The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-14
"a DISASTROUS
NOMINATION"
The Democratic Cleveland Plain Dealer
Bolts Mclean aud Roasts His
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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 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 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 antag gonistic to Democratic
welfare. No Democrat who refuses to
vote for him can be justly accused of
boiling a Democratic nomination, 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 rulterior schemes of the nominee.
The total wreck of the Democratic
state and local ticket 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
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 Democrat, or as citizen of
Ohio, or as a man, this alien from the
state for fourteen years would have
been nominated for governor of Ohio?
Would there have been dozen
delegates in the convention to vote for
him had he been 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
on their ill fortune. Like
poor dog Tray" they are in bad com
pany and will inevitably suffer the
The tens of thousands
who will refuse to vote for the head
If the ticket preferring to stay at home
md lose their votes, might, with a
lifferent head to the ticket, have Sc
'ured the success of the entire Demo-
ratio list of candidates. That is now
,ut of the question. They may pre-
,are themselves for loss through the
lisgusted stay-at- home vote. and for
laughter at the polls by treachery and
rading.