The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-04-12

to Americans-but most certainly he is
to be commended for his good inten-
tons.
'The lady doth protest too muchv'
In this case the lady is Senator Marcus
A. Hanna. The cause Of his overpro-
testation Is the talk about Mark as tile
next presidential standard bearer.
While am neither prophet nor the
son of prophet. l make bold to pre-
dict that 1t will prove to be another
case of swearing she would meier con-
sent, consented" There was never In
this country a man who would refuse
a presidential nomination at the hands
of party which has the ghost of
show Of electing It's nominee. Nav,
more, there never was an American
possessed Of one chance out Of mil
lion to become president who did not
strive for it with might and main. Ii
Senator Hanna lives till 1904 he will
be the nominee unless things take on
such shape that the Republicans
must needs turn to anti-McKinley Re
publicans to secure candidate pos
sessed of ray Of hope Of success. 1t
may come to that All this talk of
Hanna's shutting up Republican head
quarters In order that one candidate
may not get ahead Of another is all
rubbish. He closes UP the headquar-
tiers because he knows that he has the
nomination dead to rights If be de-
sires it. What use. has he for nominal
headquarters when he has the real
article at the White House, the treas.
ury building and all the other depart
ments? That would simply be wan
ton waste Of raw material, caper
which Marcus will not cut, for the
more money he spends before the NOM
ination the less he will have for cam
| paign expenses after the nomination,
and Mark frequently ponders. no
doubt, the important question, "What
will it profit man to gain tue comma
tion and to lose the election?" Marks
nomination and election are necessities
to the Republican jobbers. Their
plans of public plumber stretch through
many years, or till a time when "the
picking" ceases to be good. They do
not propose to chance it with any un-
derstudy Of Marks. They want 10 be
dead sure of their man. Therefore
they will nominate Marcus with a
whoop.
| How Are the Mighty Talent
There is one Ohio Republican states
man whose present plight would move
a heart Of stone, and that is Senator
Joseph Benson Foraker. He is bril-
liant, gallant, amiable man. He was
once the fair rose and expectancy Of
Buckeye Republicans. Multiplied thou
sands expected to see him the Repub-
lican nominee for president. Wher-
ever he went he created a furore. He
was the idol Of the young Republicans.
His ambition was boundless. His
\ tongue of fire stirred the heart of the
multitude as that of few other men
could do. All that was before Marcus
A. Hanna impinged upon the public
eye in the double capacity Of states
man and Warwick. I like Senator
Foraker. He has good, hot, rich, red
human blood in his arteries-not Cold
snake juice. dislike to see such a
man forced to make way for the cool,
calculating plotters. That he is being
! shelved is plain as the nose on Lord
Napier's face. His Intellectual fires
have paled before Mark Hanna's bale
full star.
The other day there was remarka-
bic meeting at the White House "a
small but select society. Senator Han
ma, General Grosvenor and General
Dick met in that historic mansion to
have conference with the president
touching the next Ohio campaign and
certain Ohio appointments. Great Ju.
Illus, but Hanna, Grosvenor and Dick
constitute trio for your whiskers!
F, They were closeted with the president
for two hours. The minutes Of that
meeting would make mighty rich read
ing. A Washington chronicler says,
Senator Foraker, who came over from
New York for that purpose. called dur
! ing the progress Of the conference. but
i remained only a short Time" Very
naturally. He feels a delicacy In in
| trudlng upon his enemies. even though
| they grant him permission to run for q
! second term In the senate. They toler-
ate Foraker. Having dltched him COM
pletely in his greater ambition the
| presidency they hope to keep him
quiet and docile BY throwing him sop
which once he would have despised.
They have work for him to do per
haps to place Mark in nomination for
the presidency. There was day-not
more than Is years ago when one yell
from the fiery Foraker would have
sent that quartet Of Ohio statesmen
scurrying to their holes as so many
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