Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-12-03

Hanna is not boss. The boss in the
American political system supplies
human need which the king supplies in
other municipalities and powers. The
people of this republic expect their boss
10 rob them, to sunb Them to reyilel
them. jus as royal subjects expect dis
honor and conturnely from their king.
| i he parallel runs farther: neither
boss nor king is elected, and it would
pc as difficult to ex plain to a republican
the divine rightssof kings as to make a
monarchist comprehend the reasons for
the domination of the boss. The boss.
exists outside the actual government
of the state; the king is generally ex-
3traneous. The sovereign saws wal
ter Bage hot has under constitu-
| tional monarchy the three rights. the
right to be consulted, the right to en-
| courage and the right to warm Added
TO TINS the right to steal, and behold the
Doss Elsewhere, speaking of the mon
| archy- Bagehote has said: "It is often
said that people are ruled by their
ina glnations but it would be truer to
| say that they are governed by the
YEA kness of their Imagination The ma
| ture OF constitution, the action of an
| asse mDly, the play of parties, the I'M
! seen formation of a guiding opinion are
\ complex facts, difficult to know and
\ easy to mistake. But the action of a
/ single Will, the fiat of a Single mind are
ca sy ideas: anybody can make them
1 out and no one can ever forget them
| Hence the office of kind and the rise
| of the boss. Now every boss is thu
| founder of his own dynasty, which
/ ends with him: and he rises as tha
louhders OF az Gymnastics rise. thru
much intrigue great diplomacy, re-
/ s1iess AMBITION, unscrupulous daring
| and csaseless urlrenlitting, psrtena
| clous energy directed TO one object for
long term Of years. No king or boss
4 ever earned MS profession as a side
i and nc this para graph is written to
! 81 W 1hat as the word boss is used
| and accepted in the bright lexicon of
! l'oiltie5 today, Mark Hanna cannot be
"a boss. First, because a national boss
! IS as Impossible TO the American peo-
| Hanna mas too Well developed a sense:
isof humor 10 be boss if he would be.
As for the first proposition, weak
popular intel igence. and as a nation
Isinteiligence than is the popular a verage
OF intelligence IN. the boss-ri{lden cities
| and states. And as for the second
lprop PSI no living man with a
twinkle IN his eyes and smile teeter-s
ans on the tfres hold OF his 5count enance;
can view With composuIe the deadly,
ils1piacabie hunger for a little brief all
thority when often moves men to sell
Their souls for il. This hunger is the
lfnainspring which makes the boss a
~ In politics he who laughs al the
VS. eral scolvolutions Of the joss is lost
\ fianna has 70 laugh at these things, II
! Is ms nature to-" and when he cannot
laugh ne swears, which brings relief 70
/ sase SOU much q 6 augllter DOES
AsSt N afIol1al politics Hanna is 9.
/ slron s m an, exceptionally so He is
! el'lcienf "a IS doninantsin his party.
| = e IN MS efoininatl ION ne does not dorn7
iiees'. q e accomplish IS MS elltI, but
| OF py diplomacy, not ~ riaying upon
man. not y Il. lsoilti1is Plat bur ike
| Herod. Hanna is force, not an in-s
/ rigl1s. Parties is not his trade ne is
| a business man first and politician
. yet he IS not a siilettante;
/ politician. When he gets in tight
lsts.S - ~ s.iit -s'iisi t'tidi eleG lien ~
| lss'l, he dogs nor hight with tlls foils. bur
r9ugil ana tumble hand "a hand. ans
Wiz tubs eolnieks and o'slsr Loose
| furniture OF ne environ naet.t as the
| eify1l ma y ila We Put IN MS reach.
50 much fer VIVA may be called the
sirai1l&tis sleers9iias OF llama. Now TO
return TO the pot.
Afterst ne 81 Louis convention Hanna
PLAYED with the party machine, running
\ " at ulf speed and high I.i'sss tlre from
June till Novernb sr. Then h slipped
I the belt from the engines and let the
wheels Of the machine run down. His
ts,;ea indus trial aud financial concerns
s9n the lake We're grinding away
smoothly ard needed but half his
power His piston rods We're humping
IN MS head with nothing to hold them.
4 The throbhing and jolting OF his wild
engines must have strained his nerves
for before the world knew what had
4 happened Hanna had tipped a belt into
the United States senate. But speed in
tlla mills SLOW and the grist is light
wherefore there Is loss of power and a
wearing jar.
Hanna seems to be ten Years older
4 than he was four years ago The rudy.
terra-cotta skin that slowed with
4 health IN 1896 has faded TO an ashen8
mink. The nlobile smile that was a con-