The age-herald., 1898-01-12
GIVING OUT STATEMENTS.
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 The Wind tanning After the Battle in the Legis- .fs lature.

statement was given out by the republi- can members of the general assembly, who refused to vote for MT. Hanna:
 Whereas, charges of attempted bribery in connection with the election of a Unit ed States senator have been made on the floor of the house of representatives against Hon. Marcus A. Hanna, Charles Dick, s. D. Holenbeck and one Henry Har- rison Boyce, and
 Whereas, other charges of bribery have been made in connection with the said election; now therefore, we the under signed members of the seventy-third gen eral assembly of the state of Ohio, earn estly ask that before proceeding further with the election of a senator to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Hon. John Sherman that a joint commit tee be appointed from the senate and house of representatives with power to send for persons and papers and. to thoroughly in- vestigate and report to the respective houses the truth or falsity of said charges.
 In the Name of Justice and Purity. Having an abiding faith and confidence in the truth of the charges of bribery made against the above named parties, in the name of the people of this great state, in the name of justice and purity of conduct;
 
 name of everything that is dear to the patriotic people, we ask and demand that such investigation be had and regardless of our determined opposition to the election of Senator Hanna, if such investigation shall result in showing that said charges of bribery or untrue, we pledge ourselves to vote for Senator Hanna in the general assembly of Ohio for both the short and long terms.
 (Signed.l
 c. O. RUTAN,
 V. H. BURKE,
 W. A. SCOTT, JR.,
 H. c. MASON,
 JOHN P. JONES. l. join in earnestly asking for the investi- gation, but cannot in any event vote for MT. Hanna, for I absolutely know that he did attempt to bribe.
 (Signed)
 JOHN c. OTIS. I concur in asking for an investigation of the whole matter.
 (signed) M L. BRAMLEY.
 The Speaker Writes.
 Harry c. Mason, of Cleveland, speaker of the house, tonight gave out the follow ing:
 To the Public: The principal reason why nave been OppoSeu lO MT Ildulid IS because of the fact that two years ago, when the fifty-year franchise bill was be- fore the legislature, was approached by man from Cleveland who was lobbying in the interest of that bill. He offered me a bribe of S1, ,0O0 if I would vote for the meas ure. At my conference with MT. Hanna last Saturday I told him that this reason would prevent me from supporting him. ~11so Ial fI,ac ctr raiI way, of which he was president, was be- hind who offered the bribe, and that he himself was on the ground lobbying in the interest of the bill.
 (sgned) HARRY c. MASON. The democratic steering committee of the fusionists tonight issued the following manifesto:
 To the Public: Marcus A. Hanna will not be elected by this legislature
 (Signed.) ALLEN O. MYERS, JAMES ROSS, R. M. DITTY. Col Jeptha Garrard, of Cincinnati who has been spoken of as the candidate of the free silver republicans for senator when informed that Hanna had received suffi- cient votes to elect him, did not appear surprised and Spoke as IT ne expected SUCH a result. He said:
 Tt was impossible to secure the vote of the Cincinnati delgation for McKisson, as his sympathy for silver was doubted" He Will Support the Victor. 'T simply desire to repeat the statement which made a, day or two since that the result of the contest rests with the mem bers of the legislature. Whoever they may elect will receive my cordial support" The governor again reiterated that he had been misrepresented and misquoted by certain newspapers and declared that in some instances absolute malciousness had 1 been reached.
 l Mayor McKisson, of Cleveland, was in conference during the evening with the