The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-07-19

-vhe Ohio Boss Can Have the Nsn-
lnation ~ lie IL Disposed
To Want Il.

connection with the presidency was
trst 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
he likes the idea. lie would he Q
strange man. if he were not proud to
be even suggested as possible candi-
date for president Of the United
States; and Mr.. 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. Mr.. 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 skilled combiner
and organizer and man OF business.
Mr.. Hanna himself. what of his
chances? 1t is early yet. but unless
the conditions change greatly who has
. better chance for the republican
nomination? Who has half as good a
grip on the machinery OF the repub-
lican 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 administrati ton be
so likely to throw its aid as to Mr..
Hanna, II he should see chance to
win and decide to make a canvass?
Mr.. Hanna will not he receptive
in case he should enter the
race. lie 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
or gravitation or natural attraction.
hs will organize his canvass. as thor
oughly and as Systematically as he
organized the Mckinley delegate-hunt
OF so6, and before the other candidates
know il, he will have the field TO him
self; assuming. that is. that there
should 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-
lily 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
What Mr.. 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 q. Blaine and Henry Clay, pop |
Mar idols both. never reached the |
presidency. Certain leaders seem 70 |
think that Mr.. Hanna would be an
,asy candidate to defeat. and there IN |
chuckle in their tones rs they speak |
II him as logical republican candi-
late; but Mr.. Hanna probably does not
ioubt his ability TO win hands down.
IS against such platforms and candi-
iates as have been put forward in
he name Of the democratic party in
so6 and 1900 If Hanna could only be
ure that the logical issue" of 1896
would be again at the front in 1904,
But there exists a strong likelihood
hat the democratic party will be do
ng business on a common-sense basis
n 1904. with national platform of
i've issues and candidate TO match
I; and Hanna knows it!-Albany Ar
nus.