The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-09
HANNA ON ROOSEVELT.
Gives Him Advice on Speaking -
Wants Him to Wear Silk Hat.

New York Herald Correspondence
Governor Roosevelt was met in the
Cleveland station by Senator Hanna's
private secretary, who drove with him
to the senator's home, Glenmere, where
they had breakfast.
The governor and Senator Hanna
drove to the national ehairman's busi-
ness office, in Superior street. where they
talked over campaign plans with Col
onel Nyron T. Herrick, one of the presi-
dents advisers. All had luncheon at
the Union club before the governor left
for Canton
Governor Roosevelt carried away
from Cleveland new volume of Nc
Kinley's speeches, including all those
made by the president since he entered
the White House. The book was the
gift of Senator Hanna, who had it pub
lished. On the fly leaf he wrote:
ITO Governor Roosevelt with the
compliments Of NJ A. Hanna, July 6,
1soO,''
material there
sRoosevelt's speeches do not cover a
wide feld.'' it was suggested
mo" said Mr.. Hanna. He wants to
get more facts Now there's Lodges
speech on the Philippines, and Spooner's
too. Those are good things for him to
look up
the governor had been reading all the
way to Oklahoma and return was
Plutarch's Lives, turning occasionally
to Swinburne and poetry or new
novel.
Hes got to look after his voice. the
senator went on Il told him this morn
ing that the first thing for him to do
when he got to New York was to go to
a specialist and have his throat looked
after He's all talked out He can't
keep that up through the campaign. 1
told him he must learn how to use his
voice Gcientific9llV
Now, there is Mckinley He is
master. There, in '94, after he had
his last speech, at Youngstown, was
the best he had made.
Teddy is an impetuous speaker.
He gets all worked up in his subject.
he ought not to do that, because that
gives him a chance to rest.
Ned Wolcott is like that. He can't
keep up with his thoughts. Down at
PHILADELPHIA when he was making his
speech, he came back to look at his
notes and said to me, This IS the worst
hall I ever spoke in. I can't reach
them I told him to talk slower, not
to raise his voice SO high He did and
afterward some friends of mine who
were in the back part of the hall told
me they could hear him very plainly" :"
Where are you going to send the
GOVERNOR" Mr. Hanna was asked.
You can see that his place is west
of the Missouri Mr.. Hanna answered,
but suppose We'll send him all over
the country. They want him every
where.
HE has put himself entirely in my
hands. All requests for speeches hell
turn over to me. That's the right way,
of course, for you can have only one
manager in a campaign
He'll have to go back to New York
| to take a run through the state. and
| then come west again Teddy you
know, is the star attraction in this per-
| formance.
but his clothesl" the senator went
on, throwing up his hands. why.
when he came into the convention at
Philadelphia in that old coat and Rough
! Rider hat I turned to Lodge and said
! Teddy ought to be spanked.
Now, that's all right out west.
| Teddy is strong in the west. He likes
| that kind of life-lived out there on a
ranch himself for while-but he's the
| governor of New York state.
Now, if I was running hin1-if I was
running him, I would make him wear
silk hat. But what can you do with
| Teddy ?''