connecticut, New Jersey, Mas
sachusetts and New York"
"What Of Tammany?"
''Tammany will be for Cleveland and
will help to give him big majority in
New York. Just after the convention l
met Ned Kearney, John Kelly's right
bower. He was not for Cleveland, but
after the nomination he said, Il am for
him. And he is for him, too, now, heart
and soul. And so will all of Tammany
be. The nomination of Cleveland seemed
at first to be weak. 1t evoked no hurrah
That is because it was made by the think
men Of the party. But it is a nomination
that will grow stronger every day, and at
the end the people will see that it was the
strongest that could be suggested. Hen
bricks strengthens the ticket too, with
us, as he does, it seems to me, all over the
West,;