Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-10-22
Cuyahoga Democrats Revolt
Against Mclean.

pudiates Mclean and declares the
great mass Of the party in Cleveland
will vote for Jones, as rebuke to the
bossism of the Washington gas mag
nate.
The letter Is as follows:
Cleveland, O., October l3.
Mr.. John r. Mclean, Columbus, o.
Lear slr-Mr. William r. Ryan and
Cnarles II. Gagen, members of the
s,.-e central committee, arrived home
last evening and have reported to me
your position regarding the situation
in Cuyahoga county. Their report has
as .ounded the whole Democracy of
,..e county. That you would seek to
folst man of Harry Wilson's stand
ing upon us IS past belief. Such ac-
ton on your part was entirely unlock
ed for, but can say to you plainly
that you could not have taken a more
direct method OF swamping the Dem
ocratic ticket IN the county il you had
tried. | know wLat l am talking
about when | say chat nine-tenths of
Cuyahogas Democracy will not in
dorse your position. The Democrats
are thoroughly dlsgusted with the man
you have chosen and will show you
that conclusively on election day.
! Because Of your money and your
! fnr
that you can make or break commit
tees. but neither your Doodle nor your
Doodle committee can elect candidates.
You have made failures in the past,
through self-constituted bosses, to run
this county, and you will fail this time.
our previous outrages upon the DEM
ocrats were not so well understood as
this one is. You will find that Dem
ocrats will not submit to being led by
such men as you have seen fit to rec
ognize, nor can you hoodwink them
into supporting any candidate whose
campaign is managed by Them. | make
this prediction, and hope you will re-
member it, that you will be the worst
beaten man that was ever on the Dem
ocratic ticket in Cuyahoga county.
hope you will also remember the con-
versation which l had with you the
last time l saw you in Columbus.
told you then that | held Democratic
principles higher than any candidate,
that had known the Democratic par
ty for 90 years and you only since the
GAINESVILLE convention, and if l thougt
for minute that you would prove a
traitor to those principles that l would
not support you. / meant that then
and l mean it now. l am a Democrat
for principles and nothing else, and
will not allow you or any one else to
deceive me. l write this to let you
know how feel and so you cannot say
that I have done anything under
handed.
The great struggle at the present
time in the two great parties is, be-
lieve, between self-continued bosses
who represent trusts, monopoles and
bondholders, and the conscientious
voters who represent principles and a
pure republican form of government.
The self-constituted bosses have con-
trolled the organization of both parties
with Doodle received from monopolies
and trusts, ana the honest voters have
been held a their mercy. This l know
to be a TACT from my experience since
have been chairman of the Demo-
cratic executive committee. When
was elected chairman I was beset with
opportunities from the self-constitut-
ed boss, whom you have recognized, to
be given power to run things after his
own fashion.
Knowing him thoroughly and that
he hal=A6 standing with the Demo-
cracy of the county, I cnose to ignore
him and recognize the honest voters of
the party. He then set up a howl that
l was trying to throw him down. He
began working upon the different
members of the committee to depose
me as chairman and put in my place (
one who as he termed it, would stand
pal until the candidate "coughed up"
The candidate, having more greed for
office than he has interest for the
party has. undertaken to deliver over
to this self-cOnstituted boss the con
troll of the Democratic organization,
thereby giving the voters no voice in
the conduct of the campaign.
The issue should be as to whether
the self-constituted boss or the people !
should control. hope that the Demo-
Gratis will repduidate your recognition
Of Wilson and Nau as the Democratic
party of Cuyahoga county in no uncer-
tain manner, The indications are that
this will surely be done. | have the |
honor to remain, yours respectfully,
w. A. KELLY, chairman.
Bold Burglary.