The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-08
Columbus Viewed From Distance.
~R1ENDs Of Mr. Hanna are giving

~RIENDs Of Mr.. Hanna are giving
all the publicity in their power
j to what was said by Secretary
Sherman last week-he told a newspa-
per reporter that the Ohio republicans
ought to elect Hanna. Poor Mr.. Sher-
man: ii may be believed that he would
like to see Hanna pull through. If Mr..
Hanna fails. the president will have him
to care for-Hanna wouldn't think Of
anything below the cabinet. Thus Sher-
man would he right in harms way
again. He Was driven out of the sen
ate to make way for Hanna; he would
probably be- chased out of the cabinet
for the same end If there Is one man
in this country who ought To he more
intent than other men in getting Hanna
settled down in the senate. that man is
John Sherman.
II is difficult for people outside of
Ohio to realize how bitter the war of
the factions in that state has become.
| Things are happening daily which show
how intense the enmity is. The other
day when the customary joint resolu-
ton came UP in the senate for the APP
pointment Of a joint committee on ar
engagements for the Inauguration Of the
governor, nearly all the republican SEN
ators declined to vote on account of
their opposition to Governor Bushnell
IT was adopted by the democratic side
of the senate. assisted by two repub-
| lican senators and the Hamilton county
! fusionist, Senator Noight. In the house
some of the republican members, in
| Guiding Bowel. refrained from voting
on resolution for committee to wait
on and inform Governor Bushnell that
the house was organized and ready FOR
| any message he might have to commu-
| nicate. These actions were in accord
ance with previously published threat
that the governors attitude toward the
senatorship would be punished by a
studied discourtesy at the hands OF his
party.
| The Cleveland Plain Dealer. stationed
| at the storm center. wonders why
these warning republicans should be
| 50 intense and personal in their fight.
/ Mr. Hanna especially has no right to
complaint he is learning what it is TO
have directed against him the style of
tactics with which he has made modern
republican campaigning familiar. The
| Bushnell people are doing precisely
what Hanna has caused to be done re-
Gently in Oregon. in Idaho. in South
Dakota. The deal made with South
Dakota populists last winter, under Mr..
Hanna's direction. is precisely the deal
that is getting repetition at Columbus.
As the Plain Dealer puts it, the demo-
Gratis in Ohio are following Hanna's
copy like pupils in a writing. school"
If the republican organs found this
| South Dakota deal all right and just-
fable, as they did last winter. and as
they did in Idaho. why should they
| object now to a turn about. and taking
a dose of their own medicine2 They
may Shrek a good deal, and they are
doing so. but the dose goes just the
same. The latest reported threat of
the straight" republicans is. that if
Mr. Hanna cannot get votes enough to
elect him they will make a deal of their
own with any gold democrats that may
be willing TO go with them and elect a
gold democrat to the senate. How
would that be. the Plain Dealer in
auires for political perhdy?"
Whichever way il turns, the split in
Ohio republicanism il sure to be COM
plete. If Hanna wins he will make it
his life work to crush those who tried
to crush him. L he is defeated he will
he bereft Of much of his strength, but
while he will no longer be formidable
in open battle, he will be strong enough
II knife his republican enemies Mean
While, too. whatever the senatorial re-
suit. the anti-Hanna republicans will
not soon forget the abuse that has been
heaped upon them. victors or van
qushed in the passing fight, they will
know how 10 he avenged for insult
The end of President Mcknleys first
year in The White house is 10 find Ohio
hopeessly in twain. Already New York
renuhlieanism is squarely split beyond
The possibility of unity for long to come
The president has plenty nj trouble or