The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-13
SENATORIAL FIGHT IS OVER
HOW MARCUS 4. HANNA WON THE
 BITTER STRUGGLE.

The Kurtz Men Labored Until the Very
 Last-Suffered Disappointment in With
 date for Senator-History of Political
 Fued Between Hanna and Kurtz. ~
 Columbus, O., Jan. 12.-Marcus A. Hanna was to-day elected to represent Ohio in the senate for seven years and two months, including both the. short and long terms. MT. Hanna's time as senator win expire in March, 1905. Less than two years ago Senator Hanna en- tered politics in advocating William Me- Kinley's candidacy for the presidency. He was successful as the leader of the Mckinley forces at the St. Louis con- vention and afterwards as chairman of the national republican committee. For almost year he has been in the sen ate as the successor of John Shermans During his short service in public life Senator Hanna has participated in hard fighting, but he never before won such victory as that of to-day.
 Senator Hanna came out openly at the state convention in Toledo and de- feated Charles L. Kurtz, the close friend of Senator Foraker, Governor Bushnell and others for chairman of the state committee. Kurtz had been a member of the state committee for many years and it's chairman for the two preceding years He was the Ohio republican chairman in 1895 and 1896 In the latter year Senator Hanna who was then managing the presidential campaign, was not satisfied with the work in Ohio and he did not want Kurtz in that posi- tion for 1897. Hanna defeated Kurtz at Toledo for chairman and has had fac- tional war on himself ever since.
 Just previous to the balloting yester- day the opposition was disappointed by the withdrawal of Jeptha Garrard, the silver republican candidate for senator. It was thought that Garrard would get the votes of Representative Lane and Droste, who voted for Hanna. Gar rard's friends say that he withdrew because he was being used as means for creating a deadlock for the benefit of others. Previous to the joint ballot ing to-day the opposition offered to sup port Senator Dodge of Cleveland for the short term, with McKisson for the long term.
 Senator Dodge is neighbor of Sen ator Hanna and was nominated and elected on pledges for Hanna. Senator Dodge stated that the senators and rep resentatives from Cleveland were in- structed for Hanna and indignantly re jected the proposition. The proposition was also made to Mrs. Dodge, who was as indignant as her husband. The op- position knew that they were defeated before the joint balloting began, but fought to the last on the charges of
 bribery and coercion. In the joint bal
 loting to-day there were no changes by the senators from their two ballots of yesterday for the long and short terms McKisson received 19 votes and Hanfit, IT, When the roll of the house was called it resulted In the ballots for both terms as follows: Hanna 56, McKisson 51, Lentz 1 and one absent (Cramer). The joint ballots for both terms re- suited: Hanna, 73; McKisson, 70; Lentz, I; absent, l, (Cramer). The demonstrations in the hall were un- usually enthusiastic. Governor Bush nell was not present. When Forake1 was elected senator two years ago, Mo Kinley and Bushnell were both present the one having just retired, the other having just been inaugurated as gover- | nor. It has been customary for the governor to be seated beside the lieu. tenant governor when the newly elected 1 senator is escorted Into the hall. Sena- tor Hanna was busily engaged in his contest last Monday and did not partic- ipate in the inaugural ceremonies Ii is stated that no invitation or specia arrangement had been made for hin on that occasion and that the same was true regarding the governor to-day