The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-11
RUTAN DISCUSSES HANNA
AND BALDWIN'S CALL.
He Is Working in the Open to be Nominated
For the Legislature and Has the Com
bned Hanna Forces Against Him.

Cincinnati, Aug. S.--A special writer
for the Cincinnati Enquirer is going
about the state, visiting each county
and securing interviews as to the polit.
'ical situation. He struck pay dirt IL
Carroll county when he talked with D.
o. Rutan. A special from Carrolltor
to the Enquirer says:
"Mark Hanna will yet be the ruin o
the Republican party
"His brutal and boodling methods
must be rebuked or the party will &c
down!
"McKinley will be renominated, nc
doubt. We all like Mckinley. Yet il
Mckinley continues to let Hanna man.
age the campaign of next year l fear
for the result !"
These are the words of D. o. Rutan,
Republican member of the Ohio leg.
islature
From the Hanna standpoint they are
the words of treason. From the stand
point Of Rutan they are the words of a
brave, fearless Republican.
Rutan declined to vote for Hanna in
the senatorial election. In consequence
all the power Of the Mckinley admins
tration at Washington-all the infu'
ence OF the Colonel Dick machine-has
been combined to crush Rutan and
make OF him horrible example. The
date set for the slaughter is August 16
at Kilgore. Mr.. Rutan will be there.
Indeed, he promises to be there with
his fighting clothes on and glitter of
defiance in his eyes.
81 expect to be nominated" said
Rutan, quietly. perhaps not on the
first ballot, but on the third or fourth. Z"
This was said in q mild, confident
tone. Rutan is in many respects the
most interesting man in Ohio politics
today. He is long, lanky, thin,
keen-faced man nearings 50
He has no fear. He realizes that
he is fighting the most powerful politi-
cal com mbination which ever had birth
in Ohio.
This plain farmer, as rugged, sincere
and resourceful as Abraham Lincoln,
calmly arrays himself against all the
influences of the National administra-
tion, against Hanna, against Dick and
all the patronage which they can
promise to defeat him.
Rutan is fighting in the open. He
realizes that his defeat is desired as an
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Hanna. When the Hanna candidate
opposing Rutan for the nomination
cashed fifty dollar drafts at different
banks in the county Rutan knew it. He
learned further that the drafts came
from Akron, and then he learned that
Thomas Huxley Love, the Hanna can
didate, had no business dealings with
any Akron firm.
Rutan could make but one inference.
Heconcluded that Love was being aid
ed by Hanna, through that astute
manager, Colonel Dick.
This was before the Carroll county
primaries. Evidently the Akron drafts
got in their work. Love got II of the
q delegates and Rutan nine.
Rutan gives a bit of interesting his
ory OF the fight at Columbus when he
declined to support Hanna for senator.
He says:
"When Blackburn came saying that
Hanna wanted TO call on me in my sick
room l declined the honor. l had
nothing to talk about with Mark
Hanna, and resented his sudden interest
in my welfare. Several times | was
asked to call on Hanna.
81 declined. | kept away from the
Neil House lest l might be brought in
contact with him accidentally on pur-