The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-11-19
Take u Hand
VIII President Mckinley In the Hanna
Senatorial Imbr0gliO.
From our ReguIur Core spondent.

From our tegulIr CORE spondent'
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18th, 1897
Mr.. Mckinley has taken hand in
that Hanna muddle by personally
taking Senator Foraker to task for
the attitude that some Of the prom
inent Foraker men in Ohio have
taken against the election of Han
ma to the Senate. Whether by so
doing he hurt or helped Hanna is
as yet matter of doubt, There
was no quarrel between Mr.. Nc
Kinley and Senator Foraker, but
there was plain talk on both sides.
Mr.. Mckinley said that he knew
Foraker could stop the fight on
Hanna that some of his personal
followers were showing a disposi-
tion to make, if not actually max
ing, if he desired to do so. Mr..
Foraker did not deny his power to
do so, but retorted by saying that
Hanna had brought it all on him
self by his treatment of the Forak-
er and Bushnell republicans, and
intimating that he thought 1t
would serve him good and right If
he failed to get elected to the Sen
ate, Mr.. Mckinley did not defend
Hanna's methods in dealing with
Foraker's friends, but he made it
very plain that the whole power of
administration would be used to
secure Hanna's election, and that
it would be useless for any repub-
lican who took any part in an at
tempt to prevent his election to
expect the slightest favor from him
in the way Of patronage. Notwith-
standing all this the most that Mr..
Mckinley could get out Of Foraker
was promise that he would not
personally do anything against the
election of Hanna. Foraker is still
in Washington and Mr.. Mckinley
has not abandoned hope of being
able to bring sufficient pressure to
bear upon him to get him to agree
to call his followers off and to allow
Hanna to be elected.
Secretary Gage now openly ad.
mits that he is in sympathy with
the gold bug, self-appointed none
tary conference which assumes the
right to perform the duties proper
ly belonging to Congress in con-
nection with financial legislation,
and to emphasize that sympa thy
he gave a dinner this week attend
ed only by the members of the so.
called conference and Mr.. Ii. II.
Hanna, of indianapolis, who is
generally regarded as the creator
Of the Indianapolis convention and
Of this conference. AT this dinner
the work of the conference, as far
as it has gone, and the financial
recommendations in the annual re-
port of Secretary Gage were dis
cussed. If these men have time to
waste they have as much right to
waste 1t in this way as in any
other. The only good purpose that
will be served either by the recon-
mendations of Secretary Gage or
of this conference, composed of his
side-partners, will be the increase
in the silver sentiment of the
country. Senator Chandler has not
always been wise In his predictions,
but he hits the nail square on the
head in his latest, made public this
week-"if the republican party
permanently acquiesces in the ex-
isting gold standard it will be de-
feated in the Congressional elec-
tions of 1898 and in the Presiden.
tial election of 1900"
John Wedderburn and John
Wedderburn & Co., who were re-
Gently disbarred from practice be-
fore-the- Patent Office, were this
week placed on the fraud list by
ths fPost- office Department, and
Will not be allowed further use of
thsmails, Their paper, the Ma.
tlsnAl Recorder, was included in
the fraud order, and any letters ad-
dressed to them will be STAMPED
"fraudulent" and returned to writ
err If address is on envelope; other
wise they will be sent to the writer
through the Dead Letter Office.
Newspapers which continue to
carry Wedderburn & Co's. adver-
tisement after knowing of this
fraud order may find themselves
In trouble with the posta! author
itIes.
Senator Wolcott arrived nj
Washington this week and had
a conference with Mr.. Mckinley
about the tizzle trip of himself and |
colleagues to Europe, in search of
that latter.day "Holy Graip known
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