New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-09
HANNA GAINING STRENGTH.
,r,r IT IS NOT BELIEVED THAT HIS
ELECTION is YET ASSURED.
-,ro op TIE MEN WHO VOTED AGAINST Box
WELL FOR SPEAKER HAVE SWUNG OVER
TO THE sENAToR-BAsELEss FEARS
or DISORDER ON MONDAY.

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,nsts,ature will take their first ballot for a
-, States Senator 10 fll the long and short
80 .~., made vacant by Mr.. Shermans retirement
- tho daliberative branch Of Congress on
- 1 last the result Of that ballot Is as
- ve,led as ever in perpleXity and doubt.
s,- uanna's struggle TO retain the seat which
- NC hold bv virtue Of a commission from Gov
- Rushuel since last spring has been pushed
,,cg the last few days so near TO the point
:, absolute success that his friends and sup
..r.ors are almost led to argue that his election
=, Tuesday or at most next Wednesday. when
.,s Two houses meet in Joint assembly is as hXed
"a certain as the predestinations OF po"'cs
usually are. There can be no question: hdeeu'
,,et since the startling check received by 'he
wanna forces in the preliminary contest Tor the
.,,,a,,on Of the legislature the prodigous
s.or,s Of the Senator's adherents to break the
tines Of the opposing coalition have hau
'..,os eesect and that at least two Republican
representatives heretofore supporting MT. hurl@
a., h,s warfare on the State Conventions caNo'-
ao,s have now been definitely won over 10 MI
1Ia,na's support. Other conversions are as
.sr,ea or strongly hinted at bu; 1t - not yet
..-,ously maintained by any OF the Hahha man
orsrs that were the first ballot ior Oh''eu
s,o,4s Senator to be taken tonight the to'ai
polled for Mr.. Hanna would reacn 'o' ''ie n"in-
her necessary for election.
THE PRESENT SITUATION.
G. Gar as figures can show the state OF 80
,,r,ive and burrowing q Senatorial canvass az
TIA, now drawing TO a climax. II STANDS ABOUT
thus tonight The total membership or the
Ohio LEGISLATURE at this session IS l4o, ana
Nth every member present 73 votes are re-
ouired 10 make a choice. The RepuDhcah
strength IN both branches is %. From the re-
rent Republican caucus nine Representatives
and one Senator absented themselves, reducing
the ioint Republican vote TO 60 Four acces-
slonc from the ranks Of the absentees were,
therefore required 10 make the choice or the
caucus nominee q possibility. OF the ten Re-
publicans who refused TO go into the caucus, one
REPRESENTATIVE. Manuel Of Montgomery county
at q public meeting in Dayton last night
pledged himself uneQuivocaNy TO vote for Mr.
Hanna for the Senatorshlp on Tuesday next.
Another Representative, Mr.. Joyce. Of Guernsey
County. has also declared. though in a less open
and formal way. that he will rejoin his Repub-
Ncan associates when the balloting for United
States Senator begins. With these two acces-
sions Mr.. Hannas probable strength may be
uut at Z l. two votes short Of a majority.
TWO REPRESENTATIVE ON THE FENCE
Both to-day and yesterday the claim has been
put forth that two more Of the Republican Rep
resentaiives who took part in the bolt which
defeated BoxweN for the Speakership Of the
House. Messrs. Jones. Of stark. and Griffith. OF
Union. have also been practically won over to
the Hanna ranks. No definite or satisfactory
proof has been shown however. to support the
assertion although the personal and politi-
cal influence now being brought 10 bear
erful enough to draw them eventually TO
Mr.. Hanna's support. IT is true also that
probably not all the Republicans who voted
for the defeated organization nominees are
absolutely committed to vote for the chair
man Of the National Committee next Tuesday.
The llama managers therefore. sensibly refuse
10 claim o. certain majority for their candidate,
but rest on the confident assertion that he Is
already near enough to victory TO make success
only q matter Of discreet and patient general
ship.
The Columbus Dispatch" an Independent
Republican newspaper friendly TO Mr.. Hannas
canvass. proclaimed this afternoon in double
headlines that seventy-four votes were already
assured to Mr. Hanna When this statement
was shown TO Mr.. Kurtz. the head Of the anti
Hanna coalition. he pronounced it purely fanci-
:ul. and then issued this counter-blast:
The !ncorrec,ness Of claims by Mr. Hanna was was
proven ly the test vote in the mater oI no no
the time the vote vas taken, ana he lost TIC
same e4ims are now beng made m az agai on NE NE
Hanna viii no; be elected Senator
KvRTZ's TACTICAL MISTAKE.
II IS generally admitted now that Mr.. Kurtz
and the other managers Of the auti-Hanna coali-
tion fell into a serious tactical biunder when
the, allowed the Legislature to take recess
from Wednesday 10 Monday While here the ten
Repullicans who Joined hands with the Demo
Gratis 10 organize the two houses were practi-
calv unoyposed 10 the protests and remon-
strarces which such programme naturally ex-
cited at hor:e. Local opinion could not express
.tsslf forcibly or effectively while the coalition
Republicans remained in Columbus, but the
coerclve power of this opinion has already shown
itself in the cases Of legislators like Manuel and
Griffith who returned 70 their nome counties
70 be promptly called to account by party
friends for ignoring the pledges under which
they were nominated and elected. Mr. kurZ
sees his error now. and will probably try to
get the ten coalitionists back TO this city as
quickly possible. - ,.,,
Alarmist reports have been sent out within
the last dav or two about the possibility of
some collision on Monday between the RepuDh-
cans who VIII come here TO take part III ''c
iaass convention, called to protest ata'nS' az
Efforts from within the party 70 defeat MI
Hanna's election, and those who Will come 10
witness and take part IN the ceremonies 81 10y
e-nor Rushncu's second Inauguration There Is
real ground for fearing friction Of tins chaf-
actor. The Inaugural ceremony which "ill De
neither pretentous nor elaborate, VII! '"A1
place at noon In the rOtunda OF the Capl'o "'lu
the street display will be reduced To small pro
portions The convention on the other hand. ~
70 be held IN a biz hall in a distant part OF ,he
city, and is not nkely to provoke any Dreacnes .s
o. the nubl,c peace Extra policemen have
been sworn in. and the municipal authorities
are preparing in other ways 20 meet any dls-
order Party feeling over the SenatorIdi .oi'r ~
test howevcr has not reached that point or
Intensity which would encourage or tolerate
violent public demonstrations Of any sort
HANNA MEN ANXIOUS TO BET.
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