The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-17
FIGHT IS ID BE
 WAGED IN OHIO Hanna Wants His Friends to
 be Delegates WILL USE HIS MACHINE RooseveIt's Friends Think National Chairman Should Say Stralshtout That He Will Not Accept
 the Nomination.
WILL USE HIS MACHINE
BY PATTERSON sTEALEY.

BY PATTERSON STEALEY.
 Washington, January 16.-(Special.)-
 War is on between the Hanna and Roose- velt-Foraker factions in Ohio, and unless
 there is a speedy settlement of the dif-
 ficulty-and Ohio politicians here say such settlement is improbable-the dele
 gation from Ohio to the Chicago conven-
 tion may go uninstructed.
 Senator Hanna returned to Washington
 why he should be suspected for delaying
 the call for the national convention.
 But there are many people who are talking about you for the presidential
 nomination" was suggested.
 The senator merely shook his head pro-
 testingly and declared he was not on the
 itness stand. He remarked that his posi-
 ton should be well understood, as he had
 sent out thousands of letters denying that
 he was a candidate for the presidential
 nomination.
 Presidents Friends Not Satisfied. It seems that the followers of President
 Roosevelt are not satisfied with the an-
 nouncement that Hanna is not a candi-
 date, but expect the Ohio senator to say that he will not accept the republican nomination. In the absence of such an
 emphatic statement Senator Hanna is
 placed in the category of candidate
 The row between Senator Hanna and Senator Foraker results over the an- nouncement that the former Is going to
 use the powerful machine he has built
 up in Ohio to send delegates to the con-
 vention who are his personal friends Senator Hanna has in the past eight
 years spent considerable time and money
 in organizing machine, and naturally he does not want Senator Foraker to step in and take the delegation to the convention. If Roosevelt Is to be nominated unani- mously Hanna wants to be the man to cast the Ohio vote for him. Hanna Is be- leved to control nineteen of the twenty one congressional district organizations and in addition to the delegates from
 these districts will at the convention be able to name the delegates at large.
 Should Have His Own Way. With this vast state influence, he is in-
 clined to feel that he should have his own way, and that the Foraker men should not be allowed to jump in and declare that the delegates must be Instructed TOT Roosevelt.
 The friends of the President declare that the whole scheme means plot to defeat Roosevelt's nomination., or at least an attempt to send an uninstructed dele
 gation to the convention, which amounts to the same thing. They are therefore
 going to work big fight in every district | for delegates instructed for Roosevelt
 should Hanna persist in his Intention 10 send Hanna men to the convention. -----------~-~-~-~> | .it would convict MT. Shoot of acting a | spy and would be violation of the com l pact between Utah and the United States | before Utah was admitted into the union | as a state" These charges, he argued, | demanded proof for if 1t can be shown | that Mir Shoot has furthered movement | to promote polygamy contrary to this | compact then we will say, of course, that MT. Shoot ought to be expelled. Read Number of Decisions. MT. Worthington read a large number of court decisions leading up to the apan-
 donment of polygamy and then read rom official church proclamations including
 the manifesto of 1890 declaring that polyg- amy should be abolished. He also read the amnesty proclamation of President Harrison and declared that not only py this proclamation but by acts or congress the people of Utah should be apsoiveo from the charge of polygamy by comply ing with the enabling act admitting the state to the union.
 MT. Vancott made statement In Sena- tor Shoots behalf. He referred first to the Utah legislature nullifying the anti polvgarny act and he confirmed what MT. Tavler had said, that the oil had been vetoed by a Mormon governor. He said Senator Shoot had nothing to do With the massage of that bill and shsuld not be charged with It.
 He invited the fullest inquiry into Sen ator Shoots life We throw down the bars" he said "and invite you to inves- tigate his entire career.
 Senator McComas asked whether 1t was true that the apostles take secret oath and MT. Vancott replied that not being a Mormon, though resident of Ctah. he could not reply from his own knowledge It was his understanding. however, that the Mormon apostles took no oath. Senator DuBoIs asked how about the
 elders and MT. vancott replied that there might be some obligation taken in con- pection with the endowment ceremony. That was not, however. one of the
 charges.
 Committees Authority Unlimited. MT. vanCott then entered Into an argu- ment to show the improprIefy of ;nvesti- gating the relations of other people in 
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