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Show UNCLE MARK. As we undtrstand it, Mr. Harriman did not become the great combiner of railroads through his own immense wealth, but through his Jnli mate knowledge of the conditionp governing many of the railroads of the country; knowledge obtained ob-tained through a special investigation. The thought finally came to him of how easy it would be to adjust these conditions in a way so tint a multitude of roads might be consolidatPil to the manifest benefit of all. It seems to us that what is most needed just now in the United States is a man who knows all the secrets of Trusts and Combines, all the designs, de-signs, wants and aspirations of the Labor Unions; and these to afTiiliato and combine to the material ma-terial benefit of all. Our belief is that Mark Hanna comes nearer to being this man than any other in the Union; he is the only one whom we know of who has the lull confidence of the Eastern East-ern Labor Unions and at the same time, the confidence con-fidence of the men who control the finances that in turn give direction to the handling of the great combined industries of the country. It looker now as though President Roosevelt would, if he lives, be nominated by acclamation to succeed himself, but if this shouid not happen to be the case, our thought is that there is no other man in the Republican Re-publican party who could be nominated with so much hope of succeeding, or with so fair a prospect pros-pect of making a successful President as Mark Hunna. |