The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-21

hanna outlined the future pOIlCy VI LIZ
Republican organization and the Nc
Kinley situation. Mr.. Hanna also dis
cussed in a confidential manner the
last campaign. This interview, accord
ing to Mr.. Peck, is as follows:
The Republican party" said Mr..
Hanna to Mr.. Peck, will not have such
a close call again as it had in the last
campaign. The work of education is
to be conducted strongly from the
present until the next presidential cleo
ton This Will be done because the
other side viii work during the next
four years, and if we do not counteract
their efforts they will win next time.
The policy Of the administration will
be in exploitation of the ideas that will
further advance the strength of the
Republican party.
The only great power of Bryan was
the workingmen. Bryan posed as their
friend and succeeded in getting them
practically in line for him. The fight
at the polls was not so much betv
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 be-
lieve that Mckinley was the candidate
of the trusts, and, not to mince mat
tiers, was my candidate, and that was
the head center of the trusts The
popocrats very adrcitly made me the
whole thing and called me the op-
pressor of labor Of course 1 can stand
that sort of thing, but with Mckinley
it is another thing. The labor leaders
here who are friendly to me, tell me
that if we are TO be successful again
we must counterfeit this impression
and that is what we propose to do.
We cannot do anything with the far
mers-they have left us-but we can
get the labor vote, and we shall begin
now to direct it away from Bryan and
his party
How viii Mr.. Mckinley do this?"
'sWhy, he knows too we'll that some
thing more than mere assertion that
the Republican is the friend Of the
workingman is necessary, and national
legislation will be so handled that it
will be the best educator of the peo-
ple''
Mr.. Hanna said further to Mr.. Peck:
The fight of silver against gold was
practically abandoned by the Demo-
Gratis two weeks before the campaign
closed. It will never again be the
main issue-that is, silver as a political
issue viii never cut any more figure
than greenbacks. The one idea must
he to instnl into the heads of the men
of the cities that Republicanism Is
let Mckinley be inaugurated presi-
dent Of the United States and this will
be done. I have no doubt but that the
result win be all we can hope for
There must be an arrangement that
will strike the people at the right time
Mckinley will assume a dignified atz
titude of antagonism to all trusts and |
monopolies. His inaugural message
will breathe a spirit of adherence for |
the Capitalization of such power as is /
tedav possessed by the trusts, and then /
we will expect the understanding of /
the people to do the rest.
-Four years hence will come the next
presidential election with the election
of q congress- Then we shall have a
tariff measure introduced. This meas
ure will be closely identified with Nc
Kinley. On that measure we shall
make the presidential campaign of
1900. On the tariff agitation we shall
rely TO win the battle.
'sThe gold Democrats viii be with US
in 1900. Bourke Cochran said to me
when I was in New York chat there
was no use of their fighting US, that
they could not fight US successfully on
the tariff and that there were no other
points on which we and they differed.
The only thing left for them to fight
for was the name. That is true; that
class of the Democracy which is not
of the laboring element and not of the
farm is with US now, and will be with
us four years from now"
Mr. Peek brought with him an invi-
tation from the Union League Of Chi
cago to attend banquet given in his
honor Two weeks hence. Mr.. Hanna
declined the invitation, and in giving
his reason stated that he had declined
q similar invitation from New York
brought by General Horace Porter. The
reason given by Mr.. Hanna for declin-
ing both invitations lies in the desire
of his to remain in the back ground now
that Mckinley is elected.
"Many persons said Mr. Hanna,
particularly the popocrats. have given
expression to the belief that I dictate
AIcKinley's movements and that I.
rather than he, am the real president.
Such an idea might secure substantial
ton should 1 consent 10 be feted as you
gentlemen and my friends in New York
propose"
Turning 10 the last campaign, Mr..
Hanna said:
Here in this town the popocrats sue
ceeded in arraying the labor element
against us. The result was that we lost I
5000 votes The result in Ohio, how
ever was the largest majority ever
given to a presidential candidate for,
while the plurality was smaller. being
about 81 900. the majority and the '
plurality were about the same This
was due to the fact that party lines
were very closely drawn and the Pro-
hibition and Populist parties were prac-
tically wiped out"
Mr.. Peck inquired about the state !
ment that had been published to the {