The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-05
there that I was born and bred.

there that I was born and bred.
Mr.. Hanna was born in Ohio-in Col
umbiana county. His father was a
doctor. Finding the region disgusting
ly healthy, the elder Hanna opened a
country store. And he prospered; and
wealth came moderately to abide in his
hands.
The future senator and possible pres
ident might have gone to college; his
father urged this. The fathers counsel
so far prevailed that for a year, at
least the coming senator and possible
president did submit himself to the cur
riculum of what at that time was
Hudson college. Then his eagerneSs to
make money overcame him, and he
turned his back on books and broke
into trade by the way of his fathers
store. From this humble mart. and
with but little delay, Mr.. Hanna grad
uated into a grocery store in Cleveland,
the city which is now his home.
A LITTLE CLIMB UP THE GENEA-
LOGICAL TREE.
Mr.. Roosevelt comes of what is term
ed a good family. Mr.. Hanna comes Of
a family quite as good. The reason why
one has not heard so much about the
| goodness of Mr.. Hanna's family as he
| has of the goodness of Mr.. Roosevelt's
! turks in this: There is more horse sense
abroad in northern Ohio than in south
ern New York, and pedigrees are less
| considered and less discussed in the
| former region than in the latter. New
! York city is pedigree mad. There are
more Burke's peerages sold in New
| York than in London; more carriages
with a coat-Of-arns painted on their
| panels can be seen in any New York
day than would roll by one in London
| in a week. The New Yorker, climbing
! his ancestral tree, should have a care.
It has been the fault of every age that
more men were hanged than crowned.
| In the very argument of chances, and
as one thousand is to one, mans an
cestry will with the last of it, ascend
a scafOld rather than throne.
In Mr.. Roosevelt's youth he. like Mr..
| Hanna, went to college. Mr.. Roose-
Velt, once in college, remained until he
graduated The jingle of gold could not
lure him away. He thought more of
books than of riches. In truth, there
| be those who think that Mr.. Roosevelt
cared so much for college that he suf-
| fers from what one might call the Har-
ward habit to this day. His eager pref
erence for that university and those
who come from it has caused him to
be laughed at in some quarters and re-
viIed In others. It is not we'll for one,
/ especially Il one be president, to mar
row ones self to any specific or par
/ ticular thing; and even though it be a
great and noble school. 1t breeds
rancorS and iealOusies. And if that
school be Harvard it sets folk to re-
membering what John Quincy Adams
wrote in his diary when disgruntled,
for that Harvard went to the fulsome
4 length OF comforting Doctor of Laws"
on Andrew Jackson. a gentleman who
knew deal about fighting and mighty
| little about law. ''Seminaries of learn
ing, wrote John Quincy, on this indig-
nant occasion, ''have been sycophants
| and tlme-servers in every age"
That Mr.. Roosevelt stuck to college
while Mr.. Hanna deserted promptly at
the call of gold illustrates that grand
dlfTerence to subsist between them. Mr.
Roosevelt cares vastly for glory-for
fame, and not at all for piling up the
dollars. Mr.. Hanna's first thought is
for money; he must have wealth. Given
/ riches, he will later take up that Ques-
ton OF celebration 1t was this fame
| thirst that taught Mr.. Roosevelt to lay
aside one of the highest places on the
llstS or government and go surging off
to the Spanish war. Mr.. Hanna was
ltwenty-three when our civil war broke
out, hale and sound of mind and limb.
He did not go; dominated by that bent
for riches, Mr.. Hanna took an army
contract instead.
Both Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr. Hanna
are aggressive; the one has been ag-
I gress1ve in his hunt for fame, the other
has been aggressive in his hunt for
money Now that Mr.. Hanna levels
ms energies more particularly at poll
ties and aims to pull down place. he is
still aggressive. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr..
Hanna, because of that force and steam
which are natural to them, will each
toF himself hunt that presidential nom
lnation with ferVOr seldom seen.
MT Hanna has something more than
mere talent for oney-making-he has
genius. Knowing by experience how
nard was the conquest of a dollar, he
lIeafned early to part with one reluct-