The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-12-15
Has Already Commenced by the
Leading Republican Candi-
dates for Governor.
Judgp Geo. K. Nash and Harry Daugh-
er,y In the Lead with u Number Of
Dark Horses Close In the
Rear.
COLUMBUS, o, December 5, 1898.

ed last Saturday in column article In
the OE,o State Journal, with a cut OF the
distiup uished gentleman at the top ol
the olurnn. and next to pure reading
matter The article gave complete
historv OF his life. Particular stress ls
placed upon the service he has render
ed his country and his party No one
will d-nv that Judge Nash is good citi-
zen; ns one will dispute that he has
been a good Republican; no one viii
doubt that he was brave, good soldier,
and vet his war record in the Journal
article is summed up in these few worde:
"He served for time in the One Hun
dred aud Fii,ieth Ohio regiment during
the late war (by which, OF couise, is
meant the late Civil War, latterly going
to Greene county, where he taught
school," The article then continues:
HE came home from the war sick,
puny young man, with less than $25
in money in his pocket, and nothing in
the way of money or influential friends
to recommend him. In career OF a
third of century, Judge Nash stands
sans peur ct sans reproche." l don't know
what the latter half of the closing sen
tence means, but, appearing in one OF
the most pronounced Hanna papers in
the state, I take it that it is something
complimentary, or, at least, intended to
be such. At any rate, am perfectly
willing to agree with the State Journal
in all that it has said. Judge Nash il
not unlike other men. He has had his
ups and downs. The only difference be
tween men in this respect is that some
have their troubles in their early age,
others in middle life and still others in
declining years. Judge Nash belongs to
the former, the sunshine Of whose lives
from the time of their first triumph have
been obscured by very few clouds
Chairman Daugherty, with his face still
flushed by the recent Republican victory
in Ohio, finds that he has greater cor
tract on his hands than that assumed
when at Senator Hanns's request he
took charge OF the Ohio campaign. He
belongs to the middle class. General
Grosvenor belongs to the latter class,
who have to combat these difficulties
in their declining years, politically
speaking at least, and while he strokes
his long grey beard as impetuously as
Kansas Populist, ne neither appears az
gressive or enters . word of complaint
he is too foxy to do either. Groeveno'
has great deal of cunning when he
has an Office in sigh, ,and talks too much
when he has had no axe Of his own to
grind.
Judge Nash's life has not been one of
uninterrupted sunshine. Fortune has
favored him great deal in times past.
He has occupied several important .po
sitions of trust in Ohio, and been faithful
to each and every one, but for several
years he has been anxious to secure the
nomination for Governor, only to be
He came the nearest
reaching the goal Of his ambition at
GAINESVILLE in 1896. But the compact
entered into at that time naming Bush-
nell for Governor, Foraker for Senator
and Mckinley for President, compelled
him to step aside and bide his time. It
is understood that Senator Hanna and
his friends ct that time promised Judge |
Nash their support in the present con.
test, but the friends of Chairman Daugh. |
erty are putting forth . similar claim.
Grant @. Gillette. the Kansas cattle |
plunger, whose exploits are now being
aired by the newspapers, 80 far forgot
himsslf 40 to mortgage the same herd of
cattle to two different people, bat they
we're to fall due at different times, and if |
Gillette had not run out of funds with
which to buy feed the public would
never have been the wiser, and every.
body would Lave been hsppy and con.
tented. Dsugherty and Nash have both
become hungry for Office at one and the
the same time, and while Senator Hanna
d not short on cash, he is short on fod.
der, and his farmer friends refuse to
come to his rescue. Senator Hanna is
seeking to unite the discordant elements
Ia his own household ON Judge Nash,
but the friends of Chairman Dsugherty
are loyal, and a most serious division in
the Hanna ranks presents itself. Who
would have supposed for moment that |
Of State Kinney, State Dairy |
and Food Commissioner Blackburn,
Cyrus Huling. Chairman OF the State |
Central Committee, Josiah B Allen,
Clerk OF the Supreme Court, General
Charles H Grosvenor and other Repub
licaps of equal prominence, would |
have taken issue with Senator Hanna in
the selection OF q candidate for the Gov.
ssponhin Most of these gentlemen are
for Dsughe,ty FIRST. last and al the time.
~ mattss Of feet ] have besn informed