Arizona republican., 1904-04-09
PHoENIx. ARIZONA, APRIL 3, 1sO+
Foraker On Hanna.


 oration in the senate, Friday, on the life of Marcus A. Hanna, 1t was truth ful throughout. Nobody in either house of congress is better fitted for Volclhs A proper appreciation of the dead sena- tor and MT. Foraker's eulogy was on high plane. At the same time, It avoided the congregations and far fetched periods which frequently dls- tinguish congressional speeches in hon. or of the dead.
 Although they often found them selves on opposite sides In the numerous controversies which have arisen in Ohio politics. ana while they could not be called friends in the accepted sense or intimacy, Hanna and Foraker never en- tertained for each other a personal dis like such as divided their followers into hostile camps. As MT. Foraker ex- nlained. the friendship they fell into while supporting John sherman TOT nresident in 1884 was interrupted in 1888. and their relations were formal and distant for three years. Then better understanding was reached when in modified and less cordial way they were resumed and continued until his death"
 That public men who would like to remain on friendly terms are often Kept apart by their supporters everybody knows. and the difficulties in the way of cordial relations between Hanna and Foraker are thus mentioned by MT. Foraker:
 "These relations were less cordial than previously, because, although at times we heartily co-operated, and m a personal and social way were entire ly friendly, yet in political matters we were generally opposed to each other in factional contests and controversies among the republicans of our state.
 Mckinley was the barrier between them, in truth. For more than twenty years prior to the period of the For aker-Hanna arrangement, Hanna had entertained for Mckinley such regard as one man seldom holds for another. Mckinley was Hanna's heroand Hanna was determined that Mckinley should be advanced ahead of all other men or Ohio. He hoped to make Mckinley speaker of the house of representatives. Failure to reach that position did not discourage Hanna, nor did he lose faith in the star of his hero when the reac- ton against the protective tariff enact ed by the Mckinley bill swept McKin- ley and many other national leaders out of office and sent a democrat to con- gress from the Canton district. Hanna was still convinced that Mckinley was to stand among the mightiest of the earth; at any rate, he knew that Mo Kinley was deserving of the highest honors, and with the presidency in view he made Mckinley governor of Ohio. All these plans ran counter to the am bitions of MT. Foraker. After John Sherman, he had been Ohio's chief citi- zen, and he did not look with favor on the rise of Mckinley.
 Major McKinley's accession to the governorship, and then to the presi- dency. rapidly brought MT. Hanna him. self into national prominence, and as stated by Senator Foraker, MT. Han mas relation to MT. Mckinley had nat urally rendered him dominant in Ohio politics" But Senator Foraker would be the last to question the probability hat e cF 1,a ter and qualities of leadership would have made him a dominant figure in the politics of his state and country had he chosen to become a political leader independently of his relation to Mckinley
 Indeed, the personal qualities which distinguished MT. Hanna as one of the nations great men now stand out so clearly. history will say that Mir. Mo Kinley owed quite as much to MT. Han na as MT. Hanna owed to MT. McKin- ley. Like Mckinley himself, and like a great many other men, Senator Hanna grew as responsibilities were laid upon him, and thereby illustrated one or the peculiar features or Amerl- can political and business life For a few years, owing to the constant vituperation and defamation of which he was a subject at the hands of demo- cratic papers and cartoonists the coun- try had q radical misconception of MT. Hanna's character and mental stature But the truth always prevails IIIti- mately-if not in mans lifetime, it prevails after his death-and it was M A. Hanna's good fortune to be measur- ably understood before he died. And in the verde of his colleague and eulo- gist. Misconceptions failed and mis- representations ceased. In short al- though he had deficiencies, and prob ably disappointed expectations in some