Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-15
HANNA WILL FIGHT
TO The BITTER END
He viii Stay to the End ofthe Con-
test and Meet Defeat if
Necessary.
A LONG DEADLOCK IS LIKELY
Sensational Report That Ia Grand
Jury Has Been Asked 20 In.
vestigate tho Work or
Hanna's Friends.

Columbus, o., Jan. I'm reply TO
the reports about Secretary Sherman,
Assistant Secretary Day, Congress
man Grosvenor and others being made
the republican senatorial nominee
Senator Hanna said positively he
would never retire. He says he was
nominated by the Toledo state conven-
ton for senator and cannot retire in
favor of any one. If he is defeated the
responsibility for disregarding the
decree of the state convention VIII
rest on those who are now co-operat-
ing with the democrats. The senator
insists that he will never
even il defeat should become newt
able, but he still insists that he VIII
win out before another week rolls
around. Senator Hanna, Mr.. kurtz
and other leaders are now almost worn
out, and they evidently have a long
struggle still ahead OF them.
The standing committees have not
been announced In either house. The
combine Is using the patronage to
hold it's men in line. In the senate
Yesterday Senator Burke showed some
tendency to cooperate with his repub-
lican colleagues. The democrats
wanted to report the committees, but
Senator Burke stopped it by saying
he would vote with the republicans.
Later in the day Senator Burke was
i'm conference with Hanna, and he
spent most of his time with the Hanna
workers.
The republicans announced yester-
day hat they would hold no joint SEN
atorial caucus, and the democratic
,,a,alar. ,,nIa 4hn afna nnnnnnCP-
ment. The anti-Hanna republicans
will have no caucus, SO that there Will
be no test of strength till next Tues
day. While the Hanna men are still
short three or more votes on the cur
tent claims Of both sides, yet 1.-THE
combine is having trouble in fixing
OH some one who can command all the
democratic votes as well as the dis
senting republicans.
Long Deadlock Likely.
Lewis G.. Bernard, the democratic
leader from Cincinnati, and the man.
ager for John Il. Mclean, said last
night:
"There will be no election for a long
series Of ballots. The democrats will
scatter their votes"
This is taken to mean that the dem
ocrats will not be able to agree in
their caucus on q candidate. The an.
ti-Hanna republicans posi-
lively that under no circumstances
will they vote for a democrat. They
will continue the deadlock indefinitely
rather than elect a democratic SEN
ator.
Ex-senator Brice will deliver an adj
dress here next Saturday night before
the Jackson day banquet, and his
presence IS anticipated with some
anxiety.
The Press came out with n sensa-
tional extra edition last night, an
nouncing that the democratic prose-
cutting attorney has presented the sem
atorial situation to the grand jury. In
referring TO this inquisition the Press
says sworn statements have been sub
mitted 20 the grand jury from Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Griffith of Union
county; Representative George Spell
MEYER and Chris Monter Of Cincin-
natl; Hon. II. r. Hyslip of Columbus,
and others against certain workers for
Hanna. This affair is pronounced as
an attempt at intimidation by the
Hanna men.
The Hanna men laugh at the at
tempt to secure indictments against
.ertain workers and say the men who
are spending the money are the ones
to raise the cry about bribery. The
cry of the opposition has been that of
'bossism and-boodle" during the con
test. At the anti-Hanna headquarters
they are confidently claiming a new
accession, but refuse to give the name
of the member. Senator Burke and
several others got away from the
pressure last night by returning to
their homes.
In connection with the reports
about Representative Griffith, and
especially about the preferences of
Mrs. Griffith, there are stories that the
wives of other republican members
are being enlisted in the contest. And
there are rumors that the wives Of
some democratic members are urging
their husbands not to vote for any re-
publican senator, but to stand out for
a democrat. Mr.. Kurtz and his ASSOC
ciates are reported to be unable to
control the anti-Hanna republican
members for a democratic senator and
the Mclean managers are believed to
have some trouble to get all the dem
ocrats TO support a republican for
senator.
No Developments.
Columbus, o., Jan. 5.-There were
no developments in the senatorial
fight today. If either side has secured
any new recruits the fact Is kept un-
der cover, and likely the position of
several members of the legislature will
not be known until the vote for sem
ator is reached. The feature of the
day was the passage by the house OF
the bill repeating the fifty year fran
chises for street railways, a bill
thought to be aimed at Hanna.
People Wild.
Cleveland, Jan. Especial from Ma
ryville, o., At the home of Represen-
tative Griffith of the state legislature
hte people are wild and threats of vio-
lence are made against Griffith. Two
Kurtz men from Columbus, while here,
narrowly escaped violence at the
hands of the angry republicans. A
mass meeting of Grifith's constitu-
ents is called for tonight to take ac-
ton.