Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-05-28
OHIO REPUBLICANS.
important Issues Before Their
State Convention.
TWO BIG NOMINATIONS INVOLVED

That Never Came Up Before At the Same
G,thering-McKinley and Foraker In
dorsements for President and Senafor
Worrying the Factions, Who Look at
Each Other with Suspicious Eyes-Lead-
ers on Hand to Counsel Harmony.
GAINESVILLE, o, May 2S-While Nash,
Hoyt, Poe, Harris, Grosvenor, Major,
Keifer. Barger. and other candidates for
governor nave been here contesting for
| the Republican nomination with their
bands and parades, the older leaders have
been counseling harmony. Senator Sher-
man and ex-Secretary Foster called at the
headquarters of each gubernatorial candi-
date and were closeted with them and
their leading workers. No agreement
could be reached because of the absence
at the time of Ex-Governor Foraker and
General Bushnell. Governor Mckinley
leaves Columbus today for New York, and
will not be here, owing to his Memorial
Day engagement in the east.
Leaders Disclaim Any Factionalism.
Foster. Sherman and other leaders
state that they are not seeking to have
any slate formed or to do anything for or
against any candidate, but they do not
consider = good politics to have the
preference of delegates expressed on
factional lines. While all the candidates
pledge themselves for Mckinley for pres.
| ident and Foraker for senator there Is
much feeling between the friends of these
two leaders. When Foraker was defeated
by Sherman for senator before the legisla-
ture in January, 1893. Governor Nc
Kinley's administration was credited with
being decisive factor in favor Of Sher.
man.
Two Great Issues Up at Once.
And now the Foraker faction is said to
be waiting to name the next governor SO
| as to have the state administration for
| their man next January instead of
| against him as heretofore. 1t is this issue
that involves the presidential and sena-
| torial preferences in the nomination for
| governor. The scnatorship has frequently
| been involved IN the action of Ohio state
| conventions and the selection of the Ohio
! delegation is usually an indirect issue at
the state conventions the year preceding
| national conventions; but both of these
national issues have never before been
| precipitated into the same year or into
| any one convention.
Presidential Nomination Involved.
The senatorship will be disposed of next
| January, some months before the selec.
| ton of presidential delegates comes up,
| and for that reason some of the Mckinley
| men apprehend that they might he
| caught mapping unless they get ironclad
| Mckinley resolutions adopted at this con-
vention. And it is generally thought
that a strong Endorsement of Mckinley
| for president and Foraker for senator will
| be embodied in the same resolution. 1t
| Is the fact that nominations for governor
and all state officers are contingent on
the contest of factions for power in the
senatorial and presidential races of next
| year that makes tho convention one of
| such intense interest.
| Factions Don't Trust Each Other.
| All candidates and their friends claim
| to be for Mckinley fo- president and For
aker for senator, but the factions be
lieve in the sincerity of but one-half OF
each others declarations and both ART
more anxious to secure power than prom
ises. This was the situation just before
the convention was called to order today