, 1897-11-04
HANNA IS ALL RIGHT.
THE LEGISLATURE is CLOSE FOR
COMFORT BUT IT is RE
PUBLICAN.
Election of the Entire Republican State
Ticket is Conceded by the Demo-
crats-Both Parties Do a Little Fig.
uring on the Result-Some Ru-
mors in Regard to Bushnell.

been a day of anxiety with Ohio poll
ticians. 1t opened with the republicans
and democrats both claiming the cleo
ton OF their state tickets and a major1-
ty of the legislature. This afternoon
the democrats conceded the election OF
the republican state ticket by larger
pluralities than were given last night
in the earliest of these dispatches as
the claim of the republicans. Tonight
the democratic committee
NJ definite claims on the Legislature and
the republican state committee raised
its claim to a majority of five on joint
ballot. as follows: Senate, II republic
cans, 10 democrats; house, 5S republi>
cans, 81 democrats; total, rs republic
cans, 10 democrats.
Senator Weight is the only M of the
four senators elected on the fusion
ticket in Cincinnati. who is a republl.
can and be now becomes a factor. II
Voight should vote with the republl,
can on the organization of the senate
or on anything else that body would
be a tie with Lieut.. Gov. Jones, republi.
can, having the deciding vote.
Tonight W important rumors have
been vigorously circulated. One that
John r. Mclean will be pressed by the
Ohio democracy for the democratic
nomination for the presidency in 1900
and that Senator Hanna will have oppo-
sition in his own party for election to
the senate. 1t is claimed by those ad-
vocating Mclean for the presidential
nomination that he deserved credit for
ty to less than half what it was last
year, and Of the republican majority in
the legislature from 80 on joint ballot
to 8.
And the democrats claim that the ma,
jority would be five the other way il
they had an equal chance on contests.
In the settlement of contested seats the
republicans would have such an ad-
vantage in the house over the demo-,
Gratis in the enate that 1t is not likely
the latter will be the aggression in that
matter.
There is another alleged movement
which is causing much more comment
and that Is the m that Gov. Bush>
nell will be brought III for senator
against Marcus A. Hanna. Allen C.
Myers, one of the democratic managers,
announced tonight that Hanna would
never be elected to the senate on the
close joint majority that is claimed.
Myers said If a close call on the legis-
lature went against the democrats in
the legislature would join with a dozen
or more republican members of that
body in electing Bushnell instead of
Hanna to the senate. Governor Bush
nell and all others involved in the move,
ment deny any knowledge of it or that
they would have anything to do with
it.
At both republican and democratic
headquarters tonight figures are being
substituted for the claims of last night
and today. Chairman McConville Of
the democrat state committee, on
cedes the defeat of his state ticket. but
states they have reduced the republican
plurality Of 81 1000 of last year by over
one-half Chairman McConville does
not concede the control of the legisla.
ture to the republicans. After II O'Clock
McCOnyille said the renuhlicans claim