The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-11
HANNA IS TIED UP
The Ohio Conventions Indorse-
ment Of Roosevelt Makes His
Candidacy Impossible.
Motives Of the Men Who Are Try
ing to Get Ohio Senator in
Contest.

From The Journal Bureau Colorado Building,
Washington.
Washington, Nov. 1.-THE situation
as to the proposed candidacy of Sena-
tor Hanna for the republican presi-
dental nomination is simpliied when
platform this year that strongly
pledged him and the Ohio party to
Roosevelt's nomination. The facts
connected with the shaping up of
the Ohio platform ought still to be
fresh in the public mind. Early last
spring, when the convention pre-
liminaries were being arranged, it de-
veloped that Hanna awas opposed--it
was said for impersonal reasons-to
committing the Ohio republicans to
Roosevelt's nomination. At once
Senator Foraker came out for Roose-
yelt. and there was great interest in
what the convention would do.
Failure to indorse the president would
weaken his cause and encourage the
Wall street opposition; Endorsement
would clear the atmosphere and give
the president a decided advantage.
After it had become apparent that
Hanna, while processing friendship
for the president, was against indorse-
ment. the president, being then in the
far west on his tour, sent telegram
to him. saying in effect that failure to
lndorse would mean that Ohio was
unfriendly. To this telegram Hanna
promptly replied. saying that there
should be Endorsement; and there was,
of the strongest sort. 1t was on the
platform containing this Endorsement
that Hanna has Just won his wonderful
victory. These facts dispose of the
Hanna presidential candidacy very
easily That candidacy, by the way,
is merely the expression of the views
Of certain disgruntled ones in the east,
entirely safe to say that Senator Han
ma Is not party to it, and will not
be. He knows a good deal better than
these pretended friends Of his what
the chances would be, in convention
and before the people, and is too sane
and far-sighted to be used in such
a connection.
Last winter these same eastern in
terests which oppose Roosevelt made
strenuous effort to gain Hanna's
consent to become candidate
Finally, the matter having gone so far
as to attract wide attention, Hanna
made his declaration of support Of
Roosevelt, to which he referred sew
eral days ago in making his second
declarations. Disappointed, the enc
mics of the president-confined al
most exclusively to the trust interests
of Wall street-turned to Senator
Fairbanks, whom they tried to prevail
here, also, since which time they have
| been quiescent. They have been
stirred to a temporary activity by the
| results of the Cuban election but once
| more Senator Hanna comes forward
and says that he will not be a candi-
| date against Roosevelt.
These enemies of the president by
ho ,I,o
bitterly hostile to him when he was
governorsof New York, because Of GER
tain positions he took with reference
to public service corporations in that
state. They did not want him renom-
mated for governor, and so they
1 schemed to sidetrack him il1e the vice.
presidential chair. This plan also
failed, for reasons which nobody. Of
course, could foresee In 1900, and now
these same ones are again arrayed
against him, and for year and more
have been laboring like hired men to
prevail on somebody to contest the
nomination with him next year. 1t is
this same Wall street crowd, by the
l way, which so strongly opposed the
prediction Of Mayor Low. They dom
want anybody in office who is not thei,
friend, and, generally speaking, an,
man whom they oppose is likely to be
the peoples friend.
Foraker Man Named.
In filling a vacancy on the supreme
court bench of the District of Colum
bia the other day, the president Sc
lected Judge Wright of Cincinnati, a,
avowed Foraker man. The appoint
ment, however, was held back unit
after the election, so that it might no
be construed as slap at Hanna, an,
used to his disadvantage in the cam
paign. Senator Foraker was YER
helpful in Strengthening out the Obi
tangle last spring, and in bringing on
a demand for Endorsement which Sen
ator Hanna could not resist In re
turn, sthe president has wanted 70
months to do something for Foraker
Finally it was decided that wrigh
should have the federal judgeship i
this city. That was last summer, an
the appointment was withheld fo
months in order that Hanna Nigh
not be hurt by it. The people of tina
city, in the meantime, had been clam
orous to have the vacancy filled, fo
Y the courts were crowded and wor
was getting behind. It was not know
here that Wright was to be appointed
or that the appointment would nc
come until after the election. Th
presidents tact in this matter is onl
another indication that he has an ur
derstanding with Senator Hanna, an
that Hanna will contribute all he ca
Il to the presidents success next yea
in the convention and at the polls.
To Be Chairman Again.
1t is believed in Washington tn:
4 Hanna will again be made chairma
of the republican national committe
and if this is true, he will be a MOI
effective chairman than in 1896
1900, because of the prestige whie
the victories in those pears gave hir
and because, further, of the remarl
able showing he has just made
Ohio. The result, while measurab
a personal tribute to Hanna, had
much deeper significance. The can
paign was. waged solely on nation
issues. No local issues were me-
toned. and Tom Johnson, in order
be rid of them, advised all his frien
to vote for Herrick for governc
leaving the legislature the only poi
Of contest. The great victory while
4 the republicans have won marks tt
complete subsistence of the Bryan til
and the passing from American pc
tics Of the men who have been proI
linently identified with it. Johnson h
been Bryan's political protege. Bry;
has favored him as the democrat
presidential nominee. The two Ea
much in common and their ment
faculties are very similar. johnson
defeat was not a personal slap, for
: is very popular in Ohio, and as may
of Cleveland he has established hi
levels and standards of munich
from Ohio citizens that they HI
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