Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-04-18
THE RANKEST OF ROT.
ABSURD YARNS GOING THE
ROUNDS OF THE OHIO PRESS.


/ There Is no Coalition Between Allen
W.Thurmnn and Senator Payne on
Between John II. Mclean and
Geurge n. PendIeton-Neither Mr.
Payne nor Col. Bricc will be in the
Race for the Senate-The Ohio Po.
Iitical Situation as Viewed From
Washington.
WASHINGTON, April 4.-SOme very
/ silly aud absurd statements are going
! the. rounds of the Ohio press with refer
enre 10 the fcOming gubernatOrial and
senatorial contests. Combines and
coalitions lf variOus kinds are already
chronicled in the public prints as hav-
| ing been formed with no other object,
| il would seem, than to see how far from
! the truth The writers could he. II is
said, for instance. that Senator Payne
and Allen w. Thurman, son of the
"Old Roman" have joined forces with
the object nf Thurman rolling the full
strength ofthe old "mnsshack' element
and Payne getting the fall support of
the "kids." In getting up story of
this kind it would seem that the names
of the leaders of these two fictitious fac
| tions, at least, ought to be reversed.
| II is further alleged that this is merely
Il continuation of prior arrangement
between these two opposing factions by
which Judge Thurman was nominated
| for the Vice Presidency in 1888 in order
| to get him out of the way as senatOri-
al possibility next winter, thereby al
| lowing Senator Payne to return to the
Senate unchallenged; and that now
Senator Payne has taken up young
Thurman in order TO strengthen the
legislative ticket which, it is alleged, he
is to put in the field. This imaginary
plan further includes throwing over
hoard X-COngressmen Campbell, Judge
S. n. Owen and Congressman IOuth-
waite, whose names have been used in
connection with the Democratic nomi-
nation for governor.
TO those who know anything about
the inside workings, this talk is the
veriest bOsh, it is the quintessence of
rot. 1t is not even an ingenious fairy
tale-rather the hungling ignorance or
the work of some malicious prevarica-
tor. No one who is thoroughly familiar
with the history of Democratic politics
in Ohio of late years can do else but
stamp it as falsehood on its face. No
combination has ever existed between
Senator Payne and Judge Thurman
and moreover none ever will. Those
who are in a position to know cannot
doubt the truth of this statement.
The persons who are nourishing this
gigantic scheme lin print are taking it
(S tn1 hnf TO- will hn
q candidate for reelection nOtwithstand-
ing his statement through the Plain
Dealer that he had not authorized any
thing to that effect. The truth is Sena-
tor Payne never had any intention of
being candidate for reelection. When
the writer says this he speaks by the
card. He has not publicly announced
this fact because he does not feel called
upon to state his position in reply to
every idle rumor, but at the proper
time and place he will so inform the
Democracy of Ohio. Senator Payne
will be 81 years old when his term ex-
pires in 1891, and after successful po-
liticaI as we'll as business career extend
ing over fifty years he is content to retire
with the many honors he has already
achieved.
MORE SPECULATIVE TRASH.
The papers that are expatiating upon
this remarkable Payne-Thurman COM
bination, alluded to above, are also
talking of a coalition betwean John r.
Mclean and George III. Pendleton, by
which Mr.. Mclean is to be sent to the
Senate with the aid of Mr.. Pendleton
and in the event Of his inability to
break in ex-senator Pendleton is to be
returned to his old seat in the upper
house of Congress. Coupled with this
is also the statement that Mr.. Mclean
and Senator Payne are ON the "outs."
This is of course nonsense. Both these
gentlemen are close friends and are fire.
quent visitors at each others residences
here in Washington. More than this
Mr.. Mclean has given up his senator
ial aspirations and has publicly an
nounced that he is in no sense a candi-
date. In addition to this Minister Nc
Leans health would not permit him to
even consider the project of returning
to public life as a United States Senator
1t will be news to the people of Ohio,
but it is nevertheless fact, that Mr..
Pendleton has never recovered from his
paralytic stroke and is now really on
the verge of the grave. A physician
who attended Mr.. Pendleton during his
residence here, who knows his consti-
tuition thoroughly and who has visited
him in Berlin since his paralytic stroke,
says he believes Mr.. PendIeton is a
doomed man. Either he will be the
subject of another stroke of paralysis