The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-31
HANNA AT THE WHITE HOUSE,
Proprietor of the President Takes
Possession of His Own.

Washington dispatch to the New York
Journal: There is TO be a new lodger at
the White House distinguished roomer,
who IS tired OF the crowds at the hotels
and goes 10 live with the presidents fam
lily for the sake of quiet.
RMS distinguished guest is Senator Mar
Gus Hanna of Ohio. The exceptional and
distinguished honor of being invited into
the presidents family is not to be lightly
appreciated. Indeed, it is pointed out
here in Washington that the honor done
the senator from Ohio is one rarely before
paid to man in public life. not a federal
aDDointee or relative of the president 5
family.
Mr.. Hanna, of course. is neither. If he
were d federal appOintee, holding conf
Dental relations with the president which
required frequent and intimate consulta-
ton between the two, it would be per
fectly natural for the president TO wish
TO have him within reach.
Having made Mr.. Mckinley president
and feeling proprietary interest in him
and all the perquisites of the Office, the
senator doubtless feels that if anybody
has right to make himself at home in
the White House. he is the man. In point
of fact. when the stress of office-seekers
preyed heavily upon his nerves early in
the history of the Mckinley administra-
ton, he packed up and moved into the
White House for refuge. He had pc
Rod of enjoyable rest then, and he now
goes back for a second trial
Now there's a new and even more reso-
lutte crowd of patronage-hunters dogging
Senator Hanna 5 heels-the product of the
late Ohio campaign. and as MANY of them
are said to hold the senator's fast promise
of help in consideration for faVors done in
the hard Ohio fight. his reason for taking
refuge in the White House is particularly
urgent at this time. The Ohio men who
are here to claim their reward make
small army, and their persistence is of the
famous quality of Ohio politicians. They
have been haunting the senator's no.
tel and making life one long nightmare
for him
Senator Foraker is making it hard for
Senator Hanna to keep his promises. and
rather than face his constituents with the
confession that II is not easy to land
them, Senator Hanna is seeking to avoid
them. Anonyed by their persistence he
has moved from pillar to post lately The
senator had his stopping place at the Ar
lington for some time. and avoided the
hundreds of callers by refusing to re-
ceive cards there. All politicians were re-
ferred TO his office, but, not to be outwit-
ted by this wise Ohio conception. they lay
in wait for the senator as he passed to
and fro for his meals. He next took up
his abode at the home of Secretary Bliss.
but the otfice-hunters got scent of him
there. too
Old Washingtonians who appreciate the
singularly exceptional honor paid Senator
Hanna congratulate him upon being able
to lodge in the White House when he tires
of other more accessible places. He will
be grit about with watchful officials who
will stand like an outer wall between him
and the outer world. and he Will enjoy the
rest which he has earned in his hard, hot
fight, just ended.
There are old heads here, experienced
in the lore of the White House. and none
of these can recall a time when a man
who had made a president went TO the
White House to live with him. Mr.. Han
mas is a great privilege. When his days
work Is over. he can retire behind the
walls of the White House and enjoy abso-
lutte rest and quiet. At night he can en-
joy confidential chats with the president
cArr in md hnt
retire to a night of dreams on the bed on
which the Prince of Wales slept when he
visited Washington 1t is a luxurious
ing adjoining the library. The president
sleeps in a room on the opposite side of
the hall, one room further west