The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-24
THE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION.

VHE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION.
| Though William Mckinley cannot hope
to be renominated for. a third term, the
Mckinley administration, to use word
coined by Mark Hanna in the late cam
| paign, is to be ''perpetuated." In other
| words, President Mckinley and Senator
Hanna will name their favorite for
| nomination at the next national conven-
ton and the national committee of which
Hanna Is chairman will employ It's well
known and all-powerful methods to in
sure the result. -,
Chairman Hanna's' committee, unlike
its predecessors and unlike other nation
al committees in other political parties,
is an Organization with, perpetual inter-
campaign life and oviger. II lives and
works after the cafnpaigh Is over and
done. It has large reserve fund saved
over from the past two campaigns. It
| has clerical force at work year in and
year out. Over and above all, 1t is part
! and parcel Of, the presidential administers
ton. Mark Hanna, the dominant power
behind .. the, administration, the
personal friend and boon conf
! par1fon of the president and the
man to whom Mckinley is indebted
for both his nomination and election, Is
the head and front of the COMMITTEES. He
can say with greater truth than did the
| effeminate Louis Quatorze, az am the
| state" 90 y
s.iT
Mark Hanna is stronger with his party
| now than four years ago. The wave of
reaction against his, rule, which seemed
eminent in Republican circles after the
| 1886 campaign, isuBsfded so effectualiy
that when the Campaign of 1900 was on
| Mark Hanna was inJdemand. not only as
| the great organizer of RepubIicanis1n,
| but. as its popular spokesman on the
campaign stump AS member of the
senate. whose membership during the
past six years has been more and more
shaped in accord with administration
| ideas ard influence, he keeps his finger
constantly on the pulse of national legis-
| lation and is indeed the recognized sem
ate whip on all matters of party policy.
Never before has national legislation In
| both houses been so thoroughly under
| control of the presidential organization
| The Hanna-McKin1ey regime, emerg-
| ing through the events of the Spanish
| war, presents vast colonial possession
and national policy never before con-
| templated In the American republic An
| island empire with three times the area
| and population of New England is the
| heritage which the administrative ma
chine is reluctant to relinquish The ent-
| pire must be 'perpetuated." The control
| of the colonial forests and mines, with
/ the colonial franchises and patronage,
must be handed down." The interests
which put up the campaign fund which
/ 'perpetuated" the HaHna-McKiniey
| dynasty must be secured in the enjoy
| ment Of the fruits of their victory, and
| the contract to turn over to them the
! colonial possessions for exploitation must
be carried ouA Hawaii. Alaska, Cuba,
Porto Rico, and the IhiIippines-th is
the rich territorial heritage whose wealth
must be transmitted by keeping the
presidential succession close within the
grasp of the present powers that be.
| Washington report has 1t that Senator
Fairbanks, of Indiana, who already is a
/ pronounced candidate for the Republican
presidential nomination, is the admins
i tration choice. FaGbanks Is one of the
ablest coadjut9rs, OF Senator Hanna in
| the upper house, and is recognized as
a spokesman 6f tie administration pol
| Icy. taking the place In measure so
| ably filed by Senator Cushman K.
| Davis In relation to the adminfstra-
| TONS commercial, territorial and consti-
| tutional policy. Senator Fairbanks Ike
| wise Is credited with an influential voice
| in the matter Of important executive ap-
pointments and, the general distribution
| of patronage.
| Vice President Theodore Roosevelt is a