The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-04

the Legislature, and the Republican state
committee raised its claim to a majority of
five on joint ballot as follows:
Reps. Dems.
Honae ffnase .............:::::..:.5s ...::5s 5f Il
Totals ..........................75 rs 70
Wood county had been conceded to the
Democrats until tonight, when the COM
pietc returns caused the Republicans to
claim it. On the returns complete at Re-
publican State headquarters the Democrats
will have majority of two in the Senate
and the Republicans of seven in the House.
In these claims the fusionists from Cincin-
natl are all counted as Democratic. The
Republicans can organize the House with
out fusion. There is only one of the four
senators elected on the fusion ticket in Gin
cinnati who is a Republican, and he now
becomes a factor If Senator Voight, of
Cincinnati, who is a Republican, elected on
the fusion ticket, should vote with the Re-
publicans on the organization of the Senate
or on anything else that body will be tie,
with Lieutenant Governor Jones, Republic
an, having the deciding vote. If the Demo-
Gratis had secured a majority of the Legis-
lature or the fusiopists held the balance of
power it is said that the fusionists would
have voted with the Democrats.
FUSIONISTS MAY ASSIST.
The Republicans now expect two or more
of the fusion Republicans to vote with
them for senator, in which event they
claim a majority of seven on joint ballot,
with " Republicans and 6S Democrats
None of the fusion votes for senator was
counted on by the Republican managers in
event they would be needed by the Demo-
Gratis to elect their nominee but now many
specuations are made about the fusion
votes.
When it was thought to-day that control
of the Legislature might depend upon one
vote there was apprehension of trouble in
some counties. Emissaries were sent out
from state headquarters to close counties to
watch the counting. The Ohio law pro-
vides that mot less than one nor more than
five days from the date of election the
deputy state supervisors in each county
shall begin the official canvass of the vote
and continue from day to day till COM
pleted." In event Of protracted contests in
the close counties the suspense of to-day
might have continued till the Legislature
met, next January.
Since the change of the claims at Demo-
cratic state headquarters tonight or the
complexion of the Legislature, two impor-
tant rumors have been vigorously circu-
lated One is that John r. Mclean will be
pressed by the Ohio Democracy for the
Democratic nomination for President in 1900
and that Senator Hanna will have opposi-
ton in his own party for election to the
Senate 1t is claimed by those advocating
Mclean for the presidential nomination
that he deserves credit for the reduction
-
half of what it was last year and of the
Republican majority in the Legislature
from eighty on joint ballot to five. And
the Democrats claim that the majority on
joint ballot would be five the other way
if they had an equal chance on contests
There are thirty members of the State SEN
ate, and only one or two of those districts
that are so close or doubtful as to admit
of contests on which Republican senators
could be unseated.
On the other hand, there are 1O9 members
of the House, in which the Republicans
claim majority of seven, while the Demo-
Gratis have a majority of two in the Senate
And there are several counties so close on
the vote for representatives that several
seats could be changed in that body In
the settlement the Republicans would have
such an advantage in the House over the
Democrats in the Senate that it is not like
ly that the latter would be aggressors in
that matter. And this may allow the close
margin of the Republicans on joint ballot
for senator to go uncontested in any of the
close counties or before the committees on
elections in the General Assembly.
MOVEMENT AGAINST HANNA.
There is another alleged movement which
is causing much more comment and that
is the rumor that Governor Bushnell will
be brought out for senator against Marcus
A. Hanna. Allen Q. Myers, one of the
managers at Democratic state headquar-
ters, announced tonight that Senator Han
ma would never be elected to the Senate
on the close joint majority that is claimed
although Hanna had been indorsed for SEN
ator by the last Republican state conven-
ton the same as Foraker was indorsed by
the Republican state convention two years
ago. Mr.. Myers said if the close cali on the
Legislature went against the Democrats in
the official count of the close counties, that
the Democrats in the Legislature would
join with a dozen or more Republican men,
bers of that body in electing Bushnell in
stead of Hanna to the Senate. Governor
Bushnell and all others involved in this
movement deny any knowledge of 1t or that
they would have anything to do with it.
At both the Republican and the Demo-
cratic state headquarters tonight figures