The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-09
DENOMINATION THE TROURrn

! The Republican party is now strue-
glng IN the natfonal field with the diff
f1culty that confronts every party and
| every man who achieves great promi-
nence, in the embarrassment and i'm
proprieties which the ambition for q
second term introduces into party con-
tests The handspring of the ruction
IN OHIO, as far as the political powers
behind it are concerned, is not so much
hatred of or opposition to Mr.. Hanna
IN himself as it is to Mr.. Hanna as the
representative of a president seeking a.
second term. The first year of Mr.. Nc
kinley's tenure of office has not vet ex-
! plred, and all policies and nominations
are being shaped with reference to the
year 1900. Mr.. Hanna is in charge Of
Mr.. McKinley's campaign for renomi-
nation. The odiousi appointments for
which ne stands sponsor were made by
the president not merely as a reward
for past services, but with an eve to
political developments of the future.
| 1t is an open secret that Mr.. McKin-
ley wishes to succeed himself, and this
has at once combined against him the
most powerful political influences in
! the country. Foremost among them. of
| course, as far as Ohio is concerned. is
the political pull Of Senator Foraker.
He is in the field himself as a candi-
| date for the presidency, and, in oppos-
ing the reelection of Mr. Hanna. he is
striking at the administration In its
most vital point. He has in this the
unexpressed sympathy and silent SUD-
port of the friends of Mr. Harrison and
others whose ambition, though latent.
is none the less real. If Mr. Hanna
should be reelected senator from Ohio,
and his grip upon the party machine be
thus made permanent, the state would
of course, be held solidly in line for Mr..
Mckinley and form a great nucleus
around which the nebulae of the DO
litical powers of other districts could
be gathered easily. as they were two
years ago, by Mr.. Hanna's mastery
Kinley is to be prevented, the work
must be done at once, and the defeat
of Senator Hanna Is a prime essential.
This accounts for the invasion of the
administration into Ohio politics, as it
accounted, also, for the sending of the
secretary Of the interior to New York
city to help out the party machine.
From this tine33 therefore, we may ex-
pect the administration of affairs at
Washington to be determined directly
by those considerations that will be
most effective in procuring for Mr.. Nc
Kinley the fonged-for second term.
Great policies of state and the details
of official life will be, shaped to a con-
siderable extent, if not altogether by
their relation to the next Republican
national conventien.E This is but an
other manifestation %of an evil with
which the country has long been ia
miliar. The aspiration for a second
term in office is a power in political life
I to be deplored and to be destroyed if
possible. Those who have advocated a
constitutional amendment restricting
the incumbent of the presidential Office
to a single term have had this in mind,
and they are not without their justifi-
cation. The man who can put aside
this glittering bauble and, after last
ing the sweets Of official power conduct