Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-01-28
REPUBLICAN ROW IN OHIO.
Complications That VIII Result In . DEM
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REPUBLICAN ROW IN OHIO.
Complications That WIN Result In = Dem.
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The monkey and the parrot time
now agitating the public household
promises to prove among the greatest
boons enjoyed by the democratic party
in the last quarter of a century. A
large part of the domestic row is con-
centrated in Ohio. There the bitter
ness of a senatorial fight has caused
the factional interests to cast aside the
assumption OF amity and openly ex-
hibit the family skeletons regardless of
present scandals and threatened re-
suits. Foraker charges Sherman with
buying up members of the legislature
| to insure his return to the senate.
Sherman denies and filings back the
| charge OF bribery at Foraker. On
| either side these claims of corruption
are maintained by high republican
| authority. As Foraker has figured un-
| enviably in several questionable tran
| sactions and Sherman acknowledged
| that some of the delegates fixed for
| him at the last national convention
| had been secured at an advanced figure
by another opulent candidate before
| that body. there is a general impression
| that it was a case of diamond cut dia-
mond in the Ohio senatorial conflict
| Foraker maintained silence long
| after he was satisfied that the admin
| istration was taking hand in favor of
his willy opponent, but in the excite
ment of recent meeting with his fol-
lowing at the Neil house, in Columb bus,
the band-wagon statesman unmuzzled
| himself and threw discretion to the
l 10 in %1o
| conflict he was met by an opposition
extending from grandpa's hat to Baby
Mckee. and pointed his denunciation
by practical declaration for Blaine as
the next presidential candidate His
speech was interrupted by frequent
cheers and the breach created is one
that the bitterness of the struggle and
the sting of defeat will only widen.
Secretary Foster has shown his hand
in the fight, and as part OF the admin
istration machinery has antagonized
not only Foraker. but that decent ele-
mcnt of republicanism which clings
to the old-fashioned belief that the
president and his cabinet should take
no part in local political contests. Dem
ocrats in Ohio and the country over
may we'll enjoy the Kilkenny cat fight
raging in that state.
|
tons of an impending smash up Maj.
Mckinley was quoted as saying that
the secretary of state favored the re-
imposition of the duty on hides. Mr..
Blaine could not quietly accept this
blow at his New England chances. and
wrote the major for retraction. It
was made. but the strained relations
between the high priest of protection
and the patron saint of reciprocity are
not improved. Even more serious
stab is now made at the man whom
Harrison has most to fear. Scandalous
charges against Mr.. Blaine in the mat
ter Of the Gillian complications are
printed by the Washington Post. 1t
reviews the dinner given by the Chill
ian representatives to this government.
and clearly intima tes that the utter
ances of such men as ex-Mayor Grace,
Of New York. and Richard Trumbull
fell with weighty influence upon Mr..
Blaine's ear. The significance of this
appears in the fact that Mr.. Grace is
prominently concerned in the owner
ship of Peruvian railroads and Gillian
enterprises, including nitrate beds.
while Mr.. Trumbull was the active
agent in securing arms for the 1tata.
Mr.. Grace materially aiding him.
L
venting war at any cost, and inhnedi-
ately after the dinner at Senior Months
Mr.. Grace is said to have cabled to Val
paraiso that Mr.. Blaine alone, of all
the cabinet, can be regarded as the
friend of Chilli.
Frank Hatton is held responsible for
: these grave insinuations, and Mr. Hat
ton stands in a very close Relationship
with President Harrison. Hence the
Blaine organs are out in lurid denun-
, Citations and call upon the secretary to
speak for his own vindication. Il
seems impossible for the magnetic
statesman not to mix business with
politics, and Hatton's announcement
will stir up a good many unpleasant
: recollections.
} With the better republicans aftel
t Mr.. Quay in Pennsylvania. and the cor
2 ruptionists gathered about him as {
! body-guard; with Iowa republican.
torn up over the problem of getting rio
/ of that white elephant of prohibition
: with the president adopting such mis-
takes as Ellzins and Judge Woods, ant
: with the growing feeling of disgust to
| ward designing leaders of the g. o. p.
e the democratic skies are looking
particularly bright - Detroit Fre'
: Press.