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When James ]. Hill was in the city re-
Gently. he hunted up Senator Hanna and
asked him TO become a candidate for the
Republican nomination for the presidency
The railway magnate said that the Ohio
senator could rest assured that he would
have the hearty support of the strong
business interests of the country and that
1t would be powerful enough to make him
win. The senator gave the reply to Mr.
Hill which he has given dozens of others
that is, that he did not want the job and
would not have it if he could get it.
That is most certainly important, if
true, for Mr.. Hill is a man of vast in
fluence himself, and he trains with
coterie of men who are powerful in
deed, and if he had the foregoing con-
versation he was most probably not
speaking for himself alone, but also for
all those who have interests in common
with him. If he did speak for them,
there is more Importance to be attached
to what he said than to any other po-
litical action this year except what the
president did in the matter of the coal
strike.
If Senator Hanna said that he did
not want the job and wouldn't have it
if he could get it, he spoke perhaps
candidly, but unadvisedly. He had not
carefully examined his own mind and
heart, for it may be asserted without
the fear Of successful contradiction that
there is not citizen of the republic
who would not accept that particular
job if he could get it. True that Dio-
cletian abdicated the imperial crown OF
Rome and that Charles " of Spain ah-
dicated several crowns, but they were
satiated with power. They had sound
ed every shoal and depth of honor and
were weary of the world, and it will
be noted that neither Diocletian nor
Charles declined crowns in the first in
stance. Nobody ever declined to be
president, and nobody ever will Some
day, perhaps in the ages yet to be, some
president will immortalize himself by
resigning, but he will be a rara avis
1t will be observed that Mr. Hill made
no suggestion as to a vice presidential
candidate to run with Senator Hanna.
While 1 am neither the spiritual nor
eral or of Mr.. Hill in particular, per-
chance 1 can aid them and him to fill
out the ticket. How would Governor
Van SAINT of Minnesota strike them? 1t
is generally suspected that Senator
Hanna is not unfriendly or unkind to
the trusts. Indeed, lie is looked upon in
certain quarters as their champion
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to trusts in general and to Mr.. Hills
merger in particular. Yes, the ticket of
Hanna and Van SAINT would add to the
gayety of nations. at least.
"A Condition, Not Theory"
Unless all signs fail, our Republican
friends will be up against it good and
hard when the house of representatives
of the Fifty-eighth congress comes to
be organized. They are always loud in
protesting their love for the colored
man and brother-at long range They
shed copious crocodile tears at the po-
litical wrongs inflicted upon him. They
solemnly asseverate before man and
God that he is worthy of high office.
Now, they are about to be put to the
test as to the sincerity of their declara-
tions. Rev William McGill, colored, of
Chattanooga, Tenn, and Birmingham,
Ala, proposing 10 take them at their
word has announced himself a candi-
date for the chaDlaincy of the house
and is now i'll Washington pressing his
claim. That the Rev. William McGill
will cause a rafting of dry bones in the
Republican camp there can be no sort
Of doubt. He seems to base his hopes
of success on what he is pleased to de-
nominate as President Roosevelt's rec
ognition Of the rights of the negro" in
the south and thinks he can secure the
support of the administration in his
ambitious undertaking. In this Mr..
MeGill may or may not be correct, but
the chances are ten to one that if the
president did nothing else betwixt now
and the first Monday in December, A.
D. 1903, but press Mr.. McGilrs candi-
dacy the latter would never be chaplain
Of the house of representatives. Mr..
McGill has not thoroughly considered
the situation. The Republican theory
Is that the cOlored man and brother is
good enough to vote the Republican
ticket in any part of this great republic
and is good enough to hold any Office,
big or little, high or low-in the south.
But as to holding high Office in the
north-that is another story. a story
which Mr.. McGill and all his race
would do well to take to heart
1t is more than thirty years since the
fight of suffrage was conferred upon
The colored folks. There is no northern
state in which there are not negroes of
ability and education, yet in all these
years and in all these states only one
negro has held high elective Office
McCabe of Kansas, who was twice au-
ditor of the Sunfiower State. He is the
exception which proves the rule of ex-
clusion of the negro from prominent
political office in the northern states.
Occasionally one is elected to the leg
islature - Peter Clark of Cincinnati,
for instance In all this third of cen
fury no colered man has been sent to
either branch of congress by north
ern constituency, and it requires no
great powers of vaticination to predict
that none ever will be sent. Now,
submit that if negro is good enough
to represent a southern constituency he
is good enough to represent a northern
constituency. If the negro were dis
franchised everywhere, the Republic
ans could not carry Kansas, Iowa, Il
linois, Ohio. West Virginia. Indiana,
Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware or
New York. Without the negro vote
the Republicans would have no earth.
ly show in Virginia, Kentucky, Mis-
souri, or Tennessee -and they haven't
much of show as 1t is Consequently
the negro holds the whip hand in the
Republican party, if he chooses to use
it. United and aggressive, they can
compel the Republicans to make a fair
division of the loaves and fishes, both
north and south. Indeed, If they are
courageous and persistent they can
gobble the lions share, for without
them the Republicans would be in
hopeless minority and would soon be