The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-04-28
NEW YORK PEOPLE WANT
ROOSEVELT NOMINATED.
BUSINESS men FAVOR HIM
Has More Friends Than Enemies
Even Among Fnanciers Of
Wall Street.

chicago, April Z4-W alLeT WelIHldA,
in a Washington special to the Record
Herald, says:
What is Senator Hanna up to-"
asked one of President Roosevelt's
official and personal friends. "Is he
going to be a candidate for the pres
idential nomination next year? con-
fess l do not know. Up to this time
| have assumed-all the friends of
President Roosevelt have assumed
that he was not. Now I am in doubt.
He has us guessing. This much ap.
pears to be certain: II Mr.. Hanna is
a candidate and If at the proper time
he intends to go to work openly for
the nomination, he would be doing
precisely as he is doing SO vociferous-
| ly, including keeping absolutely still
as to his intentions next year.
ut has not escaped notice that Mr..
| Hanna misses no opportunity to make
himself solid with the labor people,
and already a good many OF his ad.
mirers are saying that he could get
more votes next year than President
Roosevelt. do not believe this, and
as yet am not willing to believe that
Mr.. Hanna will make a try for the
honor. But l admit there are disquiet-
ing signs and that the best politics
for him would be to keep on saying
nothing and saving wood. There Is
plenty of time yet for him to change
his mind"
Though Senator Hanna's activity in
addressing labor gatherings has natur-
ally reused the suspicious of some
of the presidents friends, men who
are closest to Hanna say they have
not the slightest idea that he will
come out openly rs a candidate or per-
init his name to be used. The anxi-
ETY. OF the presidents friends is easily
explainable. Mr.. Hanna is the one
possible republican rival they fear.
If he were to get a few big northern
states to declare for him q ball might
be set rolling that would gather a
good deal of momentum. He could
come pretty close to capturing the
solid vote of the south in the con-
vention. Mr.. Hanna's friends here
say he will not go after the presidency
because he fears his health could not
stand the strain. They add that he is
following his natural bent in talking
to and for labor organizations and
that his one ambition is to secure a
reelection to the senate.
1t is a favorite notion with a great
many people that %financiers, bankers,
capitalists and business men in New
York universally hate President
Roosevelt and are ready to join any
movement which promises to defeat
him, either in convention or at the
polls. A we'll known western senator
who has recently spent a week in
New York among his friends in the
down town district said to the writer:
President Roosevelt has more
friends than enemies among the big
people of New York. There is a
common impression that every one in
!, New York is feeling ugly toward Mr.
Roosevelt on account of his trust
prosecutions. But l did not find it so
A few men do feel ugly, but the ma
. jority are fairly we'll satisfied.
, LAS to the Northern Securities
i, case, the most of the men with whom
talked in Wall street circles fee
that it is a good thing. Their atti
tude is that the mania for combina
, lions and mergers had been carried tt
a dangerous extreme, and that the
check has come at an opportune time
CAN the big men will obey the law
r They will not form any more combine
! tons, and such existing combinations
as are in probable violation Of the
law will be reorganized on lawful liens
a as soon as possible. These men tolt
me it would not be necessary for tht
h government to bring any further suits
v They also said that the decision Woult
8 be a good thing for the country, ans
. even for Wall street and the Interests
which center about it."
This description of the feeling il
New York will not give much encoul
= agement to those people who hay'
, held the theory that President Roose
= Welt could be beaten for the nomina
ton by a combination OF the "bl;
mem" of Manhattan, with Senate
4 Hanna and the politicians who oW
allegiance to the chairman OF the re
publican national committee rathe