The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-24
AS TO ROOSEVELT AND HANNA.
Why They are Not Bosom Friends
 How Their Views Differ.
The sltuation maN be yery brieAy de

scribed. At present MT. Hanna has nc intention of becoming a candidate foi president. In the first place. he com prehends the popularity of MT. Roose- welt, and knows that no one could be nominated against him under existing
 conditions. In the second place. he ie
 very far from being well and strong but is the victim of a complication of diseases which render him very feeble
 man. He is not in immediate danger
 but he is not nearly the man he was,
 and is not likely soon to recover that
 stalWart health which he seemed to
 have few years ago, and which would
 be essential to him If he were called
 upon to endure the fatigues and trials
 of a personal or political campaign,
 His weakness is patent to all who see
 him moving painfully about the capitol,
 and those who know him most inti-
 mately say that, if nothing else, his
 health would prevent his seeking the
 nomination..
 Nevertheless My, Hanna is keeping
 hold of the political wires with all the
 tenacity of his strong nature He can
 not see why he should suffer In his
 power because his friend Mckinley is
 dead. He cannot understand for ex-
 ample. why MT. Roosevelt should not
 prefer him to Senator Foraker in mak-
 ing appointments in the state of Ohio
 The president has assumed toward
 these two senators the attitude which
 he has assumed everywhere else. He
 listens to both, and tries to choose the best men offered to him. What MT. Hanna demands is that his word should be accepted before that of his colleague.
 Now, MT. Hanna's word Is not so in- fuential with MT. Roosevelt as it was with MT Mckinley, because MT. Han mas standard of morality is not ap- proved of by MT. Roosevelt. I do not mean to say that MT. Mckinley ap- proved of all that MT Hanna did. People who have high respect for Mir. McKinley's memory will continue to believe that he did not. and that he was unconscious of Mir. Hanna's lapses in this respect. This is a question which it is unnecessary to discuss now. Mir. Hanna's standard of morality Is what it has always been, and 1t is perfectly by his attitude toward Pow ell Clayton, our ambassador to Mexico
 MT. Clayton is a henchman of MT and his Arkansas machine is the strongest and probably, with the exception of Wimberly's machine in the worst in the south. It is a machine which works in utter un- of the existence of mo- rality The federal offices have been sold to their incumbents by those who are also seeking them. In one instance a postmaster who desired the office simply for the honor of being an offi- cial, bought the appointment by agree ing to pay over its salary to another applicant. Judicial and other officers have likewise secured their places by to pay a portion of their re- ,eipts to rivals. To cap the whole, United States judge has signed these corrupt contracts as witness to them. Such utter unconsciousness of bribery and general turpitude has been dis played by Powell Clayton's organiza- ion that it is safe to say that the Ar eansas republican machine has never leard of moral principle, MT. Hanna S perfectly conscious that this has been going on, and the only reason why officials who perpetrated these offenses ire still in office is that they were ap- pointed by MT. Mckinley on the recom- nendation of MT. Hanna, and that their erms Of office have not expired.
 President Roosevelt is in a very em position, for he cannot pun sh these men for offenses committed before he came into office without ap ,earing to condemn his predecessor. t is perfectly we'll understood, howev- r, that MT. Hanna parceled out the patronage of the south and made the election of the officeholders, Powell l 1laytons case is singular, and fur 1 fishes another illustration of MT. Han | Ia's standard of public morality. A | harge is made against Clayton which i nay or may not be true. It is that he | 5 stockholder and director in a mine l n Mexico, against which Americans | ot connected with the mine have | laims. In other words, our embassa | or, having to pass upon these claims | T the character of a judge, is himself | interested in throwing them out, As I l aid, this charge may or may not be | rue. It has not been proved, but l re- ite it because when MT. Hanna was poken to on the subject he professed | ct to be able to see that there was any arm in Clayton's position, even if he ere a. stockholder and director.
 Mir Hanna, with this low standard of ublic morality, is of course in politics ,r grossly material ends. He wants 1e patronage of Ohio, not that he may ,cure efficient officers devoted to the ubllc service, but officers, efficient or lefficient, devoted to the personal iuse of Marcus A. Hanna. He is olding on to the southern organiza- ons, and no matter what the president
 ay do for the reformation of the pub , service in the south, MT Hanna will ,ntrol the southern organization until le next presidential convention. If he len thinks as he does now, the votes
 the southern delegates will be cast 1T MT Roosevelt. But if in the mean , me anything should occur to make , r. Roosevelt less popular with the ( Ink and file of the republican party | an he Is to-day, MT. Hanna will be in i position to name the next republican f II It may be that by that time his { ,alth will have recovered sufficiently I
 enable him to think of himself as the ( If that is not the case, he l