Sunday Washington globe., 1902-04-27
More Ohio Republican Harmony.

Notwithstanding the present effort Of the
Ohio Republican factions to present an ap-
pearance of harmony, they love one another
no better and each one is hot on the trails
of all the others.
II is not so very long ago since the
"Muloilinspector, the mercury footed mes
senger of Marcus Hanna" heard an alarm
and shot himself into the arena at Wash
ington to find out what kind Of a sinister
swath Cy Huling had been cutting there
Having done so he turns on his winged
heel and shoots himself back, leaving a
regular comets tail Of fiery illumination in
his scintillating rear, ioyfully proclaiming
with haring trumpet that there is no one in
it but Hanna whoopers.
This alarms Foraker and he hastens hot
foot to Columbus to counteraet the diabol-
ical Vaccinations of the Hanna retainers,
and while there he is said TO have arranged
with Daugherty to get entire political con-
troll of the state of Ohio and knock Hanna
out in the first round.
This will probably insure another msteoric
flash of the Muloilinspector over the skies
of Washington to undertake daring rescue
and take back the dangling scalp of Foraker
So the fun will follow fast and furious in an
ever increasing ratio, and there will be no
end to what they will add to the gaiety Of
nations
Grosvenor, also moving in his minor
political orbit, independent of the big
heavenly bodies, suddenly feels something
jar. He hears that there IS a 6re in his
political brushwood out in the old Elev-
enth district The big Mandarin Hanna,
who doesn't care two whoops whether
Grosvenor comes back to Congress or not,
but who is very solicitious that Lentz shall
not come back, arranges to take the big
Democratic county of Franklin out of the
Columbus district and put it in Grosvenor's
district, thus putting the silvery wtiskered
in deadly political peril.
The sage" forthwith hastily packs his
calculator, his prophesies and his resound-
ing mouthpiece into his grip-sack and
rushes with tremulous haste to keep the
FIRE away from his brush fences.
It will be a sad day for the lightning cal
culator, when he can nolonger save his own
little coral Of a Congressional district. 1t
is the tip Of the tail of opportunity he is
holding to, and if he loses his precarious
grip he sinks into that final and irrevocable
obscurity he has so long merited.
The sage" constitutes another Ohio Re-
publican political party all by himself-a
veritable fifth wheel in the G o. p cart
He cares not fig for the fortunes of the
Hanna. Foraker, Daugherty OF George Cox
parties, but he takes off his hat and bows
respectfully to himself reverently Offering
incense to his own august personality, all
the while keeping his renowned mouth.
piece at hair trigger readiness for any or all
of them who try to poach in the brushwood
of the Eleventh district.
There is plenty Of fun in the Ohio Re-
publican situation, and plenty more coming
for those who are fond of boisterous gam
boiling on the village green. It isa big comic
opera company giving an open air per
formance for the entertainment of all the
people of the state and nation and it will
continue to play to large audiences until the
voters decide to laugh it of the stage
Shades of Allen c. Thurman, James A.
Garfield, George H. Pendleton and John
Sherman what company Of mountebanks is
this that has succeeded thee.