The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-05-30

Grand Forks P%Iaindealor: Senator
f1ansbrough was invited by Mr.. McKin
ley to visit the latter's home at Canton
Ihe Senator refuses to tell what he went
for and William the Silent refuses alan "a
give out any information along that line.
There are political sachems in this State
VINO are very much worried over the visit
and they would like worry much to k..ow
what it means. Would 1t not be tonvh. #
after all, the p~ostofice appointments
should have to receive Hansbrough.s en-.
d"rsement in case Mckinley should be
elected. None who know Hunsbronoh
fail to give him credit for Icing shrewd
enough politician tn walk up near the
front with the best of them, and with all
the vaunted turning down the Senator has
received there is every probability that
IL" will land square on the front seat of
which over band wagon wheels in ahead.
McKlnley's nomination for the Presi.
dency by the Republican National Con.
Ventlon which meets in St. Louis, June
'th' ia nov assured. Tho ex Governor.
10y actual count of pledged delegates, has
over thirty more than n majoriay to nom.
mate, and the convention will simply be-
a Mckinley ratification meeting, The
expression of unanimlty among Repub-
Leans OF the nation is such, that personal
ambition among rival candidates for the
the party's Presidential nomination ia
waved tor the best interests of the Repub.
l'can party and the nation.
Ia n press dispatch from Washington.
dated May 23rd, the following interview
with Senator Hansbrough will xplain
our popular Senator's cordinl relations
with Gov. Mckinley. The following liz
the interview, as published:
Senator Hansbrough has returned IN
Washington from Ohio. where he has gone
Mt the special invitation of Governor
Mckinley. He spent Wednesday in Can
tor with Mckinley. and went from there
tOCieveland upon The invitation of Mark
Hanna. Senator Hansbrough was seen at
the capitol to-day, and asked the follow.
ing questions:
1T is rumored that you have been to
Ohio to ace Gov. Mckinley. Is the rumor
trueY"
ut is" replied the Senator.
:; ID o care 20 state the reason for
yOur visit to CantOn?'
Il went +" Canton upon the invitation
of Gov. Mckinley, sent through friends
within the past two weeks"
"Was your visit agreeable, ard what ia
the political Significance of it?"
1T was very agreeable. I have known
Major Mckinley for nearly ten years. We
we're on the committee on resolutions at
Chicagos in 1888. and served together in
he Fifty first congress. To know Mai.
Mckinley ia 10 like HIM, and the visit to
his home could not be otherwise than
agreeable. There was no political sivti.
fcance in the visit" = j..
docs Gov. Mckinley intend to say nny.
thing on the financial question:"
+: II will answer that question in thia wav:
We're I a candidate for the Presidency
should await the action of the National
convention. The candidate NAV in all
reason be expected to stand on the plat
FORM"
"Have you any doubt about the nomin.
alton of Gov. McKinley?"
None whatever. He ia unquestionably
the popular choice. He has a majority Of
the delegates INT will have all of them
by the time the time the convention is
held. Nor Is there any less doubt his
election.
Republican conventions, says an ex-