The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-08
HANNA AGAINST ROOSEVELT.
Ohio Senator, His Friends Say, is a Candidate for Next Republican
 Nomination for President.

From Washington to New York World. It is admitted by his friends that from this time out Senator Hanna may pc considered candidate for the Republl- can nomination for President in l9o4. MT i. Hanna will deny he is candidate, put the fact remains that the men who are are already shaping for contest between himself and Mir. Roosevelt.
 There Is no doubt Senator Quay or Pennsylvania, will throw his entire ln- huence to President Roosevelt There IS bitter personal enmity between Hanna and Quay. 1t was Hanna who kept Quay out of the Senate after his ap- pointment by Governor Stone; It was Quay, aided by Senator Platt of New York. who unloaded Roosevelt on the Republican National Convention in '5oo, against Hanna's protest.
 Hanna's plan has been to corral dele gates for the next Republican, conven- ton and hold them "in trust" for Presi- dent Roosevelt. Quay represents school of politics that takes nothing on trust. He thinks the delegates who are for Roosevelt should be controlled by Roosevelt mot by Hanna. He Is suspi- To the casual observer it Is made to appear Hanna wants Roosevelt renomi- mated as much as anybody. He IS play ing to get in a position where he can say he has been in the band wagon all the time, if the sentiment for Roosevelt at convention time Is too strong 10 De overcome, or where he can take the dele- gates himself if enough disaffectton oxists to make that possible.
 Hanna has two points of strength I he first Is that almost the entire Republi- can membership of Congress is against Roosevelt, and the second is that the big financial and business men of the coun- try--the great railroad operators, the Wall Stret magnates. the men who con trol the vast combina tions or capitai-do not deem Roosevelt "safe" and do think Hanna eminentiy so.
 The fact that Congress is against the President Is not so weighty as the fact that the financial interests are against him. Wall Street and Its allies do much toward dictating the nomination ,i,or TOT point that will be urged against Roose- welt and in Hanna's favor is the Prest- dents lack of sound political Judgment and steadiness of character. It wfif be said he is shifty variable, impulsive ana likely to act without mature rehection. This will be done by the Republican members in Congress and by the Hanna machine politicians.
 A Republican Senator who is acqua1nt- ed with the methods that will be pur- sued by anti-Roosevelt members of Con- gress and politicians says:
 'The endeavor from this time on Will be to create an impression that Roose- welt Is not a proper man with whom to trust the fortunes of the party. The public utterances of these members of Congress will be in praise of Roosevelt, but in confidence to those who influence local sentiment al different view Will be given.
 Prom mouth to mouth it will be whis- pered that Roosevelt Is hne fellow honest, courageous frank, impulsive- perhaps too much at times; hrm Tn his convictions-perhaps a little wrong headed at times, elf-reliant-perhaps not as willing as he should be to take the ad- vice of party leaders and to consider the welfare of the party; loyal to his friends perhaps not wise in their selection; patriotic-perhaps too much carried away by the spectacular and too nglorious to consider properly the common Worka- day welfare of the country; very good Republican-perhaps not always dlscl eet in considering the interests of the party; a. fine fellow-if he were only sound and could be trusted to do the right thing in the right way"
 The Presidents object in making the great swing around the circle this fall is to show the people that these reports of his instability are not based on Iioper regard for his real character. Curiously enough, his opponents are glad he is going to make the trip, for they say Ee is bound to do something somewhere ttat will strengthen the impression they in- tend to create. There is no douDt that the Presidents swing is for purely polti- cal reasons. He does not want to see the country; he has seenF it. all. He wants to talk face to face with the people who have to elect delegates to the next Republican convention. He in- tends to makeI a great play for Cuban reciprocity, and he intends also to .ustify the course of the administration in the Philippines. Aside from that there is personal reason. The President likes the applause of the multitude as well as any man who has ever bene in public lite.
 Hanna intends to stay at nome in Cleveland most of the time He does not have to go about the country. He has an organization in every State. His chief lieutenant, Henry c. Payne, IS now In Roosevelts cabinet, but that does not seem to worry Hanna any. Payne and Hanna have been closely associated fer many years and perhaps Payne IS in the cabinet for purposes of Hanna.