Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-18
A WARNING TO NEAL.
Governor Campbelrs. Personal Organ
Becomes Very Emphatic.
APPEAL TO HONEST DEMOCRATS
To See That the Present Executive of Ohio
is RenOminated.
POLITICS VERY LIVELY IN BUCKEYEDOM

| Wnlcn is recOgnlZeu Us tio PSisVAdl OISdn VI
Governor Campbell, and which is edited
and published by one of his appointees, to-
day prints the following, which is re-
garded as official and authorized by the Gov.
ernor on the forthcoming Gubernatorial
nomination and his feelings toward Hon.
L. 7. Neal, his leading and only opponent
in the race:
1t is no longer secret that Larry T. Neal
| is a candidate against Governor James +.
| Campbell.
The friends of the Governor should know
this now at the very beginning, so that in
subsequent conduct they will make no mis-
take in dealing with Mr.. Neal.
The prominence Mr.. Neal now enjoys is
a new experience to him, and it seems to
have turned his head completely. Two
years ago, outside his own and the adjacent
counties, he was comparatively unknown to
the Democracy of Ohio. In the early days
of the campaign of 1889, when the eyes of
the Ohio Democracy were upon Congress
man Campbell as the most available candi-
date for Governor, Mr.. Neal had never even
been dreamed of as a candidate.
Spoiled q Unanimous Nomination.
Mr.. Campbell \ could have been unani-
mously nominated in May or June or July.
He sent word to his friends that he wanted
the Ohio Democrats to wait and think well
of what they were doing. He wanted
them to ascertain first if there was
not a better man or more available
man in the ranks of the party than
himself. Then it was that Allan w. Thur
man and others, believing Mr.. Campbell
had not advanced far enough across the
Democratic tariff map, unfurled an extreme
tariff reform banner, and, placing 1t in the
hands of Lawrence 7. Neal, marshaled
about him the extremists of the Democratic
tariff reformers. That gave the Chillicothe
man the first prominence he bad in Ohio.
AT the convention he added more to this
prominence by receiving something over 100
fewer votes for Governor than his success
full competitor did. Two years passed away
and Mr.. Neal has had no further opportuni-
ties to increase the prominence left him as
a heritage in the memorable campaign,
which began so gloriously at Dayton in
August and ended so triumphantly all over
the State in November.
Only fractional Opposition.
Now second opportunity has arisen for
Mr.. Neal to increase the stature Of expecta-
tion of his political hopes, in the factional
opposition to Governor Campbell, because
he did his duty fearlessly and because he
declined to permit his administration to be
scandalized with even taint of official cor
ruption.
This element, which regards public Office
as private plunder for the greed and rapac-
ity of party spoilsmen, are lifting their BAN
ner over Mr. Neal and marshaling all the
discomfort, all the greed, all the disappoint-
ment under and around it. Mr.. Neal is
I'M nd hic vol
liable time is once more wasted in striking
at the Gubernatorial bee that persists in
worrying him by day and making his dreams
miserable by night.
For a while many we'll meaning, able,
patriotic and wise Democrats of Ohio
thought it would be brilliant stroke to
have the convention that nominated the
Governor indorse Mr.. Neal for the Senator
ship. That would place prize before
each, to win which both sides must pull
together and united achieve double vic
tory The friends of Governor Campbell
for long time looked on this proposition
with favorable eyes and listened to it's pos
sibilities with willing ears. Then, when all
had become regarded as settled, Mr.. Neal
comes forward once more and announces
that he is still in the race for the Governor
ship.
More Than Party Success.
In other words, he declares that with him
personal aggrandizement is a greater motor
than party success; that there is more glory
in attaining individual ambition than in
uniting a party and waging successful war
fare on the aggressions of monopoly, on the
necessities of the people; that the triumph
of Democracy is nothing be the fruits of vic
tory to another than Lawrence T. Neal.
"Be it so! Be it SOP
If the judgment of Mr.. Neal has been
warped by the struggling voices of disap-
pointment that echo here and there from
the State, and his courage has reached that
point where he thinks to measure swords
with Governor Campbell let him proclaim
himself without delay and announce
his candidacy without any further
late that the honest Democracy
of Ohio will repudiate man, who, in ex
change for political glory, became the in
strument of John r. Mclean, to defeat a
man who had balked all his schemes to un-
load all his pensioners on the city of Gin
cinnati through his chosen friend, Louis
Reemelin. He will find that the Demo-
Gratis of Ohio propose to stand by an honest,
fearless, tried and true executive, and that
they will spurn man, who to glorify him
self, would tear out the vitals of his own
party.
A Warning as to the Future.
When Lawrence T. Neal finds himself
fully entered in the race he must remember
that he will never see the United States
Senate, even though the Legislature be
Democratic. If it be fair for him to an
tagonize Governor Campbell now he
can expect as good as he sends
when that body meets to choose q
Senator. With what measure he meted
out to others will be meted out to him. In
politics as in nature it is the survival of the
fittest, and Mr.. Neal must make himself
thoroughly familiar with that. The friends
of Governor Campbell throughout the State
do not intend to sit idly by and see the good
old Democratic ship scuttled by the pratt
cal crew of John R. Mclean, captained by
the Chillicothean.
Mr.. Neal will find an iron hand clutching,
his throat whenever he aspires to the seat of
Sherman; he will find strong arms binding
him, hand and foot, and casting him afioat
from the ship he would rule or ruin. From
this time on Mr.. Neal will be taken for
what he is, and not for what he pretends to
be. 1t is better for Democracy to go down
to temporary defeat if by so doing the
seditious can be expelled. Mr.. Neal may
as well know now as later along that he can
neither be nominated for Governor nor can
he be elected Senator in any event. If he
thinks so, let him try. The World notifies
him now, in the interest of John R. NC
Leans money, that both are absolute i'm
possibilities.
A M0THER'S FOOLISH. ACT.