Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-16
SENATOR HANNA HERE
Denies Stories That Have
Been Printed Recently.
CALL FOR CONVENTION
WHY IT HAS NOT BEEN ISSUED
EXPLAINED.
Says He Has Written Thousands Of
Letters Denying He is Presi-
Dental Candidate.
CALL FOR CONVENTION

Some of the things / read In the news
papers might have made me mad had l
accepted them as being exactly what they
appeared on their face, but l could read
between the lines and 1 saw what they
meant" declared Senator Hanna this morn
ing after he arrived at the Arlington from
the train that brought him from Ohio.
Il could see that they came from demo-
Gratis who would like nothing better than
to start row in the republican party and
l am too good republican to permit such
stories to affect me- he continued.
These remarks came from Senator Hanna
after he had been met by number of
newspaper men at his Office In the Airing
ton and had asked several questions about
stories that have gone the rounds OF re-
publican circles and been in the newspapers
during the last several days.
The Delay in Issuing Call.
Senator Hanna at first was not inclined to
say anything at all about the stories in
which it has been suggested that something
is doing in the Hanna camp. When 1t was
suggested that the call for the national
republican convention not having been is
sued as early as was the call for the last
convention Mr.. Hanna said:
Really this matter of denials Is going
SO tar as 10 De dDSOluIely lSilliIlB " lilo.
If l had anything to say, does any one
think / would hesitate saying it? My SEN
tin ent in regard to these matters has been
known for many weeks. There is nothing
more that l can say about 1t, and don [
prCI oSe to.
But about the delay so called in issuing
the call for the convention. 1t was two
NOR tbs after the meeting OF the committee
before Clarkson issued the call when he
was chairman, and nobody had anything
to say about any motive he might have
had in delaying. There was no reason for
hurry in issuing the call. The way the
delay occurred was simply this: / went
from here to New York and was sick there
a week. Then l went to Ohio and was sick
another week. In the meantime there was
complaint that the hotel rates in Chicago
hotels were to be extortionate, and / was
appealed to in favor of having another
meeting of the committee to fix another
place for the meeting. For that reason 1t
became desirable to defer the call, and
later / went to Chicago to see my dentist,
and at the same time took occasion to make
some inquiries concerning the manner in
| which the hotels proposed to treat their
guests.
The District Primaries.
Then, too, we have not yet received the
names of the committee that will take
| charge of the primary elections in the Dis
| trict of Columbia, and that has to be in
| cIuded In the call for the convention"
| ing the names of the committee to take
| charge of the primary elections in the Dis
trict was received at Mr.. Hanna's office in
! the mail almost during the time he was
| talking.
| That is all there is TO that" he con-
| cIuded.
| The senator declared that he couldn't see
| why such stories casting suspicion on his
| course in relation to the nomination are
| sent out.
Is Not a Candidate.
| But there are many people who are
| talking about you for the nomination" one
| Of the senator's visitors suggested.
| The senator merely shook his head pro-
| testingly, and declared that he was not on
| the witness stand
| Senator Hanna remarked that his posi-
| ton should be we'll understood. as he had
| sent out thousands of letters denying that
| he was candidate for the presidency.
fractional Fight in Ohio.
| While a large number of other callers
waited today the President talked for half
an hour with Representative Burton OF
| Cleveland. Ohio. The talk was Of great
Significance. but Mr.. Burton would not say
a single word about 1t or admit that politics
had been the subject. He said nothing, and
allowed as much liberty of inference as
each person cared to draw.
| Mr.. Burton is from one Of the Cleveland
districts. The other is represented by Mr..
| Beidler.
| Both men are said to have leanings to-
| ward what is known as the Foraker ele-
ment of Ohio politics. Both are so strong
in their respective districts that heretofore
| they have been able to worst those who at
| tempted TO get the best of them. The
Hanna people have distinctly and emphati-
| cally announced that the delegates from
| these districts to the national republican
| convention must be Hanna men This has