The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-04
HANNACHAIRMANBY REQUEST?
THROUGH 1904 CAMPAIGN. WITH
ROOSEVELT CANDIDATE.
A Friend OF the Senator Tells the Story OF
the Iowa Goat, BuckIed on the Railroad
Track, That Coughed Up Red Flag
just in Ttme-Convention City Wrestle.


lmportan. New York State Republicans
talked Republican national politics yester-
day. The groundwork Of their comments
was the accepted idea that President
Roosevelt is to be nominated by the Re-
publican National Convention, which will
be held either In Chicago or ST. Louis
year from the present month.
ST. Louis, through former Governor David
r. Francis, president Of the louisiana
Exposition Company. is already working
day and night on members Of the Republi-
can National Committee to get the con-
vention for the Exposition City. Chicago.
through influential Republicans of that
city, IS putting forth all sorts Of arguments
as to why Chicago should have the con-
vention and St. Louis should not. and the
chief argument OF the Chicagoans who
were in town last night was to the effect
that st. Louis had enough on its shoulders
to handle the Exposition, without running
the risk of attempting to look after
national convention. Republican or Demo-
cratic
1t was ascertained last night that Presi-
dent Roosevelt's friends. believing that he
is to be nominated by reclamation, are
to ask Senator Hanna to remain as chairman
Of the Republican National Committee
and conduct the fight in 1904 for Roosevelt
just as he led the fight for Mckinley in 1905
and 1900. When President Roosevelt re-
turns TO Washington. and he Is expected
to be there within few days, certain Re
publicans who have been always friendly
to Senator Hanna, and others who have
not been on familiar footing with him. are
to talk with President Roosevelt for the
purpose of assuring the President that the
wisest move to be made at this time is to
induce Senator Hanna to remain as national
chairman.
Senator Hanna flung up the sponge rather
than have the convention curtail his In
fuence in the Southern States. One Of the
Senator's personal friends at the Gregorian
Hotel said last night:
Senator Hanna readily understood the
situation at Philadelphia, just as he under
stood the situation concerning Mr.. Roose-
velt's status the other day The Senator
is good deal like that lovely lady in Iowa
who owned gentle kid with hossy coat and
grave. gray eyes. The kid was all right as
long as it was a kid, but when 1t grew up
and became a goat with bushy whiskers.
prone to butt everything and anybody
that came in it's way, then it was that that
lovely lady decided that that goat must 60
the way Of all the earth So she got her
friends to buckle that goat down on the
railroad track, and the goat struggled and
made things unpleasant. and the railroad
engine was coming around a curve, and it
seemed to be all up with the goat, until
the goat ooughed up red flag. and the
railroad train came to stop just in the
nick OF time. The goat was saved, and
30 was the train"
This seems an odd statement to make
(yet President Roosevelt's friends in New
York city last night were responsible for
it), when it is remembered that at Philadel-
phia III 1900 Senator Hanna. as chairman
Of the Republican National Committee.
protested vigorously against the nominal
ton of Mr.. Roosevelt for President.
and labored for the nomination of the Hon.
Cornelius n. Bliss. Mr.. Hanna was induced
to withdraw his opposition to the candidacy
Of Mr. Roosevelt for Vice -President by
Quay of Pennsylvania and Senator
Patt Of New York who introduced into
the convention An insidlous resolution
calling for reduction of the representation
from the Southern States in Republican
National conventions.
That resolution was q pct measure OF
Henry c. Payne now Postmaster-General.|
and for tho last six years vioe-chair1nan
of the Republican National Committee and
Mr.. Hanna's protege, and the convention
was ready to adopt it. II that resolution
had been adopted by the convention Mr..
Hanna's influence III the Southern States
would have been minimized.
Senator Hanna will be In town within a
day or 40, and his friends said at tho Wal
dorf last night that he would personally
tell whether he had ooughed up red flag
and whether he could find II convenient
after his trip to Europe to come back and
remain as chairman OF the Republican
National Committee next year.