The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-03-12
THEY ALL WANT HANNA
He Is the Biggest Man In the
Republican Party.
AND HE is PAYING THE PENALTY.
Speculations as tn How He VIII Get Along
In the senate-The Bible Upon Which
President Mckinley Took the Oath Fur
nished by African NJ. L. Bishops.

| WASHINGTON. March 9.-[Special. ]-Of
all the big men of the Republican party
brought to the national capital to witness
| the inauguration and participate in the
reorganization of tho government depart
| ments, Mark Hanna is without any ques-
tion the biggest. Mr. Hanna is paying the
| penalty of fame He is wanted by every
one. At his hotel people stand in line
| waiting for a chance to enter his 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 Is affair
| But as chairman of the national commit
tee it is generally recognized to be his duty
to help winnow the wheat from the chntf
and to see that men who are entitled to
| consideration for their party services are
| given a chance to present their claims IN
| good season.
| Hanna Is Very Tired.
| Mr.. Hanna has achieved his ambition
| and become senator of the United States
| This is very happy day for Mr.. Hanna
| He has seen his protege escorted to the
White House by 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 a few years ago was
| unknown in our politics outside his own
| state But Mr. Hanna has won these
victories and achieved this high place at q
| frightful cost. He is really very tired
man. l have never seen in public or pri-
vate life n man who needs rest as much as
he docs, and if Mr.. Hanna's physician does
not insist upon his giving up work and
| worry for a time and devoting himself
| wholly to the task of recuperating his
strength, should not be surprised to see
| 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
| ly. 1t had its start at the Minneapolis
convention of 1892, but for the last two
years Mr.. Hanna, as it's organizer, has
thought or talked of little else.
There was the campaign for the nomina-
ton. After that had been won the nation
al campaign came on, with five months of
| the most arduous and trying labor that
any man ever performed, How Mr.. Hanna
struggled and toilcd and worried and car
| ried point after point and put up his big,
broad shoulders and supported a terrible
burden of responsibility no one but himself
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 us 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 di.
minished.
Leadership In the Senate.
There is q good deal Of curiosity as to
how Mr.. Hanna will get along in the sem
ate. Some there are who predict he will
run afoul of senatorial traditions; that he
will not have sufficient respect for the ira
ditions of that honorable body; that he will
try to become a leader too rapidly. One
senator, and very prominent Republican
senator he is, said to me- MIR. Hanna is q
great man. He has had wonderful sue
cess. But he has been in the habit of run
ming regular military campaign. He has
issued his orders like general in the field,
and they have been obeyed, 1t will not do
for him to try those tactics in the senate.
They will fail. In the senate, you know.
the equality Of men is strictly recognized.
Here the tradition is that every man is ev
cry others equal. Things arc accomplish.
ed by mutual concessions. The unwritten
man says to the other, You yield little,
will yield little, and we will fix it up.
No leadership in the sense in which that
term is applied is possible in the senate
Even Mr.. Allison, Mr. Aldrich, Mr.. Cor
man. Mr.. Quay, who are the actual leaders
of the senate, do not try to govern. They
coax and smooth and use soft methods. -
All of which is no doubt true. But in
my opinion Mr. Hanna will easily accom-
modate himself to the circumstances. If
he keeps his health, he will soon become
one of the most influential men in the sen
ate by following the very methods which
the senate insists upon. l know Mr.. Han
ma pretty well. and i know him to be u
most adaptable man. He can use the arts
OF flattery and softness and persuasion as
well as any man. At any rate his career
in the upper branch will be watched with
great interest
Bumps on the Moon.
There can be no doubt that Mr. Hanna's
troubles have only just begun. The office
seekers will poster the life out of him. In
addition he looks upon himself as respon-
sible to great degree for the success of
the Mckinley administration. The prompt
passage of the tariff bill is his great mis-.
sion To this he will bend all his energies.
In this task his bed will not be one Of
roses. There are thousand difficulties i'm
the way. As one old senator expressed 1t.
Mr.. Hanna set out to capture the moon
He got it, but now he finds there are
bumps on it.
Major Mckinley took the oath of office
upon a Bible furnished him by the bishops
of the African M E. church 1t was q
gorgeous affair, made specially for the oc-
casion In bindcry at Cincinnati. The
covers were inlaid with gold and silver
To many in the vast audience which as
sembled at the east front of the capitol
there seemed to be something peculiarly
fitting that the representatives of the once
downtrodden race should furnish the Bible
on which u new president took the oath of
his Office. But the judges and officers or
the supreme court were not pleased that
the bishops were permitted TO furnish the
book. This is one of their prerogativcs
and has been from time immemorial
George Washington was sworn in the first
timc by the secretary of congress, but after
that the chief justice or justice of the su.
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