The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-15
He WouId Rather See EmpIoye and
Employer Permanently at Peace
than Sit in the White House.
HAS HIS WORK MAPPED OUT
AND HE DOES NOT WISH TO BE HAM
PERED BY CANDIDACY TALK.
Content if His Epitaph Reads "Amer-
ica's Great ConciIiatOr, Friend
of Labor and Capital"

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April 14-Last Saturday
Senator Hanna walked over to the place in
the Senate chamber where Senator Platt,
of Connecticut, sits and handed him news
paper clipping. 1t contained a rather direct
statement that Hanna was energetically
pushing his presidential boom. After Mr..
Platt had finished reading Senator Hanna
said something like this to him:
"If these fool people, some of whom are
my friends and others my enemies, would
stop talking about my being a candidate
for President L am confident 1 could ac-
complish something of real benefit TO the
country in the task / have undertaken to
bring about a thorough and permanent un-
derstanding between capital and labor or
between the employing and the working
classes My work along this line is great
ly embarrassed. if not actually hampered.
by the frequent talk~of my being a candi-
date for President. l am not candidate
for President and do not expect to be-
come candidate. 1 want everybody TO
understand this in order that 1 can go on
with the task assigned to me by the Ma
tional Civic Federation without having my
motives viewed with suspicion.
II would rather be instrumental in bring
ing the employing classes and the working
classes together so that strikes and other
industrial disturbances would be minimized,
if not wholly abolished. and have credit
for that achievement placed upon my tomb
stone than be President of the United
States. I am convinced that if can accom-
plish the task set for me L shall be a
genuine benefactor of my country whereas
if 1 should be President / am not so GER
tain of the good could do
The foregoing statement is given as the
best recollection of Senator Platt, who
repeated il to a newspaper friend. 1t rep
resents substantially what Mr.. Hanna has
frequently said lately concerning the
printed statements that he is seeking a
presidential nomination.
The statements attributed TO Senator
Hanna in the foregoing dispatches are in
complete accord with what he said to Mr..
H. s New at his residence in Washington
on Tuesday morning of last week. On the
occasion referred to Senator Hanna said
substantially:
"The frequently repeated newspaper sto-
ries to the effect that am candidate for
the presidency are not only untrue. but en-
barrassing. / am not candidate in any
sense of the word, and want my friends
10 know 1t. Whatever | have done or may
be able TO do hereafter in aiding in the
effort 10 promote harmony between the en-
ployers OF labor and the workingmen OF this
country l have undertaken from motives
that completely foreign to any selfish
purpose. Circumstances seem 10 have
placed me i'm position where I can be of
some service in the field. and if / can ac-
complish anything in that direction il will
more than crafty any ambition / may have
ever entertained. 1 repeat that I not only
am not candidate for the presidency. but
that l want my friends 10 know il and TO
take at my word