The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-04
BATTLE is NOT LOST.
Senator Hanna's Managers Think
Their Man Will Be Elected Senator.


COLUMBUS, o., Jan. 3.-After a long
conference of the Hanna managers tonight
the following statement was given out from
the senator's headquarters
while the failure of the Republicans to
organize the two houses of the Legislature
was surprise and matter of regret to the
supporters of Senator Hanna, they do not
believe that it has any bearing on or special
relation to the senatorship. The members
of the Legislature were not pledged or in
structed by their constituents in any way,
to vote for any individual as any officer of
the Legislature In the case of the sena-
torship the case is different. The State Con-
stitution declares (Section 81 that the people
have the right to assemble together in a
peaceful manner TO consult for their COM
mon good, to instruct their representatives,
and to petition the General Assembly for
the redress of grievances. The people have
exercised their privileges and right under
the State Constitution by assembling in both
county and state conventions and declaring
with an unexampled unanimity in favor of
the election of Senator Hanna to the Senate.
The people of eighty-four of the eighty
eight counties declared in conventions as
sembled their desire that he be elected
Senator by this General Assembly, which
has been to-day organized, and the state
convention so declared unanimously. In
view of these facts and of the general ex-
preston of public opinion since the election,
it is felt that the action of to-day should
not and cannot be construed as having any
relatiOn to the senatorial question.
This matter must be decided by the Re-
publican members Of the General Assembly,
who are pledged, both by the action of the
people they represent and by their own
statements
election of Mr.. Hanna was made direct
issue, not only before the state and county
conventions, but in the election last NoVem-
ber, in which his name and candidacy were
the leading issue. That these conditions are
recognized by Republican members general
ly is shown by the fact that already several
Of the men who to-day voted against the
nominees of the Republican organization
caucus have voluntarily stated that they
intend to vote for Mr. Hanna and that they
have from the first considered the question
of his election as having no relation to, or
House. In the selection of officers of that
body considerations entirely different from
those relating to the representation of Ohio
in the United States Senate were. consid-
cred and the action of each member was
based on these individual and local consid-
erations and questions. In the case of the
senat0rship the instruction of the county
conventions, the state convention and the
people themselves in the election were all
clearly and with singular unanimity in
favor OF the selection of Mr.. Hanna for the
senatorship, and it is not believed that the
action of any man In determining his course
as to the support OF candidaIes for otncers
Of the Legislature can be assumed to be an
evidence of hostility to the man who was
indorsed for the senatorship with greater
unanimity than ever before in the history
of Ohio, or probably in the history of the
country.
Mr. Hanna and his active Supporters fully
and confidently believe that he will receive
the votes of the members of his party when
they are called on to perform this special
feature of the duties for which they were
elected. 1t is not considered possible that
any Republican in the Ohio Legislature will
be willing TO pursue q course which would
States Senate of a supporter of the danger
Gus doctrines upon which the Democratic
party based it's campaign of 1896 for the man
who led the Republicans to victory against
that party and those principles, especially
as that action would result in turning over
silver tha control of the Senate during at
least one-half. if not all, of the term of
Ohios Republican President, William Nc
Kinley'