Sunday Washington globe., 1902-06-08
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tional convention in 1904, VIZ: Marcus A.
Hanna and Theodore Roosevelt, President
of the United States, who desires a second
term and with his usual honest frankness
says so.
The most partisan Democrat will admit
the strong personalities Of both men and
their natural as well as acquired qualities
of leadership. Believing, as we firmly do,
that Democrat will succeed Mr.. Roosevelt
in the Presidential chair, we are, neverthe'
less prompted both by the fear of mis-
fortune and the patriotic desire Of choosing
the least of two evils should the Republi-
can party again triumph, in making some
comparative observations on these rival
aspirants for the highest Office in the gift of
eighty millions of free people. The Ohio
candidate secured his seat in the United
States Senate bv purchase both in spot
cash and the patronage placed at his dis.
pOsal by the grateful friend he had, War
wick like, made the ruler of the land.
Those who sold themselves for either cash
or Office were of the most venal type Of
American citizens men notorious in their
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age in honesty, integrity and decent self
respect From the convicted thief Rath-
bone TO black-mailer J. B. X. Connolly and
drunken rowdy John r. Malloy, they were
and are all of a piece" For sale" is
with them both a birth mark and copyright
Recently one Of these Hanna agents, J. B. K.
Connolly, represented Senator Hanna in
the coal strike conference with President
Mitchell OF course, Mr.. Mitchell, did not
know that the black.nailer, Connolly, had
done time" as a convicted thief in the jai4
of Senator Hanna's own county of Cuya-
hoga, but Senator Hanna knew that Con-
molly had been a common thief and that his
reputation in Columbus is that of a black
mailer, And this thug claims to be a
Democrat
Connolly is but fierce type of the thugs
heelers, and men without character who
are high in the councils Of Senator Hanna,
and who represent his political interests in
Ohio as chiefs and managers of his political
fortunes
The entire country has been recently
treated to an object lesson as to the kind
of national administration in store for the
people, should Senator Hanna reach the
Presidential chair, in his indecent and sue.
cessful efforts to secure immunity for
Rathbone the looter of Cuba.
The Senator has again demonstrated at
the Cleveland convention Of few weeks
ago, that in rivalry with George Cox, the
notorious ex-dive keeper of Dead Mans
Corner in Cincinnati, he has the fealty and
adhesion of the infamous and criminal
element, which iackal like, attaches itself
to every political party. This element de-
throned the Cincinnati ex-dive keeper and
hailed the man who stood by the convicted
thief Rathbone as chief
And Rathbone was the manager Of the
Senator's campaign for a seat in the United
States Senate, when every man who voted
in the Ohio legislature for Marcus A. Hanna
either received a gift of money or an official
appointment
Let US contemplate such a man in the
Presidential chair with more Offices in his
gift than King or Kaiser, and with his ideas
Of morality in politics and patriotism in
the public service, officially enforced Are
we not justified in sounding a note of warn
ing even though we are irrevocably con-
vinced that the next President will be a
Democrat?
The rival Of Marcus A. Hanna for the
Republican nomination, President Theodore
Roosevelt is an honest-a clean man in
politics and in Office. No thug, heeler,
OF notorious drunkard and profigate re-
ceives his recognition socially, politically
or officially He is a splendid type of the
courageous and the honest American. His
associations have been pure and his asso-
ciates men Of honor. He has never op-
pressed the toiling masses, nor aided in re-
ducing them in the social scale as did the
merchant, mine and ship owner Mark
Hanna. Nor has he lowered his dignity
nor stopped to the ineffable meanness oi
tn cir pretended championship by the pur.
chase Of second or third-class labor leaders
to parade him as an arbitrator Of strikesl
No Theodore Roosevelt may be a rank
partisan, an impulsive and dictatorial chief,
void Of tact and fighter rather than a
conciliator; but blunder in these failings as
he may, he is a safer man for the American
people in the Presidential chair than the
champion Of thieves, the political associate
Of blackmailers and the patron Of thugs
drunkards and prohigates. His appointees
must be honest men Of character who have
given hostages to the public in their ante
cedents environments and social and bust
ness standing A brave, fearless, cultured
and thorough American with the pride o.
patriotic ancestry and promising posterity
to whom his ambition is to leave an un,
sullied name. Theodore Roosevelt require,
and will continue to require and demand
those decent qualifications in his appoint
ees which the American people approve
and which are the inherent attributes Of the
American people themselves.
That he grasps with inspirational success
the crisis in his party's fortunes was dem.
onstrated in his Memorial Day address
N0t az the speeches in the Senate In de
fense d bis administration in the Philip