The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-13

'oiohtiess IN It's warfare. Inc ueIett U
McKisson in Cleveland has not been for.
gotten. That master stroke OF political
hnesse can never be explained away. II
Is fact that at critical iuncture In the
politics OF that town. Hanna contrived to
STAB Mckisson In the back. Nor Is the
opposition to Hanna limited to Cleveland.
In every township OF Ohio the feeling IL
strong that Hanna Is not a leader In the
broad sense OF the term. He is not q
leader as Garfield or Sherman or Foraker
was leader. He is simply and eminent
~ boss He rules his party with an
Iron rod Every man whom he can not
rule he ruins. With his Federal influence
ne has dominated the republicans in Ohio
ever since Mckinley was elected. He has,
through his Intimacy with the president
exercised wide influence with Federal
patronage. He stops at nothing to ac-
eompiish his purpose. He has great
power. He uses 1t with superciliousness,
with insolence, with brutality.
| To illustrate ! will cite but one ex-
ample. The 1897 Legislature which elect
ed Hanna to the senate was republican by
narrow margin. Hanna's own county
voted against him. Hanna made UP for
mat loss by winning over the fusion re-
publioans OF Hamilton county, whom he
mad opposed at the election. He had sup
ported at that election the Cox machine
'he most disreputable gang In Ohio poll
Tics. Now the sequel to all this remains
TO be told. Every one of those Hamilton
county members that was instructed not
to vote for Hanna, but who broke his In
structions, was won over and did vote
Tor Hanna, thereby securing his election
TO the senate-every one of those fusion
republicans has since been appointed to a !
Federal Office. That will give you an idea
OF Hanna's political methods. If you have
any knowledge of Ohio men. you can
imagine how the decent people of the
state resent that sort of manipulation.
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1t is thought that the recent attack by |
the Chicago Times Herald upon Senator
FORAKER has been inspired by Hanna and
the administration. The editor of the
Times Herald is Kohlsaat. who went Sc
curity for Mckinley when Mckinley was
In trouble. Kohlsaat is as every one
knows. intimate with Hanna. Hanna is
hostile to Foraker. Now comes this at
tack upon Foraker by way of Chicago.
Ohio republicans recognize Its real source
They know full well the heart and brain
that inspired the charges. Foraker Is rep
resented as a traitor to his party-a
traitor to Sherman, Hanna and Mckinley
at different stages of his political career.
He is vilified as lobbyist, and in order
to embitter the attack, the Times Herald
has raked up an old ballot box scandal
which was used against Foraker in 1891,
and of which Foraker was then proved alb
solutely innocent. Tactics of this charac-
ter have Disguised the conservative re-
publicans Of Ohio. Governor Bushnell has
led off with an attack on Hannas pet,
Colonel Dick, the newly made chairman
Of the Ohio republican State committee
He charges Colonel Dick with deserving
his regiment In Cuba in order to get away
from the fever there. Former Governor {
Foster has also criticised Colonel Dick on e
the ground that Colonel Dick is a fac
Zionist and is incompetent. :
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There are number of candidates for
the democratic nomination for governor. !.
james Kilbourne OF Columbus has been
mentioned. He is a manu- i
successful business man, an t
advocate OF free silver. a friend of the !.
rhurmans. and is now the most promi- :
aent candidate for whom any organized I
effort has yet been made. Former Mayor +
Rice of Canton. McKinley's town, had
some consideration for governor in the
two years ago. He may be in =
he race again this year. James Haskell
" putnam county Is talked OF as candi-
late from the northwestern section of the l.
'tate, but II the fight becomes general he Il
VIII not have that field exclusively to n
lmself. Since the death OF Senator Brice t!
nd the disappearance of other prominent el
emocrats who could afford to enjoy the "
luxury of politics. John r. Mclean has Il
een looked to by many as natural NJ
aader OF Ohio democrats. He has had Ills "
ag out two or three times for United O
lates senatorship--notably so in the cleo. IS
lon OF the Legislature in 1897. He has "
ot objected to being freely mentioned fol a.
ice president, and at the Chicago con- a,
ention in 1896 he did not restrain the 10
mic delegation from voting for him for a
resident under the unit rule. 1t Is ~
trongly limited that he would be willing "
D take the second place on the ticket ia pi
900. There are. however, a great many Of
hlo democrats who. while not averse to ~
lcLean's ambition, think that he ought N
rst to submit to census of his popu- at
lrity before the people at the ballot vox. III
ndeed, there Is a feeling that there has -.
cen somewhat too liberal distribution m
public honor without popular ratifca- b,
on. 1t Is remarked that even Mr.. Brlce, W
'e last democratic senator from Ohio. ~. Nc
as never popularity elected, and that
ali dozen ether candidates for the senate M
! years past, including, notably. Mr.. Han
a, have never been elected to anything.
his feeling may have the result of throw
g John r. Mclean into the nomination Z"
" governor this year. and II considera
e sentiment should develop in his favor TN
Q probably can not refuse to go before 90
10 convention as candidate. 1t IL n cel
gnificant fact that the delegates already W,
iosen from Lincoln county have In many ba