Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-15

Wih. 4AC SJuOiSdtC Wills, hanna Wills.
Mckinley may finish first in the race.
But the syndicate which groomed him,
which drove him, which put up en-
trance money and paid stable charges,
will pocket the prize. Make the voice
less man of Canton president and he
will occupy the White House only as the
steward of a ring. He will hold his
Office as the trustee of a coterie. He
will dispense its patronage and perform
its functions at the will and word of
Hanna, and to the sole end that the
members of that syndicate which in
vested its millions in the capture of the
place may in honors and money-profts
gain those rewards for which the whole
piracy was planned. In such a contest,
having such an origin, conducted by
such methods, for such black purposes,
and all beneath the domineering eye
and thumb of Hanna, the sole inquiry
is, HANNAH
What is he? Who is he? How has
his past gone? Tell US of his deeds.
Hanna is the substance of the situation.
Mckinley is nothing but name. 1t is
16 of Hanna to 1 of Canton candidate.
The syndicate is in the saddle, the
candidate is beneath it, with the syndi-
cate bit in his mouth and the syndicate
spur in his quarter.
M'KINLEY's FAILURE.
What is the matter with this smile?
Why should its accurate excellence be
impugned or its generosity inveighed
against? They have bought Mckinley
bought and paid for him like horse
feed and financed him for FIVE long years,
to ride him to the White House in 1895.
They were brought to extraordinary
expenditure, to an unanticipated outlay,
and forced to wipe him free of the mud
and stains of the Walker failure of 1893
Out of the unexpected came s11s, 600 of
McKinley's notes of hand to raven and
to rend him. What was a syndicate
already afoat with its enterprise to do?
1t must pay them; and it did.
And as this is read let Hanna answer
for the whereabouts of those S118, 600
worth of notes. Where are they? Safe
in the clutch of the syndicate that paid
the money and took them up. Safe in
the vaults of the Savings Bank of Cleve-
land, o., the business home of Herrick,
the treasurer of the syndicate, and Incl
dentally that scheming body's money
headquarters.
Were the notes destroyed? No. Were
they given to Mckinley by those sons of
craft and thrifty millions who paid them
and took their candidate out of the
claws of his creditors? No. The notes
were not destroyed they were not given
to Mckinley; they were preserved and
exist today that syndicate's title deeds
to the candidate whose fight they furnish
and whose fortunes they pretend to push
while simply fostering their own.
Those notes, Sis. 600, are in force,
overdue and unpaid. They could bios
som to judgment in any court in the
land. They could today inspire suit to
put wings to process against this candi-
date whom the ring about him assumes
to love so much. BY the power of those
notes on hand they now put words in
McKinley's mouth or strike him dumb.
BY their sway they build platform and
he steps upon it. Mckinley is held in
thrafl and bond.
Free, he was for silver and his record
is record of silver Bound and bought
and owned. he is for gold. He is for
nothing, for anything; he is here or
there; he is silent or finds his voice at
the orders of the syndicate.
Isn't it dainty candidatoriai dish to
set before king-before the voters and
kings of America? And what a proud
day would dawn for the country when it
inaugurated a president utterly at the