The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-08
0HI0'S SENATORIAL FIGHT
COLUMBUS POLICE ASK HELP FROM
 OTHER CITIES.

Because or the crush or People Expected
 Monday to Witness the Closing Scenes of
 the Battle More Detectives May be
 Needed-The Hanna Managers Change
 Their Tactics.
 Columbus. O., Jan. 7.--In view of the crush of people expected here on Mon day, drawn by the unprecedented polit- ical battle, which is hourly increasing in it's intensity and excitement, the police have asked the principal cities from New York to Chicago and the south to send detectives.
 There is an army of political workers in town. Hannas managers are little more cheerful, but the cause of it is not yet apparent. They have adopted quite different policy in their canvass from that followed at the beginning of the contest. They are now following the tactics of MT. Kurtz, leader of the op- position, whose strong card has been to conceal everything possible from the Hanna people. Whatever important developments there may be are now kept under cover, and as result the opposition has been forced to change its plans
 The efforts of the steering committee to whip the democratic members into | line has not been as successful as they | expected. The democrats will hold | another caucus either Monday or Tues day night. The most reliable informa- ton is that Kurtz will be proposed as | the candidate of the opposition, both l for the long and short terms. It is be l lieved by the democratic leaders now | that MT. Kurtz will be more acceptable | to the majority of the members of the I democratic party than any other mem- Der of the republican party MT. Myers | left the city on an early morning train and returned in the afternoon with in- formation that was apparently satisfac- I torily to Kurtz. The opponents of Han-
 ma are as confident as ever of winning. | The activity of the Hanna supporters was unabated to-day MT. Hanna spent
 the day at the Nell house.
 l Two of the Hamilton county members
 are counted on to vote for free silver
 republican It Is claimed by the lead
 CTS of the republicans that the demo-
 crats will stand together, but this is | not borne out by information from 1 other sources. It is claimed by some that at least twenty democrats will re- l fuse to attend the caucus but this is probably exaggerated. More conserva- I lively the number is placed at six to
 ten. Indications tonight are that the opposition Is preparing for long dead l lock.
 l The calling of a mass convention oi republicans here next Monday seems 1 to have disconcerted the Hanna repub, 1 licans. It is thought that a big crowt l will be present. The calling of the con
 vention will also bring large crowd of Hanna republicans as well as the
 anti-Hanna men. To-day Major Fill
 more. commanding the First regiment declined to order his regiment to bt
 present at the Inauguration of Governor Bushnell.
 A special from Dayton says: The
 opera house was packed at the repub. lican mass meeting here tonight. James | Manuel, the representative from this county, who has been accused of being
 disloyal to Hanna, made a speech and
 said that he would vote for Hanna first last and all the time, and never intend. ed to vote for anyone else. Resolutions
 pledging faith to the party and to Han.
 na were unanimously adopted The
 resolutions also demanded that MT Kurtz resign from the republican state
 committee.