The San Francisco call., 1896-11-21
Chairman Hanna Outlines
the Future Policy of
Republicans.
Legislation OF the Administra.
tion Will Win Friendship
of Workingmen.
In Addition to This the Work of
Education Will Be Continued Dur
ing the Next Four Years.


COMMITTEES had conference here to-day
with F. w. Peck of Chicago, in which Mr..
Hanna outlined the future policy of the
Republican organization and the McKin-
ley situation. Mr.. Hanna also discussed
In confidential manner the last cam
paign. This interv lew, according to Mr..
Peck, is as follows:
'The Republican party" said Mr.
Hanna to Mr.. Peck, "will not have such
close call again as it had in the last cam
paign. The work Of education is TO be
continued strongly from the present until
the next Presidential election. This will
be done because the other side will work
during the next four years, and if we do
not counteract their efforts they will win
next time. The policy of the administra-
ton will be in exploitation of the ideas
that will further advance the strength of
the Republican party.
''The one great power for Bryan was the
workingman. Bryan posed as their friend
and succeeded in getting them practically
in line, but the tight at the polls was not
so much between gold and silver as it was
the fight of the workingmen against the
man they thought was the exponent of
trusts and monopolies. They were led to
believe that Mckinley was the candidate
of the trusts, and, not TO mince matters,
was my candidate, and that l was the
head center of the Republican party. The
Popocrats very adroitly made me the
whole thing and called me the oppressor
of the laboring man. OF course l can
stand that sort of thing, but with Nc
Kinley IL is another thing. The labor
leaders here. who are friendly 10 me, tell
me that if We are to be successful again
we must counteract this Impression, and
that is what we propose TO do. We cannot
do anything with the ia mers. They have
ssft us. but we can ct the labor vote. and
we shall begin now to direct it that way
from Bryan aud his party"
Glow will Mr.. Mckinley do thisf"
"Why, he knows too we'll that something
more than the mere assertion that the Re-
publican party is the friend of the work
lngman is necessary, and National legis-
lation will be so handled that it will be the
best educator of the people,"
Mr.. Hanna said further to Mr.. Peck:
''The fight of silver against gold was
practically abandoned by the Democrats
two weeks before the campaign closed. 1t
will never again be the main issue-that
is, silver as an issue will never cut anv
more figure than greenbacks. The one
idea must be TO instill into the minds of
the men OF the cities that RepubIicanism m
is as good and better than Popocracy. Only
let Mckinley be inaugurated President of
the United States and this will be DONE l
have no doubt but that the result will be
ali we hope. There must be an arrange
ment that will strike the people at the
right time. Mckinley will assume a
oignifed attitude OF antagonism to all
trusts and monopolies. His inaugural
will breathe the spirit of adherence for
the Capitalization of such power as is to-
day possessed by the trusts, and then we
will expect the understanding of the peo-
pie to do the rest.
-Four years hence will come the next
Presidential election with the election of
Congress. Then we shall have a tariff
measure introduced. This measure will
be closely identified with Mckinney. On
that measure we shall make the Presiden-
tial campaign OF 1900. On the tariff agita-
tion we shall rely TO win the battle.
1.-The National Democrat. will be wirh
us in 1900. Bourke Cochran said to me
when l was in New York that there was
no use of their fighting Us; that they
could not fight US successfully on the
tariff and that there was no other point on
which they and we differed; the onlv
thing left for them to fight for was the
name"
Mr. Peck brought with him an invita-
tion from the Union League Club of Chi
cago to attend a banquet to be given in his
honor two weeks hence. Mr.. Hanna de-
cIined the invitation and in giving his
reason stated that he had declined a simi-
lar invitation from New York brought by
General Horace Porter. The reason given
by Mr.. Hanna for declining both invita-
tions lies in his desire to remain in
the background now that Mckinley is
elected.
MANY persons" said Mr.. Hanna,
principally the Popocrats, have given
expression to the statement that dictate
to Mckinley, and that 1, rather than he,
am the real President. Such an idea
might seem substantial did | accept such
invitations as you and my friends IN New
York propose"
Turning to the last campaign Mr.. Hanna
said:
Here in this town the Popocrats sue
ceeded in gaining the labor vote. The re-
suit was that we lost 5000 votes. The re-
suit in Ohio, however, was the largest
majority ever given to Presidential can
didate, for, while the plurality was smaller,
being about $1,000. the majority and the
plurality were about the same. This was
due to the TACT that party lines were very
closely drawn and the Prohibition and
PopuIist parties were practically wiped
out"
y Mr.. Peck inquired about the statement
nat had been published to the effect that
had 10000 votes been distributed in sew
erai close States it would have elected Mr..
Bryan.
Ihat is true" said Mr.. Hanna. Harry
fayne was the first to give u terance to it,
put although it is true the fact is equally
true that the Republican vote in the coun-