The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-11-27
THE KIMBALL GRAPHIC
cLATE TlNAN
Official Paper Of the City and County.
WHAT DoEsHmEAN?

One Of the most prominent and we'll
known Republican politicians in the
state remarked to the editor Of the
GRAPHIC, on q railroad train, a few
days ago that there were mysterious
doings In Republican circles in New
York state and in proof of 1t cited the
fact that within a week he had re.
ceiyed copies OF three New York
newspapers containing editorials
favoring the nomination Of Hanna for
president. AT u request the news.
papers we're sent to us, and below We
publish a marked editorial from one
of them:
According to the newspapers in their
reports from Washington, Senator
Mark A. Hanna will be voted for in
the next Republican national conven-
tion.
We anticipate that if his name is
presented to the convention he will be
nominated for president on the first
ballot.
We are inclined to this belief be.
cause 1t seems to us that there can
be no question concerning what the
decision OF the convention will be
when the conservative, thoughtful
men who will make up that body
realize that they are to choose between
the cratic, yacillating policy OF
Theodore Roosevelt and the policy
adopted BY the late lamented Nc
kinley, which is best represented by
his closest friend and ablest advisor.
Hon. Mark A. Hanna, of Ohio.
And in having to make a choice be-
tween these policies and the men rep.
resenting them, a majority of the dele
cation from the Empire state will uh-
lquestfonably be found voting for
Senator Hanna, the lifelong and
cherished friend of the late president,
under whose leadership Ohio last
week accomplished such a signal
triumph for Republicanism and for
those doctrines in government which
William Mckinley made imperishable
in the minds of the people.
The editorials in the other news
papers are of the same tenor, of about
the same length and st%rikingly similar
in thought and diction. The mysteri-
Gus part Of it is: all three are country
newspapers and the editorials appear
ed the same week and the papers are
marked with a blue pencil and with
the characteristic Office style-showing
that the copies were sent out under
instructions fromlsome one.
A comparison between the editorial
reproduced above Inc the other edi-
torial matter appearing in the news
paper from which it was taken shows
evidence Of the editorial having been
written outside the of1ce-there is a
different swing to it and the dictiun is
SO different as to become noticeable
at once.
There is surely something doing
either with or without the Ohio
senator's knowledge and consent
that is plainly evident from these
New York state newspapers. There
are those of course who will be only
too ready to believe that Hanna is
playing a deep game to undermine
Roosevelt and catch him unawares
the last moment.
We don't.
Hanna resigned all claims to the
Republican nomination last June,
when he was forced to allow the Ohio
state convention to indorsc Roosevelt
for the nomination. Hanna did not
want the convention to indorse Roose-
veit. He insisted that such an in
dorsement was next years work. But
it vas done-and with Hanna's on
sent. The Hanna boom among
Hanna's close friends died right there.
Hanna will not go back on his word.