New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-12
oUARREIs AMONG THE DEMOCRATS.

COLUMBUS, June 11.-The Democratic party
In this State is In bad The signs OF conscious weak
increase in Lumber daily It Is not an evidence Of
strength, for example. that the Democratic journals
spend much OF their time in trying to stir up bad
feeling among the Ohio Republicans. An attempt In
The Cincinndu Enquirer to raise by interviewing
Ex-Governor Foster did have the effect desired, but
did call out from The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
good-humored but not entirely complimentary remarks
about the Governor whose lea lership In Ohio affairs
1t said. had not proved altogether helpful to anybody
except the Democrats One thing is certain though;
personal wrangles among Republicans cannot possibly
help anybody except the Democrats The Enquirer, too,
misses chance represent In OF Republican
county meetings. that there terrible row. and that
the factions beyond measure litter and that tue
quarrel had become positively unbeatable. There would
be less trouble taken to circulate this valuable nfOrma
tion II t partly true.
On the other side. the temper OF the Democratic fac
tOI since President Cleveland began to make appoint
mens for this State has been anything The
columns OF the Democratic papers have contained evil
denoe enough that the Mclean ny of the party was
getting ready to pitch into Mr. Cleveland without
or restraint. His appointments have not only been
quite uniformly hostile to that interest but could hardly
have been ingenously devised to defeat the ects
OF Mclean and his associates If they had been dictated
by the most adroit and experienced politician in the
State Then too Hoadys position In the party has be-
come great nuisance to It. There is some talk that he
Democrats he is regarded the who has done
than anybody else by general since lie
Burns. Of Mansfield one of the most prominent Demo-
cs I'm that part OF the state being asked the other day
why he leader of the old fashioned Sort did not favor
the nomination of Allen u. Thurman for Governor re-
piled: "When the Democratic party allows renegade
Republican TO to the front and get nominated for
Governor and elects him. and that gentleman gets the
Democracy OF the State In - bad hole don't think its
the right thing to ask Allen G. Thurman to make the
for Governor in order to get the party out OF that
h0le That sort VI feeling toward Governor H0adly
very generally expressed But 1t Is fair to that n
the negbborhood of Mansfield, Geddes s the choice 1f
most OF the Democrats for Governor because that his
home. He has many enemies, and they has prom
sed post offices to too many applicants and at all events
is generally regarded rickster; but nevertheless be
has contrved TO have active friends IN all sections and
fragments OF the party
As to Thurmans nomination, 1t Is impossible yet to an
ticiT ate 'any thing But there is little reason to
doubt that the managers who have opposed Mr.. Thur
bitterly, aud in former contests slaughtered him
with 80 little mercy, do not advocate his ncmna
ton because they want to him succeed suppose
that his possible The fact is that the shrewd
est Democrats in the state do not suppose 1t possible to
succeed with anybody this year.