The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-11

COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 11-Senator
Hanna was seen at midnight and
asked with reference to the published
charges regarding an alleged offer to
Representative Otis. He replied: 'I
deny having authorized any agent or
representative of mine to make any
offer to Otis or any other member of
the general assembly. 1 never sent
any man to Cincinnati to see Mr.. Otis.
l have never known or seen Mr.. Boyce
in my life and have had no transac-
tions with him. The whole story is
false from beginning to end
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 10.-The senss-
ton of tonight in the senatorial situa-
ton is a direct charge Of bribery which,
1t is alleged, the Hanna men were en-
trapped into making. According to the
story, Representative Otis, a Cincin-
natl fusionist, was offered and accept
ed $4,000 to vote for Hanna the anti
Hanna men being informed at the same
time of the circumstances. When his
name is called tomorrow, it is said,
he will rise in his seat, produce the
money and make an open charge of
bribery.
Col. L. T. Campbell, Jerry P. Bliss
and others opposing Hanna arrived
with Representative Otis from Cincin-
natl this evening. Several thousand
words of sensational matter was soon
afterward given out to members of the
press about a bribe to Representative
Otis. 1t was prepared by Col. Camp
bell, and makes two pages in a late
extra edition that was gotten out in
the night by the Evening Press, the
organ of the anti-Hanna coalition.
A summary Of the long story, accord
ing to Col. Campbells statement is
that Henry M. Boyce, of New York
and formerly of Los Angeles, called on
Col. Campbell last Friday at the lat
ters office in Cincinnati and offered
Campbell 81 900 to get Representative
Otis to vote for Hanna. Campbell and
Otis had frequent meetings with Boyce,
who claimed to be representing j.
Pierpont Morgan and others who have
interests in Ohio that might be af-
fected by legislation in Ohio. Col.
Campbell and Representative Otis say
they determined to give Boyce all the
latitude he wanted, and set a trap to
catch him. Hollenbeck, who was said
to be the middle man, was also taken
into their counsel, according to the
statement. Campbell and Otis say the
money was produced and that they are
holding it in trust, and statement to
this effect will be made in the house
tomorrow.
HANNA MEN DENY 1T.
Following the publication Of this
story tonight, the following news was
given out from the Hanna headquar-
ters:
The charge that Representative Otis has
been offered bribe by a representative of
Senator Hanna is denounced at Senator Han
mas headquarters as not only raise In every
particular, but characteristic OF the cam
paign of tricks and treachery that Kurtz,
Movers and their many associates have car
RED on ever since the senatorial! question
came up. 1t has been known to the Repub-
lican managers for a considerable time that
this stage play for effect was contemplated.
1t is known positively that A. o. Meyers
said several days ago he expected to see some
member rise in his place on the day of the
first senatorial ballot and produce $1,000 or
SO 900 which he would state had been given
him as bribe to vote for Senator Hanna.
This statement was made week or more
ago, but it is now asserted that the PROPOSE
ton upon which it IS intended to build this
stage effect was made to Representative Otis
ONLY three days since. The fact that the an
nouncement of a programme of this sort was
made long before the day on which 1t is now
charged that tine lnclQenC COOK pldce SHOWS
clearly that the whole story is prearranged
one and simply manufactured by Meyers and
his associates for effect. There is not, says
Mr.. Hanna's friends and managers, one sin
gle word of truth shadow of truth in
these statements, and the fact that
nouncement made many days ago that
plan Of this kind was In contemplation, and
that the recent visit of HOllenbeck to Gin
cinnati was simply seized upon as a vehicle
for bringing to the front their senatorial
charges, shows the transparent and purely
H. -f0, III oh,
they are duping the public. 1t is also known
that New York newspaper, which has fought
Mr.. Hanna viciously from the time that he
assumed charge of the national campaign in
1896, dispatched a mysterious messenger to
Ohio recently with large sums of money, and
it is not improbable that numerous other
lie from day to day in the effort to play to
a finish the desperate game begun months
ago. The fact that Mr.. Bliss, who specifically
charges Mr.. Hollenbeck with offering money
to Mr.. Otis. states that forged telegram
from Otis to the president given
assurance that Otis had changed front. shows
now giving this story to the public. admit
themselves to be capable of performing.
COUNTER CHARGES
Mr. Hanna's friends hold in their hands
absolute evidence that offers of bribes were
made to Republicans by men coming direct
from Bliss and Kurt2S and know the value
of them too we'll to be- forced to show their
hand before they are ready to make use of
them.
Regarding Col Campbell's statement that
one Henry H. Boyce had visited him, pro-
Tossing to come from ]. Pierpont Morgan,
and Offering through him bribe to Repre-
sentative Otis which story is attempted to
be sustained by professed reports of long
distance telephone conversations, Maj. Dick,
with whom the professed conversations are
alleged to have been held, states in the most
positive terms that he does not know Boyce,
never saw him, never had any long-distance
telephone or other conversation with him,
and that all alleged reports of such a con-
versation between him and any persons,
either Boyle or any one else, is absolutely
and unqualifiedly false. and without the
slightest foundation in fact.
''Mr Hollenbeck,' about whose visit to
Cincinnati a vast amount of mystery is as