Woodruff County news., 1901-07-18
HANNA AND THE PRESIDENCY.
The Ohio Boss Can Have the NOm- fnatiOn If He Is Disposed
 to Want It.

When the mention of MT. Hanna in connection with the presidency was hrst made, he was inclined to treat it as joke. He may have been honest in so regarding it, or he may have been testing the popular feeling, to see how the suggestion would "take." In either event Mr. Hanna has ceased to joke about the matter. Very probably, the more he thinks about it, the better be likes the idea. He would be strange man, if he were not proud to be even suggested as possible candi- date for president of the United States; and Mir. Hanna is not of the shy, shrinking sort of Americans-if there are any such Americans-who would feel utterly disqualified to fill so high an office. MT. Hanna, whatever his limitations, is a sanguine, ener- getic, practical man, and he would look upon the presidency of the United States very much as he would look upon the presidency of a great trust, in the modern sense of the word; as just the place for a skilled combiner md organizer and man of business.
 Such being the proba ble attitude of MT. Hanna himself what of his chances? It is early yet, but unless the conditions change greatly who has better chance for the republican nomination? Who has half as good grip on the machinery of the repub- llcan party? Who else is so close to the big business men and corporations that virtually control the machinery and the candidate-making process of the republican party? To whom would the Mckinley administration be so likely to throw it's aid as to Mr. Hanna, if he should see a chance to win and decide to make a canvass?
 MT. Hanna will not be receptive candidate" in case he should enter the race. He will not hunt for delegates with brass band. but neither will he sit still and expect delegates to come
 to him by some mysterious process of gravitation or natural attraction He will organize his canvass, as thor oughly and as systematically as he
 organized the Mckinley delegate hunt
 of S96, and before the other candidates
 know it, he will have the field to him SUI, ass uiilISs tndb IS. that there sh0uid be reaction within the repub- lican party lines against Mckinley ism, from which Mr. Hanna could hardly disassociate himself, even did he so desire.
 The chances are that Hon. NJ. A. Hanna is not worrying about his abil- ity to get the republican nomination, if he really wants it. He has never
 failed, so far, to get about all he want ed, and he knows the power of or
 ganization, machine discipline and
 "spot cash in controlling republican conventions. What Mir. Hanna would
 like to know is, what the democratic
 party would do. He is probably not worrying about his "personal unpopu- larity with the voters," of which some thing has been said. Gen. Harrison had been beaten for governor of In- diana before he was elected president. James G. Blaine and Henry Clay, pop ular idols both, never reached the
 presidency. Certain leaders seem to think that Mir. Hanna would be an easy candidate to defeat, and there is a chuckle in their tones as they speak of him as a logical republican candi- date; but Mir. Hanna probably does not doubt his ability to win hands down, as against such platforms and candi- dates as have been put forward in | the name of the democratic party in | 1896 and 1900. If Hanna could only be sure that the logical issue" of 1896 | would be again at the front in 1904!
 But there exists strong likelihood | hat the democratic party will be do- | iog business on eommon-sense basis
 In 1904, with a national platform of | live issues and a candidate to match l It; and Hanna knows it!-Albany Ar
 gus.