The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-06-25
.FORAKERITES
HARD HIT.
Hanna Gave Them No Quarter at
the Toledo Convention.
IN THE PARTY
KS-CHAIRMAN KURTz DE.
SERTED AT THE LAST MOMENT
BY REPUBLICANS WHO ARE
SEEKING PRESIDENTIAL PIE A
wASHINGTON-COX ACCUSED OF
BETRAYING FORAKER.

BETRAYING FORAKER.
Toledo, O., June "a. Senator Mark
Hanna's control of the convention OF the
Ohio Republicans was absolute and ut
times approached the brutal stage.
Whenever the friends of Senator Foraker
asked for quarter, they were reminded of
the GAINESVILLE convention, two years ago,
when the Mckinley Hanna candidate for
governor WAS slaughtered and Bushnell
given the nomination. Not only were
the friends of Senator Foraker defeated
and Inundated, but there was a dsposi
ton to rub it in on them, and since the
adjournment OF the convention i'm
promptu Publication meetings have been
in progress in the hotel Hobbies and bar
rooms, and whenever Foraker man puts
in an appearance he is hooted Mt in the
most unmerciful manner.
The proceedings of the convention were
OF the perfunctory order. The only ami
nation attending the affair vas connect
ell with the fight for the State chairman.
ship in which Mr.. KurtZ,, the Foraker
Bushnell candidate, made such poor
showing. The Foraker people were sadly
handicapped by many cases of treachery
IN their own ranks The greed for public
pelf, and the knowledge that Mr.. Hanna
is the distributing agent of the admins
tration, caused men who have been iden-
tilted with the Foraker cause for many
years to desert and enroll themselves un-
der the Hanna. Dick ssbanner. Kurtz
knows more about politics than Dick
could acquire if he were permitted to en-
JOY half dozen life times, but KurtZ or
no other mortal could successfully have
commended against the conditions which
obtained here to day. Had Foraker been
present he, too, would have been moved
down in the most merciless manner, so
bent were the politicians on showing
their adulation for Hanna and thus inn
proving their chances for securing office
This was carried to such an extent as to
make it disgr sting.
The most conspicuous case of treachery
to Foraker was that of George b. Cox,
the Cincinnati boss, whose extraordinary
strides in politics were made possible by
the friendship OF the man whom he has
deserted for Hanna. Cox owned the Gin
clnnati delegation in to-day's convention,
III having been appointed by him 1t was
voted Hannaward on every case where
there was contest, and Cox notified
kurtz in the most cold blooded manner
that the votes of the two State commit
teemen from Cincinnati wonld he cast for
Hanna's candidate for State chairman.
In return for this Hanna is to appeal to
the ''better element of Cincinnati,
which rebelled Mt the April election, to
vote for CoX's nominees for the legisla-
ture and the county offices in November
When reminded of their treachery to
Foraker the Cox lieutenants declare that
1t was Cox who made Foraker and not
Foraker who made Cox.
Another thing which was considered to
he IN very bad taste and which made the
FORAKER people very angry was an inter-
view with Mr.. Perkins, Mr.. Hanna's pri-
waite secretary. Mr. Perkins is not res
ldent of Ohio. His legal home is in the
State of Washington. Yet Mr.. Perkins
discussed Governor Bushnell in the fol-
lowing light and airy manner: "What is
bushnell but an empty headed excuse.
1t is enough 20 saddle us with his name
ON the ticket without placing the man
who created him in a position to sacrifice
the prospects of Hanna for those of gov
ernor. He is nothing but a load for us to
carry in this campaign, and we do not
propose to have this burden made greater
by the selection of Kurtz to the chair
manship of the executive committee.
Bushnell is only figure head, anyhow.
why he should have any voice in this
matter L cannot understand. At airy rate
ne will not be given any choice He
ought to be glad that we do not turn him
down entirely" The Foraker folk de-
nounce Perkins as an upstart, and predict
Hanna will rue the day he placed him in
his present position.
The performance of Governor Bushnell
has been highly ludicrous. lie marched
mp the hill and then marched down again
in manner that would have reflected
great credit on comic opera star. Bush
nell has great weakne So for pomp, and
can stand Il steady diet of brass bands
HIS corping to town last night would have
excited the jealousy of a modern circus
parade. He was escorted from the station
Go his hotel by troops and music, and his
salutations 70 the people along the line of
march would have given a teacher of Del
sarte much food for reflection. Up to
this point Bushnell was n great success.
He had no sooner reached his hotel than
he threw oil an ultimatum for the bene
tit of Hanna. He announced that unless
kurtz was reelected State chairman he
would not accept a denomination. The
Hanna people met this by beginning to
groom Assistant Secretary Brigham,
of the Agricultural Department, for the
gubernatorial nomination. They were
quite vigorous in booming Brigham, and
their work for him was literally inter
spersed with suggestions that farmer
candidate would make much better
showing in the election returns than
Bushnell could possibly hope to do. This
talk was sufficient to cause Governor
Bushnell to cut loose from the sinking
Foraker. Kurtz craft, and he lost no time
in mounting the Hanna band wagon.