Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1899 — Not a Standing Candidate. [ARTICLE]

Not a Standing Candidate.

Hon. J. Frank Hanly when in town last week, stated that he was now out es politics and was engaged strictly in the practice of law. It is not understood by this remark that he has determined to retire permanently from politics, but it is believed that he has no present ambition for office and that he will not seek political preferment for some time. Some fool newspapers have been talking Hanly for governor, but of course he is not and will not be a candidate. On the subject, the Lafayette Sunday Leader very sensibly remarks: “Some of the friends of Mr. Hanly are already talking about him for governor in 1900. I hope this is'without the consent of Mr. H. I would not like to see him again bob up for office, at this time and thus secure the name of being a standing candidate or aspirant for official position. I do not deny but he would make a good governor, but he is a young man, has a good law praotice; has devoted two years to congress, two years to getting other people in office, and considerable time and ability in trying for something for himself. He has been twice turned down —not through any demerits of his own, but simply because the cards were not running his way. To come out again right away for an office, would, if unsuccessful, terminate his political oareer in my judgement. I would not enjoy seeing him turned down in this way, for he is a young man of vim and. push, and later in life his party will do the handsome thing for him if he does not allow his fool-friends to kill him now Williamsport Review. And all of which is all right, but all the same the Republican of the tenth congressional district have now tumbled to the fact that Hon. J. Frank is the biggest man in it, by a full head and shoulders. They did not all know it two or three years ago, but they do now, and we now venture the prediction that in 1900 there will be such a loud call for his leadership that he will be constrained to heed it, no matter how completely he may now believe himself to be “out of politics.”