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Factloqa1 Fight On iQ Ohio.
Line Between the Hanna Foraker Forces in the
Party Is Very Sharply Drawn

TOLEDO, O., June 21.-Gov. Bush
nell and other state officers and Chair
man KuTTtz arrived tonight to attend
the state Republican convention and
Immediately took up the fight for the
state campaign chairmanship. Gov.
Bushnell said it had always been the
custom for the candidate for governor
to name the chairman and that he
would insist on the continuance of
Chairman KurtZ, who had made an
excellent record in the last two cam
palgnS. The governor would not con-
firm the reports that he would decline
the nomination if Mr.. Dick or any
other man were selected to manage
the campaign instead of Chairman
Kurtz He said he could not say what
he would do, in advance of nomination.
but he was emphatic in expressing his
regret that this trouble in the party
organization had been brought about
The governor said Chairman Kurtz
would work as hard for the election
of members Of the legislature as for
the state ticket, and that the charges
were so unjust that Chairman Kurtz
should now be vindicated
While the managers for Dick were
tonight claiming seventeen out of the
twenty-one congressional districts for
committeeman, Mr.. Kurtz was working
with confidence of reelection and
claiming an even fight. Kurtz claimed
that, when the state central commit
tee recently met in Columbus to fix
the time and place for this convention,
Senator Hanna sent Maj. Dick
there as his representative, and that it
was then agreed that Kurtz should
continue as chairman. Since then there
has been a change Of plans that has
been kept secret from the governor,
chairman and others. The Kurtz men
claim no one knew anything of it, eX-
cept those in the secret at Washington,
and that emissaries were sent from
Washington to the county conventions
last week when Senator Hanna made
his first open move.
Chairman Kurtz said tonight that
the fight has been waged under such
conditions that he cannot withdraw or
be party to any compromise. Gov.
Bushnell and the state officers, who
will also be renominated, are working
hard for Kurtz tonight 1t is openly
stated that Senator FoIa has appeal
II.
The following that President Mckinley
and Secretary Sherman have always
had In Ohio conventions are working
aggreSively for Dick, and the admin
stration is freely quoted as favoring
Dick. Senator Hanna will arrive to-
morrow. His friends are here in force,
and on account of this contest, almost
all of the delegates are in tonight
This question will be settled when the
delegates meet, by congressional dis
tricts, tomorrow afternoon. The mem
bers Of the state central committee
selected at that time, will meet tomor-
row night to select the campaign chair
man and the fight will likely continue
to g finish at that time. This is the
all-absorbing issue of the convention,
as it has the two Ohio senators on op-
posite sides as we'll as the state and
local administrations. Among the init
nations of the Dick men is one that
under the management of Chairman
Kurtz last year. Ohio did not do as
we'll for, Mckinley as it should have
done, and that Senator Hanna as chair
man of the national committee, was
then dissatisfied and is unwilling now
to trust to the same chairman the
canvass in which both the short and
the long terms of the senatorship as
we'll as the state ticket are at stake
Gov. Bushnell and Maj. Dick had a long
conference tonight The party leaders got
them together, but no compromise could be
reached. Senator's Foraker and Hanna were
both conferred with by wire before the con-
ference. While Gov. Bushnell represented
Chairman Kurtz and Senator Foraker, as
well the probable state nominees, 1t was
impossible for Maj. Dick to speak for Sena-
tor Hanna and others. There was sort of
armistice during the hours of this conference.
but after midnight the contest proceeded as
during the day. Senator Hanna promised to
be here tomorrow morning to confer with
Gov. Bushnell, and there viii be strong ef-