Bisbee daily review., 1904-02-04
IN SENATOR
 hANNA'S STATE.

hRNNAS StAiEs According to Senator Foraker, there is, no trouble in Ohio, none at all. There is a spirited political contest going on there, but there is no acri- mony. Ohio politics, he says, arel apt to be spirited. But in the contest over the election of delegate to the State Convention. which in is turn will send delegates 10 the National Republican Convention, everything isl good-natured.
 We could view with greater conf dence Senator FoTaker's portrayal ot the sweet peace and accord Ot mind that reign in Ohio, politics this winter if We had not of late observed some indications that Ohio's other Senator, the Hon. Mark Hanna, is not exactly in a lamb-like frame Of mind. MT, Hanna talks little for publication, but what he says 70 his friends has a sound rather of the bugles of war than of the pipes of peace For instance there is this self-interpreting state ment made in the editorial columns of the Sun last week:
 We have net regarded Senator Han na as a candidate We violate no confidence when we say that upon this point we have long and unreservediy shared the Senator's views. We think we may, without indiscretion. go even further and say that Senator Hanna has never avowed to any one, not even to himself. his intention of be coming a candidate With equal pos itiveness, and with the Senator's own authority. We say that he has never pledged himself 10 any one, and espe- cially not to Mir. Roosevelt, in spite of what the newspapers with the pro ; truding eyeballs assert, that he will not be a candidate for the Presiden- cy, if, at any time, he shall see fit to be a candidate. The nearest that Senator Hanna ever came to giving a pledge was when he told MT. Roose- welt, upon the latter's accession 70 Mir. McKinley's place, that he. Hanna, was for him so long as he kept his word to follow faithfully in the foot steps of his predecessor"
 Senator Hanna, it appears. has re served his liberty of action. He has not divested himself of the right to ac- cept for himself or his appointee. as they say in contracts. the Republican termination for the Presidency. He may not want it himself If that be the case we are much inclined to the belief that hew i'll put forward Civil Gov William H. Taft as his candi date. and will try to make him the party candidate Gov. Taft come, from Senator Forakers end of tht State. and in the past has perhaps st-od somewhat nearer to Forakel than to Hanna. Personal intimacy however, would not be the determin ing factor. Senator Hanna would os likely to urge Gov. Taft upon the con vention because he would be probaDi. the strongest candidate the Repubii cans could present to the people. Per haps President Roosevelt had an cyl to the future contingencies of this na ture when he asked Gov. Taft to leav' his work unfinished in the Philippine and come to Washington to take th' office of Secretary of War. It is un derstood that Gov. Taft consente; with reluctance, but if it was the pur pose of the President to get possible rival out of the way he can hardly b. said to have succeeded. If the Re publican party continues in its pres ent temper toward Mr. Roosevelt tho convention would not hesitate mo ment to take is nominee out ot h'' cabiret.