The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-01-10


last Monday. have since undergone
such ilre from thelr constituents that
they arc expected yet to square them
selves by voting for Hanna. While
there were ten dissenting Republican
members last week, the Hanna men
say there will be only two or three this
weok. And the changes are attributed
more 70 the work chan has been done In
the counties than here.
While there have been charges aud
counter-charses Of bribery, there was
considerable stir to-day over the
publication OF the following in the
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune and In
different forms III ot!ier Republican
papers:
while Senator Hanna and his man.
ayers have been careful TO make no
improper use OF money In the SENATOR
ial contest, they have. all along known
that the ethics OF the case were not so
strictly observed by the opposition.
Therefore. when an opportunity was
offered to get discriminating evidence
against the combine, Mr.. Hanna's
managers were quick to improve Il. A
trap was set for the opposition and
worked through one OF the members OF
the combination who has been trying to
get away from Senator Hanna. Some
OF the opposition kept trying to get an
audience with this member until It was
decided to accommodate them. Accord
ingly an Interview was arranged for In
certain room In q certain hotel, but In
advance the precaution had been ta-
ken by the member to conceal stem
ographer In the room, who took down
every word Of the Interview an import
ant part Of which was IN offer OF Sc, 900
cash madc to the member X he would
vote against Senator Hanna. Just
what use will be made OF the stenog-
rapher's notes will be governed by the
course of the anti-Hanna people,"
1t Is stated on good authority that
t:e above case became known to .the
opposition" soon after their organ made
q sensational publication about the
grand jury being called on to invests
gate the action OF several workers for
Hanna. At any rate there has been
nothing said about the grand jury's
work since last Wednesday. The notes
of the seccete1 stenographer have been
written out and they comprise several
pages Of matter which Is In the possess
sion OF q very prominent Republican.
The two men who are accused OF Offer
ing 5000 are as well known in Ohio
politics as either the senior or the Jun
ior senator or the governor. One OF
them holds an important state office
and the other has been an important
official and leader in this city.
q B. i
The Democratic steering committee
reported to Mr.. Kurtz this afternoon,
that they must have assurances from
him that the dissenting Republicans
will hold out before they can give him
4 guarantee Of the solid Democratic
vote OF sixty-five. It is said that the
Democratic steering committee finally
gave Mr.. KurtZ till Monday midnight
10 produce atildavits from at least
eight Republican members that they
would vote against Hanna. The Hanna
managers claim that Mr.. KurtZ cannot
secure the requisite number OF aftidav-
its and that the contest will be over
Monday night s-,-..-s-.--s.S5
Ex-Governor Charles Foster, who
was secretary OF the treasury under
.Harrison,S arrlredSin the city tonight.
He has been considered as a compro-
mise candidate for senator, and by
some considered as unfriendly to Han
:a, but he soon declared himself for
the senator under the existing clrcum-'
stances and was in conference with the
senator soon after his arrival. The
following was given out tonight by
the Hanna men: s .tsE,
Some recent developments regarding
the early history OF the present sena-
torial campaign are especially perth
nent to the present moment, because
they fully Justify the course OF those
men who are now asking to withdraw
an agreement which they may have
made to support another than Senator
Hanna. I. is now known that the plan
to elect Governor Bushnell or Mr..
kurtZ 20 the senatorship was developed
Immediately after the appointment OF
aIr. Hanna on March 4. and tha, before
the month Of March had ended had
pledges In behalf OF Governor Bushnell
were being obtained in various parts
OF the state from men ambitious to be-
come members OF the legislature. The
managers who outlined this plan knew
who would be likely to be candidates
for the nominations and In cases where
It was possible 20 make combinations
with them, dbl SO, requiring the caadi-
dates IN return, for their support for
the nomination to pledge themselves to
vote for Governor Bushnell for the
senate.
1t Is known tsat in number OF
cases agreements o: this kind were
made in March and April. long prior to
the meeting of the state and county
conventions which when held, declar-
ed unanimously for Senator Hanna.
That the existence OF these pledges
thus became q matter OF temporary en-
oarrassmcat to the men who had made
them without the knowledge that the
conventions would declare for any in
div!dual, goes without saying, but that
their first duty after accepting non,l-
nation and election under these circum-
stances was to withdraw their pledges
made before these new conditions are
equally apparent.
Those. pledges we've made upon the
suppos!tlon that the election OF a seno-
tor would follow the usual course and
that each member would be entirely
free to vote for such individual candI-
date as his judgment might dictate.
When It developed later. however, that
both the state and county conventions
declared unequivocally for "a single In
dlvldual. the men accepting nominal tions
under those conditions were placed In
an entirely new position. Their first
duty as Republicans was 10 obey the
mandate OF the party or decline to be
ns representative.