The critic., 1891-01-03
A GAME OF CUT-THROAT.
SHERMAN, MKINLEY AND FORAKER
ENGAGED IN PLAYING 1T.

The Latter Trying to Embroil the Other
Two, Hoping to Kill Both OF to His
Own Personal and Political Advant- |
agc--What Sherman and Mckinley
Say.
Ohio enjoys the extreme felicity OF an
nual elections. Her State elections sand
wich between the Presidential and Con-
gressional contests. Thus every year the
patriotic Buckeye is appealed to
To Save the Country.
lie is more or less eloquently assured
from thousand stumps that the eyes of
the country are upon him. The most inn
| portant election in ten years, at which
vital issues are at stake, upon the deter
| mination of which depends the welfare
| of the State and the prosperity of the peo-
| pie, not to mention the rest of the United
| States, is held in Ohio in the fall of the
| year with the regularity of the seasons.
This year Ohio elects Governor. Two
years ago Democrat was chosen Gov
| crnor. Last year n number of able Re-
| publican statesmen, headed by the Ma
| poleonic Mckinley,
Joined the Rear Column,
| the charge of which had been consigned
| toex-Governor Foraker. Ever since Hayes
| was nominated for President in 1876, after
| carrying the State i'm the previous year,
| defeating "Rise-Up' William Allen, the
| average Ohio politician has come TO look
| upon the gubernatorial chair as possible
| steppng-stone to the White House.
| In view of these things II is not won
derful that the political cauldron in Ohio
| should always be at the boiling point. SO
| notorious is the clashng of the ambitions
| of her favorite Republican sons that 1t
has been said that when three of them
are together two of them are probably
| planning to cut the other ones throat,
| while the odd one is scheming to place
can of dynamite in the coat-tails of the
| other two.
The three great leaders of the Buckeye
Republicans just now are
/ John sherman, william Mckinley, DR.,
and Joseph Benson Foraker.
If the latter loves either of the others he
has been careful not to make his lovepub
lie. And while the ambitions of the
| former two touch and even cross, yet they
have heretofore held to each other much
as two pieces of ice which are frozen to-
gether-mited by their frigidity rather
| than welded by their warmth.
Ever since McKinley's
Gallant Fight Against Hopeless Odds
| ltSt ANONtDlDcI, Nlltll llC ttlut ~ uttI
winning a victory, it has been regarded
by the public, outside of Ohio, at all
events, as certain that Mckinley would be
the Republican nominee for Governor this
year, and that, II successful, he might be
nominated for President, this last rather
contingent upon the promised reaction in
favor of the Mckinley Tariff act.
| Within the past few days the public has
been surprised, not to say stunned, by
numerous dispatches cmanating from
Columbus, whose purpose is to boom
| Senator sherman for Governor.
This was supposed to be an initial move
to enable him to reach the White
House by series of easy par
allels and covered approaches. Secretary
Blaine, the dispatches claimed, was
sognizant of this plan and approved it:
| To the minds OF those who are aware of
the years of antagonism between these
two eminent Republicans the report was
| unworthy of crcdcnce. Their hostility
has been open and at times bitter Besides,
Blaine's booms have always had Blaine
for the chief beneficiary.
The real reason of the Sherman guber-
material boom appears at this distance
to be
A Foraker Movement
to use Sherman to kill Off Mckinley.
This accomplished Sherman was to be
dropped and Congressman Morey, or some
| other Foraker man, was TO be nominated
| for Governor. Foraker himself, in the
meantime, was to capture the Legislature
and come to the Senate as Sherman's sue
| cessor. Thus Foraker would succeed in
| his little dynamite scheme.
When Senator Sherman was asked
about these reports he replied:
81 have not been consulted by any OF
i nI,,r fr;anIp nhn,tt hn har at nj al
nomination. Certainly the use of my
name in connection with ii is entirely UNI
| authorized. IL looks to me as though
The Newspaper Men Were Amusing
Themselves"
Asked about the idea that Foraker and
his friends were using his name to pre-
| vent McKinley's nomination, the Senator
replied:
| that report"
Asked if he would accept nomination
for Governor he answered.
ut will be time enough for me to an
swcr that question after the nomination
| has been rendered to me. AT this time
hardly think it would be proper for me tC
say what would do in any future contin
| gency."
Major Mckinley declined to say any
thing. He was
Silent, Solemn and Sphynx-Like.
Murat Halstead was here day or TIVE
ago and took breakfast with Senator Sher
man, and had conference with Maj
I, Mckinley later. He said he was here oI
| private business but the Ohio politician
7 | believe it was political and was caused 10y
| the Columbus dispatches referred to.
An Ohio man said to-day, speaking %
, | this matter:
at is significant in this whole affair tha
| when you
Scratch ~ sherman Boomer
, | you invariably find member of the For
aker rear column"
And to man safely ensconced in tht
l upper branches of the buckeye tree i
! does look significant.
Deploring General Spinner's Death.
At meeting of the officers and clerk
of the United States Treasurer's Office
l held yesterday evening, resolutions de
Q plorng the death of General Francis Il
g Spinner We're adopted. Assistant Treas
: urer Whelpley will attend the funeral a
the representative Of the Department. Al
{ oil painting of the deceased has been pur
r chased and has been placed at the en-
trance to the cash-room.
Want the Elections Bin Passed.
The 4. II. Reed Republican Association
held meeting last night at which resohl
, tons were adopted asking the Senate t.
: | pass the Federal Elections bill as u safe
guard for the ballot in all sections of tn
1 country, also extending thanks to tn