Evening star., 1898-08-06
Hanna Republicans in Ohio Alarmed
by a Report.
STATE CONTEST WILL Be VERY CLOSE
Grosyenor is the,Senator's Candi-
date forGovernor.
PLAN OF EMOCR ATS
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.


COLUMBUS, Ohie, August s. 1898.
Chairman Daugherty of the republican
state central committee will open the head
quarters of the committee here on the 18th
instant, and the active campaign work will
begin early in September. No further de-
velopments in the dispute among the
friends of Senator Hanna, which led John
r. Malloy, the veteran secretary of the
state executive committee to refuse to
act secretary this year, have come to
the public.
Friends of Chairman Daugherty and Mr.
Malloy unite in stating that it was entirely
personal matter with Malloy; he i'm
agined that the election of an assistant
secretary was an affront to him. and he
rashly announced that he would not ac-
cept the secretaryship If there was to be
an assistant Having taken that stand he
was too determined to withdraw from it,
1t is fact, however, that Malloy went
to Cleveland and laid the whole matter be-
fore Senator Hanna before he finally de-
cided not to accept. 1t is said that he
acted upon the advice of Senator Hanna
in refusing to take the position, but this
is uncertain.
Hnnna's Candidate.
Friends of Colonel Charles W. F. Dick
say the story that he has been booked by
the friends of Senator Hanna for the re-
publican nomination for governor next
year is ridiculous. The candidate of Sen
ator Hanna and the national adminstra-
ton, they say, is General Charles H. Gros-
venor Dick does not care for it.
The democratic state convention will be
held at Dayton on the 23d instant, and it
looks now as though the Sorg-Dowling
combination would have undisputed sway
in this gathering of the Ohio democracy.
Allen o. Myers announces that he is going
there to upset their plans, but he seems to
represent no one now but himself, and is
impelled principally by desire to get even
with the democratic members of the legis-
lature whom he could not control last win
ter.
State Senator Thaddeus E. Cromley of
Pickaway county will probably be nomi-
mated for the head of the state ticket
secretary of state-and D. S. Fisher of
Delaware county for clerk of the supreme
court. In these nominations junction of
forces with the anti Hanna republicans will
be attempted. BY that same combinatio
in the state senate last winter, Cromley
was made president pro tenn. of the senate
and Fisher journal clerk. movement for
junction of forces with the free silver
publicans has already been started by
making Judge l.. w. Brown of Wauseon
one of the secretaries of the democratic
state convention. Brown was consul to
Glasgow under the administration of Presi-
dent ftarrlSOn, out mas gone away from the
republican party on the money question.
Is. Plan to Go-0perate.
The free silver republicans are too few to
give alarm by this movement, but the plan
to cooperate WITH theo anti-Hanna repub-
licans is feasible, and the combination will
probably cost the republican state ticket
a great many votess sIt is generally be-
I veved that the Bushaell republicans in
tend to vote against athe state ticket, and
thiss fact makes the report that there is a
split in the ranks of the Hanna republicans,
a very alarming thing. While the war
feeling will no doubt be great aid to the
republican cause this year, the detection
of the anti-Hanna republicans, which is
generally discounted, will leave the state
contest so close that no further splitting of
the republican forces can be stood 80 -
The state central committee of the re-
publicans has, by formal resolution, adopt
ed at its last meeting, asked Governor
Bushnell to call special session of the leg
islature to pass a law enabling the Ohio
soldiers to vote in the field but this will
hardly be done, for the reason that enough
republican members have withdrawn from
each branch of the general assembly to
throw the control absolutely in the hands
of the democrats.
Once in session the legislature might ig-
more the message of the governor and in
dulge in general legislation. Endless
trouble for the administration might be
not fOreseen by the members of the
state central committee when they adopted
the resolution Most of the members of
the Legislature who would not be able to
sit in a special session have accepted fed
eral appointments. They have not resign
ed. but the state constitution is very ex-
plicit in providing that no one who holds
federal office can sit as a member of the
state legislature.
Lentz's Chances.
The nomination of f. N. Higgins as re-
publican candidate for Congress in this dis
trict has been accomplished with some fric-
ton in the party, which lessons in a mark
ed degree the chances for the defeat of
John ]. Lentz, who is the candidate of the
democrats again. Higgins is an able man,
but the fight between his friends and those
of Amor Sharp, who was his opponent for
the nomination. became so bitter that con-
servative and disinterested members of the
party generally recognized the fact that II
would be better to take a dark horse.
In the last month influences have been at
work in the eighth and ninth congressional
districts which make it possible that the
republicans will lose them. In the ninth
district the republicans have nominated
Congressman Southard, and in the eighth
they have nominated Congressman Ly-
brand. In each district there is a strong
anti-Hanna element in the republican par
ty, and 1t is being organized and strength
ened by additions from the enemies of the
candidates created by the fighting over the
nominations. The democrats carried the
ninth district on the legislative vote last
1all, although 1t is normally repch'ican by
about $500, and they had very narrow
margin in the eighth district. though ii is
normally republican by over 4,5OO.
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