Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-12
FIGHT FOR SHERMAN
Being Taken Up in Earnest by aNum-
Der of Powerful Friends.
BIG RAIDS ON FORAKER'S FORCES
Reported at a Conference Held by the Sena-
tors Lieutenants.
LATEST FIGURES OF BOTH FACTIONS

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.1
COLUMBUS, O., Dec. ia conference
of the Sherman leaders in the Senatorial
contest was held to-day, and the work
mapped out for the balance of the contest.
The Sherman workers are jubilant tonight
and report several aceessions from the
doubtful counties that they heretofore were
not certain they could control. The pros
poets were of such f1attering nature that
steps were taken, which they hope to carry
to conclusion, cutting Foraker down, If
possible, below 40 votes in the caucus. The
object is to place him in such a position
that he will not have the prestige of having
a vote which will approach to the neighbor-
hood of nomination and be an aid to him
in future contests.
There were present at the conference
Colonel Waldorf, Internal Revenue Collec-
tor at Toledo; General J. Warren keifer,
ex-Speaker of the National House: Mark A.
Hanna, of Cleveland; Captain J. c. Don
aldson, Sherman's local manager, and a
large number of the members-elect of the
Legislature. The situation was gone over
in detail, and the most accurate estimates
made which have been furnished since the
election.
Figures From a Good Guesser.
1t was the opinion of all that Sherman
will have two-thirds of the Republican
members on joint ballot, if not more. Chair
man Hahn, of the State Committee, who
was in the conference, estimated Major Nc
Kinley would be elected by 10000 plural
ity, and he came very close to the figure.
He states he is more confident that Sherman
will have over 60 of the SO votes in the
caucus, and the estimates heretofore OF the
Sherman men have run from SO to 63 votes.
The morning after the election Governor
Foraker, in an interview, claimed he would
have 81 of the 90 Republicans elected to the
Legislature, and General Asa Bushnell, his
strongest supporter, claimed in an inter
view in New York the Governor would
have 20 votes. The friends of the ex-Gov-
ernor are now claiming only "a, and some
of their estimates 60 below 80. The Sher-
man men are urging the point with some
effect as to where the seven votes have gone
which Foraker claimed Immediately after
the election, and the 16 short which Bush
nell claimed. The most accurate estimate
now to be secured from the Foraker follow
ers gives the Governor 81
Great Work to Be Done for Sherman.
Among other things agreed upon by the
conference was to open Sherman headquar-
tiers at each of the three leading hotels, at
once, and those actively engaged in Sher-
mans behalf will be in charge from now
till the caucus is held.
Representative Daughertv, who has here
tofore been claimed as Foraker man, is
for Sherman, and they claim to
have information from large number of
other members who have not pronounced
that they will be on the Sher-
man side when the time comes to vote.
General Keifer explained that at his home
in Clark county there was probably a
stronger Foraker following than in any
other county in the State. owing to the ef-
forts of Bushnell and his son-in-law, Nc
Grew, who is candidate for Speaker of the
House. They had Foraker in the county
FOR three speeches, during the campaign,
out, having charge of the machinery, re-
fused to let Sherman come at any stage of
The game.