Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-09-27

Down and Ruin Pendieton, Thurman,
DurbIn Ward and Other Great Demo-
orats Bocauss They Would Not Bow to
His Bossism.
The story of the defeat of Hon.
George H. Pendleton for the senate in
1SSS-S4 is one of the most disgraceful
chapters in the history of the Demo
cratic party in Ohio.
For that chapter John r. Mclean
more than any other man is respon-
sible.
1t was he who led the first bitter
attacks against Pendleton, ostensibly
because that Democratic statesman
fathered the civil service law, but in
fact because Pendleton had refused to
do the bidding of John R. Mclean in
supporting certain legislation in the
United States senate in which Mclean
was financially interested. So bitter
and unjustiflable were the attacks of
Mclean and The Enquirer that they
called out a general protest from the
leading Democratic papers of every
section of the state
The editorial denunciation of Nc
Lean by the influential organs of his
own party then becomes doubly inter-
esting at this time, because it shows
up the we'll known fact that Mclean
has used his Enquirer as a club to
punish every man in his own party
who would not bow the knee to him
as boss and contribute, by his infiu-
ence, to the upbuilding of the vast for
tune which Mclean has acquired,
largely through the favoritism of leg
islation or the manipulation of public
officials.
For years every Democrat in Ohio
has realized that The Enquirer only
supported the men who would accept
the dictation of it's owner. This was
strikingly manifested in 1882 and 1888,
as we'll as many times before and
since.
On July 10, 1882, the Columbus
Times, then the Democratic organ of
the state capital, edited by John G.
Thompson, for years the manager of
the Democratic state campaigns and
a bosom friend of the late Senator
Thurman, said in discussing the ap-
preaching Democratic state conven-
ton:
"The Cincinnati Enquirer that al
keeps in its employ a political con-
spirator and incendiary on account Of
his peculiar ability to create strife and
contention in the Democratic party, is
in itself an outrage; but when that pa
per enters into a conspiracy with its
incendiary to take possession of
a convention and sends him through
the state to complete the arrangements
and permits him to interfere every
where with the local nominations and
organizations, using the circulation OF
the paper to coerce and intimidate, it
commits a crime against its party and
party leaders besides.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer has degen-
Grated into an organ of private spite
and personal aggrandizement, and the
interests and objects of the party it
represents are sacrificed for personal
grudges and financial success"
After the election in October of
James W. Newman as secretary of
state, The Times remarked signif-
cantly:
"The Democratic state ticket was
successful, Notwithstanding the oppo-
sition of the Cincinnati Enquirer"
A few days later The Enquire.
sought to cover its own course by
bitter attack on the management Oh
the Democratic campaign. In reply,
the Columbus Times said, on Oct. "a,
1882
What right has The Enquirer to
ask who conducted the campaign, OF
who pointed the way to Democratic
success? Let it be who it may, it GER
tainly was not The Enquirer For no
part of that success can The Enquirer
claim credit. We claim for the Dem
oeracy of Ohio today, that there was
no influence at work during the entire
campaign, so pernicious, so threaten
ing in character as that secret, silent
underhanded, treacherous, assassinat-
ing influence that came from The En-
quirer office, which, throttled at the
nominating convention, began to exert
itself as soon as 1t could get breath
and never stopping until the polls
closed on the second Tuesday in Oc-
tober. The influence of The En-
quirer, If 1t ever had any, is at an
end. It's assistance is curse, and its
hatred an aid to progress. The Dem
ocrats have come to learn this, and
today there are in the state no house
holds, in which the anathemas against
1t are so loud and so long as those IN
which Democrats reside. This infiu.
ence is well illustrated in the race
made by Colonel Hawkins, the Demo.
cratic candidate for sheriff in Hamil.
ton county, who was unfortunate
enough to be connected with The En-.
quirer office, and to be recognized as
The Ennmirer'a candidate What saved