The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-06
Two More Representatives Announce
They Will Vote Against Foraker.
The Latter's Friends Virtually Admit Defeat,
but Are Basing Slight Hopes on Secret
Ballot in the Caucus Tonight
New York Senate Organized by Demo.
Gratis with theAid ofan Independent
Presidential Electors to Be Chosen by the Leg.
STANDARDIZATION in Favor of Bulke.ey in
the Connecticut Gubernatorial Contest.
FORAKER Is BEATEN.

FORAKER Is BEATEN.
Sherman VIII Have Big Majority In the
Senatorial Caucus Tonight
COLUMBUS. O., Jan. 5.-The night before
the great senatorial battle finds the inevi-
table still staring the Foraker forces om-
inously in the face. Turn whichever way
they may they cannot escape 1t. To them
all the indications of the political situation
point TO but one result-defeat The bit
terness of the Foraker people toward the
national administration is intense. Hon.
w. S. Cappeller, of Mansfeld, one of the
ex-Governor's leading managers, to-day
said: Whether Mr.. Sherman be nominal
ed or not beyond that time he is a political
blank In Ohio politics, for the reason that
be will have no future upon the political
carpet, State or national. and while the
outrageous interference of the federal ad-
ministration. SO conspicuous to all. is ad-
mitted it must also be admitted that If the
Harrison administration hopes to sue
ceed itself, and to carry Ohio,
it will climb O barbed-wire fence,
if necessary, to be friendly with
Foraker and his following in this State.
The senatorial contest will leave sore
places in every county, township and
school district, and if Mr.. Mckinley. the in
coming Governor, can comprehend and
realize the situation and be able to heal up
the wound and bridge the chasm. he will
have performed very creditable feat. But
there are those who believe that If Sher-
man is nominated for the Senate it necessi-
tates the nomination of Mr.. Blaine
President to swing Ohio into their column"
The statement of Mr.. Cappeller is being re-
celved as an admission that the Foraker
people propose to array themselves against
President Harrison and carry the State del
egation to the national convention for Mr..
Blaine or, in the absence of his candidacy,
for Senator Cullom. of Illinois or some
other declared candidate for the presidency.
The declarations sofRepresentatives of Dunn
and Daugherty for Sherman, which were
made to-day, add two more to the Senator's
majority, and his friends are now claiming
that he will have fifty-sight votes. while
they give Foraker but tnirty-four. the re-
naming two being doubtful. OF courss
the Foraker people do not concede these
claims. They maintain that Sherman has
no positive assurances from more than
has still good fighting chance.
HOPE BASED ON A SECRET BALLOT.
1t is generally believed this evening that
hopes upon q secret ballot. They think
that should the ballot be secret many of
those members who are confessedly for
Foraker. but have gone over to Sherman in
obedience to the will of their constituents
might break away from their pledges and
vote for the Ex-Governor. thus possibly ef-
fecting his nomination. The Sherman people
are loud IN their demands for an open ballot
by roll-call and maintain that every thing
should be fair and public. TO this argu-
ment the Foraker people reply that the
Sherman forces found DO objection to a
secret ballot in the speakership caucus on
Saturday. and In support of the argument
for secret ballot cite the fact that all the
ballot reform laws strictly provide that the
private voters ballot shall be secret and
maintain that what is good for the public
at large Is good for a senatorial caucus
Their chief argument for o secret ballot.
however, is based upon their claim that
for Sherman, and that they should have
an opportunity to secretly vote their
preferences, To all this the Sherman man.
ayers reply that the comparison drawn is
misleading. that the private voter repre-
sents himself alone. while the Assem- bly,
man, represents his constituents, that
the Foraker men who have come
over to Sherman have acknowledgedly
done so in obedience to the will of their
constituents, and these constituents have
q right to know that their representative
is carrying ont their will. This public
knowledge, they maintain, can only be
given through the medium of an open bal
lot. 1t looks tonight as though the OPEN
people apparently have votes enough to
carry 1t through the caucus even though
the Foraker people should make fight for
secrecy.
The State Trades and Labor Assembly
met in this city to-day, and. as was antici-
pated. attempted to solve the senatorial
question. The president, in his opening ad-
dress, recommended that the assembly not
interfere in the matter, but despite this, o
resolution was this afternoon introduced
denOuncing Mr.. Sberman's senatorial rec
ord. 1t was defeated. after considerable
wrangling. but it is understood the Foraker
men will revive the controversy tomorrow.
A dispatch from Washington says: Gen.
II. V. Boy ynton being asked if he had sent
any reply to the telegram which the Colum-
bus labor committee furnished the Associ-
ated Press as addressed to him. said: No
such dispatch reached me yesterday. from
which conclude that reply was not
wanted before their convention met to-
day. As to the Chinese question. concern
ing which this committee represents itself
as inquiring. this is true; that Senator
Sherman's record from first to last on that
subject, as we'll as on all other questions
connected with labor is one of wiee, con-
Timing and earnest effort to advance every
interest of American workingmen. As to
his attitude toward pensions, which is
challenged by the questions asked. his DO
sIrion, which this committee represent as
hostile to the soldiers, was distinctly stated
in the debate by Senator Sherman to be
based upon his convictions that the pro-
posed measures did not 60 far enough to do
the veterans full Justice"