Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1897 — NOTABLE OPINIONS. [ARTICLE]

NOTABLE OPINIONS.

SENATORS TALKON THE HANNAf ' OHIO QUESTION. they Believe that the Legislators Elected on the Republican Ticket in Ohio Are in Honor Bound to Vote for Hanna for Senator. Won’t Go Back on Hanna. Special Washington correspondence: The various statements which have been published in leading papers of the country indicating that members elected to the Ohio Legislature are likely to refuse to vote for Senator Hanna, after instructions of State and county conventions in his behalf, is leading members of Congress, irrespective of party, to some frank expressions upon this subject. Senator Carter, discussing this subject to-day, said: “In my opinion it would be for the good of the republic to amend the Federal constitution by providing for the elections of Senators in Congress by popular vote. The nearest approach to the enactment of the popular will with reference to a Senatorial candidate has been obtained through the designation of the intended Senator by the State convention, constituting the highest authority of the party and the people who compose it within the State. The Ohio State convention having clearly placed Mr. Hanna before the people as the candidate of the Republican party for the Senate, thereby deprives every Individual elected on the Republican ticket to

the Legislature of every semblance of right to exercise individual choice in defiance of the party wish, as clearly expressed by the election.” Senator Mason, of Illinois, said: “I do not believe there is perfidy enough to induce one Republican to vote against Mr. Hanna for Senator. Every Republican in the Legislature is Instructed to vote for him, and to violate that instruction would be such a betrayal of party trust as to put the betrayer outside the pale of civilized politics. It would be exactly the same as if he had been sent to the Electoral College to vote for McKinley, and then, under some pretense of personal disappointment, had voted for Bryan. I am proud, as an American citizen, to say that no such person has ever been found In American history on either side or In any party, and they will not find him in Ohio.” Senator Burrow’s said: “I give no credence whatever to the newspaper reports from Ohio that the Republican Legislature will not select and return Senator Hanna to the United States Senate. First, he was indorsed unanimously by the State convention, which amounts tacitly to an Instruction to the Legislature from the highest possible political organization in the State. Hanna led the fight for the party for the whole ticket, and won a high place in the affections of the people of Ohio and of the country for his splendid campaign, and I cannot believe that any Republican member of the Legislature will disobey the instructions of the party or fall to recognize the splendid service of the Senator. I am confident he will be re-elected by the solid Republican vote. Any other result w'ould overthrow the Republican party in Ohio for a quarter of a century, and do incalculable harm to the party at large.” Senator Fairbanks said: “I cannot believe there Is any foundation in fact for the report that, there Is to be any opposition within the Republican party to the return of Senator Hanna to the Senate. His indorsement by legislative conventions and by the State convention and by the Republican press of the State was unqualified and enthusiastic. He has made a campaign characterized by exceptional bitterness on the part of the opposition, and in all fairness he should now enjoy the fruits of the victory he has won.” A. B. CARSON. A Work of Supererogation. Never was there less cause of apprehension of radical changes to tariff legislation than now. The majority of the people of the United States, regardless of party or of Southern or Northern residence, now are protectionist at heart. The Democratic platforms may denounce “Republican protection,” but the denunciation Is likely to be, for the next six years at any rate, a work of supererogation. It will be long before the people again elect a Democratic President and give him a Democratic Congress to enact his theories. —Chicago Inter Ocean. Better Make It Unanimous*. Only the wealthy can now afford to buy imported carpets, rugs and tapestries.— Leavenworth (Kan.) Standard. Very well; then don’t buy them. If you cover your floors with American carpets and rugs and your walls with American tapestries, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you are getting far better value for your money than if you bought Imported goods. With the single exception of oriental rugs, which are made to Asia chiefly

by woman and girls who receive 10 to 15-cents a day In wages, there Is no need to buy a dollar’s worth of carpeting from abroad. No one knows this better than the wealthy, who are among the best patrons of the American carpet looms. They know what Is good, and they buy it. About 75 per cent, of the carpets used In America are made In America. Better add the remaining 25 per cent, and make It unanimous.