The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-20
ALL OF THE SAME MIND
Democrats In the Legislature
Are a Unit.
NOT so WITH REPUBLICANS.
They Arc Divided on fractional Lines
and VIII BE Unable to Enact
Any Partisan Laws During
This Session.

IL Will De SCrappy session OF the
Legislature from start to finish. The
start has certainly been animated
enough to meet the demands of the
| most exacting, and to quote the gen.
tleman who prepare the advance no
tices, the performance as outlined now
Is warranted to permit no tagging of
interest as 1t proceeds. 1t promises
also to be long drawn out, and the
probability is that several crops of
hay will be harvested from the state
house yard before resolution provid-
ing for a sine die adjournment is
| agreed to by both senate and house.
Biennial Sessions.
The biennial session habit seems to
have been fully acquired by our legis-
lature, and it appears to be taken for
granted that, unless something unfore-
seen happens, making the calling of a
special session necessary or desirable,
there will be but one session of the
present body. The probability is that
when one stands at the other end of
| this session and looks back over its
| work. he will be able to say truthfully
that what it did was plenty" The
senatorial election has had the effect
of keeping back proposed legislation.
| None of the really important meas
ures have yet put in appearance. The
authors of them are waiting to see
what is the personnel of the commit
tees to which the measures will go.
| Neither the senate or house commit
tees are yet announced. The senate
committees are expected early next
week. In the house the proposed re-
organization by the Hanna Republic
ans may further delay matters there.
| Another Senatorial Fight.
In spite of the telegram of congrat-
ulation sent to Senator Hanna by SEN
ator Foraker, the friends of Senator
Hanna do not expect the opposition
from the anti-Hanna Republicans to
end now. | have it directly from one
| of Mr.. Hanna's managers that they
expect that Senator Foraker will carry
the fight against Hanna into the Unit
ed States senate-certainly he will, If
the investigation of the bribery
charges against Hanna, as made by
the legislature, produces good ground
upon which to protest against the ad-
mission of Hanna to a seat in the SEN
ate. There Is little room for doubt,
1t may be said here, that said investi-
cations will produce ample ground for
nd tnIe rfno he
vigorous opposition to the investiga-
tion resolutions, made by Mr.. Hanna 8
friends in the legislature, they very
much fear that very damaging evil
dence will be produced
The Hanna manager, who is my in
formant, says that Foraker's program
will undoubtedly be that of Roscoe
Conkling, when he failed in his fight
against Garfield's administration; viz,
to resign and go back to the legisla-
ture for vindication. II expect" said
he, that we will. have this same thing
to go through again before the ses-
sion of the Legislature comes to an
end" referring to the Hanna sena-
torial contest.
"And he will get the same kind of
vindication that Conkling got" sug-
gested.
81 do not know about that" he an
swered.
"You do not suppose the legislature
which has just elected Hanna to the
senate would return Foraker if he
should resign?" asked.
81 believe that Foraker could be
elected by this legislature, with the
aid of Democrats. He has many good
personal friends among the contingent
that has supported Hanna, and they
would not vote against him."
| This seemed a strange story, but af-
ter all, Senator Foraker's congratula-
tions may be proforma merely, and a
mere indication of his obedience to
party rule, to be taken no more seri-
ously than his repeated declaration in
campaign speeches last summer and
fall.
Fight For Life.
The Foraker Republicans who have
| OppObSu luC tlcCllOh VI
feel that their very existence is at
stake. They felt this way about it be-
fore the election Of Senator Hanna.
Mr.. Hanna has shown a disposition to
rule the whole roost. There is not
room for him and one other in the
pilot house of the Republican ship.
They knew that when he was put in
the senate for seven years Forakerism
would be wiped out If it lay in Sena-
tor Hanna's power to doit. II was not
necessary for Senator Hanna to de-
clare in his jollifcation speech that
the time had now come to drive the
traitors out of the camp, or for Gen
eral Grosvenor to announce from
Washington that the war of extermin-
alton has been declared upon the For
aker Republicans. OF course 1t has;
and 1t was to be as soon as Mr.. Hanna
was elected, no matter whether his