Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1900-11-02
POLITICAL DROMlOs.
Roosevelt's Double Found In
Mark Hanna.
BLUsrBRBR OF THE FIRST WIND.

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He Has Been Transformed INTO n
Bragsar and HurIer of Billings
rate-AHiictcd With q Bad Case or
Timber Jaw.
A few weeks ago the cowboy govern
Or of New York started out on the
political warpath with a series OF
blood curdling yells,. such as put TO
flight the Spanish armies in Cuba and
which he expected would throw the
Democrats into hopeless confusion and
panic. But his ludicrous antics n
foolish denunciations frightened the
Il pubiicans instead of the Democrats,
and DR.. Hanna was called in TO lower
his temperature and to reduce his
tongue action to the normal rate or
speed. Although the JOB was not an al
together successful one, it was as good
as could have been expected consider
ing the subj. ct, and the Republican
party breathed a sigh of relief at the
thought that Teddy's wild western
tongue would wag more gently for the
rest of the campaign. But from DR..
Hanna's own recent utteranceS 1t
would seem that in reducing the pro-
portions of Teddy's tongue he must
have grated a considerable bit of it on
his own.
There is scarcely any other theory
which can account for the complete
49,, o,for,oof;OV rx-bgaf. hoe faEon nlaNn
in him recently. From q shrewd, crafty
AMI comparatively quiet political man
ager, whose actions spoke louder than
his words, he has suddenly become n
political braggart and blusterer of the
first water, or, rather, Of the first wind,
with an irrepressible desire to be talk
ing and posing all the time.
All the silent, oily, Hannaesque quail
tiles have disappeared, and all the
Rooseveltian characteristics of fierce
bravado and unmitigated contempt for
his adversaries have taken their place.
1t might almost be Roosevelt in Han
mas clothes. He is eager to crate, he is
dying to meet his opponents on the
stump. he fairly rushes into the arms
OF every interviewer who comes along,
and he fairly o~ut-Teddies Teddy as a
hurler of epithets and invectiye. In
fact, we have in DR.. Hanna and his
impatient patient two political Dromios
whom it is difficult to distinguish apart
except when they are labeled and who
are furnishing the amusement features
Of the campaign to the Democrats. The
Democratic party has a right to think
itself lucky when the Republican IL
tional convention presented it with
Teddy. but a special prayer Of thanks
giving seems demanded When the gods
send them a second Roosevelt In the
person of the once polite and unctuous
Hanna.
No Democrat can read his recent
speeches and the utterances In his
Cleveland interview without a feeling
of sincere gratitude to the manager of
the Republican national campaign. IL
he will only continue on this line until
election day. he will go down IN polit-
ical history as one of the most efficient
allies Of Democracy. His elegant de-
nunciation of Mr.. Bryan as IAN ass" is
an overwhelming piece of logic that
will convert many doubtful voters,
while the humOr Of his description of
the Democratic nominee as "a man
burning up with the desire to hold Of
flee" will appeal irresistibly to the risi-
bilities Of the whole nation. especially
when he adds: Democratic politicians
all over the country are promising
party workers all kinds Of positions. l
don't know how many cabinet posi-
tons Bryan has promised, but | guess
he will have to create several new
places if he expects to make good his
promises"
There was a time not so long ago
when DR.. Hanna himself was said to
have such a burning desire for office
h 4 he had money to burn which he
did burn in order to get, it. and, ac-
cording to current reports, there is
such a burning desire at present on the
part of DR.. Hanna and his friends to
hold on to office that they are feeding
the political furnaces with all the
greenbacks and other highly combusti-
bic fuel they can lay their hands on.
II MIR. Bryan were to continue the Dol-
icy of DR.. Hanna's friend Mckinley,
he would not have to create any new
places to make good campaign prom
ises. Mr.. Mckinley has already ere
ated' several" and they are "all
kinds of positions" so that 1t would
be easy to satisfy all varieties of taste.
But one of the very best things that
DR.. Hanna said Of Mr.. Bryan was con-
tanned in the concluding paragraph Of
his interview:
In regard to Bryan's and Croker's
claims that there is no opportunity for
the young men of the country, that is
too utterly ridiculous to discuss seri-
ously. Bryan is not very old. yet he
seems to be pretty successful notwith-
standing the fact that he is an Office
seeker and has no visible means of
support He seems to be able to get
enough to live on very comfortably"
To sheer at a mai because he is poor
and liken him to a tramp because he
makes a modest living by the honest
exercise 0f his iu+ollooX ;-