The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-23
WASHINGTON GOSSIP

Senator Hanna S reelection to the SEN
ate, and Tom, Johnson's presidential aspir-
atoms are the stakes for which the pres
ent Ohio campaign is being fought The
question as to who will be elected gov
ernor, which is the nominal issue. really
has nothing TODD with it. Johnson is
after Hanna's scalp. : If he can defeat the
chairman Of the republican national COM
! mittee and the republican leader of the
senate, he will be the most prominent
; democrat in the country. He will be the
) logical leader of the party opposed to Han
4 ma S party.
/ Myron T. Herrick will be elected gov
! ernor of Ohio. That Is conceded even by
!, Mr.. Johnson. More than that, Mr.. john
son is urging the voters to support the re-
publican nominee. He says, what is no.
toriously true, that the office Of governor
in Ohio is an honorary affair, almost des-
i titute Of functions or power and adds his
A., assurance that he does not care for 1t, and
would not take it from a silver platter. 3.
| But-and it is here that Mr.. Johnson
becomes emphatic-the Ohio voter is urged
to vote for democratic members OF the
legislature. Whatever they do, whatever
they think, Mayor Tom appeals to the
\ good people to scratch the ballot, and to
get after the octopus in the person OF It's
| duly authorized representative, M. A
Hanna, q, |-.> so. -; ...-
II This accounts for the somewhat acri-
I stamping around in his state, crying shy.
j ster,'' Socialist Anarchist and sucf
like endearments at the fat mayor o.
Cleveland. 1t is not entirely disinterest
ed solicitude in behalf Of his friend Her
rick that has aroused the usually pat1en
} republican chairman. Johnson has gon'
out OF his way to make a personal fight OF
Hanna, and Johnson is no mean antagon
list, TO. be sure, Ohio is republican
Estate, and these republican times, bu
in Cleveland and ~Cuyahoga county John
son is supreme. =. - - -
The last Ohio legislature had ma orit,
of thirty-fve republicans on joint ballot
At first glance this would seem a reason
{ ably safe margin, but it has not kept han
) ma and his friends from worrying. .Hann
} has betrayed his own feelings by his pub
I lie utterances; many Of the latter are con
{ coded by his friends. to have been -unWlse
: But 1T is evident that Mr.. Hanna is nc
} alone in his uneasiness. for the leaders {
I the party have found it advisable to go
{ the rescue Of the junior senator, and
! the best speakers at their command hay
} been ordered to the front.
The recent democratic victory in. 1r
a dianapolis will have no effect on Senate
l. Beveridge. "A story was diligently circr
j. lated Just before the election to the efte'
= that the defeat Of Bookwalter, the re
= publican candidate, would endanger Be'
l. eridges seat in the senate. The purpoF
of the story was to rally Beverage
is friends in behalf of the republican ma
n chine candidate. The effort did not SUI
is ceed The Indianapolis election WE
ID strictly a family affair. The county
)r Marion is republican by 5000, and tt
ID delegation which it will send to the legi
J. lature will be republican delegate
l. pledged to the Junior senator.
$ Reed Smoot the Mormon apostle elect
to the United States senate, will be vi
lently opposed when he attempts this wi
80 ter to. take his seat. The Protestant +
- ligious organizations which are interes
~ ing themselves in. the case are f1oodi
~ the, country with anti-SmOot lite.atul
- The charge on which the case again
T., Smoot- will mainly rest will be that he
"a been guilty Of taking and maintaini
II plural wives. A minister of the gosI
~ living in Salt Lake City is the author
~ the charge. ..s- .-- .-- ~ - 49,
w. Apostle Smoot denies this charge wi
bv all the vigor and explicitness possib
in When visited at his home in Provo IL
of month by the Washington correspondent
d. party he insisted upon the presentati
= of the "only Mrs. Smoot,'' a mother
-. wholesome lady who presides over,
er senator's comfortable bat unostentatio
he home. The apostles neighbors and frier
tx. declared emphatically that the chars
RI made out Of whole CLOTH and that \
lr- Shoots private life was exemplary. Tt
ur stated :emphatically that the charges W,
u ISOLATED with that of any other WON
is even by gossip until the charge brout
e. In Salt Lake City, which they declare
;ar be purely for political purposes. a..
i'd =. , .....
il The city authorities here have gran
" a license to a deaf mute to run an au
'as mobile. 1t is said to be the first e
ef, granted The applicant, Henry Wor
ne, man. passed the required examinati
ing and also proved to the commissioners t
ING he had run his machine for year an,
I'd halt without accident before the lice
iy- law was passed. The commissioners W
ner reluctant at first. to grant the appli
we ton. but admitted finally that they ku
Ws Of no grounds on which they could
aer fuse. Mr.. Wordeman makes up in ale
TO- ness Of his other senses what he la
lily in hearing. He has travelled abroad all
are several times. and occupies a techn
NE: position in one Of the departments of
lily government. H C, Steven,