Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-17

Next year, therefore, comes Crisis LOT
the anti-Hanna republicans in ONO. lhls
is why they are now trying to induce John
Sherman to become their candidate for gov
ernor. The leaders of the faction know
very well that it will not be possible to elect
Mayor Robert f. MckissOn, or any other
prominent member of the faction. the fact
is that Mcksson made it impossible Tor
him to be elected to any office in this state
when in order to defeat NJ A Hanna Tor
the senatorship last January, he announced
his conversion to free silver coinage, ana
stood for all that the democrats asked him
to stand, in consideration of their votes.
OF course. Sherman, if elected governor,
would treat the anti-Hanna Republicans
fairly at least in the distribution of offices;
in his present humor he Wou-d probably
give all the patronage to that faction
Sherman is now very much opposed TO Sen
atOr Hanna. He believes he has been made
d political victim by the senator and has
no intention of being Laid on the shelf
just now. Undoubtedly the anti-I- anna
leaders are taking advantage of the eX-
SeCretary'S humOr. and cultivating him. 1t
is a long time before it will come to the
selection of gubernatorial candidates, but
the indications now are that the anti-Han-
ma republicans will try to give the nominal
ton to Sherman, and he is not averse to
the proposition. The anti-Hannaites are al
ready announcing that if the friends of
President Mckinley oppose the nomination
of Sherman it will be impossible to secure
a solid Ohio delegation for Mckinney in
1900.
The Anti-Hanna Vote.
1t seems probable now that the vote on
the whole state ticket this year will follow
closely the vote of last year for members
of the legislature. The anti-Hanna repub-
iicans evidently voted for the democratic
candidates for the legislature where the re-
publican candidates were not known to he
opposed to Senator Hanna. The result of
this was that the aggregate of the republic
can pluralities on the Legislative tickets was
less than 5000 more than the democratic
pluralities. If the vote does follow these
lines this year the result will be very close.
In Cincinnati, George B. Cox, the old re-
publican boss has assumed control again.
A year ago opposition to him from the best
element of the party Overwhelmingly de-
feated the republican party there, and Cox
announced his withdrawal from politics.
Undoubtedly his return will have a bad eff
feet on the republican ticket in Hamilton
county. Cleveland and Toledo are strong
anti-Hanna centers and the republican tick
ct is likely to suffer severely there.
1t seems impossible, however, that any
detection in Hamilton county, because of
Geo. b. Cox's domination, can defeat the
republican candidates for Congress in the
first and second districts. The only dis
tricts that are really in doubt seem to be
the eighth, ninth and twelfth. Representa-
tive j. II. Southland. republican, will prob
ably be defeated in the ninth district Rep
resentative Lybrand. in the eighth, has no
sure thing.
cans are making great preparations to de-
feat Representative LentZ, but the chances
seem to be in his favor. Two years ago,
when Mckinley carried this city, usually
democratic, by $500, Lentz carried the dis
trict by about fifty votes. There is no such
a vote-getter at the head of the republican
ticket this year, and LentZ goes in without
the handicap he had before.