Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-09
PENALTY OF FAME.
Mark Hanna Cannot Answer
Calls on His Time.
Popularity as a Leader Of His Party
Causes Him All This.
And His Troubles from 0nicssseksrs Nave
Not Yet Begun.

Washington, March s.-(Special).-Of
all the big men Of the Republican party
brought to the national capital to witnes,
the Inauguration and participate In the re
organization Of the government depart
ments Mark Hanna Is, without any ques
tion, the biggest. Mr.. Hanna Is paying
the penalty of fame. He is wanted by ev
cry one. At his hotel people stand in line
waiting for q chance to enter bis room and
confer with him about official appoint
| ments. Mr. Hanna tries to see every one,
His good nature Is greater than his
strength. He promptly informs all callers
that it is not his business to parcel out the
offices; that is President McKinley's af.
fair. But, as chairman of the national
committee, IL is generally recognized to be
his duty to help winnow the wheat from
the chaff and to see that men who are en-
titled to consideration for their party serv-
ices are given chance to present their
claims in good season.
Hanna IL Very Tired.
Mr.. Hanna has achieved his ambition
and become senator Of the United States
This is u very happy day for Mr.. Hanna
He has seen his protege escorted to the
White House by a triumphant throng, and
he himself is entitled to sit among the
elect in the American house Of lords. These
are fine trophies for one man to wear, q
man who but few years ago was un-
known In our politics outside his own
state. But Mr.. Hanna has won these VIC
tories and achieved this high place at q
frightful cost. He ie really very tired
man. have never seen in public or pri-
waite life man who needs rest as much as
he does, and il Mr.. Hanna s physician does
not insist upon his giving up work and
worry for a time and devOting himself
wholly to tho task Of recuperatinR his
strength should not be surprised to sec q
total collapse. Mr.. Hanna has been under
tremendous strain for more than year.
The campaign for McKinley's nomination
really began two or three years ago, active
~. 1t had its start at the Minneapolis con-
vention Of 1892, but for the last two years
Mr.. Hanna, as its organizer, has thought
or talked Of little else.
There was the campaign for the nomina,
ton. After that had been won the na.
tional campaign came on, with five months
OF the most arduous and trying labor thar
any man ever performed. How Mr.. Hapna
struggled and toiled and worried and car
ried point after point and put up his big
broad shoulders and supported terrible
burden Of responsibility no one but him
self and ono or two friends knows. When
the election was over, it was supposed he
would get little rest. He certainly was
entitled to it. But not so. He has worked
almost as hard since election day as he did
before. His office at Cleveland has been
the Mecca of office seekers. He usually
found so men waiting for him when he
reached his desk, and by nightfall the
number had not diminished.
Leadership In the Senate.
There is a good deal of curiosity as to |
how Mr.. Hanna will get along in the sen.
ate. Some there are who predict he will |
run afoul of senatorial traditions; that hcI
will not have sufficient respect for the ira |
ditions of that honorable body; that he /
will try to become a leader too rapidly. One
and a very prominent Republican,
senator he is, said to me: mir Hanna is u
great man. He has had wonderful success.
But he has been in the habit Of running a /
regular military campaign. He has issued
his orders like general in the field, and
they have been obcyed. 1t will not do for
him to trv those tactics IN tho sara+o Tho,
will fail In the senate Won rrow ~
equality Of men il str;cf,v racosn;ya1
Here the tradition ;s that every ~ e - ~,
pry Others eonal. Thincs are acco,nr,;shs,,
by mutual concessions Tho un,r-;..e,,
law is that when n collision comes ~, one
man ssys IN ria other .YnI, v,aId . I;+t,.
will Weld n little. and we viii A, - mn
No leadershin IN the sense in which tha+
ERIN Is apnlied q possihle in the senate
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