The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-13
PoL1TICAIf NOTES AND GOSSIP.

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days OF many-quiet but earnest consu!ta-
lions at the White House. The report /.
given out there that the Vice Presidential
question surpassesl everything in point Of
interest to Mr.. Mckinley and his advisers
Senator Hanna. tits observed. has been a
daily caller for the past week. Indeed. he
visits the White House two or three times
every day. and. of course. he has had the
! right Of way over all other callers. Sem
ators Allison and Fairbanks are notably
| frequent callers at present. At one time
yesterday Messrs. Hanna, Allison, and
| Fairbanks were in consultation with the
President quite a while together. Mr.
| Hanna went first and stayed last. He ar
rived few minutes after 10 a. m. and re-
NAMED until after all Of the Cabinet Of
ficers had arrived for a meeting. Neither
he nor either OF his conferees, however.
| could be induced to give the slightest
| fnkling as to what conclusion as to the
Vice Presidency has been reached. Sem
ator Fairbanks positively declines to talk
about his own relations to the Vice Presi-
| Dental nomination. Some of his friends
on yesterday. though. declared that Mr..
Fairbanks no longer was being considered
| for the second place on the ticket. 1t was
| noted yesterday by all beholders with d
great deal Of interest that Senator ALI
sons health and vivacity continue to
amaze his colleagues. Although seventy
one years old. and with almost snow white
| hair and beard. Mr.. Allison still moves
| with the ease and buoyancy Of young
athlete. It was remarked yesterday when
they were seen together that though Sem
ator Fairbanks Is only forty Eight years Of
age. he appears almost as old as Senator
Allison The lndianan. by the way. left
Washington last night for Delaware, Ohio.
to be present at the commencement exer.
cises Of the Wesleyan University there, OF
which he Is an alumnus.
Hanna on woodrun.-"AlI I can state
positively is that that fellow Jimmie
Woodruff will not be nominated Thus
spoke the Hon. Mark Hanna to close
friend who called on him yesterday and
asked him for something ION the inside"
OF the Vice Presidential situation. The
friend very frankly avowed that the OBJ
5ect Of his enquiry was to prepare the
groundwork for wagers which he desired
to lay on the only uncertain, feature OF
the Republican National Convention. It
will be observed that Mr.. Hanna called
the Lieutenant Governor of New York
that fellow Jimmie Woodruff" Not
Governor Woodruff. or Timothy. or Tim.
but Jimmie" Is the way Mr.. Hanna twists
the name contemptuously OF a not I'M
worthy young Republican who has had the
hardihood to aspire to the Vice Presidency
without saying by your leave" to Mr..
Hanna 1t is stated by divers and sundry
persons in a position to know whereof
they speak that Governor Woodruff is Mr..
Hanna's bette noir, which. in French, Is
about as bad as thing can get to be.
Mr.. Mckinley is supposed to share the dis
like of Woodruff which the Presidents
political manager SO frankly avows. And
yet there is ample testimony to the fact |
that Mr.. Woodruff has tried to be good. |
The truth is that Woodruff's aggressive |
candidacy for the tail Of the ticket has |
caused both Mr.. Hanna and Mr.. Mckinley |
great deal more trouble than they bar
gained for when they set out in search OF
running mate. The first thing Mr.. |
Woodruff did which aroused the ire OF
the President and Mr.. Hanna was to run
the Hon. Elihu Root out of the race.
Early in December 1t was strongly be-
lieved in Administration circles that every
thing easily could be arranged to make
the Secretary of War. who avowedly vas
put in the Cabinet to handle the affairs
of the new insular possessions more ar
tistically than they had been handled by
the awkward General Alger. the successor
of the late Carrot A. Hobart. who was an
official after Mr. Hanna's and Mr.. McKin-
ley's own hearts. If that fellow Jimmie"
Woodruff had kept dscreetly quiet it Is
believed the foxy Mr.. Platt could have
been reconciled to Mr.. Root. despite the
old time animosity between them. But
Woodruff refused to keep quiet, and the
result OF his activity and noissfhas upset
one of the most cherished schemes of the
special interests upon whose support Mr..
Mckinley reelection mainly depends.
No WONDER therefore, that the ambitious
and pleasant-mannered Mr.. Woodruff is
Mr. Hanna's bette noir.
Mr.. GOrham on the OutlOOk.-The
Hon. George C. Gorham. for SO many years
Secretary Of the Senate. and who up TO
1896 was one of the strongest Republicans
in the country, gives it as his opinion
that even II the Democrats should refrain
from voting next November Mr.. Mckinley
would not be reelected. The inference ,
rom Colonel Gorham's talk is that in that
event either the Hon. Eugene Debs or the
Hon. Wharton Barker would be the next {
President OF the United States. my cor,
is extensive. representative. | {
and frequent with all sections Of the | {
said Colonel Gorham to Times | ;
reporter, "and believe l am telling you | {
he truth when l say that il the election |
we're held tomorrow my old friend. Mr..
Mckinley, would not carry half a dozen
States. Let's see. Yes. he would carry
Rhode Island. Massachusetts,. New Hamp- s
shire. and Vermont. / feel certain he {
would get these States. Maine. though {
would be doubtful. Now. II anybody can I
hat 9TH init Mr. ioIa f-
ure to carry will be very much obliged 1
have given you the complete list of safe c
Republican States at this moment, and I {
lon't know but that some OF these l have I
placed in the Mckinley column will turn c
,p missing in November. / have been /
national campaigns for a good c
many years and II the Democrats can't
weep the country this year they would 6
letter go out OF business and turn the job |
4 fighting the Republicans over to some +
ody else" v
Kcrens in Trouble.-The Hon. Dicl, @
lerens who has been Deputy President i
Dr. Missouri during the past three years !.
robably will be beaten out Of that not al .
ogether enviable job at the Philadelphia I
invention. 1t may be well to explain that
lie member for Missouri of the Republican Z Z
'ational Committee is Deputy President r
,r that State when there is a Republican /,
the White House. Colonel Kerens has 1,
hard fight on his hands for reelection "
5 national committeeman. 1t appears I,
lat the Hon. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, who a
,rmed the Glass Trust and was then sue r.
,ssfully made Ambassador to Russia and n
ecretary of the Interior by Mr.. Mckinley. &
.eps to be hankering after Colonel Ker- 81
IS place. Mr.. Hitchcock never had a II