Bisbee daily review., 1904-01-20
Hanna Bogy
 Causing Terror
PRESIDENT HEARS OF PLOT o!
 SENATOR FROM OHIO.
To Steal the Ohio and Southern Dele gations, by Changing Method of Sc. ieetion-TroubIe Will Likely Arise Between Hanna and Foraker.

ry publis led this morning in New York that President Roosevelt had announced to visitors his intention Of making Hanna fish or cut bait as soon as he Ohio man returns to Washington was officially denied al the White House today.
 In the denial it is asserted that the president has not discussed with any one except his closest friends the probable action of the National con vention and that he has made no re. mark concei ming Senator Hanna which could be construed into the statement published this morning. Senator Hanna will be here Saturday The panicky Roosevelt leaders at the capitol today discovered what they said was plot by Senator Han na to get control of the National con vention ly changing the method of electing delegates. Other republicans who may have Hanna leanings, said the whole affair was born of the fears of the administration, which is seeing Hanna 5ogies every night
 The report was so definite and was told with so much detail that Senator Penrose, chairman of the Pennsylva- mia State committee. ostensibly a Roosevelt supporter, deferred issuing tho coll for tho pappcyI,-opio State convention, which was to be put out today. and left here tonight 10 con suit with Senator Quay. who is i'll in Philadelphia.
 Convention Call Delayed.
 The story is that Senator Hanna has delayed issuing the call for the National convention because he in tends to change it from all former calls and provide that delegates tC the National convention shall be elect ei at state conventions and not at district conventions as heretofore The reason given is that Hanna could in his manner secure an un- pledged delegation from his own state and also could obtain control of the southern delegations and possibly others with greater ease and far less cost
 Postmas,er-General Payne, as vice chairman of the National Executive committee, declared tonight that the purpose attributed to Senator Hanna could not he made effective. He said that so far as he knew neither the Chairman TOT the Executive commit. tee has authority to change the man ner of electing delegates.
 And yet" he added, T may be mis- | taken"
 The National committee at its seS sion here n December authorized the l chairman 10 issue a call for the Ma tional convention and prescribed that its terms should be the same as those of the call of the last convention. This would apparently settle the
 
 in issuing the call has aroused sus- picion that he has some plan in view antagonistic to Roosevelt. The call for the National convention is regard ed by the political leaders in all the states as necessary preliminary to the issuance of calls for state and dis trict conventions.
 State Leaders Mystifed. For the last two weeks Hanna has been bombarded with inquiries re- specting the time the call might be expected. Senator Penrose, with a call for the State convention of Penn sylvania al prepared and the date agreed upon, has been striving vainly to obtain a definite statement from MT. Hama Senator Scott, of West Virginia, d member of the Executive committee and an opera advocate of Hanna's nomination, has also written to Hanna asking for information but has received only evasive replies.
 It has been stated by Hanna that he has been II and busy, also that mem bers of the Executive committee whose assistance in preparing the call he considers indispensable have been widely scattered and could not be brought together. The answer is not satisfactory and state leaders are growing apprchensive of trouble be- cause of he shoit time to be allowed them to make arrangements for the conventions to elect the delegates.
 In their mystification over the cause of the delay they can see but one reason for it. and that is sinister plot upon the part of Hanna to stealI the convention from Roosevelt, either for himself or for some one of his choosing.
 Simultaneously with the report of Hanna's purpose today, came state ments that the Indiana delegation isl
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