Show I HANNA SHORT FUR VOTES i What the Ohio Republican Caucus Revealed SEVEN ABSENTEES JOIN DEMOCRATS A Enough Republicans Secured to Prevent I i Pre-vent Hannas Nomination Situation In the Camp of the Opposition Oppo-sition Jeptha Gerrard S Silver Republican Will Be Put I Nomination Nom-ination Indications However i Favor Bushnell Governor Around the Democratic Camp With a Knife For H Columbus 0 Jan 1The caucuses for the nomination of the officers of the legislature which convenes next Monday were held tonight Usually these caucuses are of state interest only Tonight the reelection of Senator Sen-ator Hanna was directly involved and indirectly but openly and aggressively aggressive-ly Republican opposition in Ohio to President McKinley and his appointments appoint-ments assumed organic factional form The result of the caucuses show that the nominees of the Hanna slate are short three votes of election in the house and one vote in the senate And the opinion prevails that Hanna will be short four votes of election on the joint ballot on Wednesday Jan 12 unless changes are made in the meantime HOW IT STANDS At the joint Republican caucus next Wednesday Senator Hanna will have no opposition but i is stated now that there are enough Republicans who will not enter the caucus to prevent his nomination The legislature now stands 75 Republicans 65 Democrats and 5 Fusionists Fu-sionists The Fusionists are Senator Voight and Representatives Droste Kemper Lane and Otis all of Cincinnati Cincin-nati I the house Republican caucus tonight Droste Kemper and Lane participated par-ticipated and are pledged to Alex Box well for speaker John I Malloy for chief clerk and Andrew Jackson for sergeantatarms and other candidates for minor places on the Hanna ticket Droste however says he wiir not enter the Republican caucus next Wednesday Wednes-day as he proposes to present the name of Joseph Gerrard a silver Republican Hanna Including for senator against Hanna I the Fusionists there are 62 Republicans and 47 Democrats in the house a total of 109 with 55 necessary to elect There I were only 52 present at the Republican caucus tonight The 10 absentees were Bramley and Mason of Cuyahoga Griffith of Clinton Griffith of Union Jones of Stark Joyce of Guernsey Manuel of Montgomery Otis of Ham ilton Rutan of Carroll and Scott of Fulton Griffith of Clinton Griffith of Union and Manuel of Montgomery are reported report-ed as sick and the others are in the fusion with the Democrats to beat what is called the Hanna slate next Monday and one week from next Wednesday to defeat Senator Hanna for reelection OPPOSITION CAUCUS The antiHanna Republicans and Democratic members in their joint house caucus nominated Harry C Mason Ma-son of Cleveland for speaker and Charles Gerrish as state insurance inspector in-spector Under Inspector Charles L Kurtz for chief clerk and a complete list of candidates for other places in t the organization of the house I I The opposition tonight claim they will have enough votes Monday to organize or-ganize the house with 55 votes for the Mason ticket 52 for the Boxwell ticket tick-et and two absent on account of sick ness The Hanna men claim that Griffith of Clinton Griffith of Union and Man uel of Montgomery will vote for Box well Monday and elect him The members mem-bers from Clinton and Union are however how-ever resorted tonight a so sick that they will be unable to be in their seats Monday Previous to the caucuses Mr Boxwell called to see Charles L Kurtz who is leading the opposition to Han na and Kurtz refused to receive him Boxwell then asked Representative Mason for a conference and was again agn declined an audience While both sides claim the organization organiza-tion of the house the opposition to Senator Sen-ator Hanna and the Boxwell ticket is most demonstrative Representative Mason tonight gave a theatre party and a bancuet afterwards to his Republican Repub-lican colleagues who remained away from the house caucus HANNAS CLAIM The Hanna managers claim that the senator will succeed even if the Box well ticket is defeated The opposition would then have the committees and the chairmanship and other patronage patron-age at their disposition I is believed Senator Hannas chances will ndr be even if his opponents get the organization organiza-tion on Monday Representative Mason the opposition opposi-tion candidate for speaker comes from Senator Hannas home Mason is bitterly bit-terly opposed to Hanna for senator a he is the friend of Mayor McKisson Mason is for McKisson for the short term and Governor Bushnell for the long term for senator and he is running run-ning = 01 speaker on the issue of any tody for senator to beat Hanna BUSHNELL KNIFING Governor Bushnell and the entire state administration took an active part in the caucus today against Hanna na joining the Democrats and those Republicans who remained away from the caucus While the crowds at the opposition headQuarters are jollifying it was learned that six Democratic members of the house were also absent ab-sent from their caucus tonight which was secret The Republican caucuses were oDen to members of the press It is claimed that these six members are opposed to voting for Republicans and want to vote for Democratic candidates candi-dates for the legislative offices and senator sen-ator Under the law fuiere is not a majority ma-jority of all after ten balllots the majority ma-jority of a Quorum will elect officers of the general assembly and until the house elects a speaker Secretary of State Charles Kinney a strong Hanna man presides rh p TTanna mm dpolara with conn m c 1 dtnce that Boxwell will be the speaker I |