The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-27
NEW LEADERS
HANNA AND HIS FRIENDS WILL
 HAVE TO RETIRE.
Lodge the Coming Man-Massa chusetts Senator is Said to Have an Ambition to Enter
 the White House.

| Chicago Record-Herald
 | It seems certain that what may De | called "a new crowd is about to come | to the front in the Republican party. TOT | eight years Senator Hanna and ms frlehos | have been at the top in the nauonai or = | ganization, but they will now ne caieo upon to give up to a new coterie. Witn- 1 out much doubt Senator Lodge of Mas
 sachusetts will be at the head or the | coterie. as he is the chief of the so-called | kitchen cabinet" There is renewal
 of the gossip that MT. Lodge may be made
 chairman of the national Republican com | mittee to succeed Senator Hanna. It IS
 now generally understood. as was an-
 nounced in these dispatches some time | ago, that Mir. Hanna will manage no
 more national campaigns, and that ms
 present campaign for reelection to the | Senate from Ohio is to be his last political
 battle. Notwithstanding the gossip con-
 corning MT Lodge as his successor, the | friends of the President do not believe he will ask the Massachusetts Senator to accept this responsibility. There IS no | doubt of Mir. Lodges qualifications, as ne | is one of the shrewdest politicians in the country, but his ambition IS t. be lead CT of the Senate. He is not popular among the leading men of his party. and' should the President select him for his
  | in many directions. The President Is l much more likely to choose former Gov | ernor Murray Cane of Massachusetts. Senator Hanna will doubtless be asked | to remain at the head of the committee
 but he will decline. When the time comes
 it is understood that President Roosevelt
 will make public h.s invitation to Sena-
 tor Hanna to stay at his old post as I AA fhA raffr ri irc CT | chief Nor is tbere to be any proscrip- | ton of MT Hanna and his friends with
 the consent of President Roosevelt Tue | President is sincerely fond of Mir Hanna, | and values his judgment and loyalty very | highly. In the nature of things, how l ever a new crowd will come to the front | and If MT. Lodge is not the chairman of
 the committee he will be conspicuous in
 the rising coterie. Already MT. Lodge Is laying his plans. He naturally turns to
 such men as Senators Foraker and
 Quay to join hands with him. It happens
 that both of these men are enemies of | Hanna, and the Presidents friends have | warned him that he will have to be care | full not to permit the new regime to look
 too much like a displacement of the Han- | na crowd with their enemies.
 l Mir. Lodge i9 ambitious He wants first | to be leader of the Senate, and after that | he hopes to be President of the United
 States He means to take advantage of
 the present opportunity to build up
 Lodge machine throughout the United | States, and in carrying 1t out he will in- Vite a large number of Senators and
 other men prominent in the party to come l into his combination. With President | Roosevelt reelected and MT. Lodge the | chief politician of his second administra- | ton, as he has been of his first, there l fa HY,ait iV Ir o1 nnin
 to what may be done by skillfully build
 ing up an organization, based on patron | age and influence and ramifying in every | part of the country.
 1 In his State of Massachusetts Mir Lodge
 has one of the finest political machines | in the United States. It Is so skillfully | operated that even in that State many | intelligent men are not aware of its ex-
 istence. and cling to the old tradition | that the junior Senator Is no politician, | but a mere scholar, dilettanti and civil | service reformer. Here in Washington it is we'll understood that MT Lodge is a
 rising man in his party. and that stranger
 things have happened than that he shall
 be able to make himself the political
 legatee of his lifelong friend, Theodore
 Roosevelt
 Among prominent Republicans there has | been a good deal of talk about the rela-
 tions which exist between the President
 and MT. Lodge. MT. Roosevelt, when
 spoken to about it, always replies that
 Senator Lodge is his closest personal | friend. but that he Is not his political
 adviser. Yet 1t Is observed that MT.
 Lodge has a hand in almost everything
 of importance that is done at the White
 House. It Is patent to everyone that he
 has more influence there than anyone
 else. He gets nearly everything he goes after and it is a maxim that he goes
 after almost everything in sight. As the
 months roll by and the sparks fly up
 ward 1t will be worth while to keep an eye upon the ambitious junior oenator from Massachusetts. If he happens to
 take a notion to be the new chairman
 of the National Committee. and hence the | first man of the Republican Party next
 to the President himself, the chances are
 that he will have his way. President
 Roosevelt Is not in the habit of denying
 MT. Lodge very much that this gentle
 man sets his heart upon. If Lodge does
 not take the chairmanship himself Mur
 ray Crane probably will, and that keeps | I,, he O1r Pap fIxy