The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-06-14
THE '96 TICKET
FOR NEXT YEAR
Senator Hanna Expresses
the Belief That MCKin.
ley and Hobart Will
Be Selected
Again.

"Iam not the Republican National Con-
yention." said Mark A. Hanna to report.
err 'and SO oannot say positively that
Mckinley aId Hobart will be renonina ated
next year. But believe they will be re-
nominated. Ispent Sunday with Mr.. Ho.
bart, at Long Branch, and am glad to be
able to report that he 10 rapidly regaining
his health. and that he soon hopes to be
In excellent physical condition"
Asked conCerning the frequently repeat
cd statement that Mr. Hobart had decided
to Withdraw from aotive political life
Senator Hanna said he was certain that
MIR. Hobart himself never authorized any
such utement.
Mr.. Hobart suffered from i'll health for
period" he sn!d, "but it was nothing
serious, and the prospects are that he will
party ia In fine condition. Thero Is only
one faction In it,, ard that Ia the whole
party"
"Will the platform adopted by the next
national convention contain IN antitrust
plank9"
4he Senator was silent for moment,
and then he said:
'Tbe term trustsis very bad one. The
Republican parry Is opposed to bad trusts.
plank indicating antag0nism to trusts.
That Is our position out there. and l he
lieve 1t is In accord with the Republic
party In every State in the Union"
In reference 10 the recent &C ion Of the
President in taking 5000 places out uf the
Civil Service rules, Senator Hanna said:
This action was taken to remedy cer-
tain defect' in the order issued by Presi-
don't Cleveland, u few days prior to his re-
tirsment. Under that order thous ands of
confidential plao,s were made kubjecL to
civil service regulations. That resulted in
a lot of Democratic spies being found in
every branch of the Federal Government"
The Repu blcan party, by II vote Of the
people was declared responsible for the
conduct of the Government for tho next
four years. The Cabinet officers and heads
of departments agreed that they could not
be held responsible with thousands of
spies ut their elbowe. After trying the
order for nearly three years they gave it
up and tho President Issued the now Or
DER
Report says that ten thousand places
wore In tho exempt class. Does that mean
that the President held that ten thousan nd
places were confidential"
mo. Only four thousand were affected
by the Presidents order"
Senator Hanna denied that these exelnp-
tions were made for the purpose of
strengthening his hands Ia his own State.
Auy such statement as that was ''all fool
ishnes:."
In reply to question, the Senator said:
"Do think Colonel Bryan will be the
Democratic opponent Of President Mckin-
1ey1 l thought so until Two months ago.
Since then have doubts. Who viii! bs
nominated by the Democrats? We'll, l soc
Senator German is n candidate, Whether
he will be nominated or not l cannot pre-
dict, not being In the confidence Of the
Democratic leaders,?
"Will you remain chief of the Repub-
liGan National Comm and conduct tho
canvass of t9l0?'
Il will remain as chairman until the
expiration of my present term, ii am in
good health and the National Committee
re-clect me shall gladly retain the chair
maHship.
1.-THE hinges Of my knee are In very bad
shape. do not know what the doctors
callit. But am just now such Grip le
that they have advised me to go to AiXlcs-
Bains and take the baths. sail on We'd
nesday with my family. ] am worked out
too. When l return in September expect
to be as good as new."