The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-11
They Are Said to Include Mega
tive Fight Against Roosevelt.
Gum Shoe Campaign Carried on
from Indianapolis.
MILLIONS CLIPPED IN.
Immense Sum Subscribed for
Defeat Of President.
Kerens, Of Missouri, Lined Up
With the Opposition.

SAA1CdSO, Jan. ia special IrOI1
Washington to the Inter-Ocean says:
Deep interest in manifested by
prominent Republicans of the senate
and house in the forthcoming address
of Senator Hanna to the Ohio legisIa-
ture. The address is scheduled for
some time next week, and rumors have
been current for several days in high
political circles here that the Hanna
presidential boom would take shape
and form on that occasion.
The best posted politicians say today,
however, that the Hanna boom will
not materialize for the very good rea-
son that Mr.. Hanna has no boom for
himself for that office. But it is not
denied that the anti-Roosevelt cam
paign may receive stimulus along
about the time of Senator Hanna's ap-
pearance before the legislature
The men who are responsible for en-
couragement of the anti-Roosevelt talk
are pursuing a definite and consistent
policy. They do not attempt to focus
public attention on one particular man
as rival of the president. They content
themselves with efforts to arouse in the
public mind the question of Mr.. Roosa-
velt's ability to carry the election if he
is nominated.
Men in Washington who are in touch
with the element hostile to ROOSEVELT S
nomination say that Senator Hanna,
while not opposing the president will
refrain from advocating his nomination,
and thus by lack of affirmation and by
Withholding support render it easy for
the anti-RooseVe1t faction to make
headwaV.
1t is said that Senator Hanna will
announce his forthcoming withdrawal
from the Craftsmanship of the national
committee, and will reiterate his disin-
| Ia1f all I t.
as a presidential candidate. Some OF
the more radical of the anti-Roosevelt
people in Washington think it may be
possible for them to induce Senator
| Hanna to depict as the ideal presiden-
tial candidate a character of man who
would not answer Mr.. Roosevelt's de-
scription. Conservative Republicans dc
not believe Mr.. Hanna will go that far
President Roosevelt's friends in con-
gresS are somewhat disturbed at the
extent of the anti Roosevelt propaga
| da. A literary bureau has been estab-
lished in Indianapolis which is send
/ ingNo out literature inimical to the presi-
! dents denomination. It is limited thai
! another bureau. is soon to be located in
Chicago to pursue the same work
| Somebody is supplying funds for post
| age and printing for the dissemina tior
/ of this literature on a large scale
! Eastern papers today carried dis
! patches from Kansas City stating thai
/ Richard Kerenes, leader of one factor
Of Missouri Republicans, is conducting
| a bitter campaign against RooSevelt's
denomination. Mr. Kerens is said tC
predict that Senator Hanna will be {
candidate.
| Senator Hanna has warned in the
past other Republicans of the danger
| to the party of attempting to defea
! Mr.. ROoSeVelt'S denomination with Wal
street influence.
| Many Republicans who really would
prefer some other candidate to Roose
welt have taken this admonition t.
! heart 1t has led to their casting abou
/ for a candidate who would not be sus
ceptible to the charge of corpora tioI
domination and who might be popular
with the masses.
IF Governor Taft of the Philippine.
were not coming home to accept a place
| in Mr.. Roosevelt's cabinet, there is lit
| tie doubt that his name would be hearC
! frequently on the lips Of Republican,
| who would like to see a candidate othe,
4 than Roosevelt nominated. Governo
| Taft's friends declare that he has n,
presidential aspirations at this time
They vehemently insist that he would
not countenance for a moment the US
of his name as a possible rival of tn
| president while he sat around MI
Roosevelt's executive board.
! For the present, therefore, there viii
be no mention of names by the anti
| Roosevelt faction. They will continu
| to increase their efforts to incite Re
| publicanS to question Mr.. Roosevelt
ability to carry his own state of New
| York and to criticise his characteristic
Of mind and disposition.