Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-09-09
"a DISASTROUS
NOMINATION"
The Democratic Cleveland Plain Dealer
Bolts Mclean and Roasts His
Nomination.

The Democratic Cleveland Plain Dealer
Boits Mclean and Roasts His
Nomination.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer of Aug.
81, 1899, the leading Democratic or
gan of Northern Ohio, says of the
nomination of Mclean:
The disgrace is consummated. A
convention protesting to be Democratic
has inflicted on the Democratic party
of Ohio a candidate who has no claims
whatever to Democratic support; who
is not loyal to Democratic principles
or organization; who has only pre-
tended to act with the party for his
own selfish ends and to the damage
of the party he processes to affiliate
with; who for fourteen years has been
absent from the state and a resident
of Washington, d. c.
1t Is not a Democratic nomination in
any way, shape or manner 1t has no
claim to the support of Democrats who
are true to the principles and organi-
cations of their party in Ohio.
The candidate represents nothing
but his own selfish interests, and those
interests are antagonistic to Democratic
welfare. No Democrat who refuses to
vote for him can be justly accused of
boiling a Democratic nomir<tion, for
the nominee is not entitled to consider
alton as Democrat.
John r. Mclean at the head of the
ticket nominated at GAINESVILLE yester-
day represents himself only. Behind
him are not the Democracy of Ohio,
but his paid henchmen. His nomina-
tion was not the triumph of Demo-
cratic principles, but of the barrel and
the boss. The greatest calamity that
could befall the Democracy of Ohio
would be his election. That, however,
fortunately is an impossibility. De-
spite boodling and bossing, he will be
the worst beaten candidate that has
run for office in the state since the
civil war.
He knows he is foredoomed to de-
feat The men who secured his nomi-
nation know it. He and they know
that his campaign will be disastrous
to Democratic hopes this year and next
in Ohio. That is of little consequence
to him, compared with the effect the
nomination may have in furthering
the ulterior schemes of the nominee.
The total wreck of the Democratic
state and local ticket in Ohio this year
and the dscouraging effect it will have
on the greater struggle next year count
for nothing if Mclean can force him
self on the party as a nominal Demo-
crat and use his present position as a
stepping stone to higher positions
hereafter.
There is no mystery about the man
ner in which the nomination was pro-
cured. The means are too gross for
concealment, if there had been any at
tempt to conceal them.
Does anyone imagine that, on his
claims as a Democrat, or as a citizen of
Ohio, or as a man, this alien from the
state for fourteen years would have
been nominated for governor of Ohio?
'Ouih thNiC hiNN btNh u hOAGh
delegates in the convention to vote for
him had he been a man in but moder-
ate financial circumstances with no
other claims to consideration than
those he now has aside from his wealth
and readiness to spend it to accom-
plish his ends? The question answers
itself.
The other candidates on the ticket
nominated yesterday are to be com
miserated on their i'll fortune Like
poor dog Tray" they are in bad com
pany and will inevitably suffer the
consequences. The tens of thousands
who will refuse to vote for the head
of the ticket, preferring to stay at home
and lose their votes, might, with a
different head to the ticket, have Sc
cured the success of the entire Demo-
cratic list of candidates. That is now
out of the question. They may pre-
pare themselves for loss through the
disgusted stay-at-home vote, and for
slaughter at the polls by treachery and
trading.