The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-09-05
"A DISASTROUS
NOMINATION.
The Democratic Cleveland Plain
Dealer Bolts Mclean and Roasts
Nomination.


From the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Aug. 81, 90.
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 pretended
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 Democratic nomination in
any way, shape or manner. 1t has no
claim to the support of Democrats who
are true to the principles and organiza-
tion of their party in Ohio.
The candidate represents nothing
but his own selfish interests, and those
are antagonistic to Democratic welfare.
No Democrat who refuses to vote for
him can be justly accused of boiling
Democratic nomination, for the NOM
inee is not entitled to consideration as
a Democrat
John Il. 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 Democratic
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
the civil war.
He knows he is foredoomed to defeat
The men who secured his nomination
know it. He and they know that his
campaign will be disastrous to Demo-
cratic hopes this year and next in Ohio.
That is of little consequence to him,
compared with the effect the nomina-
tion may have in furthering the
Interior schemes of the nominee. The
total wreck of the Democratic state
and local tickets in Ohio this year and
the discouraging 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 here
after.
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
attempt to conceal them.
Does anyone imagine that, on his
claims as Democrat, or as citizen Of
Ohio, or as man, this alien from the
state for fourteen years would have
been nominated for governor of Ohio'
Would there have been dozen dele
gates in the convention to vote for hin
had he been man in but moderate
financial circumstances, with no othel
claims to consideration than those hi
now has aside from his wealth ani
readiness to spend it to accomplish hi
ends? The question answers itself.
The other candidates on the ticke
nominated yesterday are to be com
miserated on their ill fortune. Lik,
''poor dog Tray" they are in bat
company and will inevitably suffer th'
consequences. The tens of thousand
who will refuse to vote for the head o
ticket, preferring to stay at home ant
lose their votes, might, with differ
ent head to the ticket, have secures
the success of the entire Democratic
list of candidates. That is now out o
the question. They may prepar
themselves for loss through the dis
gusted stay-at-home vote, and TO
slaughter at the polls by treachery AM
trading.