The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-01-10

there were ten dissenting Republican
members last week, the Hanna men say
there will be only two or three this week.
and the changes are attributed more to
the work that has been done in the
counties than here
While there have been charges and
counter charges of bribery, there was
considerable stir to-day over the publ
cation of the following in the Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune and in different
forms in other Republican papers:
While Senator Hanna and his mana
gers have been careful to make no i'm
proper use of money in the Senatorial
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 COM
bine, Mr.. Hanna's managers were quick
to improve it. A trap was set for the
opposition and working through one of
the members of the combine 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 ac-
commodate them.
y,
ranged for in a certain room of a GER
tain hotel, but in advance the precaution
had been taken by the member to con-
ceal a, stenographer in the room who
took down every word of the interview,
an important part of which was an offer
of So, 600 cash made to the member If he
would vote against Senator Hanna. Just
what use will be made of the stenogra-
piers notes will be governed by the
course of the anti-Hanna people"
1t is stated on good authority that
the above case became known to the OPP
position soon after their organ made a
sensational publication about the Grand
Jury being called on to investigate 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 secreted
stenographer have been written out and
they comprise several pages of matter
which is in the possession of very
prominent Republican. The two men
who are accused of offering $1,000 are
as we'll known in Ohio politics as are
either the senior or junior Senator or the
Governor One of them holds an i'm
portant State Office and the other has
been an important official and leader III
this city
These two prominent workers against
Hanna. were not the ones in the room
with the member of the Legislature and
his concealed stenographer, but they
sent their man to the legislators room,
and when the member insisted on
knowing who authorized the offer, the
tieae.
were named, authorizing the offer of
5000.
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 a
guarantee of the solid Democratic vote
of sixty-five. 1t is said that the Demo-
cratic steering committee finally gave
Mr.. Kurtz until Monday midnight to
produce affidavits from at least eight
Republican members that they would
vote against Hanna. The Hanna mem
bers claim that Mr.. KurtZ cannot secure
the requisite number of affidavits, and
that the contest will be over Monday
night.
Ex-Governor Charles Foster, who
was Secretary Of the Treasury under
Harrison, arrived in the city tonight.
He has been considered as a compro-
mise candidate for Senator and by some
considered as unfriendly to Hanna, but
he soon declared himself for the Sena-
tor under the existing circumstances,
and was in conference with the Sena-
tor soon after his arrival
The following was given out tonight
by the Hanna men:
Some recent developments regarding
the early history of the present Sena-
torial campaign are especially pertinent
to the present movement because they
fully justify the course of those men
who are now asking to withdraw any
agreement which they may have made
to support another than Senator Han
ma 1t is now known that the plan to
elect Governor Bushnell or Mr. Kurtz
for the Senatorship was developed i'm
mediately after the appointment of Mr..
Hanna on March 4th, and before the
month of March had ended pledges on
behalf of Governor Bushnell were be-
ing obtained in various parts of the
State from men ambitious to become
members of the Legislature. The man.
ayers who outlined this plan knew who
would be likely to be candidates for
the nominations and in cases where it
was possible to make combinations with
them, did so, requiring the candidates
in return for their support for the NOM
ination, to pledge themselves to vote for
Governor Bushnell. 1t is known that
in a number of cases, agreements of
this kind were made in March or April.
long prior to the meeting of the State
and county conventions. which when
held, declared unanimously for Senator
Hanna.
IT is not surprising that many men
who made these pledges prior to action
of the States and county conventions
have voluntarily and with a frankness
which marks them as men of a high
sense of honor, asked to be released
from their promises. Indeed, honor
able men could not consistently do 9TH
erwise and the only surprise is that
elth@r of the men to whom these
pledges were made should not expect
or demand that they be kept. Every
individual who thus pledged himself
has since doing so been informed by
State and county conventions that his
people desire and demand that he sup
port Senator Hanna and no other and
thus every one of them is not only
justified in withdrawing that pledge,
but is III duty bound to do So"
WEYLER'S TRIAL.