The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-01-11
The WEAKNESS OF Mr.. Hanna.
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The Hon. Marcus Aurelius Han
ma, United States Senator from
Ohio and chairman Of the Repub-
lican national committee, is weary
Of the greatness with which he
says, he has been clothed. He de-
clares that he is extremely tired Of
having his "fool friends" in Ohio
and elsewhere represent him to be
the "whole thing" in Republican
national politics. He Is disgusie ed
with his famous Sunday school
class of Office seekers at The Ar
lington. He resents being made to
appear as chief dictator to the
president, high ruler of the senate,
supreme manipulation of congress,
omnipotent dispenser of jobs and
sublime boss of the universe In
general. He would drop it all and
pose simply as statesman and
senator from Ohio.
Without violating any conf
dence, it may be said that for some
time most Republicans have also
been afflicted with this same tired
feeling. Believers in telepathy
will probably say that Mr.. Hanna's
present mental condition is but the
relex of the ideas entertained by
several millions of his fellow coun-
trymen. Without the least desire
to detract from MIR. Hanna's un-
deniable merits or to minimize in
any way his undoubted services TO
the Republican party, it may be
conceded that there has been for
some time belief that he is by no
means the whole Republican party,
or the greatest man in the country.
The effort of Mr.. Hanna's "fool
friends" and OF certain "fool" news
papers to represent him as a czar-
pope of party politics has produced
in the minds of his fellow citizens
WEAKNESS even greater than that
which now overwhelms the Hon.
Marcus Aurelius.
This feeling was not, and is not,
that which afflicted the ancient
Greek, who "rustling heard in
every breeze the laurels of Miltiad-
es" for no one envied the Hon.
Marcus Aurelius the notoriety
thrust upon him. 1t was, and is,
simply the feeling which affiicts
the average American when any
one is set up as the infallible mold
er of opinion to save him the trouble
of forming his own judgements.
The WEAKNESS of the Hon. Mar
Gus Aurelius is promising and COM
mendable. He appears to have at
last discovered that statesmen are
not made by newspaper advertis-
ing, nor by the adulation of inju-
diclous friends, nor by the mere
possession Of certain amount OF
money, nor even by the manifesto.
ton of ability to manage the de.
tails of a political campaign. His
desire to be regarded merely as
one of the senators from Ohio, pos
essing no more influence upon ma
tional affairs than his senatorship
and his qualities confer upon him,
argues we'll for his future public
usefulness.
Mr.. Hanna is an excellent busi-
ness man, OF sound judgement and
great industry. If he will resolve
to resist the Establishments of his
"fool friends" and attend strictly to
his business as senator from Ohio,
he may yet be accorded respectable
rank as statesman. There have
been, and still are, senators who
have won recognition as statesmen
with no greater native ability than
Mr.. Hanna's. Let Mr.. Hanna once
repulse all suggestions that he 10
"the whole thing" let him devote
his attention to his subsidy bills
and other more or less meritorious
measures, let him give the people
chance to forget the greatness
thrust upon him, and he and the
country will soon recover from the
WEAKNESS which today afflicts his
own soul and a few million others.
In Congress.