Excerpt from The McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations 1897-1909 New York City is a good point of survey and from this point Hanna's appearance in public life was like that Of a comet in the sky. Although fifty-nine years old in 1896, he had gradually, but with steady ambition, been working up to the place from which he was now to begin his most important achievements. His restless mind had always cast about for a new enterprise and, not being a student or reader of books, and having no sympathy with a man who devoted his whole ability to the acquirement Of money, he entered the field of politics. Before he was thirty-two he made an informal alliance with an enter prising young man oi Cleveland to break up the Repub lican machine that dominated city politics. Both were good Republicans but objected to the manner in which city affairs were conducted. Somewhat later when the Republican machine nominated one of their representa tive men for mayor, Hanna led a revolt against the machine and, with the aid of a number of independent associates, nominated a Democrat of excellent business ability and elected him 1 although the rest of the Repub lican ticket was chosen. In city and ward politics, he was always noted for his independent action and Often showed no hesitation in supporting Democrats when they were better men than the Republican nominees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.