Birmingham state herald., 1897-06-23
4 BITTER FIGHT IN OHIO Convention this Week Will h.
 dorSe Hanna. THE HONOR WILL BE EMPTY Foraker Men Will Knife Him-WiII Turn the State Over to the Democrats War
 Declared on Mckinley -.J

Toledo. June 21.-President Mckinley will have good cause this week 10 treIn- b1e for his political future. Ohio repub- ncans will gather in convention and pass a resolution applauding him, but there will be no heart In it, and imme da tely after The convention has adjourned steps will be taken in every Ohio congressional district to prevent his renomination for president in 1900.
 The word has been given by the leadsr of the Foraker- faction, and the fight will go on without waveriag or com promise.
 Mark Hanna's arrogant and selfish treatment of Ohio republicans who have helped him to prominence is bearing f ut. He will be given full control of the con- vention, but ForakerS refusal to attend means that the Foraker faction proposes to let Ohio go democratic this year. Han ma will get his indorsement for senator. His enemies will sit in the convention and passively let him have what they consider an empty honor. At the election they will knife him as he knifed Foraker in 1889.
 So superstitious and selfish has Hanna become OF late that there has been talk of an open revolt in the convention. The Foraker people have votes enough to make serious trouble for Hanna, but do not thirk public demonstration wise at this time.
 The convention seen from the outside, promises to be tame affair. Hanna, by spending money for tickets, has drumm d up crowd from the lake regions, but re- ports from interior counties indicate a meagre attendance. There is no contest for nominations, none over platform. There will be no popular idol for the con ven'tion to cheer, with Foraker Sherman and Mckinley absent Grosvenor, who will be temporary chairman, is by no mea ns a favorite.
 Hanna's attempt to defeat Kurtz for State chairman will afford one of the excuses for the fight which the Kurtz crowd will make on Hanna and McKin4 ley from now on. Kurtz claims that thq warfare upon him is without cause oH justice. and that it was carried on se1 cretly while he has been sick.
 County conventions were held yester! day all over the State, They were not all in Hanna's favor by any means. Open revolt against him and his meth- ods was made in many instances. ta
 In Hardin county a motion to indorse. Hanna was abruptly tabled. The nomi7 nee for representative was man who. had been turned down for appointment, on the local pensfon board by the Hannas congress man of the district, and the man indorsed for senator had been refusedza federal appointment by the Mckinley machine. Both men will be elected and will neyer, go into a caucus to support Hanna. [
 Here in Toledo former State Labor Commissioner Fassett was candidate for delegate. He boldly printed at the head of his tickets the words Anti Hanna," and was elected ten to one The county convention here did not indorse Hanna by name. His supporters knew that such resolution would be badly beaten In the resolution both senators rpi1dU n Q ndpd hllt there reference to Hanna's candidacy.
 In Cincinnati George Cox, the notorious boss who went over to Hanna last March, controlled and appointed the big delega- tion. There was no primary or conVen- tion. Cox merely made out list talk ing care to put on few business men, who for business reasons dare not oppose him. Cox had a meeting of his appoint ees and gave them resolution which he wanted passed. The order was obeyed. The resolution carefully approves Hanna for senator, applauds Mckinley and Bushnell, but makes no mention of Fora ker. The omission is so glaring that Cox will be lucky if he escapes hissing in the state convention.
 Heretofore Cox has opposed the Hanna Mckinley combination. His support cf it now will cost Hanna thousands of votes in Ohio, and especially in rural counties, where corruption of the Cox description is hated.
 
 cent county conventions was a speach by State Senator George Fallson, at Athens, the fhome of Grosvenor Fallson is a Foraker representative, and sought re- nomination. He was turned down by Hanna's order and by the use of Hanra's money. Grosvenor fought him bitterly. Edison was a spectator of the Athens democratic convention yesterday, and was asked to say something. He gave Grosvenor and Hanna a scoring which represents the inside feeling of the Fora ker faction in Ohio.
 'I know when to lay down." Edison said. q don't want to cope single handed with a millionaire and one who has half million dollars. the unexperd d balance belonging to the republican na- tional committee
 Fallson described Grosvenor as l" a SOL dier of the late war whose record grew brighter as memory grew dim. He has since become great statesman, and was the political baremster of the Mckinley campaign and indicated the rise an1 fa9 of Mckinley by publications in the daily papers. As he was the political baron- eter of the Mckinley campaign so he was the barometer of the god of war in the late rebellion, indicating the ap- preaching ba'tte by his presence in the streets of Athens"
 All this indicates the political c-rdi- tions in Ohio. which Hanna declares are "perfectly satisfa ctory'
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