The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-04
STATESMEN ARE
BEING WATCHED
Precautions Taken to Prevent
Them From Being influenced.
HANNA SHOWS HIS STRENGTH
MANY OF THE LEGISLATORS
RALLY TO HIS STANDARD.

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of the Republican caucus the so
called Foraker Hanna contest
over the organizat ton Of the Ohio leg
islature is an open battle. with neither
Price nor McKinnon assured of the
thirty-fye votes necessary for the Re
publican nomination for the speaker
ship of the house.
While McKinnon and Price are claim
ing thirty seven votes each, their man
ayers, who keep books are more con-
sentative. Congressman Dick, who is
director general for McKinnon and the
Hanna faction. said:
We gained two in the declarations
of Buckley of Perry and Fisher of
Medina today and we want a couple
more"
The Price men concede McKinnon
only twenty nine Of what are called
first, last and all the time men. But
conservative onlOOkers say that each
has thirty-three Of that class, and that
each needs at least two more. George
B. Cox, who is the director general for
Price, said today:
There are still seven doubtful Re-
publican representatives. We need two
or three of them and the others four
or five."
Legislators Under Guard.
While Dick. Cox and others are after
recruits, their lieutenants are having
lively times in holding their men in
line Members on both sides are ac-
companied by friends wherever they
go, even to their meals and to bed.
There are sentinels about the hotels
and at the station to see that none get
away or into strange company.
Do tot hi
escort today and publicly denounced
the organized espionage on both
sides" He afterward attempted to
start a movement to drop both Price
and McKinnOn and take up a new man
for speaker
Senator's Hanna and Foraker both re-
main continually in touch by long-dis-
lance telephone with their friends here.
Lines Distinctly Drawn.
The lines are much more distinctly
drawn between what are known as
the Cox men and the Daugherty men.
Two years ago ex-Representative Har-
ry NJ. Daugherty was defeated for the
gubernatOrial nomination by Governor
Nash.
In that contest Cox threw his whole
strength to Nash, as he is now doing
for Price. McKinnon was a Daugherty
man then and a leader Iii the last leg
islature, which was controlled in its
Organization by the Daugherty men.
Cox, who is now supporting Price
for speaker, says he was pledged to
him before present complications arose.
While Cox is friendly with both, Sen
ator Daugherty is an avowed opponent
of both, and the local feature of the
contest is the fact that Hanna and
Daugherty are for the same man for
speaker.
The ENHANCEMENT goes still further
with some in talking about Foraker
and Cox being for the same man for
speaker. And the crossing of wires eX-
tends to Ex-Governor Foster. ex-GOv-
ernor Bushnell, ex-Congressman Kurtz
and others who are now cooperating
with those from whom they are said
to have been estranged in late years.
Hanna Shows Strength.
Some of the conferences lasted I'm
til after midnight, when it was found
that a strong tide had set in during
the nighj for MeKinnon, whose man
ayers claimed forty of the sixty-eight
votes. While these figures were dis
puted by the Price men, most of the
latter no longer claimed the nomina-
ton.
During the night KimbaH. Crist.
Binkley, Fisher and McNeai, FIVE of
the doubtful ones, not only pledged
themselves to McKinn3n, but they also
called on General Dick. Senators Writ
Hanna, Durham, Godfrey, Overturf
Harris and Patterson met tonight and
decided to name a complete Hanna
ticket in the Republican senate caucus
tomorrow. Until the turn for McKin-
non in the house the Hanna men had
decided to support Senator Archer.
who was not expected to have any op-
position for president pro tempore. and
all the Hanna men had asked for in
the senate was the reelection of w. B.
Uhl as chief clerk.
Now there viii be an opposition
ticket, including Senator Writ for pres
ldent pro tempore, Uhl for clerk and
others for minor places. However. il
is conceded that eleven, enough to
nominate, are pledged to Archer and
Scobie for president pro tempore and
clerk
k The Foraker senators, who claim
Ell ven votes in the senate, also met to-
night. They had only nine present. and
one of them is counted as doubtful.
The three Hamilton county senators
were not present.