Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-08-08
CHAMP QARE'S LETTER
Hanna the Logical Candi-
date of His Party.
WON'T GET THE NOMINATION
Republican Rank and File Will
Have None of Him.
DON'T WANT HIM IN WHITE HOUSE.

DON'T WANT HIM IN WHITE HOUSE.
Not the Sort of Man People Like to
Sec In Highest PInce-Democrats
Would Be Pleased to Have Mark
Named For President-Not Likely
to Have Wish Gratifed-Lightning
Rods Shooting Up-FIy In Roose-
yeIt's Ointment-John J. Lentz's
GaIl-To Expose Republican Cor
ruptfon-FiIipinos still Unpacifed.
Ship Subsidy Nonsense-A Hint to
Payne.
Especial Washington Letter.1
On lecture tour through Iowa, Ne
braska, Kansas and Ohio l recently
heard a good deal of Republican poll
tics, especially Republican presiden-
tial politics. Ny conclusions are
as follows as to the present sta
tus of Republican presidential pos
sibilities: The Republicans just now
are cocksure of electing the next presi-
dent. In their minds eye they, la
General Charles Henry !Grosyenor, can
see long line of Republican presi-
dents. How they will feel later on,
say three years hence, is one of those
things which no fellow can find out
Everybody seems to take Mr.. Nc
Kinleys declaration as to a third term
as final. That performance has brought
him golden opinions from all sorts
of people. Nobody considers Senator
Marcus A. Hanna in the running
Why? 1t is hard to tell. To sane
man he appears to be the logical nomi-
nee of his party, because for all. prac-
teal purposes he is, for the five years
last past has been and for the next
three years will be the Republican,
party. But nevertheless the rank and
file among the Republicans will have
none of him as presidential candi-
date. He is no better and perhaps no
worse than other aspirants for the Re
| publican presidential nomination, but
the plain people do not desire to see
him in the White House.
suggested to an intelligent Repub-
lican editor the claims which Mark
has upon his party, but he poohpoohed
| the idea. asked him to explain why
Mark should not have the plum. The
only reason he would vouehsafe was
that somehow Mark is not the sort of
man people like to see in the highest
place. That's intangible, to say the
least of it. The truth is that the Re
publicans are willing to use Senator
Hanna just as they used Jay Hubbell-
Garfield's Dear HubbelP'-in 1880 and
then throw him away as sucked or
ange. Hanna will find, to his sorrow
and disgust. that Republicans as well
as republics are ungrateful. They are
willing-indeed, eager-for him to fry
the fat out of corporations and to use
it in debauching American suffrage.
They are hungry for the offices which
he purchases, but they are unwilling to
crown him with the highest official
honor, even If that honor be purchased
as openly as one may buy scrub calf
in open market. This is rank injustice
| to Mark, but with him as their candi-
date they would not have the gall to
| prate of purity and sweetness in the
campaign of 1904, which .prating has
been their chief stock in trade since
the birth of the party in 1856.
Democrats Tor Hanna.
1t goes without saying that Demo
Mark for the nomination. What they
would do to him as a presidential nom.
inee would he a-plenty. If we couldn't
defeat him. we couldn't defeat any
body. But 10 such good luck as his
nomination is in store for us. With
! President Mckinley and Senator Han
/ ma both eliminated from the Republic
nm presidential equation the contesi
for the Republican nomination will in
| all likelihood degenerate into free fol
| all race where any mediocrity will
think he has chance. Indeed light
ming rods are shooting up like mush-
rooms in a damp cellar. Those men.
toned" are as numerous as young frogs
after a heavy shower. Among western
rural Republicans the name of Mr.
Vice President Roosevelt. like that OF
Abou Ben Adhem. leads all the rest
| but the spider in the colonel's presiden-
tial dumpling is Governor Odell OF
New York. l suggested to hot Iowa
| supporter of Colonel Roosevelt that, as
Governor Odell had the machine, he
would perhaps turn up in the national
convention with a solid New York del
egation at his back. "Oh, yes" re-
piled he, ''but history repeats itself
Grover Cleveland was nominated il
1892 with the New York delegation
dead against him. Perhaps Teddy can
duplicate that unique performance
Perhaps he may Who knows?
Iown's Fayorite Son.
Iowa herself is nursing two presi
dental possiblities-Sen William
Boyd Allison, now serving his twenty
ninth year in the less numerous brancl
of the national legislature, and Govern
or Leslie NJ. Shaw, now filling his sec
ond term in the gubernatorial chair Of
the Hawkeye State. The chances arc
that Senator Allison would win out
this time were it not for his age, bu
he is the best preserved man of hi:
years now in public life and may wiz
out anyway. AS the Democrats arr
thinking of nominating General Fran
els Marion Cockrell Of Missouri, il
would be the proper caper for the Re
publicans to nominate Senator Allison
Honors would be about even as to age
These two "grand old men, take i
turn about in acting as chairman of thu
senate committee on appropriations an(
are great personal friends. Senator
Allison has been in public life almos
without break ever since the Repub
lican party was organized, having mad,
his political debut in 1856 as one of thu
assistant secretaries of the convention
which nominated General John Charles
Fremont. He has been a presidential
possibility for 20 years and enjoys tn,
distinguished honor of having made tn,
first free silver speech ever delivered
in congress. The Republican natiena
committee in the event of his nomina
ton might not republish that speech al
campaign document, but it is Ali