Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-16
THE FIGHT ON HANNA
Republican Leaders Charged With Aiding
the Combination.
Complaints Against Senator Foraker
and Gov. BushneIHToua JOhnsoH
Read Out Of the Party.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, November 16.-Sen-
ator Hanna will leave for New York this
evening on a business. aid not a political
mission. He will be gone about a week.
In his absence Col. Charles F. Dick will
keep him posted On the movements Of his
enemies In Ohio.
The anti-Hanna movement is badly in
reed of leader to start the bolt which is
predicted. They claim sufficient strength.
and declare that twenty legislators will not
abide by the Toledo pledge. Foraker men
contend that Mr.. Hanna will be defeated,
and with defeat his power will be shat
tered. They believe Governor Bushnell will
be elected. and that Mr.. Forakers position
will be strengthened that, If he wishes.
he can be the candidate of the republican
party for President in 1900 If he does not
wish this. he can at least be certain of re-
election as senator.
Charges Against Foraker.
There is no concealment at Mr.. Hanna s
office of disgust at the annoyance to which
the senator is to be subjected. Governor
Bushnell and Senator Foraker, 1t is charged,
are supporting the conspiracy against Mr..
Hanna. They worked in perfect accord
throughout the campaign. Their accord. ii
is claimed, did not look forward to the
election of Mr.. Hanna to the Senate how
ever. Mr. Foraker, is said to have resisted
every attempt of the state executive COM
mittee throughout the campaign to send
him to close districts, with one or two ex-
ceptions. He spoke, it is charged. only in
the counties which are safely republican
and where it was desirable to get out a
large vote for Governor Bushnell. In one
day he received fifty kilograms from prom
inent republicans and members of the state
committee asking him to speak in several
counties which were i'll danger on the legis-
lative ticket. A special train was offered
him. but he refused. He could neither be
coerced nor coaxed. He spoke where he
pleased, and it is claimed, where 1t would
not help Mr.. Hanna Everywhere he went
two things are said to have been noticeable:
First. renewed effort for Governor Bush
nell on the part of the senator's adherents.
Second, determined effort to defeat the
legislative ticket except in the instances
where the candidates for the legislature
were safely pledged to fight Hanna.
Governor Bushnelrs loyalty to the leg1s-
lative ticket it is declared, was no greater
than that of Mr.. Foraker.
Senator Foraker has recently demanded
of President Mckinley that the federal
appointments in Ohio be filled at once.
Senator Hanna does not want this request
complied with, and it is presumed that the
President will pay no attention to 1t. This
denial of Mr.. ForakerS request Will be the
excuse for which Mr.. Foraker is waiting
to take a bolder stand against Senator
Hanna.
The names of Mr.. Foster, ex-Secretary of
the Treasury, and General Little of Xenia
have been mentioned as senatorial candi
dates against Hanna John r. Mclean will
probably he the democratic caucus nomi
rec.
Tom johnson Read Out of the Party.
AT a meeting of the Cuyahoga democracy
last night resolutions were adopted reading
ex-Congressman Tom L. johnson and John
H. Farley out of the democratic party. Both
these leaders were charged with treachery
during the late campaign. Farley is ac-
cused of supporting Senator Hanna and
johnson with having bolted Farley's candi-
dacy for mayor last spring.
Backs Up the Kurtz Interview.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
COLUMBUS. Ohio, November 16-The
affidavit of E. X. Rife as to the authen-
ITCHY of the Chas. L. Kurtz interview, ex-
pressing hostility to Senator Hanna, which
Mr.. Kurtz has pronounced fake, has
caused great surprise here because 1t has
disclosed the fact that the author of the
alleged interview Is the editorial writer of
the State Journal the local republican
organ. In the editorial columns of the
Journal, Mr.. Rife has been discrediting
the interview, well as all publications
tending to show opposition in the republi-
can party to the return of Mr.. Hanna to
he Senate