The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-05-30
Roosevelt and Hanna
Fight for Supremacy
1FTE ITH President Roosevelt sparring away
NALA at the beef trust and Senator Hanna
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making a grandstand play for pOpu-
arity as the mediator between warning capital and
labor very pretty fight for the head of the next Re
publican ticket to be under way The result of
the onslaught upon the beef combine will undoubtedly
have a very important bearing upon the next cam
paign. If the big packers victorious over the
forces of the attorney general very few votes will be
gained for the Republican party and its present adj
ministration head if on the other hand the attorney
general secures some sort of decisive decision RoOse-
welt stock will probably take on small sized boom.
If Hannas civic federation is able bring the great
coal strike to close with favorable for the men,
his power in the party and before the public will un
doubtedly wax exceedingly strong Recently a story
was circulated in the to the effect that Hanna had
been promised all the patronage he wanted and had
pledged his word to the president that he would stay
out of the next fight for the nomination. This story
is doubted by all who acquainted with the charaC
ters of the men concerned Roosevelt, whatever his
other shortcomings, has allowed anyone to
troll him in the patronage distribution line Plat of
New York will testify to this So it is not at all prob
able that he has promised Hanna that he will turn
over the offices to him in return for his support.
While he pOoh-pOohs the idea, Hanna is still candi-
date for the White House and will be as long he
. lives. He will have the backing of the Republican
machine from end to end of the country 1t re.
mains to be whether the "machine' will be able
to cope with the piece of mechanism that Roosevelt
has been building these last few months. 1t will be
battle between the old and the young men of the
party Hanna will of course lead the vets. What the
grzzed campagners lack in fire and enthusiasm they
will more than make up in the craft gained by years
of experience.
Since his accidental elevation Roosevelt has NOR
tally offended nearly all the members of the Republi.
can national committee. He has turned down with
scant courtesy Addcks i'm Delaware, WocOtt in Col
orado and Kerens in Missouri and has taken fendish
delight in sapping such powers Fairbanks of In
DIANA Scott and Elkins of West Virginia Platt and
Depew OF New York and Quay and Penrose of Penn
sylvania To offset the injury he has done his
by creating such enemies the rough rider president
has picked out Shaw of Iowa, Ware of Kansas Moody
of Massachusetts, Payne of Wisconsin and H. Clay
Evans of Tennessee. The last named gentleman has
been given the best job in the presidents gift Poll
ticians are wondering what the c. a. II. will do about
that After waging relentless war upon Evans for
five years and with efforts finally victorious in
ing the pension commissioners discharge it is not
very pleasant TO that same cordially hated man
given the fattest place in the diplomatic service.
1t looks very much if the president didn't care
whether he rubbed the Grand Army of the Republic
the wrong way not In addition to angering the c.
A. r. by this move the BrownlowGibsOn faction of
the Republican party in Tennessee has been insuted
by the Evans elevation. Congressman Brownlow and
Gibson have been fighting Evans in the state for the
last three of four years and last fall they whipped
him to a standstill In view Of this fact il is difficult
to see what gain will accrue to the president through
the Evans appointment
Another report is that Roosevelt has made up his
mind 10 do a rcarcarend-s speech-making tour before
the fall election His route will probably be through
the south nearly to the gulf and the west far the
Mississippi His trip to Atlanta filled him full OF the
idea that extended tour through the south
would be a good thing for his party and incidentally
for his second term boomlet While very few coincide
with the presidents egotism in this regard one is
courageous enough 10 attempt to disabuse his mind Of
the idea. BY getting him started the Roosevelt Re
publicans believe they persuade him to visit the
points that will be strengthened by his presence BE
sides the trip will be paid for by the railroads who
will "get even by running excursions 10 the points
reached by the presidential special, and great harm
can to the partys cause by the tour, they think.
And thus from time to time the developments in
the Hanna Roosevelt rivalry will be watched with in
terest
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