Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-20
SENATOR HANNA.


The Sioux City Journa! commenting
upon recent editorial in the Times
Republican agrees with This paper that
the vice presidential office can not con-
sistently be considered beneath the am
biion of great men, but very Justly
observes that ii may be wholly within
the prophecies for some men not to
desire election TO the office. Referring
particularly 10 Senator Hanna the
Journal quotes from the Times Rapub-
lean as follows:
1T is not unlikely that; Mr.. Hanna
would refuse a nomination as vice
president. He has held other hopes and
has seen them wither. Perhaps he still
has an eye fixed upon the executive
chair. He could scarcely bring himself
10 play second fiddle To one so init
niately connected with The disappoint-
ment of his life. Tnis attitude OF Mr..
Hanna's is pleasing 70 tne masses, who,
recognizing the greatness of his serv-
ices, have never learned to entirely
trust him. and his nomination for vice
president would lend no strength to the
ticket outside of his ability to command
subscriptions to the campaign fund"
The Journal then says:
There is more or less precedent for
CT ,ri, oil
Hanna. There is not much occasion for
ii in the record"
The Journal thinks It would be more
to Mr.. Hanna's personal liking to re-
main in his present position. 1t notes
that his succession to the senate is we'll
assured and at the end Of another term
Mr.. Hanna will be nearly "a years old.
Continuing the Journal says:
when Mckinley was ,enominated al
Philadelphia 1t is not to be assumed
that Hanna was troubled with dreams
that he would succeed 10 the place on
the expiration of McK.nley's second
term. II is safe to say that Hanna was
content to remain in the senate-at
least content TO remain in service to
the man of his state whom he so much
honored and between whom and him
self there was such great affection.
The Ohio senator has repeatedly de-
ciared that he was not an aspirant for
the presidency. 1t seems as tho he was
entitled to be taken at lis word He
has had an opportunity TO know how
eXacting are the duties of the great
office and what requirement they place
upon physical strength. He has no;
been unmindful of his own infirmities
and the accommodating weight OF his
years.
1T must be true that 1t is an injustice
to the Ohio senator TO refer TO him as
disappointed man. He has none of
that bearing, and there is nothing in
his record as associated with politics
to give the statement warrant"
The Journal has Inexperienced the
T.-R. or differs from it IN It's definition
of disparagement. Whatever the prece-
dent may be, this paper will acquiesce
in the statement that there is no great
occasion for disparagenent of Senator
Hanna in his record as a political lead
err. However there is no disparage-
ment, but the opposite in ascrbing
presidential ambition to amy public man
or assuming his disappointment over
circumstances that act as a bar to such
natural and laudable ambition. 1t Is
true that Senator Haana has never
made proclamation of he desire at
tributed to him by the Times Repub
lican, but the character Of his general
ambitions and not few ofhis actions as
well as welI-defned and credible runlor
leave only Mr.. Hanrlas public procla-
nation necessary to its confirmation