Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-31

Bryan to Be Made the Scape Goat
Of the Campaign In Ken
lucky.
| LOUISVILLE, Aug. 31.-A staff corre-
spondent of local paper was sent to
Cincinnati and Chicago to investigate
ting to defeat William ]. Bryan for the
democratic presidential nomination in
| 1900. The correspondent confirmatively
telegraphed from Cincinnati as follows:
THE nomination Of John r. Mclean
| for governor by the democratic state
convention of Ohio is a matter that con-
Germs the democrats of the whole coun-
/ try, for it is step in the pre-
campaign of certain democratic leaders
against the denomination Of w. j.
| Bryan in 1900.
| 1t may be remembered that after
| Mr.. Bryan had taken from the conven-
| ton of Chicago the nomination which
the managers of that convention had
! determined to give to MIR. Teller, Mr..
i Mclean was suggested as the probable
nominee of the convention for vice pres
lident. Mr.. Mclean had been presented
/ in nomination by w. b. Marston OF
4 Louisiana. On the first ballot MIR. Nc
Lean received Ill votes, Mr.. Sibley 1853.
Mr.. Sewall of Maine 100. On the SECOND
! ballot Mr.. Mclean received 15S votes
!! and Mr.. Bland, the only candidate who
led him. 294 votes. On the third ballot
/ MIR. McI.ean's vote increased to 210, Mr..
! Bland still having 255. 1t appeared on
the fourth ballot Mr. McLean's nomina-
\ ton was a certainty, he receiving 29s
votes, with 261 for Mr.. Sewall.
Probably no one will know during
4 this generation what influences induced
i the convention to drop Mr.. Mclean. 1t
is said that his most determined oppo-
4 nent ives Mr.. Bryan. and that in ac-
cordance with his wishes Mr.. Mclean $
name was Withdrawn and that Mr..
Il Sewall was nominated.
Mr.. Mclean, who three years ago
would not consent to receive the nom
ination of the democratic national con
Evention for vice president, has. in the
u face of Mr.. Bryan's objection, for
A months been conducting campaign in
a Ohio for the purpose of securing what is
usually considered barren ideality'-
the democratic nomination for governor
in that state.
But it appears that there are wheels
within wheels when one comes to deal
ing With Ohio politics. Mr.. McLean's
managers are claiming confidently tina,
he will be elected governor in Novem-
Der. and his enemies assert that it il
: through a combination he has mad.
with the republican boss of Hamilton
county, Mr.. Cox.
: The terms of this combination ar,
said TO be: First, a majority of 10000 II
Hamilton county for the editor of tn.
Enquirer; second, a republican legisla
ture next year that is to elect George
lCoX senator from Ohio as the successor
of Senator Foraker.
Mr.. Bryans recent visit to Chicago
was followed by the formal announce
ment that Mr.. Harrison and MIR. Bryan
had come to perfect understanding
and that the Bryan democracy must be
one and the same as the Harrison dem.
ocracy This seemed very much like q
lldesertion by Mr. Bryan of his friend
Governor Altgeld and it remains to bs
seen yet how far this appearance is de-
ceitful.
THE connecting link between Ohio
and Kentucky politically is the Goebe
family. William Goebel nominally
resident of Kentucky is q type of tn,
worst kind of Ohio politcian-bold, un
scrupulous, constituencies, lacking prin
ciple He has feared to acknowledg
the Courier-Journal as his organ, bu
the Enquirer of Cincinnati has bee
serving him with much more faith an
a, "a
= candidate in Cincinnati or Ohio. Nj
G.oebel's brother does business in Gin
I;cinnati and all of his connections ar
on the northern side of the Ohio river
1T is the confident belief of the mos
!, astute politicians at Cincinnati tina
while Goebel and Mclean are both pro
fessedly followers of Mr.. Bryan, the
are part of a movement which in
.Icludes Croker and Tammany Hail, Cor
man and his Maryland machine an
Harrison and the Chicago ring.
Tt viii be found, say these poitica
prophets, that the delegations frol
New York, Maryland, Ohio. Illinois an
Kentucky will be for John Mclean fc
Of president in 1900. Nominaiiy they wi
carry credentials as Bryan men, bl
this will enable them all the more e1
fectiveiy to execute their treasonab
4 purposes.
- The governor of Ohio has neithe
veto power nor appointing power of an
consequence. He sends messages to tt
general assembly and signs the commi.
sions of notaries public, with an occs
y sional member of some local boar
e There is nothing in the office for NJ
IN Lean; it is but stepping stone
IN higher honors. He cares not one jot Fl
the legislature to be elected this yea
~ for it does not elect a senator.
o. If he carries Ohio this year-and q
", signs are pointing that way-not all Il
e. Bryans in or out of Nebraska cou
stand successfully in the way of h
nomination for the presidency. MAJ
ny 1T, that is his ambition. Even if he d
not seek the office, what man is the
d. who could deny the fitness of the r
deemer of Ohio from republicanism, Il
savior of the state of William McKi
US ley. of the nomination to the pres
ms dency?
elk "Can he carry the state of Obi
=. There never was a political organic
ton like that controlled by Mr.. CO
III who so recently predicted the electi