Show yI y- y I 4 4 M t t M t 4 H 4 M f. M M 4 s M e- e M M s s M s M s I i H I s s M s s M t o oTHE M M t ti i THE HANNA BOOM t 4 M t M M U U M M M H- HI t I M M M 1 M M M H H- H Since it ft has passed into a proverb that some I equally good Ohio man always has a mortgage on i the Republican nomination for fort the presidency it need ne not astonish stonish anybody to read today that his political fri friends n s and nd neighbors assembled in state convention at Cleveland have started a tentative Hanna for 1904 The proposed beneficiary has bas not been heard d from and will not be until after the speech of the permanent presiding officer today But when he has spoken no doubt we shall be told that in no circumstances will the great leader allow himself to be regarded as a competitor for the nomination nomination nomination nom nom- against President Roosevelt That has been Mr Hannas Hanna's understood attitude attitude attitude atti atti- tude all an along Whatever else may be he said of f him the Republican Warwick is a square man and nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing ever could induce him to be anything else He was was vas a party to Theodore re Roosevelt's nomination to the Vice-Presidency Vice in 1900 and probably y to the he agreement made with that unwilling candidate by Republican leaders that if he would accept the nomination they w would uld support him for first pla place e eat at the next national convention of the party Mr Roosevelt has bas made mistakes and some that he might have avoided if he had been guided by the conservative advice of leaders like Mr But on the whole he has been and is making making making mak mak- ing a good impression upon the country as a President President dent who sometimes may be wrong headed but whose principles principles- and standards are high and whose motives are uniformly good On the strength of his Hous record hei deserves Jh the re reward ward of the nomination he seeks at the hands bands of his party and as s things look now he will rec receive ive it Of course anything may happen fri in the the- theco co course of two years and it is possible if not probable that Mr Roosevelt by bJ 1004 might not ot be in as strong a position then as he holds n now w In such an event and should he Ie fail to connect at the Republican national convention of that year ear it loo looks s as though the highest party honors would pass to Senator Hanna So the friends of that eminent individual appear to regard the situation and no we shall see ee further evidences from the Cleveland State convention that are preparing for the exigency |