Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-10-10
THE LEOPARD'S SPOTS
Have They Changed by Resi-
dence In Washington ?
AsUaGEsT1vE INTERVIEW GIVEN.

veDtion at Zanesvllie.
Have the political methods of John
r. Mclean changed In the ii years
since he became an alien and took up
his residence in Washington, d. c.?
Has there been any evidence that he
has changed? If so, how did it happen
that such leading Democrats as Hon.
A. w. Patrick and General Warner SO
bitterly assailed the methods by which
Mclean controlled the zanesvllle con-
vention and broadly charged that il
| he were nominated it would be by
bought up delegatesT
These are questions the honest and
respectable Democrats of Ohio will
have to answer for themselves and
their own conscience at the polls in
| November.
Every body knows what Mclean was
in 1882 and 1883 and 1884 and 1885.
Most of the Democratic papers that are
now supporting Mclean then de-
nounced him bitterly. The GAINESVILLE
Signal, the Democratic organ of Mus
kingum county, had the following very
interesting article on Mclean in the
Pendleton-Payne senatorial fight I'm
der the caption THE Boss Kelly OF
Ohio" the Signal said:
1.-The most contemplate of all the
dirty, detestable, groveling political
bosses is Mclean, of the Enquirer.
He was in the fair capital of Ohio dur
ing the senatorial contest, surrounded
by his crowd of bummers and was in
all his glory. The height of McLean's s
ambition is to defeat true Democrats IS
! by any means, foul or fair; to slander
the fairest reputation the sun ever
shone upon; or to pull down the hard
earned victories of the Democratic par
| ty of Ohio and drag them through the
| filthy, Shiny columns of his political
and news scavenger. The subject in
hand by this bosslet was the defeat of
! Pendleton. Of course Mclean or any
one else has the right and privilege
of working against Mr. Pendleton if
he actually believes he ought to be de-
| feated. This is a free country, free for
everything that is right, and not free
for everything that is wrong. 1t is the
manner of their work that we condemn
and the total lack of principle in ev-
erything that this contemplate En-
quirer gang undertakes. In order that
the Democrats of Muskingum county
may understand the kind of a man
that is trying to run their party for
them in Ohio we give the following in
terview with John Mclean which took
place Saturday in Columbus:
"'Will you elect Payne?
why, Cd d-n it, there is net
enough money in the state to size his
pile or beat him. I want you to un-
derstand that the Enquirer is on top
and Cd d-n these rural roosters,
they are going to get a roasting. When
you fellows say this is a Standard fight
you don't know what you are talking
about. By Cd its an Enquirer
fight and it is going to win
But you don't think that brains
will count for as much as money?
Nearly all the Democratic press of the
state is against you and for Pendleton.'
" Brains be d-d. It's money that
counts in politics these daysoand we've
got it and the other fellows haven't.
Well give them all the brains and
handle the money
Have any of the Cincinnati dele
gates gone back on Payne? Will some
of them vote for PendletonY
"'Will they? Cd d--n them.
made them and I'd like to see one
of them vote for any man when l tell
them not to-
Johnny was unusually rosy in ap-
pearance and swore with more than
his accustomed ability and Volubility.
1t is quite clear that he is trying to
use the Standard barrel as a tail to the
Enquirer's kite.
What do Democrats think of their
would-be boss? What do they think
of him buying up the whole state for
them with Standard oil money and
running things generally to suit his
own depraved and debauched procliv-
tiles? What do the Democrats who
support the Enquirer to the neglect of
their county paper think of the damage
they're doing to their party? 1t is
time for the Democracy of Ohio to
awake to a sense of the dangers with
in its borders, from the combination Of
this execrable boss with the most pow
erful, dangerous and INSCRIPTIONS mo-
nopoly that ever existed. ."--Zanesville
Signal, June II, 1884.
Has the leopard changed his spots?
Lewie Bernard, McLean's confidential
man, does not hesitate to say that a
tremendous sum of money will be
spent in the present campaign to carry
the state for Mclean. Manifestly Me-
Lean still thinks its money that
counts in politics these days"
Much is said by the "sneaks," who
are fighting their country just now
on the Philippine questions, of the
well known saying of Admiral Dewey
that the Filipinos are more capable of
self-government than the Cubans 1t
is true, as the admiral puts it, and it
is not any great compliment to the
Filiplnos after all. We have not as
yet discovered that the governmental
capacity Of the Cubans is brilliant.
They have one statesman and warrior,
Gomez, and they don't seem inclined
to listen 10 him.
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