The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-10

been careful to make no improper Use
of money in the senatorial contest. they
have all known that the ethics of the
case were not so strongly observed by
the opposition. Therefore, when an OPP
portunity was offered To get ineriminat
ing evidence against the combine Mr..
Hanna's managers We're quick TO inn
prove it. A trap was set for the oppoSi-
tion and worked through one of the
members of the combine who has been
trying to get away from Senator Hanna.
Some Of the opposition kept trying to
get an audience with this member until
1T was decided to accommodate them. Ac-
cordinSly an interview was arranged for
in certain room of a certain hotel, but
in advance the precaution had been
taken by the member to conceal
stenographer in the room. who took
down every word of the interview. an
important part of which was an offer of
$4,000 cash made to the member ii he
would vote against Senator Hanna. Just
what use will be made of the stenog-
raphers notes will be governed by the
course of the anti Hanna people. 1t is
stated on good authority that the above
case became known to the opposition
soon after their organ made a Sensa-
tional publication about the grand jury
being called on to investigate the action
of several workers for Hanna. At any
rate, there has been nothing said about
the grand jury's work since last
Wednesday. The notes of the secreted
stenographer have been written out, AMI
they comprise several pages of matter,
which is in the possession of very
prominent republican. The two men
who are accused of Offering $4,000 are
as well known in Ohio politics as are the
senior or junior senators or the gov
ernor. One Of them holds an important
state office and the other has been an
important official in this city. These
n iaYln arg ajtN-f l.
We're the ones in the room with the
member of the legislature and his con-
cealed stenographer, but they sent their
man TO the legislators room. The names
of these two prominent parties We're
named, authorizing the offer of $4,000,
when their names were demanded.
Democrats Want Assurances.
The democratic steering committee
reported to Mr.. kurtz this afternoon
that they must have assurance from
him that the dissenting republicans will
hold out before they can give him
guaranty of the solid democratic vote
of So. 1t is said that the democratic
steering committee finally gave Mr..
kurtz until Monday midnight to pro-
duce affidavits from at least eight re-
publican members that they would
vote against Hanna. The Hanna mem
bers claim that Mr.. Kurtz cannot Sc
cure the requisite number of affidavits
anu tltdtL tlt toIIiSSt Will bt oS1I hoH-
day night.
1t is learned that the eight affidavits
requested of Mr.. Kurtz are wanted for
the purpose of holding the 81 democrats
in line. There are some opposed to yot-
ing for any republican for senator and
about a dozen democratic members
have signified their desire to vote for
Congressman John j. Lentz. Repre-
sentative S. w. Cramer of Paulding
county. one of the 65 democratic men,
bers. is very sick at his rooms and his
physicians say he may not be able to be
out for a week or more. His vote will
be needed to defeat Hanna on the
claims of the opposition tonight,
1t is understood that Governor Bush
nell is to stand for senator for either
one or both terms and that the present
programme is for kurtz for both the
long and the short terms for senator
against Hanna. While the gold stand
ard democrats have all along been OPP
posing this coalition, the ultra silver
democrats are the ones who are now
giving the combine most trouble. In
connection with the bribery stories it is
known that the stenographers notes
are in the possession of Hon. f. G.
Rathbone, formerly assistant postmas-
ter general under Harrison and one of
the Hanna managers in the present
contest.
Another Statement of The Hannas.
Ex-Governor Charles Foster, who was
secretary of the treasury under Harri-
son, arrived in the city tonight. He
has been considered as a compromise
candidate for senator. and by some con-
sidered as unfriendly to Hanna, but he
soon declared himself for the senator
under the existing circumstances, and
was in conference with the senator soon
after his arrival.
The following was given out tonight
Inv the Hanna tSn01a paepnf de-
velopments regarding the early history
of the present senatorial campaign are
especially pertinent to the present
movement because they fully justify the
course of those men who are now ask
ing to withdraw from an agreement
which they have made to support an
other than Senator Hanna. 1t is now
known that the plan to elect Governor
Bushnell or Mr.. kurtz for the senator
ship was developed Immediately after
the appointment of Mr.. Hanna on
March 4, and before the month of March
was ended pledges on behalf of Cover
nor Bushnell were being obtained in
various parts of the state from men
ambitious to become members of the leg
islature. The managers who outlined
the plan knew who would be likely to
be candidates for the nominations, and
IN cases where 1t was possible to make
combinations with them. did SO. requir-
ing the candidates, in return for their
support for the cominatlon, to pledge
themselves to vote for Governor Bush
nell
1T is known that in a number of cases
agreements We're made in March or
April, long prior to the meeting of the
state and county conventions. which,
when held, declared unanimously for
Senator Hanna. That the ante-election
pledges thus became n matter Of tenn
porary embarrassment 10 the men who
had made them without the knowledge
that the conventions would declare for
any individual. goes without saying. but
that their first duty after accepting a
nomination and election under these cir
cumstanceS was to withdraw their
pledges made before these new con-
ditions arose. is equally apparent
when it developed later that both
the state and county conventions de-
clared unequivocaliy for single indi-
yidual, the men accepting the nomina-
tions under those conditions were
placed in an entirely new position. Their
first duty as republicans was to obey