Omaha daily bee., 1898-01-07
ROASTING oHio's pLoTTEus.


Chicago Poet (rcp): Today Governor
Bushnell is reapng the fruits OF his despic-
able. game. Protests and denunciations are
being showered in upon him from every
county In the state. The great body OF
Ohio republicans detest a traitor, and they
are telling Governor Bushnell that they so
regard him.
Philadelphia Press Crep): Mr.. Hanna was
the overwhelming choice OF the state CON
vcntion for senator. There was no other
candidate. There was then no pretense OF
opposition. The legislature was carried un-
der his banner. The hostility now evinced is
just as much treachery as deserton on the
battlefield. The public uprising which is GER
tain may make the situation so hot as to
carry its own cure.
Globe-Democrat (rep): A feature OF Pc
cuiar baseness In this fight of handful OF
republican mallgnants against Senator
Hanna is that some OF the leading
spirits among the traitors are openly con-
sorting with the democrats and virtually
taking part in democratic caucuses. Every
political position which these plotters ever
held was given them by the republicans.
Tho party lifted them out of obscurity, and
tho prestige and influence which the party
gave them they are now using to stab the
party and to put the democracy in power.
Kansas City Journal (rep): Cast down, per-
hops. but not destroyed Hanna has those
qualities which make a man invaluable to his
rarty and his nation in a great crisis. He Is
still alive, and will be, whatever may be the
result of the election for senator in Ohio
His power will be felt in future as in the
past. Let his enemies rejoice, and the mlrth
of the wake be fast and furious. They can
furnish for the funeral the eloquence, the
Grape ana the baked meats But they can
not produce the corpse No man in the re-
publican party today is more alive than
Marcus A. Hanna of Ohio and the United
States.
Milwaukee Wisconsin (rep): Such an ex-
hibition as that which the factional minority
OF the republican party OF Ohio Is making ut
the present moment is a disgrace. The party
Is In majority in the state and has candi-
date for the United States senate who bears
the endorsement of the state convention and
enjoys the personal confidence of the qresi-
dent-also an Ohio man. Yet party discipline
in Ohio has become SO lax and party loyalty
among republicans has so far lost its magic
that q few disaffeced members of the party
"a beggardly half dozen-may turn the prize
OF the senatorshp over to a man acceptable
to the free silver democrats rather than con-
cede to the majority Of their own party the
right to nave its way
Washington Star (rep): The case of Gov
ernor Bushnell is ineXpicabe from any
point of view. The convention which nomi-
mated him for governor nominated Mr. Hanna
Tor senator. He had no moro claim to repub-
mean support last year than Mr.. Hanna now
has He is committed to Mr.. Hanna both by
reason of the action of the Toledo conven-
tion and by his own deiverances during the
campaign. His present position therefore,
bears every aspect of selfshness and bad
tatth. His talk about being receptive can
didate" for senator discredits his intelligence,
as his conduct disCredits his character as
party man. Fortune could not play him a
trick which would hold him up so completely
to scorn, and isolate him among honorable
men, than to make him in the circumstances
nj ,,,lNt TIL,
the republicans of Ohio have decided should
be bestowed on Mr. Hanna.
ClncinnatiCommercial- Tribune (repD: When
the fellow townsmen of Asa s. Bushnell, the
traitor, htssed and groaned at him in the
ONCE OF the chief magistrate of Ohio at CO.
lumbus yesterday they gave voice to that
sentiment Of indignant resentment. tinged
with profound contempt, which fills the
breast of every honorable man in his state
They spoke not alone for the outraged re-
publican party, but for every self-respect-
ing citizen of Ohio, for there is not demo-
crat from John r. Mclean down, who does
not in his heart despise the abject creature
cne-quarter knave three-Quarters fool who
stands before the nation as the most gro
tesque combination of Ounce and traitor
that the political history of the country
affords. Benedict Arnold had brains Aaron
Burr, the loathed judas of his day, had yet
an intellect that enabled him to conceive
and almost to execute vast plans of treason
on scale beyond the cunning of the aver
age political conspirator. But Bushnell
whose amazing smallness is a revelation
even to these who have known him best,
has taken a stand so utterly destructive to
the very selfshness which prompts him
that 1t is strange he not hear ris-
ing above the groans and Kisses at his
knavery a rising chorus of mccking jeers in
recognition Of his inconceivable stupidity
The trickster, the rogue, the betrayer OF
his friends is usually gifted with a certain
form of base shrewdness which prevents
him from dashing to pieces his own de-
signs, but the governor of Ohio has proved
that his intellect is not even up to this
low standard.