The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-11
THE BRIBERY A FACT.
Latest News From Headquarters About
the Changers of Money.


Colonel Q. Campbell, Jerry Bliss and
others opposing Hanna, arrived with
Representative John G. Otis from Gin
cinnat tonight. Several thousands
words of senatorial matter were soon
aftefward given out to the members of
the press about the offers of bribery to
Representative Otis. 1t was prepared
by Colonel Campbell and makes two
pages in an extra edition that was got
ten out during the night by the Even
ing Press, the organ of the anti-Hanna
combine.
A summary of the long story. accord
ing to Colonel Campbell's statement. is
that Henry n. Boyce of New York, and
formerly of Los Angeles, Cal, called on
Colonel Campbell last Friday at the
latters office in Cincinnati and offered
Campbell $4,000 of a fee TO get Repre-
sentative Otis to vote for Hanna.
Campbell and Otis had frequent meet
ings with Boyce. who claimed to be rep
resenttng j. z. Morgan and others who
have interests in Ohio that might be af-
fected by legislation. Colonel Campbell
and Representative Otis say they de-
termined to give Boyce all the latitude
he wanted and set a trap to catch him.
Hollenbeck, who was said to be the
middleman. was also taken into their
counsel, according to the statements
Campbell and Otis say the money was
produced and that they are holding it in
~
will be made in the house tomorrow.
Following the publication of this
statement tonight statement was
given out from the Hanna headquar-
ters. in which they say: The charge
that Representative Otis has been offer
ed bribe by a representative of Sona-
ator Hanna is denounced at Senator
Hanna headquarters as not only false
in every particular but characteristic of
the campaign of tricks and treachery
that Kurtz, Myers and their associates
have carried on ever since the senate
rial question came up. 1T has been
known to the republican managers for
considerable time that this stage play
for effect was contemplated. There is
not, say Mr.. Hanna's friends and man
ayers, one single word of truth in these
statements. 1t is known that a New
York newspaper which has fought Mr.
Hanna viciously from the time that he
assumed charge Of the national cam
naign in 1896, dispatched IA mysterious
messenger to Ohio recently with large
sums of money, and it is not improbable
that numerous other bribery fakes will
be sprung upon the public from day to
day in the effort to finish the desperate
game begun months ago.
Mr.. Hannas friends hold in their
hands absolute evidence that offers of
bribery We're made to republicans from
mon coming direct from Bliss and kurtz
and know the value of them too well to
be afraid to show their hands before they
are ready to make use of them.
Mr.. Hollenbeek. about whose visit to
Cincinnati a vast amount of mystery is
assumed by the originators of this fairy
story. was out of the city when the pub
lication made its appearance tonight
and could not be reached by wire, but a
full denial as relates to himself will be
forthcoming as soon as the statements
reach him."
The opposition insist that Holenbeck
has fled TO escape arrest Nothing can
be learned here of the whereabouts of
Boyce tonight. The Hanna workers now
charge that Hanna is being opposed by
a combination that includes William r.
Hearst of the New York Journal. John
r. Mclean of the Cincinnati ENQUIRER
and other free silver leaders. as we'll as
by the political coalition that is now ar
rayed against him in this city