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Show "No mains a better republican than myself, my-self, anil in the next battle you will tlml DM as heretofore, shoulder to shauldcr with jou for the standard bearer, whomever he may be, helping all I can in the presentation of our principle, and doing all in my power to win success for our great party and for the good and giory of the United States. Tremendous applause!. I do not know who the next president may be. iur present president has given us a e-nod administration. but if the people of Ohio should take a notion that James G, Blaine siiould be the nominee, ; applause, great and prolonged, We will try and accept that, too. Audit lie siiould be named, w- will triuiuphantly elect him. Kcuewed applause. And w hen lie shall have been elected, we shall have in the While House the greatest of all living Americans." Amer-icans." Tremendous cheering, j There was great excitement when Representative Repre-sentative Oi.x of Cincinnati (Hamilton county I personally called at Sherman's headquarters and pledged his support to Setiator Sherman. Mr. Dlx's action is regarded re-garded as significant, as the Hamilton dele gal ion has been heretofore claimed as solid for Foraker. There was great excitement in the Foraker crimp at I o'clock this morning, when an extended interview was given of the pledging pledg-ing of Representatives Reeves of Ashtabula and Williams of Noble county to the support of Foraker. Foraker' friends claim that this insures his nomination. : r FOOLS J X OHIO ARE DOING THEIR UTMOST TO TURN DOWN JOHN SHERMAN. The Foraker Men Are Confident This Morning and t'very One Conredoa the Feet that the Content Will be a Very lose One, QtaMWr, i ., Jan. ii. The senatorial em-test em-test is reaching ;l crisis. U i believed tho close of the day will find the contest solved, but Until the house and senate caucus this afternoon is out ot the way all predictions tilt be accepted as ebullitions of enthusiastic enthusi-astic adherents of the candidates. There are about seven doubtful assemblymen assembly-men this morning and all are claimed by both candidates. The surpette of the morning was the declarations of Representatives Represen-tatives R. eves, and Williams in favor of Foraker. As a result, of these declaration the Foraker men arc very confident this morning. A visit to Sherman's headquarters failed to reveal any cheerful assurance among his followers, F.vcn hody concedes that the contest will be a close one, and it looks at this hour as though the ninety-three votes of the caucus would be so evenly divided that the victor will have a majority of less tuan half a dozen. The alliance and labor people are endeavoring endeav-oring to make an impression on Sherman, but have apparently failed. Wells of Knox declares that, he will not support Foraker, hut ill vote iu favor of McKinlcy. Alliance and labor peopie point to Heeves declaration as an evidence of an independent movement agaiust Sherman, but the friends of tho senator declare the claim of Reeves only a subterfuge to explain ex-plain away his failure to support Sherman. The house speakership contest will have an Important hearing upon the contest. The candidate-are .1 . F. Mclircw and L. (.'. Laf-lin. Laf-lin. The former is understood to represent the strength of ;shcruian in the house. The Sherman people claim for Foraker to secure the nomination on joint of tho eau-eus eau-eus by even a siugle vote, Foraker must have thirty-uine supporters in the house. Sherman is a winner by the same margin, they Insist, if he has thirty-six followers in house. The majority in the house is thirty-seven. Consequently if Latlin is elected by a bare majority Sherman's suc-' suc-' cess is beyond perodventure. If Mclircw is elected by a bare, majority Sherman's chances are not jeiyiurdied, hut if he should be elected by a margin of three or more Foraker is the coming man. It was nearly 3 o'clock before tho republican repub-lican house committee got to work. Lew is C. Layiin was nominated for speaker on the first ballot, the vote being 38 to 84. There are ominous signs for Foraker. The Situation In Uetall. Coj.um iirs, O., Jan. A It now looks as though the solution of the Ohio senatorial contest may be known to the nation in a day or two, despite the fact that the republican senatorial contest is fully ten days off. The republican members, all but about a dozen, havo already declared themselves, and as these declarations leave Senator Sherman and ex-Governor Foraker about even in fti-fiith, public anxiety is becoming in. Jiniar The. doubtful