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,

From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building
i Washington. z
Washington, Nov. IL. The situation
as to the proposed candidacy of Sena-s
tor Hanna for the republican presi-
dental nomination is simplified 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-
was said for impersonal reasons-to
committing the Ohio republicans to
Roosevelts 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 decided advantage.
After it had become apparent that
Hanna, while protesting friendship
for the president, was against indorse-
ment, the president, being then in the
far west on his tour, sent a telegram
to him. saying in effect that failure to
indorse 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
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,
who are still grasping at straws. 1t is
entirely safe to say that Senator Han
ma Is not a 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
connection.
terests which oppose Roosevelt made
strenuous effort to gain Hanna's
/ consent to become a 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
declaration 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
| on to enter the race. They failed
here, also, since which time they have
been quiescent. They have beer
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 he a candi
date against Roosevelt.
These enemies OF. the president, b,
the way, are the ones who were S,
bitterly hostile to him when he wa
governor of New York, because of Ger
tain positions he took with referenc,
to public service corporations in tina
state. They did not want him renom
mated for governor, and so the.
4 schemed to sidetrack him ilre the vice
presidential chair. This plan ais,
!. failed, for reasons which nobody, o
course. could foresee5 in 1900, and nov
these same ones are again arrayet
against him, and for a year and NOR,
have been laboring like hired men t,
prevail on somebody to contest tn
nomination with him next year It i
this same Wall street crowd, by tn
4 way. which SO strongly opposed tn
reelection of Mayor Low. They dom
, want anybody in office who is not thei
3 friend, and, generally speaking, an
+ man whom they oppose is likely to b
the peoples friend.