The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-03-03

making political deai, and to trust no
one that he can just as well watch.
Moreover, his opinion of Senator Han
ma was not so high at that time as
Governor Bushnells was.
Senator Hanna had gone into every
county, II was found, and secretly set
his stakes to capture the convention,
and he had It in his grasp. AS the
governor afterward expressed 1t in a
famous interview with Senator Gar
field, the senator had his foot on the
governors neck. II anyone wanted
anything, 1t was only to be had by
asking it OF the senator. It was the
senator's convention. Governor Bush
nell could not be nominated unless
he acquiesced in all that Senator Han
ma did there.
War Was Declared.
There was q conference Of the
friends of Senator Foraker and Gov
ernor Bushnell, and the great major
ity advised that war be declared on
the combination at once. Foraker
alone prevented the declaration of this
internecine war right then and there.
He opposed 1t. Mr.. Kurtz left for
home on the next train disgusted. II
was decided, however, to submit for
the time, try to elect the state ticket,
| but to naugurate a war all along the
| line against the Hanna candidates for
the legislature, to be so conducted as
not to endanger the state ticket. We
'ooncluded to make the legislature
either anti-Hanna Republican or Dem
kocratic. We succeeded but could not
hold It in line against the inducements
the Hanna faction was able to offer.
1t Is not necessary to refer to that
| now.
This is why Senator Foraker said,
as soon as he was asked about the
election of Senator hanna, after the
state election, that the election was
over as far as he was concerned, when
the polls closed on election day. He
has been severely criticised by the
Hanna men for making this remark
but / think it will be conceded by all
| fair-minded men, in view of the fore
going circumstances, that 1t was as
little as he could say. In fact, Sen
ator Hanna owes a great deal to Sen
ator Foraker in this matter and so
does the Republican party in general
Mr.. Foraker is regarded as an i'm
petuous man, but the fact is that but
for his GOODNESS, and his conservative
advice at Toledo, to the friends of
Governor Bushnell and himself, in
this counsel that was called, resolu-
tion to commit political hari-kari
would have been adopted by the anti
Hanna Republicans, and that would
have resulted in giving the state to
the Democrats, both on the state and
legislative tickets.
When Senator Foraker was being
assailed by the Hanna adherents after
the election, and their so-called at
tempt to smoke Foraker out was
being made, it was expected by many
of us who knew the whole circum-
stances, that Foraker would be "smok-
ed out" much to the dismay Of the
friends of Senator Hanna, for IL he
had made public the story of the Han
ma treachery at Toledo, it would have
put Senator Hanna in a much worse
condition to make the fight for the
senatorship that he had on his hands.
Senator Hanna knows the condi-
tions; he knew them then, and it
seems to be as much as he could ex-
pect, that Foraker should simply re-
main neutral in the matter of his cleo
tion to the senate. He must have felt
that he deserved from Foraker and
from Bushnell, in the light of his
treachery to them and their friends at
Toledo, their hearty opposition in the
senatorial fight. Senator Foraker was
simply magnanimous in not making
an out and out fight upon Senator
Hanna in the senatorial election"
Biennial Sessions.
1t Is now settled that there will be
but single session of the present
general assembly, the house having
concurred by large majority in the
Williams senate joint resolution, pro-
viding that when the general assem-
bly, adjourns it shall be sine die. The
work of the present week has been
such as to postpone by at least three
weeks, the day of the final adjourn
ment. An unusually large number of
important measures were introduced
especially in the senate-and must
take much time IL they are to be in
telligently considered. Usually at this
time in legislative session, the more
important measures have been well
discussed. The public will tolerate a
long session, however, If 1t is known
that there is not to be another one
next year, and If the measures under
discussion are worthy ones.
The telephone manager concluded
to talk to the senate committee on
bribery investigation, and yesterday
the committee was able to get some
valuable corroborating evidence as to
the use of telephones between this city
and Cincinnati just prior to the sena-
torial election. The company did not
care anything about the committees
power to punish by Imprisonment for
contempt, but when it came to a ques-
tlon Of passing laws that would re-
quire the company to pay more taxes,
the matter was put in an entirely diff
ferent light and tongues began to
move freely
The senate has almost unanimously
passed the Plummer bill repeating the
act of 1894 authorizing the incorpora-
tion Of companies to deal in real es-
tate TT 10 said that the hiII will ma co