The age-herald., 1901-08-16
Hanna Worris Fairbanks.

Washington Cor Philadelphia Times. It is reported here on very good author ity that Senator Mark Hanna seriously intends to be the next Republican can
 date for president The story is not &C.,
 companied with affidavits, but 1t is so well authenticated as to cause consider able uneasiness to the friends of Sena- tor Charles w. Fairbanks The gentle man from Indiana is a candidate under cover. He has first to be reelected to the United States Senate, his term ex- bring March 8, 1908, and he does not care to figure as a candidate for two political honors at the same time. But whatever
 may be done quietly in the way of or
 ganizing is receiving the attention of his able leutenants.
 Senator Hanna is looked upon as the most formidable obstacle in the way Of the Fairbanks boom. With the Chairman of the Republican National Committee unfriendly, the work of securing control of the national convention must be up- hill work The secretary of the commit tee, Perry S. Heath, has given evidence of his unfriendliness in other ways than by the interview in which he first named Hanna as possible candidate.
 It is said now that the feeler then thrown out brought some unexpected ly encouraging returns, and the
 more Hanna has thought it over the more taken he, is with the idea of inheriting the Mckinley mantle, and becoming the administrator of his political estate of prosperity. He | knows he would have been held respon- I sible if the administration had been a fall ure He bore his part in the heat and la | bor of the day. 5 Now he believes he | should receive his share of the credit. | s-~.. .r4, Ia tef arf,.
 ming to believe the voting public is coming l to regard the matter in this light also | From the expressions which have appear l ed in print and from what certain of his | political friends have said to him in pri- | vate Senator Hanna Is about persuaded
 that he Is no longer the bugbear in the l public estimation that he was painted in | the early days of the 1896 campaign. His | friends tell him there has been a reac- | tion of sentiment. helped along greatly by the Senator's appearance on the stump and his straightforward style of | utterance in the last campaign.
 l Hanna realizes that the next Republi- | can convention is long time in the fu- | ture but he knew the value of early be- | ginnings when he started out on the road | as the advance man for William McKin- | ley back in 1894. It was as early as | March 7. 1894, that Mckinley was sprung | on the Northwest as a candidate for the Presidency, at a convention which he at
 tended in Minneapolis under the auspices | of the State League of Republican Clubs. | with John Goodnow. now Consul Gener- | al at Shanghai, presiding. And the wave | of propaganda was begun before that. | Next to the influence of the Republican | National Committee is the influence of | the administration as represented by | President Mckinley. The friends of | Fairbanks have always made a. point of | the relations of confidence said to exist | between Fairbanks and Mckinley; but I as against Hanna this argument loses It's weight As there is no one man to whom | Mckinley owes more in poiltical way, | so there Is no one more than Hanna who | could command a larger share of his | assistance in a political game like the one now beginning