The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-10
HOBART AND HIS HEALTH.

Many and conflicting reports have
been sent out during the past few
months concerning the health of the
vice president. Owing. to the growing
sentiment against trusts which has
carried terror to the hearts Of many
stsuneh Republicans, and has almost
convinced the party leaders that anti
trust planks will have to be inserted
into the next national platform Of the
party. u movement to shelve Mr.. Ho-
bart has begun.
How can we declaim against the
evil Of trust monopoly, they ask,
-.when our chairman, our candidate for
president and our candidate for vice
president are all representative of trust
Interests and innTences?"
They cannot get rid of Hanna, the
denomination of Mckinley is conceded,
and the only step to take in the direc-
ton Of making a ticket consistent with
an antitrust platform is tc Sidetrack
1Ioba-t. Still, MIR. Hobart isn't so bad
~ tangled up as the resi- of the ad-
rninistration is. He is only connected
parations which are said to be mo-
nopolies. He is president of the Pas
sale Water company. of the Acquacka-
monk Water company, of the Morris
county railroad and o. the Paterson
Electric Railway companies; a director
Of the New York. Susquehanna &
Western railroad and the Lehigh &
Hudson River Railroad companies. of
the First National bank OF Paterson,
OF the Paterson Savings institution,
the Barbour Brothers company, the
Barbour Flax Spinning company, the
Pioneer Silk company, the Peoples Gas
Light company and the Paterson Elec-
1ric Light company; counsel for the
East Jersey Water company, the West
Milford Water Storage company, the
NIontciair Water company and other
allied interests, and a director in the
Long Branch Water company and the
Highland Water company.
But why should Mr. Hobart be
crowded out Of the race? He is Mr..
NcKgnley's logical running mate.
With scorching irony the New York
Tribune calls attention TO these efforts
oe these Republican politicians, NOTED
for loyalty. chivalry and considerable
ness. especially toward their benefac-
tors lit viii be recalled that Mr.. Ho-
bart put up fortune as his contribu-
ton 10 the last Republican campaign
fund.-. who ''have settled to their own
satisfaction the question as to Vice
President Hobart's denomination next
year"
"They are proclaiming from the
housetops,'' says the great exponent Of /
Republicanism. that Mr.. Hobart is
hopelessly III. and wish it to be under
stood by all whom it may concern that
they have mortgage on the vice |
presidency. The motive is of course, /
one Of pure friendship for Mr. Hobart. |
Persons gifted with their fine feelings |
know that Mr.. Hobart and his family |
like 20 read that he is dying. and they |
understand how grateful he viii be to |
have his successor in the vice presi- !
dents chair selected without troubling !
him"
Our New York contemporary calls |
attention 10 the fact that Mr.. Hobart's |
physicians. not being political geniuses |
or having any especial interest in par
7isau working, take an entirely /
different view of the patients pros
poets Cor recove cry. If he survives
these stories circulated about his al /
8eged fatal illness and the publication
OF plans for his succession. he is other
wise on a fair road to recovery.
The Tribune adds: The kindly and
thoughtful politicians aforesaid have
given It cut that Mr.. Hobart wrote to
President Mckinley announcing that
nc could not accept a denomination.
Afr. Hobart says that the statement IS
Hobart wiz recover and receive a re-
nomination at the hands of his party. |