The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-05-25
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nation in ohio---The Doodle TrIum-
virate Which Controls the Ohio
Democratic Machinery .-- Republic
cans Satisfied.
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OF the State 10 become Il candidate"
Just where Mr.. Neal unearthed this
large number of influential Democrats
does not appear in the published ac-
count Of Mr.. Meals change Of heart.
Probably further information on this
point could be obtained in the vicinity
Of Hamilton county, or might be Sc
cured through the medium OF the Gin
cinnati EnglIira'S want columns.
ENGINEER M'LRAN.
The facts in the matter are that the
plan of the whole fight against Governor
Campbell has been arranged by John
R. Mclean. Neal was selected by Nc
Lean as the club by which Campbell
was to be whipped into submission not
only for the reason that circumstances
made him the most available man, but
because Neal himself stood in the way
of McLean's ambition. The willy Ham
ilton county journalist saw IN oppor:.
tunity to engage his two most powerful
rivals in controversy which would
certainly result in destroying one Of
them, and which would remove both
the victor and the vanQuished from Mr..
McLean's own path OF progress toward
the prize which he has been coveting
for Years. Mclean has for almost de.
cade been casting longing eyes toward
the United States Senate. He is one OF
the shrewdest and most far-sGeing poll
ticians in Ohio, and he has at his com
mand practically unlimited wealth. To
such man, in the present day and age,
nothing is impossible in Democratic
politics.
A MILLIONAIRE TMUMv1RATE.
Payne, Brice, Mclean are the great
Ohio triumvirate OF Doodle Democracy.
Payne was sent to the Senate by the aid
OF Mclean and his forces because tho
time did not then seem ripe for Mclean
himself to become n candidate. Then
Brice was selected by the same elements
which had elected Payne, and which
still stood ready to do the Kidding Of
the Hamilton County King, The times,
it was thought, were not yet ripe for
the grand transformation scene which
was to make OF Editor John Il, Mclean
a United States Senator. So he threw
his influence for the New York Ohio
tinancier and made his election possi-
BILE.
M'bEAN's OWN TURN.
Now Mclean thinks that his own
time has arrived, and he will receive, no
doubt, the support of the precious pair
of millionaires whom he has helped
raise TO public office. So it will come
to be said, they hope, that there were
three Ohio millionaires, all private citi-
zens. They pooled issues and 10, there
were three Ohio millionaire Senators
standing in the places OF those older
statesmen whose claims TO preferment
came from brains, not Doodle.
Mclean expects that the farmers
movement will be OF sufficient strength
in Ohio this fall to hold the balance OF
power in the Legislature, or at least to
destroy the Republican chances for
electing senator. To this end his
friends and his newspaper, the Enquirer,
are bending every energy. Mclean
emissaries are penetrating the most
remote comers OF the State helping the
farmers movement along by influence"
both oral and tangible. Under the guild
ance of his fine Italian hand the Ohio
Alliance will become no more than q
Democratic aid society, and as such will,
of course, assist that party in electing q
senator.
THE DEAL.
No man knew Larry Meals strong
points better than John r. Mclean, and
to no one could the necessity Of getting
Larry out of the way be more apparent.
That's why Larry was first rescued from
| ChiIlicothe's umbrageous lanes and by
ways and placed in the way OF guberna-
torial lightning. Then came the deal
by which Neal was to retire from the
race for Governor and CampbelPs
friends were in return, to help him in
the race for Senator. For this result
Mclean had not been entirely pro-
pared, and its effect was rather stagger-
ing. The correspondents OF the En-
gltira straightway began discussing
other available candidates for Govern.
or, among them Hon. Virgil P. Cline, Of
Cleveland. While public attention was
thus diverted, McLean's real object, the
proselyting OF Neal, was accomplished,
and the result may be found in the sem
tence quoted from Mr.. Neal in the open.
ing paragraph OF this dispatch.
Meanwhile the Ohio Republicans
view the Democratic squabbie with Il
feeling ofunmixed satisfaction and com.
placency. They will nominate McIlin-
lev. enter the campaign with ranks un-
broken by iactionnl fights, and in the
utmost harmony they will pull together
and make ono OF the greatest, cleanest
and most successful fights in the his
tory Of the party in the Buckeye State.
RIGHT AT cAMPDELL's DOOR.
The fight against Governor Campbell
is beng carried on almost in his own
door yard. Lewis Bernard, who is John
R NicLean's Lieutenant, one OF the
most skilliul wire.pnllers in the State,
has been in this city for several days,
His mysterious movements have been
viewed with alarm by Governor Camp
bell and his friends, and it now devel-
ops that their fears were not without
ciluse. When questioned last night
Barnard did not deny that he had been
IN the capital city in the interests of
larry Neal and the faction which OPP
noses the Governor HIS special mis-
sion was to secure an anti-Campbell,
delegation from Franklin county 70 the
State convention. lie claims to have