The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-05
Ohio Senatorial Contest.

COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 1.-The senatorial
contest this morning shows hopeful evil
dence of an early solution. One by one the
doubtful assemblymen are being forced to
yield to public pressure or the clamor OF
their constituents and declare themselves
until the doubtful list is becoming so small
tina the result can soon be safely declared,
irrespective of their positive action.
Last night Senator Parker of Cuyahoga,
declared irrevocably or Foraker. and this
morning Senator Rawlins, of Clark county,
comes out for Sherman This is distinct
gain of one for the Shermanites, as
Rawlins had been constantly claimed by
both sides
The Sherman people this morning in
sisted that they would have the support
of Senator LampsOn, president pro tenn of
the Senate, but the Foraker people also
claim him, while the Senator himself still
maintains his position of uncertainty.
Senator Sherman on being questioned said /:
81 have received assurances that LampsOn
will cast bis vote for me-"
/ Strong efforts are being made by the For
akcr men generally to induce the labor Or
CARNATIONS throughout the state to declare
{ for Foraker ana against Sherman.
! A little excitement was occasioned this
morning by the claim of the Foraker people
( that the Sherman forces were endeayoring
! 10 secure the vote of Representative Rud-
ney, of Cleveland, through the influence OF
J Chauncey Depew, who they said had con-
sented to take hand in the hight for Sher-
man.
This meant that Rudney would be de-
prived of his position as attorney for the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad
he fails to vote for Sherman. The Sher
man people denounce this statement as ma
licious and state that neither De. ew mol
any other corporate representatives ART
endeavoring to coerce men into supporting
S, nator Sherman.
The two houses of the general assembly
met at 10 this morning and organized by
eecting Senator Lampson, of Ashtabula
president pro tenn. of the senate, and Rep
resentative Laylin, of Huron, speaker o
the house. The regular caucus nominee
for the minor positions were also elected.
In his message TO the general bl,
Governor Campbell confined himself to
renewal of suggestions and recommends
tions made by him to the sixty-ninth as
sembly and not acted upon by that body.
Sherman Republicans made no attemp
to seat 1den in the Iden- Gaumer contes
this morning, so the anticipated conflict bt
j
J the senate did not take place. The onl
t dispute was over the question as to whethe
= the case should be referred to the regula
committee on privileges and elections whe
] appointed or to a special committee consis
i ing of Nichols and Carpenter, Republican,
and Forbes, Democrat.
t The latter was the proposition of the r
t publicans, and it prevailed by strict part
s vote AS the Republican members of ii
,itto hot
r no doubt they will report in favor of sea
ing lden without delay. The Foraker sen
tors refuse to indicate what course the
will pursue in case the committee repor
g in favor of seating Iden.
A Republican JOINT caucus will be he
Wednesday evening. 1t looks now {
& though the announcement of the standir
y of the doubtful ones would not be MAJ
u until the evening of the caucus, and thi
. with the possibility of a secret ballot, st
leaves the ultimate result uncertain. VIII
deadlock is not probable, it is not il
possible the contest may drift into CO
dition by which neither of the pronounce
Ii candidates can secure q majority of t.
;, caucus.
d Much dispute is created by an open lie
Ia ter of Colonel II. V. Boynton, the Was
:. ington journalist, defending Sherman
% labor record and ridiculing the ''labor col
mlbLcc AOW olIlsihS W utlOdl buc ocu
N tor. This afternoon the committee Sc
D. Boynton a telegram saying, in part:
N THE Republican platforms of 1880,
r. and 'SS pledged the passage
- acts for the exclusion of t
y, Chinese, and by voting against the
"a Sherman set himself above party. Won
n be have changed it had he been nominal
r. for the presidency, or tried TO deceive pc
+ pie in the Pacific slope. Will you infol
40 US why he voted against the equalizati
rt bounties in 1875 and against the arrears
M pensioners in 1884. which his party pledg
IN itself to pass? Why did he oppose the pa
h age of the bill to increase to S24 mon
10 the pension of soldiers who lost an arm a
40 were only receiving SIS per month, a
II why did he vote against the bill to liz
ar the pension of any soldier, sailor or mari
n to a minimum of $6 per month"
The Sherman people the efforts of &
Ia 'self-appointed labor committee" as til
he term it. with contempt, and express ind
10 nation that Sherman should be accused
oh unfriendlness to ex-union soldiers. WI
a. all these charges and their refutat
serve as a subject for lively discussion
is becoming apparent that neither
labor organizations nor the Farmers
lance are factor in the present campai
no The Iden-Gaumer contest was brou
ig, to q hasty conclusion this afternoon wi
is out a protest from the Foraker senat
de against the seating Of Iden. This assn
asst Sherman ten more votes. Five mimi
after the oath Of office was administer