Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-02-10
HANNA MAY GET IN.
Bushnell DareS Not Grave the ,
Storm Adverse Action
Would Create.

Chicago, Ill, Feb. 6.-The Times Her
aid prints the following from Walter
Wellman, its Washington correspondent:
Notwithstanding the news from Ohio
that Gov Bushnell has determined TO
appoint Lieut.-Gov. Jones to the senator
ship the best-informed members OF Con
grcss from the Buckeye state are loath
to believe the governor will refuse TO
appoint Mr.. Hanna. There is naturally
a great deal of anxiety about the matter
among the Ohio Republicans, for they
scent the battle from affair. Ii 1t be true
that the state organization in ONO has
fully decided to deny the senatorsh1p to
MIR. Hanna the members from that state
look for bitter factional war.
1.-The understanding here is that MI
Hanna could have the senatOrshlp tor
two years, first by appointment and aft
erward by election. if he would pledge
himself not to be candidate for the long
term beginning two years from next
March. But Mr.. Hanna has SO far de-
clined to give any such pledge. lie is
willing TO take MS chances before the
people and the Legislature.
Doubtless Gov. Bushnell and Senator
elect Foraker would like to have Mr.
Hanna so into the cabinet and thus re-
Ieve them of all embarrassment concern
ing the senatOrship. For this reason 1t
is believed the governor has declined to
say whether or not he will appoint MT
Hanna, hoping the President-elect and
Mr.. Hanna will themselves solve the
problem SO far as the first year OF the
senatorship is concerned by making Mr.
Hanna postmaster-general. II Mr..
Hanna calls this bluff by deciding he will
not be a cabinet officer Gov. Bushnell
will be placed in a most embarrassing
predlcament.
IF Mr.. Hanna stands out for the SEN
o4O rio1 ~ RlISh rs H.
not turn him down without mourning the
danger of a bitter fractional war among
Ohio Republicans, in which he might be
the chief sufferer. A seat III the Senate
is Mr.. Bushnelrs ambition, but can he
hope to achieve it if he goes contrary
to the wishes of the President-elect and
of Il majority of the Republicans OF
Ohio? 1t is not usual for governor
of state to turn q deaf ear to q proper
request made of him by the man VINO
was his predecessor in Office and who is
to be his party's President of the United
States?
Gov. Bushnell may be counting much
upon Mai. McKinley's well-known antip-
athy to factionalism and chickering's. lie
may think the new President viii make
almost any sacrifice rather than stir up
a war in his own state. But the ONO
congressman say there is limit to the
patience and tolerance of the President
elect. great as they are.
IF matters should unfortunately
drift into such shape that differences of
opinion are succeeded by personal an
tagonisms of bitter sort, 1t is easy to
see that the President might be forced to
stand by his friends. If the power of the
administration were added to the popu-
larity and influence of Mr.. Hanna, and
of Mr. Sherman. and of majority of
the Republican congressman from Ohio,
the combination might prove too strong
for the state organization, or such parts
of it as are in sympathy with Gov.
Bushnell, to withstand.
"Senator-elect Foraker, who, after all,
is probably the man who holds the whip
hand at Columbus, understands all this
perfectly. His friends here, and they are
many, predict that when the proper time
comes, if the issue be ever narrowed
down to Mr.. Hanna or some one else,
Senator Foraker's influence will be
thrown decisively in Mr.. Hanna's favor.
Mr., Foraker, as the head of the regu-
lar state organization in Ohio, has every
thing to lose by a fractional war. 1t is
doubtful if he could afford it, or if he
thinks he can afford it.
Certain it is that Mr.. Hanna and his
friends have done everything in their
power, everything that is fair and rea-
sOnable, to avert strife within the party.
THE race for time is a curious part of
he will not send his resignation 10 Gov.
Bushnell till his nomination as secretary
of state has been received at the Senate.
That will be on the 9Th day of March.
He has by letter informed Gov. Bushnell
that he will resign on that day, but Mr..
Bushnell chooses to say that he does not
know that Mr.. Sherman will not change
his mind and conclude to stay in the
Senate. Therefore it is not necessary
for him to agitate himself unduly about
the appointment of Mr.. Sherman's sue
cessor till vacancy has arisen.
cali of which is very cute of Mr.
Bushnell He doubtless has in mind
that if Mr.. Hanna has any thought of
going into the cabinet he will have to
make up his mind about it before March
5, as on that day the President will
nominate his official advisers. It would
never do for the President to leave
blank space where the name of his post
master-general ought to be. It would be
awkward and unseemly.
1.-THE Ohio congressman think the
Bushnell tactics are to bluff Mr. Hanna
into the cabinet and out of the senatorial
race, and they hope Mr.. Hanna will
stand pat On his hand"