The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-04
BUCKEYE STATE IS SAFE
DEMOCRATS CONCEDE THE RE- ERECTION OF COY. BUSHNELL.

Does Not Necessarily Mean the Return of Hanna to the Senate-Gov. Bushnell Re- ported to be a Candidate Against Him.
 Columbus, O., Nov. 3.-Ths has been a day of anxiety with the Ohio politi- clans. It opened with the republicans and democrats both claiming the cleo tion of their state tickets and a ma jority of the members of the legisla- ture.
 Before noon 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 claims of the republi- cans. Tonight the democratic state committee announced no definite claims on the legislature, and the republican state committee made it's claim to majority of five on joint ballot as fol- lows: Senate, + republicans and IS democrats; house, 58 republicans and 5l democrats.
 Totals, 75 republicans, 70 democrats.
 Wood county had been conceded to the democrats until tonight, when the complete returns caused the republl- cans to claim it.
 On the returns complete at the repub- lican state headquarters the democrats will have a majority of two in the sen ate and the republicans of seven in the house.
 In these claims the fusionists from Cincinnati are all counted as democrat ic. There is only one of the four sena- tors elected on the fusion ticket in Cin- cinnati who is arepublican, and he now becomes factor.
 If Senator voight of Cincinnati who is a. republican, elected on the fusion ticket should vote with the republi- or anything else, that body will be a tie with Lieutenant Governor Jones, rep. having the deciding vote. If the democrats had secured majority or the legislature. or the fusionists held the balance of power it is said that the fusionists would have voted with the democrats.
 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 nine on joint ballot, with " republicans and 6S demo- crats. None of the fusion votes for senator was counted on by the republi- can managers in the event they would be needed by the democrats to elect their nominee, but now many specula- tions are made about the fusion votes.
 When it was thought to-day that the 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 count ing.
 The Ohio law provides 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 con- tinue from day to day until completed" In the event of protracted contests in the close counties the suspense of to- day might have continued until the legislature met next January.
 Since the change of the claims at the democratic state headquarters tonight on the complexion of the legislature two important rumors have been viz orously circulated. One is that John R. Mclean will be pressed by the Ohio democracy for the nomination for pres ident in 1900, and that Senator Hanna will have opposition in election to the senate.
 The democrats claim the majority on Joint ballot in the assembly would be five in their favor if they had an equal chance on contests.
 There are 109 members of the house, in which the republicans claim ma- jority of seven, while the democrats have majority of two in the senate and there are several counties so close that several seats could be changed In the settlement of contested seats the republicans would have such an ad- vantage in the house over the demo- crats ill the senate that 1t is not likely that the latter will be aggressors in that matter. And this may allow the close of the margin of the republicans on joint ballot for senator to go uncon- tested in any of the close counties or before the committee on election in the general assembly.
 There is another alleged movement, which is causing much more comment, and that is the rumor that Governor Bushnell will be brought out for sena- tor against Marcus A. Hanna. Allen o, Meyers, one of the managers at the
 
 democratic state headquarters, an- nounced tonight that Senator Hanna would never be elected to the senate on the close joint majority that is claimed, although Hanna had been in dorsed for senator py the last republi- can state convention, the same as For aker was endorsed by the republican state convention two years ago.
 MT. Meyers said if the close call on the legislature went against the demo- crats in the official count in close coun- ties the democrats in the legislature would join with a dozen or more re- publican members of that body in electing Bushnell instead of Hanna to the senate.
 Governor Bushnell and all others in- yolyed in this movement deny any knowledge of it, or that they would have anything to do with it.
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