The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-10-24
4 SC0RCHINC LETTER.
Another One Sent to Calvin S.
! Brice of New York.
MS METHODS As A BOSS AND soooLea

MS METHODS As A BOSS AND B00DLEA
Exposed, and How He Il Now Endeavor.
ing to Control the Democratic Party Of
! Ohio by the Use Of Money-No Honest
! Democrat who Loves His State or Party
Will Support Him.
CLEVELAND. Oct. Is, 1895.
10 Calvin 8. Brice, ESQ., Boss and Boodler and
Senator by Right of Corrupt Purchase:
have, as a citizen of Ohio and an &C.
tual and bona fide resident of the state,
addressed you two open letters, asking
you certain questions, and calling your
attention to the bold and scandalous
charges made against you in a book
called Bosses and Doodle in Ohio Poll.
TICS" by Hon. Allen o. Myers. No
honest man would rest under these
charges for an hour. You make reply
you think the storm will have blown
over. You are mistaken. The people
are aroused. Your silence under these
charges and in this campaign has
who feel that the success of your Doodle
aud your dishonest and infamous meth
ods in politics will not only destroy the
Democratic party, but place all that
every citizen holds dear in jeopardy.
While you have not deigned to notice
my open statements addressed to you on
Sept. 20 and Oct. 8, have heard from
you indirectly and in a manner thai
shows the arrows sent have hit the
critters heart" It shows that you are
not insensible to public criticism. It
proves that like all arrant towards, you
are afraid of public opinion, and you
are trying to hide in the jungles of poll
tics, that the people and the passing
procession may not see you, except at
distance.
"Yell For James,"
You have sent word to your hench.
men and paid thugs to deny that you
are a candidate for United States sem
ator, and to yell for Mr.. Campbell.
You have declared that you are in favor
of him for president, and his friends
and handlers like, that pink of purity,
Peter Schwab. have taken up the cue,
and declare that if the Democrats carry
the legislature they will favor Campbell
for senator. Just now you are kind to
Mr.. Campbell; YOU ARE running him for
president, senator and governor When
you have used him, he will be cast aside
like worn out door mat The sad pos
sibilities are that next year Campbell
will not be heard Of. While, if beaten,
as you surely will be, you will have in
your control the party machinery of
Ohio. This will be your only asset after
the disastrous invoice of your inves-
ments are made in November. This
you will use to dictate and control the
party next year, and you will be able to
name the delegation to the national con.
vention, and you will use it, not for the
best interests of the party, but you will
look upon it as a valuable piece of prop
erty purchased by large expenditure
of money, and as such you will use it to
suit yourself, and when you are through
with it you will follow practice that
schemes. You will have a receiver ap-
pointed to hold an inquest on the re.
mains
1t may be set down now as an abso-
Lutte certainty that James E. Campbell
and some of his friends-no silver man
no honest man that has opposed you
and your methods, even by silent in.
activity, will be recognized in any way
or will be permitted to have any voice
in shaping the actions of your party in
Ohio next year. You have hopelessly
destroyed the Democratic party in Ohio!
While it wears the brand of the three
big "B's" upon it's hump-Brice, Boss
and Boodle-there is no future for
the Ohio Democracy, and its usefulness
as an honorable factor in our politics
and civilization is destroyed.
1t is true of all criminal types of men
that when they have entered upon a
career they can not change their en-.
vironment, they can not alter the con.
ditions that impel them with the grow
ing force to disastrous conclusions; but
it is fact that may be stated to your
credit that you have some sense of
shame and sensibility that teach you
that you dare not do openly in your own
name what you are trying to do now in
the names of decency and Democracy,
and under the cause of the candidacy Of
James E. Campbell. The latter in his
canvass makes no allusion to you for
two reasons: First, because he loathes
and despises you; second, because he
does not wish to endanger his own
standing as Democrat by being identi.
fled with you in any way. He carefully
avoids all mention of your name in his
speeches, and all reference to your pub
lie career.
Brice's Convention.
You had full control of the Spring
field convention. 1t was your conven-
ton. 1t belonged to no one but you.
Had you given the word it would have
adopted the Republican platform and
lndorsed the Republican nominees!
Your committee on resolutions, headed
by that pitiable politician, Frank Hurd,
who seems to be your personal property,
was ready to make you digger man.
than old Cleveland, but you saw this
would not do; you permitted them to
name him first and you second. You
had to hold them to prevent them from
naming you as candidate for senator!
Their zeal alarmed you They were
subservient to the bugs of debasement,
and you were compelled to restrain
them. You did not dare be an open
candidate for United States senator,
because you feared the people," Now
your tools say you are not candidate
for senator. You are! You already
have majority of the Democratic nom.