The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-05

National Republican Committeeman
N. b. Scott left yesterday afternoon for
Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek
Colorado, on a business trip. Mrs Scott
is in Chicago and will join her husband
there. Just before leaving the city Mr.
Scott had a brief conversation bV tele-
phone, with Senator NJ, A. Hanna who
was in Cleveland. Mr., Hanna confirm
ed to Mr., Scott the press reports re-
celved during the day to the effect thai
the Ohio legislature would have from
FIVE to seven Republican majority on
Joint ballot, He expressed himself as
gratihed by the outcome, considering
the vicious character of the fight that
had been made against the party n
him personally. as the party's candi-
date.
MIR, Scott asked Mr.. Hanna as to the
truth Of the published reports thai sew
| eral OF the members-elect or the lesls-
lature would oppose his election to the
senate and that the Foraker men would
revolt, In violation of the compact en-
tered into, which made Foraker sena-
tor. Mckinley President and Hanna
senator. Mr.. Hanna's response came
quickly over the telephone wire, IN hrm
tones: There's not one word OF truth
in h a report. l will be elected. Do not
rely on the gossip OF the enemy, when
is only an attempt to make mischlel'
There will be no traitors In the camp
All ore rnod Renublicans,"
Mr.. Hanna expressed himselt over
| the phone as being grateful to his west
| Virginia friends for the warm interest
| they had taken in his contest, n Tor
| the deep concern they had felt In ne
| half Of the entire Republican ticket In
| Ohio. II was an evidence, he hough
| Of the general desire to see PRESIDENT
| McKinley's administration endorseu:
After repeating to the reporter MT.
| Hanna's responses, Mr.. Scott saiq n IA
the news from Ohio showing n a
| Bushnell was reelected by 27,OOV ma,
FORTY and that the Legislature would
have n majority sufficient to elect a
| Republican senator, was most Crafty
ing, a., ,
said Mr., Scott, at is a notable victory
for the Republican party, and intelli-
gent Democrats everywhere will so re-
gard It, In spite OF the fact that yester-
day they were congratulatlnE them
selves on the then supposed defeat oil
Mr., Hanna. In the past thirty years
only once previous to this year I'm 1891
have the Republicans secured a ma
iorlty In the legislature to elect n Ke-
nublicon colleague of Senator Sherman
| Mr., sherman always had a Democratic
colleague, and Ohio hus not IN all ina
thIrtV years had two Republican seha-
tors Mt once until Foraker and Hanna
took their seats together on the 4th OF
last March, notwithstanding the state
has all along been overwhelmingly he-
publican In presidential years
"Thls peculiar record of Ohio led tne
Democrats to hope, and with reason
mat this year history would repeat IL
self. TO be consistent with her past re-
cord ohio would have to elect a Demo-
crotIc legislature this year and give
Senator Foraker a Democratic col
league. But she hasn't done so, on,
has broken her record, n not ohls
has she elected n Republican leslsla'
ture that will continue Mr. Hanna "
the senate, but she has stood by fresl'
dent McKlnley's administration by CIV,
luC the handsome off-year pllrahtt o.
~ 600 for the Republican state ticker
In view of all this It is a Republican
vlctory on which the Republicans o.
the country over may consratula''
theselves on.
"The Democratic claim that the small
minority in the legislature Is a Vlrtua
Reputation OF MIR. Hanna Is the verles
nonsense. As I have already shown You
he has secured what 40 other Rcpuoi'
can candidate for the senate has eve
secured in the first year following {
presidential year, according to Ohiol
eccentric habit of the past thirty years
and considering the remarkable ah'
unprecedented campaign Of SANDER an'
vIlIIncation aimed at him, has scored
signal personal triumph"