Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-09
GHOST OF SHERMAN.
IT WILL NOT DOWN IN BUCKEYE
STATE.
Tho Repentant Sinner Threatens to
Stay the q. d. +. In the Coming State
Campaign-Glorious Chance for Fusion
Forces.

Some unfeeling newspaper reporter
has been letting John Sherman talk.
and what is much worse, has printed
some of the sayings Of that one-time
Republican leader. John announces
that he is going back to Ohio to enter
actively into the political scramble,
and intimates that what he will do to
Mark Hanna and his gang will, in the
vernacular Of the day, "be plenty"
The keynote of all the old mans utter
ances is a resentment toward Hanna
for ousting him from the senate. 81
abandoned congenial for an uncon-
genial post at Mr.. McKinley's urgent
request" he says, and between the
lines it Is clear that he charges up his
humiliation to Mckinley as we'll as to
Hanna, although he knows, of course,
that Hanna inspired the change so that
he himself might, by clinging to the
Mckinley coattails, be switched into
the senate. That smile of the coat
tails belong to Governor Bushnell,
who has just declared that he and Mr..
Kurtz and all their friends propose to
do" Hanna at every turn. The Re-
publican governor, once Foraker's
alter-ego, now charges that gentleman
with having made truce with the
Hanna bear, and there are many signs
of bitterness on the part of the men
aker's chief supporters. The Repub-
lican organization in Cleveland is
against Senator Hanna, although that
is his home, and the Republican or
ganization Of Cincinnati is against
Foraker, although he lives there, and
this machine was once his main ele-
ment Of strength. These are, however,
but few of the minor complications
facing the Republicans of Ohio. The
greater problem is Jones. A governor
Is to be elected in Ohio this year. The
Hanna crowd and the Bushnell crowd
and the Foraker crowd had each been
grooming some favorite for the nom
ination when there suddenly doomed UP
in northwestern Ohio man who upset
all their calculations. This is the
unique creature, Jones, who, as mayor
OF Toledo, out-Pingrees Pingree. The
Republicans OF Toledo discovered
Jones, nominated him for mayor and
elected him. The bosses couldn't han
die him. He had unique ideas OF mu-
nicipal government, which ran directly
counter to all that Republicanism
stands for. He believes in the Golden
Rules a crank on the subject, ap
parently. After he had served one
term he stood for denomination, and
the Republican machine defeated him.
He believed he was cheated, ran indie
pendently, and got several thousand
more votes than his Republican and
Democratic competitors combined.
That's Jones. Now he has announced
that he wants the Republican nomina-
ton for governor. Not only that, but
he says he must write the Republican
platform. FITS strength with the work
ingmen of the state is wonderful, and
the Republicans are afraid to turn him
down.; yet, can they afford to make
him governor? This is the problem by
the side Of which all others confronting
the Buckeye Republicans pale into in
significance. To Jones, or not to Jones!
AS compared with Jones, Sherman's re-
turn TO Ohio politics is of no impor-
lance; the Hanna Dushnen-Foraker
feuds are mere side-shows; even Coke
Old Boy, the Cincinnati boss, and the
turned-down McKisson of Cleveland
are mere ciphers. There is all sorts OF
trouble at hand ror the Ohio Republl-
cans, and all on account Of Jones'