The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-02
HANNA THE SHADOW.
MCKINLEY OF NOOONSEQUENCE CE
EITHER PRESENT OF FU-
FUTURE.
Simply the Syndkafe's Entry for
the White Hosa&s Stake, but
Can't Win.

A. n. Lewis in the Midland Me-
chanic, ably sums up the laborer's
situation in the following letter:
This is a letter to the workingmen.
Their foe Is in the open ground.
Their warmest enemy, Hanna, man
who, for thirty years, has torn at the
flanks of labor like a wolf, is in COM
mand. The field Is striken. BY the
prepense and open.eyed maneuverings
Of money itself, this is war waged
by the rich on the poor; wealth
against 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 the few? Shall
widows houses be dSvoured? Shall a
nation become prey aad spoil to syn
dicate? Shall the Pharisees sit in the
high places? Shalt the money chang
ers again occupy the temple? Shall
there be second scrucifixlon? Shall
government of the people, by the peo-
pie, for the people, perish from the
earth? II the workmen Of the coun-
try fail at this criais to successfully
conserve their own, they deserve the
fetters now forging Tor them. II the
commons of America can not buckler
against attack, that war won freedom
the father of the Nation passed down
to them, their feeblsness merits its
loss. The institutions which Wash
ington founded and Grant defended
are to become finally, the footstool of
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 mutei IS merely a syndi-
Gates entry for tho White House
stakes. Mckinley may be successful,
but he can not VIM The syndicate
wins. Hanna wins5 Mckinley may
finish first in the raee. But the syndi-
cate which groomed him, which drove
him, which put up lontrance money
and paid stable cha1ges, will pocket
the prize. Make the NOiceless man of
Canton President and he will occupy
the White House only as the steward
of a ring. He will ahDld his Office as
the trustee of cotarle. He will dis
pense its patronage and perform its
functions at the Viii and word of
Hanna, and to the sole end that the
members of that syndicate which In
vested it's milhon4 IN the capture Of
the place may in hQsors and money
profits gain those aFewards for which
the whole piracy swas planned. In
such contest. havi4G such an origin
al, conducted by such methods, for
such black purposes and all beneath
the eve and dolefneering thumb Of
Hanna, 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 sttua-
tion. Mckinley Is nothing but q
name. 1t is is Of Hanna to Of Can
ton candidate The syndicate is in
the saddle, the candidate Is beneath
1t, with the syndicate bitfn his mouth
and the syndicate spur In his Qurter.
Free, Mckinley was for silver and
his record Is a record Of silver. Bound
and bought and owned he is for gold.
He is fof nothing, Tor anything; he Is
here or there; he Is silent or finds his
voice at the orders OF the syndicate.
Isn't 1t dainty cahdidatorial dish
to set before king -b6fore the voters
and kings of Americs2 And what q
proud day would dawn fOf the country