Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-18
STARTED BY FORAKER
Clash Between Ohio's Sena-
tors Over Delegates.
IN CUYAHOGA COUNTY
HANNA RESENTED FoRAKER'S
EFFORT TO CONTROL.
Not Believed That Activity of Hanna's
Friends Has Any Reference
to Presidency.
IN CUYAHOGA COUNTY
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star
COLUMBUS, Ohio, January IL. 1904
Senator Hanna's activity while here this
week, in arranging to have only tried and
true friends sent district delegates to the
national republican convention has started
the talk again about him as candidate for
the presidential nomination. If the senator
has such a plan in mind he is keeping it a
secret from his political associates here.
The probability is that he thinks it well to
have delegation from his own state which
he can control. and thus be able to take ad
vantage of whatever turns up in the con-
vention.
Some of Senator Hanna's friends think
that the chance of something turning up
between now and the meeting of the repub
lican national convention that will make
President Roosevelt an impossbility is
really worth paying some attention to. They
refer to the fact that the President is given
to doing unusual things, and is not as eau
tious as one who is nursing boom should
be. With such contingency pending they
think Senator Hanna fully justified IN max
ing the preparations he is now known to be
making.
Naturally the republican county chair
men whom Senator Hanna called into con.
ference in the matter this week were curi-
Gus to know whether 1t meant that the sem
aCOr was, aIIeT all, coming out as IL CdHUI-
date for the presidency. To all these he
disavcwed any such purpose, and explained
his fight for the control of the delegation
by saying that he had found that Senator
the delegation. In Cuyahoga county,
Senator Hanna's home. Senator Foraker
has sought to arouse the old Mckisson
anti-Hanna republicans and secure their
cooperation in effort to control the dele
gation-and this was specially distasteful
to Mr.. Hanna. Senator Foraker had OPEN
ed up the fight, and Senator Hanna was
forced to meet the movement or fail to
secure Endorsement chairman of the ma
tional committee. This indicates that he
wishes to dictate who will succeed Gov.
Herrick as member of the national COM
mittee for Ohio. Probably Gov Herrick
will not care to take reelection.
Hanna Pleased Over Reelection.
Senator Hanna returned to Cleveland
after his election to another term in the
Senate, very happy man. AS intimated
in his speech of acceptance, he looks upon
it as a vndication. Six years ago he was
elected for the first time, after a long, hard
struggle and by but a single vote Now,
after six years of service he is returned
with majority of ninety votes. 1t was
significant that in almost the next sentence,
after referring to the bitter senatorial fight
of six years ago, Senator Hanna paid
high compliment to Gov. Bushnell, then
lying at deaths door in a hospital in this
city. Gov. Bushnell joined the anti-Hanna
forces in that struggle, though a few
months before he had appointed Mr.. Hanna
to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused 10y
the resignation of John Sherman.
The tragedies of the last week in the lives
of eX-Governors Foster and Bushnell, have
brought out an interes ting story. For some
time the relations between Governor Bush
nell and General J. Warren Keifer had not
been of a friendly nature. The ill-feeling
had been of long standing and was nur-
tured by the anti-Hanna fight of 1888, the
two men standing on opposite sides in that
matter. Recently both Governor Bushnell
and General Keifer entered the race for the
republican nomination for Congress in the
Springfield district. 1t was plain that If
both remained in the fight, the nomination