The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-11
CERTAIN OF "a VOTES
THERE is NO LONGER DOUBT CON-
CERNING HANNA's ELECTION.
Joyce, Manuel, Grsmth, Lane and
Droste, 1t Is Said, Will Support
the Republican Candidate.
SEPARATE BALLOTS TODAY
SURPRISE EXPECTED WHEN VOTE
OF THE HOUSE is ANNOUNCED.
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Kurtz VIII Not Be Able, 1t Is Thought.
to Keep Faith with the DEM
Ocratic "Combiners."
WILD CHARGES OF BRIBERY
SERIOUS ACCUSATIONS MADE BY
MEMBERS OF BOTH FACTIONS.
Sensation Promised While the Vote Is
from Hanna Headquarters.
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COLUMBUS, o., Jan. Ex-senator Hanna
will be elected on Wednesday. There is no
longer a shadow of doubt that he will sue
ceed himself as senator. Your correspond
ent has seen the figures. He is certain of
seventy-four votes on joint ballot, and
probably two or three more. Joyce, Manuel
! and Griffith have left the boilers and Lane
and Droste will vote for Hanna on the first
ballot, thus ending the agony. To-mor-
rows vote in the House will tell the tale.
At the Great Southernl Hotel tonight
Hanna man offered 800 to $50 that Hanna
would be elected A foolish "bolter''
took it.
Another hundred.' cried the Hanna
man. The "bolter" was in a corner and
had to take it.
Another hundred and the luckless
bolter could not get out of calling the bluff.
He might as well have kissed his money
| goodbye. 1t is gone.
The Associated Press reporter thinks
there is doubt. He says: Senator Hanna
is believed tonight to be short one vote
of election. The opposition is not sure of
seventy-three votes for any one man, as
against only seventy-two for Hanna, but
they feel confident of at least preventing
Hanra's election. Last night the Demo-
cratic steering committee demanded Of Mr..
Kurtz that he furnish at least eight affi-
oavits tonight from Republican members
that they would stand with the sixty~five
Democratic members in voting against
Hanna. The Democratic steering commit
| tee reported tonight that they were satis-
fed Representative 9ayman. chairman of
| the House Democratic steering committee,
went so far as to say Hanna's defeat to-
Fbpra iS
that Senator Hanna was beaten for a week
| previous to last Friday, when Representa-
| tive Manuel, of Montgomery county
| changed in his favor. On Saturday the
| Hanna men secured Representative Griffith,
| of Union, but they made no accessions
| yesterday or to-day, and it is the general
belief that they are short one vote to-
night.
1t has been agreed by a conference COM
mittee that the balloting in the two houses
| will not begin until 2 D. m. tomorrow, and
| there may be several changes in that time
The real work of the fight on both sides is
| being done tonight. The workers will not
sleep now until after the balloting begins.
There is a feeling among many'of those OPP
posing Hanna that if he is not defeated on
the first ballot, or rather by the separate
ballots tomorrow, that he will not be de-
feated at all. These anti-Hanna workers
say they had a majority of five against
Hanna when they exposed their strength
in organizing the Legislature last Monday.
and if they come down to a majority of
only one against Hanna tomorrow that
the coalition may not hold together for an
other day. While the opposition still in
sists on Kurtz as the candidate against
Hanna, yet they say that Bushnell. Kurtz
CT any other one will be dropped as soon as
it is demonstrated that he cannot secure all
of the votes of either the anti-Hanna Re-
| publicans or the Democratic members One
of the names most prominently mentioned
to-day was that of john p. Jones, who rep
resents Stark county, the home of Presi-
dent Mckinley. Mr. Jones is a Republican
and prominent man in the Miners Union
He is for free silver, and is advocated as
the labor candidate against the capitalist.
While the mass convention of the Repub-
licans this afternoon was the largest and
| most Indignantly enthusiastic assemblage
ever known in this State, the doubtful Re-
publican members of the Legislature did
not see it or feel it. They were closely and
literally entertained by the opposition at
the Great Southern Hotel during the after
noon, and they are there tonight. Repre-
sentatives Manuel, Griffith, Snider and
others are having the undivided and con-
slant attention of the other side. There
are at times lively scenes when the Hanna
workers invade the rooms of the opposition
at the Great Southern Hotel and also when
the hustlers for the opposition come to the
Nell House after some of the doubtful mem
bers or their friends. There is tonight
doubt also about the final vote of some of
those on whom both sides have been de-
|
more than in balance With the result
pending upon one vote either way. there are
several who want to be on the winning side.
and may at any time change according to
their belief as to which side has the neces-
sary seventy-three votes or for some other
cause.
Owing to the apparent closeness of the
vote there are still numerous rumors of
bribery for another vote either way II is
noted by some of the more conservative OBJ
servers that as soon as no further changes
were announced each day that the contend
ing factions alternated in daily reports of
bribery. The Hanna men claim to have
stenographic notes of an offer of S. 900 by
two prominent members of the opposition
The opposition in turn claim S. D. Hollen-
beck, member of the Republican state ex-
ecutive committee, went to Cincinnati last
Saturday with $1,000. Representative Otis
is a Republican who was elected on fu-
sion ticket in Hamilton county He has
voted with the Democrats in the organiza-
ton. But it is claimed that he made
friendly overtures to Hanna workers to en-
trap them into an offer for the purpose of
exposing the same, and that he will do so
on the floor of the House tomorrow. 1t is
said that Representative Otis will pile $1O-
COO on his desk tomorrow and make SEN
sationaI speech when his name IL called on