The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-05
never find Mr.. Roosevelt running a

never find Mr.. Roosevelt running a
campaign for some one else.
Commercial combativeness caused
Mr.. Hanna to be unpopular; and
though he would have given much to
make the run for governor of the state,
or even mayor of his city, those about
him held that to put him forward
would be party suicide. 1t was not I'M
til he took Mr.. Mckinley in hand and
sent him to the White House that Mr..
Hanna was heard of beyond the limits
of his town or state. Locally, however,
his light had not been hid, even though
its rays were much diStruSted, and ev-
cry man in Cleveland had heard of
Mark Hanna" as far away as Lin
coins second canvass.
HANNA THE DROVER AND ROOSE-
WELT THE CAPTAIN.
The man who knows all about dogs
knows what a dog will do before he
does it. The man who knows all about
men knows what a man will do before
he does it. Neither Mr. Hanna nor Mr..
Roosevelt knows what a man will do
until after it is done.
This ignorance has got both of our
ambitious ones into trouble through
the venality of folk whom they had
helped into place. Personally, neither
Mr.. Hanna nor Mr.. Roosevelt should be
held for the crimes of men whom they
thus trusted Either one in his esti-
mates of men about him, is blind
enough Each is a violent talker;
neither has any notion of keeping any
thing secret. Each gives freely his
confidence to any whom he calls his
friend.
Mr.. Hanna, in dealing with men, has
one advantage over Mr.. Roosevelt.
There is a side to human nature he UNI
derstands, and which he has been made
to study since that day in the middle
fifties when he began weighing out tea
and Goldfish in his fathers Columbiana
store. Mr. Hanna knows men in their
avarice. He can give a handy guess as
to how far and how fast man will go
for money.
This ignorance of men and what they
will do next came close to proving
fatal to Mr.. Hanna's political career
when last he ran for his present SEN
ate seat IN his sublime ignorance of
what concerned him most to know,
four days before the legislature con-
Vened Mr. Hanna on a count of noses
was, without knowing it, a beaten man.
His friends finally opened his eyes.
Then there was a skurrying to and fro.
In the finish Mr.. Hanna was saved by
one vote-the vote of a gentleman of
color.
It was a powerful monochrome
fraught of strain and stress. The
negro's name was called, and he gasped
out Hanna" There were six good
Hanna men and true about that devot-
ed darby when he voted. Had he
turned traitor, I doubt not but he
would have been FILTERED into frag-
ments as was that Casabianca of the
Burning Deck of whom the poet sang.
Mr.. Hanna and Mr.. Roosevelt both
want a presidency. Mr.. Hanna wants
it because of his appetite, Mr.. Roose-
Welt because of his ambition. Mr..
Roosevelt is a captain of politics. Mr..
Hanna is a political drover. The latter
can go down to the stockyards of party
and unerringly pick out his steers.
On the march, Mr.. Hanna walks be-
hind his herd. He does not, like Mr.,
Roosevelt lead; he drives. Mr.. Hanna
is not a General; he is a Boss.
Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Hanna are
men of stubbornness and courage. They
will fight if withstood, and neither is
in a hurry to retreat. They are prompt
to resent an injury. and yet each is
reasonably ready to forgive, but with
this difference: Mr.. Hanna will forgive
every injury except an injury to him
self, while Mr.. Roosevelt is the other
way about. 1t is no mighty labor to
creep again into Mr.. Roosevelt's graces
when you have injured no one but Mr..
Roosevelt. should you harm his