Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-09-14
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RED HOT IN OHIO.

gun IN the bait leS betwee the Re oraker.
land Hanna act ons Of the Republican
party was fired to-da at the free silver
picnic at Rand olph Park. The smol-.
2derln geo Goals OF hatred that have 50
long been suppressed through fealty5
Ito party burst into fierce flame that
no earthly power will be ableto quench.,
0 Judge G. II. Grant, a prominent free
silver republican, presided at the meet
ling, and IS a part Of his opening adj.
dress he read a letter from Colonel A..
IsL. 9Conger, who is at a sanitarium in
l.ka,:il1rkssyille, Mo. advising all RepubI-
cans to vote and work for the defeat
of Hanna ~ il, f .Sg 4 S II. i: s,s.s,sx
I. Colonel Conger probably the most
widely known of Foraker's Ohio lieu
ten 2 Z ants. His relations with Senator
Foraker are So close as to be most
brotherly, and lis not reasonable to
suppose that he has thus. openly de-
clared his position without the sane.
ton Of his chief The fact at a week
or so ago Senator Foraker visited
Colonel Conger at Kirkville would
seem to confirm the supposition that
the antagonistic stand taken by Colo
mel CongerY is an Indication of the po-
sition to be assumed Bly, ,.~... !.
.FoRAKER1TEs THROUGHOUT OHIO. (
The letter was read in the presence of
5000 people, many of them silver re-
publicans, and created a, sensation
that has not its equal in the history of
Ohio politics. Judge Grant did not
announce the name Of the writer until
he had finished reading the letter, and
when the peopleawere informed that it
was fIom their distinguished and pop
ular townsman. their enthusiasm could
not be controlled. : The effect Of the
letter upon the local Foraker Hanna
| fight was electrical. Foraker follow
ers are already lining up in support of
Colonel iConger, and CONSERVATION
prevails in the Hanna camp. 4sr %s
! The letter from Colonel Conger fol-
lows, p .~,a. : .-. -. ......~# ..:z..
K1RKsv1L1.E, Mo-, August q, 1897. J:
JUDGE CIR. GRANT, Akron, O.-My
Dear Judge Grant: I was glad to get
your letter of the 10Th inst. Under no
consideration whatever shall I vote to
i support Mark Hanna's candidacy the
j coming fall, and you are. at liberty to
SO, quote me to any of your or my
friends, or to any one else, Yon can
not make the language too strong for
me. When, I was Chairman of the Re-
publican State Executive Committee in
1881 either Mark Hanna nor any Of
his friends contributed a single dollar
to the Republican cause or to the
State Committee When I went to him
at the request of Myron T. Herrick, A..
G. Howard and some of the young Re
publicans of Cleveland with the re-
quest that he and his friends help For
aker and Foster in. the coming cam
paign he put his hand on my knee,
looked me square in the face and said:
i NOT A CENT FOR FORAKER. .$@' +.
1 "Not a d ~ cent for Foraker, 1 don't
I like him, and I'll be id if I will vote
for him. On the contrary: I will do all
Lean against him. I then mentioned
Foster to him for senator, and his re-
ply was: "Not a d-n cent for the
close counties. II we carry the legis-
lature, Foraker wouldabe a candidate
for senator" I then said to him:
DO you mean to say you would
Father see a democrat in the senate
than Foraker?'' ''rhat is about the
size of il, said he That's the kind Of
republican Hanna wasSin 1889, and the
cleveland LEADER says We must be
1 loyal to him now. .ssg ne 81. s.
J s5gT Then he rushed off to New York
after the defeat of the repub licans,
when he and his friends had worked
openly fol. the democratic ticket, and
When asked by a reporter what the de-
feat Of the republicans in Ohio meant,
4 he said. 1--WE. arc getting rid Of some
{ of the barnac,es that have: been hang
ling to the republ icanE party Just
compare for a moment Foraker and
I Foster with Hanna, Dick and Hahn,
the men who are row ruling the repub-
slican party SIS. Ill was we'll enough /
Woul come TO Akron and preside over
las dem ocratic Meeting + because there is
EnO escape from tile bondage I'M which
4 the Isepub icans !. are new held unless
they vote the demo CRITIC ticket this
i fall and I shall 50 state to all my
friends in Summit county. s.ss8ss