Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-18

Akron, Ohio, September 17.-Colonel
"A. L. Conger has written from Kinks
vile, Mo-, answering the demand made
by Hanna politicians for his removal
from Governor BushnelPs staff and ac-
cusing. Hanna of treachery to Bushnell
in 1895.
In speaking of articles that have APP
peared in the Republican press, the
Colonel says:
How mean and unwarranted are
these petty filings at Governor Bush
nell and myself. In the first place,
Governor Bushnell is a close friend of
mine. He is known throughout the
country as a prominent and successful
business man and gallant RepuDli-
can. His friends, seeing the need of
Republican business administration
in our State, brought Governor Bush
nell out as a candidate for Governor in
1895. He was known as the warm,
personal friend Of Foraker.
Senator Hanna and his friends did
all they could to defeat Governor Bush
nell for the high Office he now holds.
How was it in Akron and in Sum-
NIT county? AS a pronounced friend OF
Governor Bushnell l became candl-
date for delegate to the GAINESVILLE State
Convention. Several days before our
county convention. after Dick had made
his arrangements TO capture tie entire
delegation to
THE STATE CONVENTION,
DR.. L. S. Ebright as one of the disci-
pies of Hannaism sent word to me that
i could not go as one of the delegates
to the State Convention, but his warn
ing came too soon for his plan to carry,
as a few postals to Senator FOraker'S
friends brought enough of them to the
county convention to elect me as
delegate to the GAINESVILLE convention.
In spite of Dick, Ebright and the
Hanna gang, Bushnell was nominated,
l being the only one Of the Summit
Z county delegation who voted for him.
He has given to the taxpayers Of Ohio
one Of the ablest and best conducted
administrations the State has ever
seen.
Governor Bushnell, after his cleo
ton, was looking about for a Chief of
Engineers for his staff Knowing that
nearly two years of my service in the
Army of the Cumberland was spent in
SAAS A1AiSAAAOSIo DNpd- th1ClII u1UGL
Thomas, he appointed me his
CHIEF OF ENGINEERS.
NOV that he has been renominated
for a second term, how is he being
treated by the great boodler and his
gang? Ever since the organization of
the Republican party its etiquette and
ethics have provided that the candidate
for President of the United States and
for the office of Governor of the several
States might choose their own man
layers and chairmen OF the campaign
60 "a mites Has Governor BuahueII
Hbeen accorded this consideration Mr..
KurtZ, one Of the best political man
ayers Ohio has ever seen--a man who
kept the party free from scandals-his
head must go into the Hanna basket.
| Then when the State Executive Com
mittee was organized, Governor Bushnell
requested that the candidate for Governor
be allowed to select two members of the
committee, General A. T. Wikoff and Ed
itor Wilson. both sterling and gallant Re-
publican friends of the Governor and of
the party, which request was denied
'Foraker's friends had just given the
State to Mckinley for President, and the
Republicans of the nation had conceded
to Hanna the Craftsmanship of the Nation
al Republican Committee.
'Foraker's friends were also denied rep
resentation on our State Executive Com
mittee, and if the members of Governor
Bushnelrs staff decline to wear the
HANNA DOG COLLAR,
their heads are also asked.
WAS such brutality ever before wit
messed in American politics?
And yet this is only a part of Hanna
ISM General Garfield said in the con-
vention of 1880 that AS Republicans we
need wear no mans collar. If we have
conscientious scruples against any man
on the ticket we need not vote for him.
est is truly wonderful what an effect a
million dollar campaign fund has on a
portion of our Republican press. Under
it's influence our papers at once lose all
individuality and integrity, and instead
of being a part of the great bulwark sur
rounding American manhood and Ameri-
can womanhood and american liberty
they snap their teeth and growl when and
where the Doodle demands, regardless of
all things .else.
II advise all Republicans to vote against
Hanna and Hannaism.
Garfield said in the Chicago conven-
ton, We might do this and our Republi-
eanism would not be Questioned Why,
chen, ask Governor Bushnell for my
qsead? Governor Bushnell knows the
State needs the services of his chief of
engineers more than 1 need the place He
knows, too, that his chief of engineers
will never place the line of battle through
"A SEA OF CORRUPTION
which. if successful, bids fair not only to
destroy the life of the party, but of the
nation itself.
Il know that the majority of the Repub-
1icans of my town and county are friends
of Senator Foraker and Governor Bush
nell, and they do not wish me to resign
my position on the Governors staff re-
gardless Of what the Beacon Journal NAV
say
There is a cry that Senator Foraker
should come to Akron. For the past three
years the friends of Senator Foraker
have wanted him to come to Akron. but
the powers in control have constantly
abused and reviled Foraker and Bushnell.
now they want him.
another thing. let the workingmen of
Akron understand that Bushnell has been
good friend to them. The past three or
four years he has sent large orders for
work to Akron which have given en-
ploymept TO hundreds of our laboring
men. His friendship for me and mine for
him has not hurt this good to Akron's la
boring men.