The herald., 1896-08-16

AS ruthless In politics as in business;
as careless of public as of private right,
by fair means or foul. by hook or by
crook, Mark$Hanna wages his war and
proposes to.land his man.
1t is well to know these things, and
a world honest about its destiny is CRATE
full to Hanna for'the black warning of
his words. Nor does a world despair
Wrong does not always win; right is now
and then the victor. and Satan has re-
ceived setback before now. Were a
prophet in our midst today he would
tell our red-faced Lochiel that Mckinley
a is to pluck defeat, and in his overthrow
Hanna himself is to be crushed for the
spider Of politics that he is.
This is a letter to workingmen. Their
foe is in the open ground. Their warm
est enemy. Hanna, a man who, for thirty
years. has torn at the fianks of labor
like a wolf, is in command. The field
Is stricken. BY the prepense and open
eyed manoeuringS of money itself, this
is war waged y,the rich on the poor
wealth against perishing flesh and blood.
The issue isn't so much finance. The
questions truly at bay are: Shall the
many moil and toll and sweat for few?
Shall leeches suck blood? Shall widows
houses be devoured? Shall nation be-
come prey and spoil to syndicate?
Shall the Pharisees sit in the high places?
Shall the money changers again occupy
the temple? Shall there be a second cru
cifixion? Shall government of the
people, by the people, for the people,
perish from the earth? If the workmen
of the country fail at this crisis to sue
cessfully conserve their own, they de-
fpttppS fOrprt N fo them If q
commons of America cannot buckler
against attack that war-born freedom
the fathers of the nation passed down
to them, their feebeness merits its loss.
Il institutions which Il Washington
founded and a Grant defended are to
become finally the footstool of a Hanna,
the time has ripely arrived to find it out.
Mckinley is of no present or future
consequence. Hanna is casting the
shadow in this campaign. The candi
date is swallowed by the manager. The
Canton mute is merely a syndicates
entry for the White House stakes. Nc
kinley may be successful, but he cam
not win. The syndicate wins, Hanna
wins. Mckinley may finish first in the
race. But the syndicate which groomed
him, which drove him, which put up
entrance 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 q coterie. He will
dispense its patronage and perform it's
functions at the will and word of Hanna,
and to the sole end that members of that
syndicate which invested it's millions
in the capture of the place may in hon
ors and money profits gain those re .
wards for which the whole piracy was
planned. In such q contest. having such
an original, conducted by such methods,
the domineering eye and thumb of Han
ma, the sole inquiry is "Hanna?"
What is he? Who Is he? How has his
past gone? Tell us OF his deeds. Hanna
Is the substance of the situation. Nc
Kinley Is nothing but a name 1t is 16
of Hanna to of the Canton candidate.
The syndicate is in the saddle the can
didate, is beneath it, with the syndicate
bit in his mouth and the syndicate spur
in his quarter.
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What sthe matter with this simile?
Why should its accurate excellence be
impunged or it's generosity inveighed
against? They have bought Mckinley
bought and paid for him like horse
this syndicate. They have housed and
fed and financed him for five long years
to ride him to the White House in 1896
They were brought to extraordinary
expenditure, W dil outlay,
and forced to wipe him free of the mud
and stains of the Walker failure of 1893.
Out of the unexpected came $11S000 of
McKinley's notes of hand to raven and
to rend him. What was a syndicate
already aAoat with it's enterprise to do?
1t must pay them, and it did.
And as this is read let Hanna answer
for the whereabouts of those S11S,00O
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, Ohio, the business home of Her.
rick, the treasurer of the syndicate, and
incidentally that scheming body's mon
ey headquarters.
Were the notes destroyed? No Were
they given to Mckinley by those sons Of
craft and thrifty millions who paid them
UP and took their candidate out of the
claws Of his creditors? No. The notes
were not destroyed; they were not given
to Mckinley; they We're preserved and
exist today that syndicate's title deeds
to the candidate whose fight they fur
nish and whose forunes they pretend to
push while simply fostering their own.
Those notes. $11S,000, are in Sorc2,
overdue and unpaiN They could bios
som to Judgment in any court in the
land. They could today inspire a suit
and put wings to process against this
sumes to love so much. BY the power of
those notes OF hand they now put words
In McKinley'S mouth or strike him dumb
BY their sway they build platsArm and
he steps upon it, Mckinley is held in
thrall 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 1t dainty candidatorial dish to
set before king-before the voters and
kings OF America? And what a proud
day would dawn for the country when
1t inaugurated president utterly at the
mercy of the ring that girt him round.
Why don't they give the man his
notes? Why are these $11S, 900 worth of
paper slips so put to sleep in the vaults
of the syndicate? Is it for McKinley's
good or for Hanna's good that this debt
of S11S,000 is thus maintained a living.
breathing thing of law? Is a country
to be better served while a syndicate
holds such gun and president is such
a target?
There has been much to say of Bry-
ans youth. 1t had been better if Nc
Kinley were as young. His superiority
of years has only served to put his hand
in the lions mouth of Hanna and make
him the chattel of a money huddle, of
which Hanna is the director. Bryan is
at least free. And public might better
and more wisely go with its interests to