Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-06-26
OHIO
Politics Touched
Up a Bit
In a Rather Breezy
Manner.
Hanna Is Keen on the Presidential
Trail.

George Alfred Townsend touches up
the presidential situation in a letter to
the Boston Globe as follows:
Mark Hanna continues to pack Ohio
for the presidency. This is apparent
from conversations with Ohio agents
in Washington and elsewhere. The
Mckinley nomination is to be repeated.
and only Theodore Roosevelt stands in
the way.
Mckinley saturated Ohio with ap-
pontments and demoralized the state
1t is in no mood to be independent, and
the great aims collected by Hanna are
to be expected to ensue in 1904. Indi-
ana has been described as n state that
won't stay bought, Ohio as a state
which stays bought. Together they
present compensaling pendulum of
two metals Therein the rank is but the
guinea's stamp.
Foraker is far away the most open
quantity in Ohio politics. I heard ex-
Senator Judge George Geary speak
lately of the agreeable surprise Fora
ker was to him, as against Foraker he
was preiudiced. Ex-senator Higgins
and Gen. James Fl, Wilson expressed
the same appreciation. But Foraker
has no barrel He is not the political
Martin Tetzel; and the net is being cast
over Ohio In way, one would think,
to segregate her still more, as her
presidential politics is out of favor in
all the other states.
Two Of their presidents have been
assassinated through the simlosities of
their example.
Looking back twenty.one years, why
should Garfield have made personal
spoil of the collectorship Of New York !
| If the New York senators controlled 1t
SO did Hanna yesterday seize the per-
quisite OF the Cleveland congressman
The procession Of praise in Mckinley
was so unintermittent that 1t aroused
an envious boys mind, The essence of
rulers permeated the people and bold
men seldom are assailed.
Success without mental sincerity con
veys reaction. The nomination of Gar
field was resented by John Sher.
man as a palpable betrayal. That OF
Hayes was without any sincerity, as
the enemies of Blaine did it, and Conk
ling always named Hayes Ruther-
fraud. Arthur was put on the ticket
with Garfield without any principle
and Archibald Campbell of West Nir
ginia Immediately pointed out in thu
convention the probable consequences
of such barter anu sale. Evidence
has since appeared that Garfield was
collusive with the design to dror
Sherman.
Joseph Manley lately related to me
that Conkling had private interview
with him by request at the convention
of 1880 and asked that Blaine still be
supported instead of Blnine's men fly
ing to candidate made out of con.
spiracies. Garfield repaid the support
Of Blaine's people by putting Blaine
in the cabinet; then the trade to carry
New York by putting on Arthur effect
uated It's destruction
Ohio has played too doubly and Ar
thur got the presidency. Blaine wa,
defeated from setting the exampl,
more recently seen Of rubbing together
priests and clnsses. To obtain tn,
presidency Hayes let all his party
allies 60.
A return to decent practices is neces
snry for the public honor. Vast sum-
Of money paid to elect the American
magistrate have become the exampl,
of at least two campaigns. Tn,
treatment of John Sherman by boil
Mckinley and Hanna was in the ma
ture OF confidence game. They de
coyed him from the Senate seat. tool
the seat, and then turned him out Of
the state department, He told me tina
in the parsimony and appetite of tn
new Ohio galaxy they would not ALLOW
him common clerkship. Gen. Alger
who had been antagonlzed by Sher
man, appointed Sherman's daughter
sister-ln-law to a clerkship when n,
other minister would do so.
We have read the Rathbone case
Gen. Wood, the ablest mind produce,
in Mckinley's two terms, is prescribe,
by Hanna's men and no man can lik
Roosevelt who dislikes Wood.
All this fixing of strikes for election
purposes is like continuation of tn
duplicity of bartering and buying elec
tions. When we consider that presi
dents appoint Judges we want presi