The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-07
KURrS. sUsnvE1r, FonAKER.
Position or Zach In the ruanna Fight ana the
Reasons Therefor.

Cenco In the combination Tor tho ponJlchl hsShS-
s~ination of Mark Hanna because no is not q
Bryan man and has been much caricaturcd as
q bad man than was suspected at first. Con-
corning Charles Kurtz, those who support or
excuse him say that when he goes to war he
is a rod Indian on O scalp hunt, and that under
conditions such as exist at present no Is far
away beyond the control Of his civilized allies.
He 10 an able man and a sick one. His Rriev-
ance consists, in his mind, not in his removal
from the Craftsmanship Of the State Commit
tee, but in the circumstance that Mr.. Hanna
was too slow in CONTRADICTIONS a story that
Kurtz had used $4,000 that belonged to tho
Republican campaign fund of 1896 In building
a fine house for himself instead Of wasting 1T
In national politics.
Mr.. Hanna In the midst Of his cares did not
think 1t worth while to pay personal attention
to the story, pronounced 1t rot, and passed 1t as
unimportant, until ex.Secretary Foster, having
an intimate acquaintance with Kurtz, made it
his personal business to fully state tho case to
Mr.. Hanna, who then agreed at once to put tho
contradiction in any shape Kurtz would dictate.
By this time Kurtz had painted himself blood
red, and to Hanna's offer to sign any statement
that would be satisfactory cent word that no
would not thank Hanna for anything that no
could then say, would never forget nor forgive
him, do him a favor, nor accept ono from him.
This declaration was greatly admired by the
partners of Mr.. Kurtz in politics, and 1t Ger.
tainly showed q touch of epigrammatic ability
and irritability.
1t was thought that Senator Foraker would
have prevented the arrival Of this stage of ir-
reconcilable luminosity. but he was 30 busy on
the stump that he never heard of tho deadly
row until told of 1t after his Cooper Union,
New York. speech for Gen. Tracy, when the war
news was incidentally impaired to him by the
Secretary Of War Gen. Alger. This Is given
by tho best authorities as tho justification OF
the rebellion Of Kurtz, who had long been In
fairly profitable and honorable associations
and occupations through the favor Of the Ho-
publican party.
The comment that occurs on this first is that
a difference between Mr.. Hanna and Mr.. Kurtz,
about a false story 30 obscurely circulated that
Senator Foraker never heard Of 1t until recon-
Citation became impossible on account of ng-
gravated neglect, ought not to be quoted as
justification for pushing the resulting feeling
In a revolutionary spirit Of qu~arrelsomeness to
the bitter end and making it a life aud death
question in the organization of the Republican
party of Ohio, especially when It is well within
tho knowledge of the people of the State that
what Senator Foraker does not hear OF differ
ences among the Republicans can hardly be re-
garded as fragrant and mortal.
Gov. Bushnell's innocence is somewhat more
AChlhl MAUI tIliIl llliL u MT. huTlZ. III ~ very
angry and holds tenaciously that he has been
horribly abused for nothing. There is no doubt
about 1t; he has been abused. The Republican
papers of tho State are b~ristling with wrath,
and the Governor, whose personal amiability
ls one OF his best gifts. Is angry all over and
seems to DO expecting popular vindication.
The way he looks at his own case Is curiously
Interesting. He points to his appointment of
Mr.. Hanna to the Senate as showing his good
disposition, and associates Senator Foraker
with himself in the credit Of making that ap.
pointment, but claims TO be immovable in the
attitude that he has nothing moro to do with
tho Senatorial election; that he is not opposing
Mr.. Hanna; that he is leaving tho choice of
Senator where 1t belongs, referring 1t altogether
to the Legislature.
Right there the Governor stands, and this
rock shall fly from its firm base as soon rs L."
&c. He asserts in several forms Of seriousness
that he has done nothing in antagonism to
Mr.. Hanna; that he never conferred with Louis
Bernard, Allen o. Myers, Charles Kurtz. and
others engaged in the warfare upon Mr.. Hanna.
The Governor holds that while he has exchanged
civilities with those wicked people, he has not
been q combatant. His point Is that the bolt.
ers have only followed many Republican ex.
amplcs of breaking states, elccting to Office in
that way other and perhaps better Republicans.
He expects a like result this time. He views
his Senatorial candidacy as receptive" that
he could not refuse a place in the Senate as a
Republican; that the combination cannot pos.
sibly elect anybody but a Republican. and there
is no great harm in doing that. even if be is him
self elected. This is, cooled down. the sub
stance of his daily conversation.
One has to say that 1t is hardly consistent
with the turning over of the State Senate to tho
Democracy, giving them all the offices and the
preferred places on the committees in that
body, and it is queer that in tho negotiations
looking to secure votes for the combine to de-
feat Hanna places in the public institutions
filled by appointment of the Governor are men
toned as freely in confidential conversations as
cash in hand to be paid in trust on the security
of the words of honor of the men who are good
enough to attend to the details of the practical
business of the rebellion.
Senator Foraker has serious sickness in his
family, and has been waiting in Cincinnati
nursing his son. who has the scarlet fever, feel
ing that his duty calls him TO Washington, but
reluctant to leave the State while his party Is
torn and distracted with the Senatorial con-
test, and no Is almost Ill enough himself to take
to his bed instead of to the cars. He has been
asked to come to Columbus and take a part in
the current fight, this upon the Theory that he
could end it by declaring his support Of his
colleague according to party usage. He has
bhho - NNA''A'o " S"i'N &c. Abp ~ III DIL Illll'
self into this storm centre. that under existing
conditions 1t would be only to show that he is
no boss at oil, some Of his own close friends
having got away from him and made war on
their own account, Notwithstanding he is
known to them as a peacemaker. However, he
does not think the history Of boiling against ma.
~jorities of Republicans in Ohio is so limited ms
most of those demanding tho regular order
now appear to think 1t.
President Garfeld's old friend. Capt. G. f.
henry, is responsible for the revival OF recollec-
tions of the exciting Senatorial election that
took place in this city in the year 1872. John
Sherman was n candidate for reelection, and
the New York EreninO Post thought 1t was hit.
ting him hard when it said Sherman could not
be elected without a caucus. The names men.
toned in addition to Sherman's were ex.Gov.
Dennison. Gen. Garfield. Stanley Matthews
Gov. Hayes. Gen. J. d.. Cox, Aaron f. Perry,
Gen, Schcnck and several others, Senator Shcr