The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-10-08
TREACH3[]ERY
Lifts Its Head in the Repub-
liCan Camp.
The State Committee In the Hands
of Dan Ryan's Enemies,
Whc Are Preparing to Dump
Him in the Interest
Of the Various Republican Candidates
for Congress,
In Order to Pave the Way for Foraker's
Return to Power.

COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 29.-(Spec&aI) y
Never in the history of any campaign
have the Ohio Republicans entered the
canvass with so little hope of success.
| The disaster of last fall has left wounds
SO deep that they can not be healed in a
year or several of them. The complica-
tions of last fall while not so furious
and distinct now as then among the Re-
publican chieftains are yet as numerous
and just as well defined. The Foraker
Republicans-and they constitute the
bulk of the party vote-have not recov-
cred from the stiletto thrusts of the fac
tion led by Grosvenor, Mckinley, Sher-
man and others, and of which Dan Ry-
an, the present candidate for Secretary
OF State, was friend and sympathizer
having access through the side door
to the ground floor. A Republican, high
up in the councils of his party, who was
here the past week, said it would take
at least four years to heal up the wounds
left by the gubernatorial fight of 1889.
1t is a we'll known fact that the
Committee this year was controlled by
Foraker and his followers. No one at
that time understood why the fallen
chieftain aspired to this control, but de-
velopments during the last few weeks
have served to throw considerable light
upon this hitherto darkened subject.
1t was known that the State Central
Committee was his, and that it would,
as it did, select an executive committee
in his interest. This committee chose
for its chairman VIM M. Hahn, Repub-
1ican member of tho Poard of Bublic
Works. He is the neighbor of Cappel1er,
the enemy of John Sherman and the
obliging henchman of J. B. Foraker.
Why was he chosen? Did Dan Ryan
want him, and why was Ryan snubbed
and made to swallow the bitter dose of a
refusal to allow him to chose those who
were to manage his campaign?
The reasons are very plain. 1t is the
intention of the committee to dump Dan
Ryan by trading him off in the Congress
sional Districts of the State.
The Foraker faction much
as they dislike Mckinley
want him reelected to remove him
from the gubernatorial derby of next
year. The Ironton district presents
General Enochs, friend of the ex-Gov-
ernor, who defeated two of the lat
ter's most bitter enemies. Butter
worth, in Cincinnati, was retired and
the nomination given to Foraker
henchman and so on throughout the
State. Hence the Foraker faction has
much to gain in the Congressional dis
tricts and nothing to lose on the State
ticket headed by q man who represents
in purer form the faction that defeated
Foraker year ago. Once that it is
demonstrated that the Republicans can
not carry the State with the Foraker
faction sulking in their tents, it is ar
gued that the Republicans will again
turn to it and restore it to the place it
once held. In other words they seek to
re-establish the old machine and the OBJ
struction now in the way is Dan Ryan.
If he is elected the strength and popu-
larity of Foraker will wane more than
ever, for then it will have been shown |
that success is possible without him. |
If defeated they will claim the re-
verse.