The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-01

that the president will not look. back,
having once put his hand e. the plow. aud
him. Mr.. Payne comes from western
state and knows what the sentiment is
there regarding trusts in general and +
railway mergers in particular. The presi-
dert told his political advisors tha t he
was simply trying to enforce existing s
laws, and did not want to harm business
institutions which were within the laws.
But the laws must be lived up to, : he
is represented as saying. hey were put
on the statute book for a good reason
that made can unmake them 1t is not
discretionary with me whether they shall. (
be enforced. * *
| Senator Hanna, in the conference, is
fsaid to have discussed only the rpoiftieetr
side OF the case and that in a very sprac-
teal way. His sympathies are with
lcapital naturally and he honestly thinks
1 that it has done nothing calling for the
1 present outbreaks of public Sentiment.
| He would be untrue to his life long train
ling and habits of thought if he thought
anything else. He did not insist that
! the president depart from the policy to
| which he is now so irreyecabiy COM
/ mitted, but he said; he thought the mat
4 ter should be looked at seriously from
the political, and from the Hill point OF
view, especially with reference 10 what
1 the far western states may do this year
i in the campaign coming on there while
4 anti merger Sentiment is at fever heat.
szIf, after looking at it from this point
= % view, the esidsnt yra:. still of the
s, optimism that there slorId be vigorous
government action through the courts ne
would have nothing to say.
Il The president replied that ne had all
& ready studied the case from all possible
, points of view, and had come to the con-
clusion that he had no option, but must
! enforce the laws as he finds them
M r~1,o ord Cd T1S1yr0
. which has before this got him into
trouble, has shut him out Of the White
!, House at this time, when probably he
,, would rather go there than do anything
: else in the world: But it is unlikely that
y y the presidents policy is being controlled
> by any desire for revenge for Mr.. Hill s.
bitter and biting words, or that Mr.. Hill,
: even If the friendliress were restored,
could make any more Roadway with The
president than Mr.. Hanna did at the
Wednesday breakfast.
o Revival of Populism Feared.
> Mr. Hanna is said to fear that the ex-
. ample of Washington estate. if followed
:, ;. in other western states, may terd to re-
vive populism, and thus unfavorahly af-
feet the approaching campaign. In addi-
,, ton TO this he fears that some radical,
. if not violent form of protest may pc
: made in the west resulting in alarm to
u business interests, and, # carried far
: enough, precipitatiEg financial crisis.
. The administration policy Of prosecuting
= the trusts, he thinks, adds fuel to the
. fire, and if he were president nothing OF
the kind would have happened.
f Wall Street Fights Roosevelt.
e Roosevelt will be in great luck il he
I carries the Newsfork delegation for tbs
. 1904 presidential nomination. He surely
+ will not carry. itif Wall street and the
railway power can prevent. And the
same kind of fight which will be made
. against him. prior to the convention in
: New York, will be made in all other
:; states where the railways have political
= influence. Things are now pointing With
: great directness to a straight-out contest
:. within the republican party in 1904 be-
. tween the financial interests which have
! dominated it in the east for so many
!. years and the so-caled plain people OF
;; the party, for the control Of the nominal
ing convention and Mr. Roosevelt will not
= = be the standard bearer of the financial
= interests. Their fear in 1900 expres sed
: at the Philadelphia convention, that ne
was not safe man., ire being realized.
a they think
: AS chairman OF the national committee.
> Senator Hanna was asked by Mr.. Hill to
! use his influence in the far west, and over
! the country generally, with national COM
- mitteemen and republican senators and
? representatives. to prevent anti merger
y and antitrust sentiment from taking too
: violent a form in the nominating conyen.
tions this year. This much Mr.. Hanra
will probably do.
r should say, in this connection that
s 1.-THE president, Hanna, Payne and Hill, all
n decline to talk about the Wednesday
# breakfast, OF about matters diseussen
i, there But the foregoing story outlines
i. the situation IS i. Is viewed here by the
: best informed men of all parties
d Nv. W Jermane.