The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-10-28
HANNA GAR WOULD Be
WOULD RULE THE SENATE AS
REED RULE HE HOUSE.

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cling Spent Freely to Control
State Legislatures--Thirty Sena-
tors to be Chosen.
Washington, d. C.-Senator Mark
Hanna, chairman of the republican ma
tional committee, has completed all his
plans for giving the republican party
absolute control Of the United States
senate after March 4next. To do this
there will have to be a radical transfer
of eight senatorships, but the junior
senator from Ohio believes he has this
'kins, his confidential man on the com
:. mittee, has returned from an extended
: trip, in the course of which he trav-'
eled over nan states, saw the party
managers, extended financial aid" in
a quiet way, and looked up the cam
paign for legislative tickets.
You must elect a majority of the leg
fslature' is the order which accompa-
MED every cash contribution.
To what extent financial aid has been
in this way extended it is impossible
to say, but in view of the big stakes
for which the chairman of the repub-
licap national committee is playing, it
is fair to assume that he is not niggard-
ly in giving money for campaign pur-
poses, end especially when the money
is contributed by other people.
THIRTY SENATORS TO ELECT.
The present senate stands forty-three
republicans, thirty-four democrats and
twelve populists and silver republicans,
who are classed under one head as in
dependents. Tho vacancy in Oregon
completes the list of ninety members
Of the upper house.
March 4 next thirty members of the
present senate retire. Their successors
must be chosen by the legislatures to
be elected in Novmber. 1t is to these
legislative elections that senator Han
ma looks for ample returns Of the money
he has put in the game.
OF the thirty senators who go out of
office March 4, fifteen are democrats,
eleven are republicans and four are
independents. The four independents
are from Nevada, Utah, Nebraska and
Montana.
Senator Hanna has gained one seat
in the election Of McComas of Mary
and to succeed Senator German. He
has also gained the assurance Of one
from Oregon in the election of a re-
publican legislature. He expects to
gain at least three more-one from New
York to succeed Senator Murphy, one
from New Jersey to succeed Smith and
one from Wisconsin to succeed Mitchell
with strong hopes of obtaining con-
troll of the legislatures of West Vir-
ginia, where Faulkner goes out; of
North Dakota, where Roach's term ex-
pires, and Of California, where White
is having a battle to succeed himself.
Senator Hanna has given up the state
OF Washington. He expects to see Will
son defeated and a free silver senator
sent in his place.
EXPECTS MAJORITY OF ELEVEN.
But If he. gets the proper returns
from his money and other influences
in the shape Of campaign orators, adj
ministration influence and political IA
vors, he will have a senate on and after
March 4 which will answer to caucus
roll calls thus! Republicans, so; demo-
Gratis, q; independents, 10. This will
give the republicans a majority of II
and will enable Senator Hanna to put
through any caucus measure with a
speed equal to that displayed by Speak
err Reed.
The junior senator from Ohio. will
then be the party dictator by virtue Of
his dual role of chairman of the repub-
lican national committee and senator
from Ohio.
To aid in furthering of the plans Of
the national chairman all republican
oflceholders who can talk are being
sent away from the capital to go onto
the stump. Their desks will be vacant
until November. Assistant Secretary
Webster Davis Of the interior edpart-
ment started last night on a stumping
tour which will cover eleven states.
Postmaster General Charles Emery
Smith Is to 60 soon. First Assistant
Postmaster General Perry Heath will
work in Indiana. Comptroller of the
Currency Dawes will keep in touch with
Illinois, and officeholders Of less prom
inence will be scattered all through the
states. Their especial mission is to aid
state committees in carrying legislative
tickets, for therein is the milk of the
Hanna %cocoanut.