THE CINCINNATI TIMES-STAR
May 14, 1904
POLITICS
scans from newspaper collection
of
Ruth
Adams-Battle
transcribed by: Liz Stratton

Ultimatum of Radicals
Redhot from the
Oven.
___________
Self-Styled Hamilton
County
Democracy Declares
Principles
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The new organization known
as the "Hamilton County Democracy" – which the regulars calls the
"radicals"
– has issued a red-hot circular over the signatures of Edward J. Dempsey,
chairman, and D. S. Oliver, secretary. Portions of it read as
follows:
"This organization has
but one purpose. It resents bossism and is determined to drive from
leadership
those whose political activity consists in seeking the rewards of
treachery
rather than fighting the battles of Democracy. A clique of politicians,
who for 25 years have been a millstone about the neck of the party, not
yet satisfied with the ruin they have brought, and supposing there is
no
limit to the sufferance of the people, are again asking for control.
Thinking
to save themselves from defeat they have raised the cry that free
silver
is the issue and that the purpose of this organization is to promote
this
or that 'ism.' We hearby declare that we will agree to the selection of
national delegates, who will be entirely satisfactory to Mr. Harlan Cleveland
and
Mr. John E. Bruce – the Bernard candidates – and who will be
committed
to the interest of Mr. Judson Harmon's candidacy, or that of
Richard
Olney, and we will impose but one condition: These candidates
must
put themselves on record that they favor decency in local politics as
well
as safety in national politics."
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Lowman Will Not
Run
Against Daniel Kiefer.
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Max May Issues a Circular
–
Latest Local Political
Gossip.
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Attorney Jesse Lowman,
who was chosen to run against Daniel Kiefer in the Thirteenth
ward,
has sent his resignation to the Conservatives. The Radicals, in their
statement
of the circumstance, say that when Mr. Lowman learned that the
Radicals
do not intend to send Free Silver delegates to the National convention
he decided to join them, after reading Dr. Groesbeck's letter.
__________________
Attorney D. S. Oliver,
who is a candidate for delegate to the National Democratic convention
from
the First ward, says the conservatives are claiming by publication as
their
own some of the radical candidates for delegates and committeemen.
__________________
Max B. May, candidate
for delegate in Precinct I of the Second ward, has issued a circular to
the voters, promising to stand for only men who favor sound and
conservative
issues.
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Frank O. Suire has
been chosen as a candidate for the National delegate by the radicals in
the First district.
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TOOK MORPHINE.
Joseph Newman of Wilmington,
N.C., a traveling salesman for a Cincinnati distillery, committed
suicide
in a Detroit hotel by taking morphine.
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WATCHMAN'S CASE.
"My executive told me I should
be at the polls during the primary election." was the excuse made to
the
Board of Public Service Thursday by Market Watchman J.
Bush,
for
not being on duty at the Sixth street market, when it was robbed
recently.
Bush
was supposed to be on duty from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m. Jos.
Lockner,
another watchman, said he, too, was away between 5 and 6 a.m. the board
took the matter under advisement. It was stated by one of the members
that
no man in the city employ is expected to leave his post for any cause
except
with the assent of his superior officer, which is always granted for
good
cause, and that it is well understood in political circles, so that
both
men violated the rules.
Bush lives in the Sixteenth ward and
Lockner
in the Tenth.
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