Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-01-10

gyeiI known ID uiI1o politics as either the
senior or the junior senator or the gov
ernor. One OF & EN- holds an important
state office ami the other has been an
important official and leader in this city.
These two prominent workers against
Hanna were noE 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 memberinsistedo on know
ing who authorized the offer the names
of these two prominent parties We're
named as authorizing the offer of $4,000.
The Democratic steering committee
has reported that they must have as
surances from him that the dissenting
Republicans will hold out before they
can give him a guarantee of the solid
Democratic vote of IS. 1t is said that
the Democratic steering committee
finally gave Mr.. Kurtz till tonight at
midnight to produce affidavits from at
least eight Republican members that
they would vote against Hanna. The
Hanna managers claim that Mr.. Kurtz
cannot secure the requisite number of
affidavits and that the contest will be
over tonight.
Ex-Governor Charles Foster, who was
secretary ef the treasury under Har-
rison ha arrived il tho city. F[e has
been considered as a compromise candi-
date for senator, and T. some considered
as unfrienGly 10 Hanna, but he soon de-
clared LIN ;af For the senator under the
existing circumstances, and was in con-
ference w.5Il the senator soon after his
arrival. The following was given out
by thc Hanna men:
''ScIne recent developments regarding
the early history of the present sena-
torial campaign are especially pertinent
to t. present moment 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 Hanna.
1t is now known that the plan to elect
Governor Bushnell or Mr. Kurtz to the
senatorship was developed Immediately
after the appointment Of Mr.. Hanna ON
March A, and chat before the month of
March had ended, pledges in behalf of
Governor Bushnell were obtained in
various parts of the state from men
ambitious to become members of the
legislature.
"The managers who outlined this plan
dates for the nominations and in cases
where it was possible to make combina-
lions with them did so, requiring the
candidates, i'll return for their support
for the nomination, To pledge themselves
to vote for Governor Bushnell for the
senate. 1t is known that in a number
of cases agreements of this kind were
made in March and April, long prior to
the meeting of the state and county con-
ventions, which when held declared
unanimously for Senator Hanna. That
the existence of these pledges thus be-
came matter of temporary embarrass-
ment to the men who had made them
without the knowledge that the eonyen-
tons would declare for any individual
goes without saying, but that their first
duty after accepting nomination and
election under these circumstances was
to withdraw their pledges made before
these new conditions are equally APP
parent
"Those pledges were made upon the
supposition that the election of senator
would follow the usual course and that
each member would be entirely free to
vote for such individual candidate as
his Judgment might dictate. When it
developed later, however, that both the
state and county conventions declared
unequivocally for a single individual,
the men accepting nominations under
those conditions were placed in an en-
tirely new position. Their first dnty as
Republicans was to obey the mandate of
the party or decline to be its representa-
tive.
cit is not surprising then, in view of
these facts, that many men who made
these pledges prior to the action of the
state and county conventions have vol
unfairly and with a frankness which
marks them as men of high sense of
honor, asked to be released from these
promises. Indeed, honorable men could
not consistently do otherwise, and the
only surprise is that either of the men to
whom these pledges We're made should
now expect or demand that they be
kept Every individual who thus
pledged himself has, since doing so, been
informed by state and county conven-
tons that his people desire and demand
that he support Senotor Hanna and no
other, and thus every one of them is not
only justified i'll withdrawing that
pledge, but is in duty bound to do so.
PECULIAR ACCIDENT