Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-06-04
MARK HANNA'S FIGHT.
The Ohio Boss 10 Making a Great
Play for Supremacy in
Party Affafrs.

The political enemies of Marcus A.
Hanna, of Ohio, do not propose to per.
init him to escape the fate they have
planned for him by accepting his
prophecy that Roosevelt is to be NOM
mated. They are going on the as
sumption that the wary Marcus is dis
semblingand they are forcingthe fight
ing. Presently he will come into the
open and admit that the welfare of his
party may demand another leader
than Roosevelt, says the st. Paul Globe.
Hanna is not the man to quit while
there is anything left to fight for or
with. He makes no bones about his
sentiments. While there is some pre-
tense of amity between the white
house party and the men who domin-
ated the republican party in the time
of Mckinley, it is known to be only
a pretense. Roosevelt is not the man
to forgive those leaders who forced
a vice presidential nomination on him
with a view to getting rid of him-and
the fact that they made his political
fortune in doing it is no more calcu-
lated to reconcile him than it is to con-
tribute to the political cas- of Hanna
and Platt. He is making himself a
new platform, he is running for a nom
ination for the presidency and that
without regard to the men who fur
nish the sinews of war for his party.
He has taken the position that Hanna
and the men who act with him are not
absolutely necessary to the success of
a presidential candidate Of the repub-
lican stripe. Mr.. Hanna's mission in
life is to demonstrate to the president
that the political conventions must
observed.
The fight will be worth the watch
ing. Hanna has the republican ma
chine-the organized body that works
for office and requires much money for
its maintenance-at his command.
The younger men who have not yet
come to appreciate the value of the
most serious proposition just now.
When they come to understand that
the purse strings will not be loosened
for their man they will get into line.
The south does not offer much en-
enlargement actual to the Roosevelt
men, for the negroes who are sent to
national conventions are sent by the
machine-not because of their merits.
1t will take more than the shoutings
of the noisy ones. who think they
know and admire the strepuouc life
and the independent negro delegates
to name the republican standard bear
err, and Hanna is still fairly certain
that his day will come.
The Saving around the circle" has
not settled the republican nomination
in favor of Roosevelt. It has not even
had the effect of weakening the Han
ma following. The man from Ohio is
busy in the east and middle west, while
the president is looking after the
coast. And because he doesn't make
a noise it must not be presumed that
Senator Hanna is not making a good
fight. He knows he is battling for his
political life and if they kill him off
the Foraker-Roosevelt men will know
that they have been in a serious row..
In any event, the contention must split
the republican party. 1t would take
something like a year more of the fight
on Hanna to send that statesman to
the country on election day or to re-
%pudiating the men who are trying to
steal the machine he built.