The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-05
WILL HANNA WIN?
Washington Stands Aware Of
His Candidacy.

The west, aside from a few polite
fans is so solidly for Roosevelt for
president that the average mind does
not readily comprehend the opposition
that exists toward him in certain east
ern marts and market places, especial
" where the wares displayed are bonds
and currency and securities watered or
unwashed as the case may be. The
term west implies not only the Repub-
Iican masses but knots here and there,
as it were, of spare Democratic widows,
with disheveled hair, holding their mites
in thenr hands and roaming around
looking wildly here and there for a pO-
liticaI spouse to preside at their pie ta-
BILE, a provider who shall restore them
TO square meals and to round faces.
The politicians in Kansas VINO
are against Roosevelt are for him in
words but are against him in deeds.
The only regrets they have are that
opportunity now exists for words and
may never, they fear, knock for deeds.
b" with some others, stands for
Burton What Burton may stand for
depends. 1t now stands for masked
delegation to the Republican national
convention. To this end the wires be-
gin to Jingle and grow taut today as
the members of the Republican state
central committee come in on the az
ternOOn trains.
This is merely an introduction to an
article on Hanna and the White House
which recently appeared In the Satur-
day Evening Post from the vigorous
fountain pen of Alfred Henry Lewis,
who can peel the shell or the hide from
a politician with as easy skill as the
deft woman in preparing apples for the
pie or peanuts for sticky bar candy
Here is what Lewis says in part in one
of the articles of a most entertaining
and Instructive series now running in
the Post:
4I.s. 6n vrrhn
round Washington earth stands we'll
aware of is the candidacy of Mr.. Hanna
for the presidency. Mr. HannaS anXl-
cites in that behalf are as obvious as
the doctrine of original sin. OF course,
Mr. Hanna denies this. The denial
goes for nothing, not even mendaclty,
since thus to deny is the inalienable
right of every candidate. The denial
is expected of him. 1t is expected, just
as it is expected that the ostrich will
bury his head in the sand and think
himself in hiding. In either instance
every well-bred man and ostrich Will
humor a modesty which is meant for
self-respect, and never dream OF con-
tradiction.
AS I have borne witness aforetime,
Mr.. Roosevelt is also a candidate for
that nomination coveted by Mr.. Hanna
Because of this, Mr.. Hanna owns to a
political hatred of Mr.. Roosevelt OBJ
serve that 1 say political hatred. ME-.
Hanna mas no SIldQO OL p6ASO4leA4 lchtAC0
for Mr.. Roosevelt. He enterta1ns for
him only that animosity which any
we'll balanced man might feel for
tree, or a rock, or river, OF what
other thing obstructive happened to be
In the way. For more than a year, and
until recently, Mr.. Hanna's prestige
has been much dimmed from that glory
of a former hour when Mr.. Roosevelt
did not live in the White House The
late election in Ohio regilded it. The
state went Hannaward promoted
sudden vogue in the instance of MI
Hanna over and beyond any vogue that
heretofore was his.
SOME GOLD BRICKS OF SENTl-
MENT
And still that resounding majority
may. have been in no sort due to Mr.
Hanna. Suppose, during the late con-
tests, that Mr.. German, in the acct
dents of his party WanderingS, had
strolled over and made a speech for
Mr. Mcclellan in Brooklyn, which the
Democrats expected to lose by forty
thousand and won by sixteen hundred
Everybody would have said it was Mr..
German; I should have said so myself.
And vet it would have been no more
than a coincidence-which goes to show
how bird headed folk may be in their
alleged reasoning anent politics and the
causes of politics.
However. Ohio went Republican like
a barrel downhill, and since that time
Mr.. Hanna, who has grown a bit
rococO not to say obsolete, has come
vastly into the fashion. Where before
ne had but one follower, he today owns
scores; for there is no sun like the ris-
ing sun, no wagon like the band wagon.
Now that 1 am in Washington, and
may study both Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr..
Hanna without the aid of a glass, l
ought perhaps to give you what con-
illusions arise from such a looking over.
This letter is intended for Repub-
Hcans, and to aid them when they Sc
lect the head of their national ticket
next to be. Democrats may read it,
should the spirit move them so to do;
however. it is really meant for Repub-
ncan consumption. If a Republican
owned a ship he would take a hectic
interest in picking out that captain
who was to have command In pitch
ing upon a first officer of state his in
tereSt should be even more feverish.
Which points to the prOpriety Of some
thing like a hair-line detail of the
characters and the traits of both Mr..
Hanna and Mr.. Roosevelt al this pinch,
70 the end that careful men may fairly
choose between them.
There are two kinds of men born
upon the earth, and thus has it been
since the beginning. One believes in
property as the basis of things mum
dane; with such the mere man is an
incident The other regards property
as the incident and is occuDied with
humanity iJself-with perishing flesh
and blood. Politics exists by a law of
the natural, as much so as grass, or
trees, or running water. Politics con-
sistS of the man with the money YER
sus the man with the hands. And poli-
tics has never seen a change. The is
sues today are as they were when
Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt,
or wat Tyler put himself at the head
of the men of Kent and marched ia
London town.
TWO PEAS IN THE POLITICAL POD
rms natural separation enters into
the very blood and temper of men, and
one viii ind those listed by some acct
dent Of interest or environment on tbe