must soon, publicly declare de-clare themselves, and thus solve the contest, leaving the caucus merely a formal affair and its result only the final conclusion. The correspondent saw Senator Sherman and ex-Governor Foraker. Both expressed confidence In the result, but neither cared to give detinite ligures. The one important event of the day was tho general protest of Forakers friends against the alleged interference inter-ference of office holders of the national administration ad-ministration in the interest of Senator Slier-man. Slier-man. A visit to Senator Sherman's headquarters head-quarters found his followers disposed to make merry at the complaints of Foraker's friends of the impropriety of office holders expressing their personal preferences iu the contest. There will be ninety-three republicans In the senatorial caucus, and Sherman and Foraker each havo forty-two or forty-three voles definitely pledged. Of the eight or nine non-committal, each side makes positive claims of secret pledges from fully two-thirds two-thirds of them, but the gentlemen themselves them-selves refuse to talk. The candidates seem equally confident but neither will submit to an interview. The Farmers' alliance has not proven a very potent political factor in Ohio, but strenuous efforts are being exerted to secure the influence of the organization against the re-election of Bherman. J. H. -Mitchell, chairman of the legislative committee of the Franklin county alliance, stale- this evening that, he is here to oppose feuaior .-Herman. Senator Sherman said: "I expect the state committee of the alliance to be on hand Monday to exert their influence in the same direction." Senator Sherman's friends assert as-sert that the Farmers' alliance organization is taking no formal action iu the contest. con-test. Representative Welsh of Knox county still maintains his peculiar position in the contest, aud is hilariously endeavoring to i rente a McKinlcy boom, greatly to the embarrassment of the governor-elect He has announced positively posi-tively that he will never support Sherman, and asserts that the proper solution of the question is the election of McKinlcy. The Foraker people expect to receive his support or. the second ballot, should the, contest be prolonged to a second ballot. The. senatorial caucus w ill be held Wednesday Wednes-day night, but there is no doubt that the contest will be practically settled long before that, and the caucus be but a formality, It is generally conceded that lion, .lames Y. Neal of Butler county, chairman of the democratic dem-ocratic state committee, will receive the democratic caucus nomination. The contest unexpectedly took a sensational sensa-tional turn late last night, when Kx Governor F'oraker made a speech criticising tho interference of the national ad ministration, and declaring lor Jami I ti. Blaine for tie- pr. -id. uey. A dele-gation dele-gation of several hundred admirers called upon him asking for a speech. Foraker gracefully responded to the invitation. invita-tion. After a few laughing remarks upon general topics Foraker said: "Somebody said about three months ago that he would not scramble for re-election. It Is my Impression Impres-sion that lie ha- changed his mind. At least that is indicated by the presence in Columbus tonight, not only of all the rente-tentative rente-tentative by appointment that hold oMce within we borders of our state, but all w ho can be commanded from all the confines of the t'nited States. We have in this tight to contend, upon our side, against everything from grandfather'- hat to Baby McKec. Cheers aud Laughter. But we shall win the tight." After repeated statementa that he would win, the speaker spoke of Sherman, paying him many compliment, saying that lie had made a good senator, adding: "I have no 111 will toward any republican. - 'iu ' he favors Sherman instead of myself, I have been favoring Sherman for the past thirty years. Twice, with words of earnest commendation, com-mendation, T hay nominated him for the presidency. I never uttered one Word that 1 did not believe and not i rt word would I retract now. He has been aud is a ' great man. His record is illustrious. II, I-all I-all that Is implied by the word 'grand'. But ' If the republicans of Ohio siiould happen to take a notion ihat he has been there long enough 1 am not going to stand in the way of their so doing. Nor do I think that the result will be accepted more graciously by any one than Senator Sherman him- ft, Hut should thev decide to send flln back, 1 shall accommodate myself to the situation. |