The evening times., 1900-06-16
Circulation Statement.
Alone i'm philadelphia.

In order to give the Quakers a three
days run for their money. and TO get up
little party enthusiasm over a notoriously
cut. dried, and canned affair, Mr.. Hanna
considered it necessary to raise COM
bined fog and thunderstorm over the
question of the Vice Presidential noInina-
ton at Philadelphia. He appears TO have
buiIded unwiser than he knew. He has
the fog and the storm ali right. but the
trust machinery does not operate them as
smoothly as he expected. In his own
chaste and elegant language on the floor
of the Senate. he has "a pretty lively
scrap" and an unexpected one. on his
hands.
Plat. machine boss and handy trust man
of New York. has practically declared war
upon him. Hanna has grown cold to the
others scheme for putting Theodore
Roosevelt on the Vice Presidential shelf in
the interests Of corporations who fear to
have him as Governor again. Still more,
Platt resents the Administration insist
ence upon the candidacy of Bliss, who is
about as acceptable to him as Whitelaw
Reid would be. He does not take kindly to
nomination only on condition Of swallowing
a candidate to be named from headquar-
ters in Washington. and without the least
regard for the wishes of the State delega-
tiOn. He declares that it is question OF
personal preference and favOritism. and
that Hanna and Bliss are thicker than
Damon and Pythias. So Platt gets out his
tOmahawk and proceeds to. ally himself
with another enemy Of the Hannayerian
dynasty. TO wit. Matthew Stanley Quay
Thus. il Hanna and Bliss represent the
fraternity of Damon and Pythias. the op-
position concern is linked together like
Eagan and Abner. which We should call
an equally good combination.
Bliss, it is understood and believed. is
sincere in his desire to be excused from
the sacrifice proposed to him. But he may
have to take his medicine; for while the
Platt-Quay syndicate is busy stampeding
the Convention to Roosevelt. the Hanna
Dick-G -Grosvenor team may inaugurate some
counter-stampeding. aEG carry the yirtu-
Gus and fund-prOducing Cornelius of his
feet. On the other hand should the respec-
table but not less efficient fat-frye- alb
s0lutely decline to be yictimized. the whole
strength Of the Administration may be
thrown to Dolliver. and that would be
tautamOunt to his nomination.
Both Platt and Quay would like to man
age matters in way to impress the coun-
try with the idea that Hanna is not the
whole altogether" of the trust and mo-
nopoly party, and that perhaps there may
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the machine hOnors and emoluments; but
their success in this direction is not pre-
dicable upon anything which appears on
the surface Of affairs at Philadelphia. Al
though there are things which Hanna does
and says with Gloster-like modesty in
the name and on behalf of the Emperor. ii
is humorously evident that the former is
the Empress Dowager and that Kwang-
Su is but little fat shadow locked up in
the White House for use or ornament as
occasion may require. 1t is luminously
noticeable that The name Of Mckinley is
hardly mentioned in the City Of Brotherly
Love. There the welkin rings only with
hos-hannas to McKinley's keeper. All the
Republican politicians, big and little,
black and white. grey and grizzled.' fawn
and wallow at the feet of him who holds
the mandate Of the trusts and monopolies
to run the United States as brindled COW
for their milking.
There are rare exceptions, as we have
noted. After Colonel Quay arrived in
Philadelphia yesterday, Hanna, by special
messenger, twice ordered him to appear
at National Committee headquarters An
equal number Of times the ex-senator
curtly declined to obey. Plat, of course,
has kicked over the traces; but together
these recalcitrants are but as two small
spiders in the organization pudding. They
may become danger spots on the impend-
ing campaign, but, for the purposes Of the
Convention. they are but as thirty cents
to the armor plate trust contribution
There is but one trust prophet. priest, and
king in the land, and his name is Hanna
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