The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-20
CINCINNATI REPUBLICANS.
Nominations That Fail to Receive Unanimous
Approval-The Cause of the Trouble.

CINCINNATI, March 19.-The Republican
city convention met to-day, with Smith A.
Whitfield, recently appointed Second As
sistant POstmaster-general. as chairman.
John B. Mosby was nominated for Mayor;
Gen. Z. F. Noyes, Judge of the Superior
Court; Henry Zlegler, city treasurer; Dan
iel Brown, comptroller, and Amos Dye.
judge of the police court.
The Times-Star Republican, announces
that it will not support the ticket. 1t says
the men who have sought to rule the Re-
publican party by means of an oath-bound
organization controlled this convention
and nominated the ticket. 1t says the
honest, self-respecting Republicans have
rights, and that 1T is time they asserted
their independence of gutter politicians
within the party.
city is personal between one George Cox
and large number of individual Repub-
1icans who chose, last November, to scratch
his name from the Republican ticket. on
which he was candidate for county clerk,
and substitute that of the Democratic can
didate, John w. Peaslee, who was elected.
Indeed, Cox was badly beaten. while all
the other Republican candidates were
elected by big majorities. Cox had been
nominated for county office once before,
and W as defeated. He was an indefatigable
and able worker for his party, but he
was charged with making business of pol
itics. and debating nominations in all city
and county conventions. Last fall he made
himself particularly odious to the soldier
element by his repeated agency in prevent
ing the denomination of Gen. Charles
Brown for Congress in the Second Ohio
district. This caused outspoken censure of
Cox by many Republicans, notably by
m on, hers 0f fha lincoln Cluh Thara xvae
no action by the Lincoln Club as an Organi-
Zation, against Cox, but many of its MEM
bers expressed their disapprObation of his
course. Among the number was Edwin
Eshelby, who for three terms has filled the
office of city comptroller: He seems to
have been outspoken in his disap-
probation of Cox, if not in his hos
tility against him. Cox was a prominent
member me- Of tine flame d dCIuo ana ls Its pres
after his defeat last fall, threatened to
knife" any and all Republicans who
failed to support him. The first oppor-
tunity came at this springs municipal con-
yenti,Snn. which vas, was held today. Edwin
ten days ago. that if Eshelby
should be nominated he would re-
sign as president of the Blaine
time he. worked on the makeup of the
convention. His sole point of attack was
Comptroller Eshelby. He did not care
fig about other candidates so he got dele
gOtes that would nominate his man for
comptroller. His candidate for that Office
was Dan w. Brown. who has for several
years been holding clerical positions under
Republican administrations. Brown was
nominated by vote of 90 1-2 against 90 1-2
for Eshelby and 81 for Edwin Henderson.
1t is Cox's vengeance more than lack of
merit in Brown that makes Browns NOM
ination unpopular
The Times-Star this afternoon suggested
the calling of q mass-meeting to nominate
a ticket. The Commercial Gazette. the
Volksblatt and the Free Press will all sup
very acceptable, and, in fact, the chief OBJ
lection to it is that Cox succeeded in get
ting his man Brown nominated as an ex-
ample of the vengeance he means to take
on all Republicans who opposed him in his
race for the county clerkship last fall.