The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-12


shall result in showing that said charges
of bribery are untrue, we pledge ourselves
to vote for Senator Hanna in the General
Assembly of Ohio for both the short and
&C. o. RUTAN.
''VERNON H. BURKE,
..WILLIAM A; SCOTT, Jr.,
HARRY G. MASON,
JOHN p. JONES'"
'T join in earnestly asking for the inves
tigation but cannot in any event vote for
Mr.. Hanna, for absolutely know that he
- JOHN C. OTIS"
ST concur in asking for an investigation
M L. BRAMLEY."
Harry C. Mason, of Cleveland, speaker of
the House, tonight gave out the following:
ITO the Public--The principal reason why
have been cen opp OPPOSED TO- o. Mr. Hanna a Is ,, be,
the fifty-year franchise bill was before the
Legislature was approached by 9, man
from Cleveland who was lobbying in the in
terest of that bill. He offered me bribe
of $1,000 if | would vote for that measure.
AT my conference with Mr.. Hanna last Sat
urday l told him that this reason would
prevent me from supporting him, because
1 believed he knew the street-railway of
which he was president was behind the man
who offered the bribe and that he. himself,
was on the ground lobbying in the interest
of the bill HARRY C. MASON"
WHAT THE FUSIONISTS SAY.
The Democratic steering committee of the
fusionists tonight issued the following
manifesto:
ITO the Public-Marcus A. Harna will not
ALLEN o. MYERS.
JAMES ROSS.
"R. M. DITTI.
Col. Jeptha Garrard, of Cincinnati, who
has been spoken of as the candidate Of the
free-silver Republicans for senator, when
inf 41,ot haH
votes to elect him, did not appear surprised
and spoke as If he expected such result
He said: 1T was impossible to secure the
vote of the Cincinnati delegation for Nc
kisson, as his sympathy for silver was
doubted"
Governor Bushnell tonight said: II SIM
ply desire to repeat the statement which
I made day or two since that the result of
the contest regts with the members of the
Legislature. Whoever they may elect will
receive my cordial support" The Governor
again reiterated that he had been misrep-
resented and misquoted by certain newspa-
pers and declared that in some instances
absolute maliciousness had been reached.
Representative Hazelitt, who voted for
General Wiley to-day, was member of the
Democratic steering committee and has
been working to keep the Democratic mem
bers in line for Bushnell, Kurtz any 9TH
er Republican who could be elected over
Hanna. He says he voted for a Democrat
because he had been fooled by the Republic
ans opposed to Hanna They assured him
last night that they had eight Republican
votes against Hanna and showed only six
on the ballots, one in the Senate and five
in the House.
Charles Gerrish, the coalition chief clerk
sInn-
beaten up to an hour before the Legislature
convened this morning, when the ''combinel
learned that Representatives Droste and
Lane would not present the name of
Jephtha Gerard, the silver Republican who
has had headquarters in operation here for
over two weeks. 1t was expected that
Droste would present the name of Gerard
and Lane second his nomination and that
their two votes would carse a deadlock and
possibly make a compromise winner out of
Gerard. When Droste early in the roll
call voted loudly for Hanna that was the
signal for cheers on the Republican side.
He voted before the names of Griffith,
Joyce, Lane, Manuel or any Of the doubtful
ones were called, and all the doubtful ones
were afterward recorded for Hanna.
Hardly had the result of the balloting
been announced before a surging, shouting
crowd filed the lobby and corridors of the
Neil House and cheers for Senator Hanna
swept like waves through the house and
out upon the streets. Senator Hanna re-
sponded to the repeated calls from his
friends, and in answer to their demands
made a speech, congratulating them on be-
half of the Republican party for the
auspicious outcome. 1T is not so much a
matter Of personality said Senator Hanna,
"as it is a question Of keeping the pledges
and upholding the integrity of the party and
of giving heed to the will of the people,"
The excited crowd lifted the senator from
the floor and man after man embraced him
while others were shaking at both hands.
Finally the crowd was held back and got
into line and for fully an hour the senator
stood and grasped the hands and listened
to exutant congratulations of the crowd.
THANK God the right will prevail"
"praise God from whom all blessing f1ow,''
''gIory haleujah" and kindred expressions
fill the air in choral singing. One veteran
with uplifted hat shouted. Senator this
takes a load off me as big as a freight
car
The crowd and cheering continued un-
abated during the afternoon. The feeling
of relief among the Republicans was inde-
scribable They realized keenly the impend-
ing danger and gave way to extravagant
expressions of pleasure. The whole city
was wild with excitement. At the Great
Southern Hotel there were many complaints
against members on the Democratic side
as well as on the Republican side of the
House. Some charged that Mr.. Kurtz sacri-
feed McKisson and did not want to be
voted for himself for senator when there
were not votes enough III sight to elect
DEMOCRATIC BOLT.
The Democratic members of the Legisla-
ture held another conference tonight at
which Judge Ditty, member of the fusion
steering committee, reported that Kurtz
had promised two more Republican votes
on the joint ballot tomorrow. Notwith-
standing this report, 1t was impossible to
get the three Democrats who voted against
McKisson to-day TO pledge themselves for
him tomorrow. Several other Democratic
members refused to attend the conference
although they were repeatedly sent for
After repeated efforts to get all of the Dem