The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-22
after The DINNER
President and Hanna +" Fish
and Cut Bait
That Is StO.S Sent Out About
the Payne Dinner.
AN AGGRESSIVE FIGHT
Has Been Decided Upon by the
Administration.
Struggle for Instructed Dele
gates in Number of States.
AN AGGRESSIVE FIGHT

Washington, D. c., Jan. 22-The
Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald telegTaphed the following
to his paper:
Friends of the administration have
suddenly decided to assume the agrees
sive in the fight for delegates to the ma
tionaI convention in Chicago. They be-
Heve they have waited long enough,
and are going to combat the efforts
which they are now convinced will be
made to prevent instructions for the
president with a view of defeating him
in convention by a stampede to some
other Republican. There is to be live
ly fighting. not only in Ohio, where
Senator Foraker is laying his plans for
against Senator Hanna, but in New
York, Indiana. Illinois. and Kentucky,
where the noninstruction idea seems
to be gaining ground rapidly.
1.-The news from New York verifying
the reports spread in Washington that
New York would not instruct for the
president caused a positive uneasiness
among the advisers of Mr.. Roosevelt
What steps will be taken in New York
is by no means clear as yet. But
something must be done at the proper
time to acquaint Senator Plat and
Governor Odell with the belief of the
administration that New York is either
for or against the president and that
ii it is for him it viii instruct every
delegate to vote at Chicago for Roose-
welt.
THE news from Kentucky that Rep
resentatiVe Hunter was conducting a
Hanna propaganda in the blue grass
region caused such alarm that John W.
Yerkes, commissioner of internal reVe-
nues and member for that state of the
national committee, left for Louisville
tonight to round up delegates for the
administration Mr.. Yerkes has been writ
ing letters to every Republican of
prominence in the state urging him to
support the president, but he felt the
situation was sufficiently serious to re-
Quire his personal attention. He will
have the support of former Governor
Bradley, but he will be compelled to
combat a strong Hanna sentiment in
the state.
Senator Hanna was the first Repub-
lican politician who ever took Ken
lucky Republicans seriously, and he
made an effort in 1896 which carried
the state for the Mckinley ticket. So
long as Senator Hanna remains pas
siVe and gives the impression that he
does not want the nomination there is
chance that the state will go for
Roosevelt, but it is believed here if
Hanna should announce his candidacy
he would get every delegate in Ken
lucky
The Tennessee situation is also To
be grappled with by the administra-
tion. H. Clay Evans, consul general Al
London, left for that state tonight,
and it is said he will supplement the
efforts which have been made by Col
Brownlow national committeeman
from that state, to hurry the state
committee to call a state convention
and have instructions adopted for tho
president.
1.-The rampant Hanna sentiment in In.
diana has led several members of con.
gress from that state to write letters IT
all their constituents of prominence
urging them to get the local forces il