The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-21
GIGANTIC CORRUPTION.
Immense Sums Available For
Corrupt Purposes.
MLEAN AND THE SILVER TRUST

Give Literally and the Silver Trust
will Fight Desperately.
Everyone familiar with the inf!u-
ences behind the scenes at the Demo-
cratic state convention at GAINESVILLE
appreciates the part which money
played in bringing about the nomina-
ton of John R. Mclean for governor.
So patent was it that even that old
shellbark, Judge A. w. Patrick who
was afterward nominated for lieuten-
ant governor by the Mclean forces as
a sop to the disappointment of large
class of Democrats, practically charged
corruption on the part of the Mclean
managers when he declared that if
Colonel Kilbourne secured the nomina-
tion it would not be by the votes of
bought up delegates"
The GAINESVILLE convention is scarce
ly more than ten days distant, but it
is already manifest that no influence
which money can secure will be lack
ing to advance the cause of John r.
Mclean, and secure his election if pos
sibe.
From responsible authority comes
the report that Mr.. Mclean said pri-
vately before leaving Washington that
he would put 100000 into the cam
paign in Ohio this year if he were
nominated for governor.
Whether this is correct or not it is
certainly true that money has already
begun to flow with the greatest liber-
ality. A stream of golden grease" is
issuing from the Mclean headquarters
The purchase of one newspaper for
$4,000 is but a single instance of the
prodigal use of money by the Mclean
leutenants.
AS Mr.. Mclean is reputed to be
worth $15,O0O,OO0 such tremendous
campaign fund as is reported is not
beyond the limits of probability. Allen
o. Myers, who for years was one of
McLeans trusted lieutenants, in his
book Bosses and Boodle," declares
that Mr.. Mclean is always willing to
pay the price when the goods are de-
livered and that he is never close in
matters of money, if he gets value re-
ceived.
In addition to what Mr. Mclean per-
sonally puts into the campaign, and
there is no question but it will be
very large sum, there is another ele-
ment which can be depended upon to
pour barrel of money into Ohio in
support of the Mclean candidacy.
hn ctr in ,1of
form in favor of free silver at 16 to 1
and the demand" for the renomina-
tion of Bryan makes the campaign of
peculiar Importance to the silver trust.
That most gigantic of all the great
combines of the country appreciates
~ that Ohio is in some respects their last
battle-ground. If they win this fall in
Ohio they know it will be a step back
ward in the march of progress and
prosperity which has attended the Nc
kinley administration and that it will
promote the cause of free silver Won
derfully in 1900
Already from the west comes the
assurance that the silver trust will put
in gigantic sum in desperate effort
to corrupt the voters of Ohio and Sc
cure the election of Mr.. Mclean. The
exact amount which will be contrib
uted by this great combination of sill
yer producers cannot be stated with
definiteness at this time. 1t is be-
ieved that it will not be less than
100000, and may reach $250,000.
The campaign fund of the Demo-
cratic party in Ohiothis year promises
to be the most tremendous corruption
fund ever used in the state. 1t will
exceed by many fold the amount ever
spent heretofore in any campaign in
Ohio or any other state in the Union.
In fact, it will compare favorably with
the campaign fund in many national
campaigns.
There is to be an orgie of corruption
and if it can secure the election of
Mr.. Mclean he will be elected. Trust
I'd lieutenants from the Mclean head
quarters are already travelling the state
offering large sums for the voices and
influence of labor leaders in Ohio to
secure their support for Mclean
DDS are in use in the hope of captur-
ing part of the colored vote of the
state. In other directions the same
policy is already being carried out
The people of Ohio have a serious
question to answer this fall. The is
sues at stake are of the greatest i'm
portance, but probably none of them
are of greater moment than the grave
question whether the word Is to go
out over the nation that Ohio is state
whose elections can be bought, and
whose voters are so blind to the bless
ings of prosperity which Republi-
can administration has produced that
they are wiliing to take step back
ward purely for mercenary motives.
The Republican managers do not be.
lieye the electorate of the state car
be thus corrupted, The attempt only
needs to be exposed to bring its owl
tbo 90 a.