The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-09

Y" forces are premature in shout
ing their capture of the neces-
sary seyenty-three votes, the public is
prepared for the news that comes from
Columbus. The expectation has been
that, in the end, the senator would
manage to win out. The opposition
apparently confesses that it erred in
letting some of its men get away from
Columbus, under the adjournment until
next Monday. That may have been a
fatal blunder: vet probable it is that, in
any event, Mr. Hanna, would have raj
lied his majority had all the Bushnell
forces been corralled over Sunday at
the state capitol. In short, If in the end
Hanna prevails. the result Will ha the
one which the large public had antiei-
pated.
As far as Mr.. Hanna Is personally
CONCERNED ii makes little odds whether
his senatorship comes with an ample
majority ar whether he saves it So as
by fire: he will be senator just the
same. A miss is as good as a mile; for
the arithmetieal purposes involved in
making up a majority. one is as good as
fwenty-one. With Mr.. Hanna's pres
fige, however, the results now foretold
in the Ohio legislature make all the
difference in the world. Heneeforth
Mr.. Hanna's halo will be a ludicrous
misfit; he cannot with propriety wear
1t. His brief experience in the senate
warrants the prediction that he will not
shine there, but il had been assumed
that using his senatorship merely as a
convenience, he would still be the power
by which, in essential things the adj
Tninistration was TO be guided
That assumption is done fort will
keep Mr.. Hanna busy to hold his own
state in line; he will not find time 10
run the politics of other states; his in
reference will not be tolerated iii them.
lie liz a power that was and, elected or
defeated under the conditions that con-
troll at Columbus. he will be a power no
longer. No sane man will claim that
Mr. Hanna's election, IL he wins this
week, is a brilliant endorsement of the
administration and its former premier,
in the presidents own state, ON the
contrary, Mr.. Hanna will be pointed
out as the man who drove John Sher-
man out, who escaped punishment for
lit by the skin OF his teeth and who
would have gone to defeat but for the
hesitation of Ohio to visit on the Nc
Kinley administration rebuke So
severe.
II this mornings predictions from
Ohio prove true, IL will be found that
the sentiment which defeated Roscoe
Conkling in 1881 saved Hanna in 1S9S
1t was the well-grounded opinion
throughout the state Of New York, in
the summer of 1881. that it never would
do for the republicans of that state 10
visit upon the Garfield administration.
lately come into power. the rebuke
which the election Of conkling. after
his petuIant resignation, would imply
That sentiment was held by many Of
Mr.. ConkIing's warm friends--under
any other conditions they would have
sxfood by him and he would have been
elected. It's the same this year In
Ohio. Manifestly many constituencies
there are moved by the same sentiment
that ii will not do for republicanism in
Ohio to visit upon the new administra-
ton the affront which Hanna's defeat
nssaa convey. Id appears that The
0mcop1e promptly raised the cry
ia. That cry may be War;
ii Is plain that in the dis
y hesitating member of the
it must be an easy matter
among the republicans The
to defeat Hanna is To slur the
alton in a manner from which
Mckinley might not hope TO