The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-13
Not. So Easy to Force Mckinney
on the Republicans.
8 oMETHREATS OF BOLTlNG
Mark Hanna on the Scene TO
Corral the Nomination.
LECTION is ANOTHER MATTER
Ton, Settle and a Host of Other Satel-
lites and Hangers-on are on
Hand to Get Whatever
is Going.

The Mckinley combine seems to be
i, tronhle Mt ST. Louis. They do not
find it SO easy Ito force the OHIO Napol-
con on the Republicans as they had
expected, though the committee goes
steadily ahead seating the Mckinney
men. almost without exception, when
ever there is a contest. n H. LEWIS
yriting to the New York Morning
Journal about the situation, says:
Hanna and that half score OF Me
Kinley syndicates out to waYlay he
publicanism and plumber 1T OF holhi-
nation for the Presidency are abund-
antly here by their agents and money.
There are crowds of the first ana
bundles of the other. Hanna Will ne IN
town in his own pompous red-faced
person Wednesday to take command
and pending Hanna the syndicate IN
terests are in charge of one Perry Heath,
and one Judge Thompson. These
have lairs at the Southern.
The Mckinley syndicate by thus
hour lis we'll known. 1t is combine
a conspiracy to make prey and "a
spoil of the Presidency. Its object is
the White House: it's tool Mckinley;
money without stint, mendaclty With
out limit, make up it's method. lit has
taken its candidate out of the pawn
wherein his creditors held him, brush
ed him free from the mire of the bank
rrptcv into which he had Numbered,
and. refreshed and refurbished, now
sets him before the Republicans as one
to be their chief nominee, and the
signs are that the party will accept
him. Mckinley will, as matters gllde
tonight, GO to an uninterrupted nom-
nation for the Presidency. Should he
succeed. the piracy of the White
House by the syndica,cors is to at once
set in.
The Cabinet is to be a Hanna ring,
the patronage is to be looted TO the ut
termost office; the bourse lis to be made
to pulsate with fear or throb with
hope: the markets are to go up or
down, and Hanna and his fellow har-
pies are to grow rich and mobile" in
conjunction All this, mind you, If
Mckinley is elected. But athe voter
plodding at his plough or hammering
i'm his shop to-day is to settle that, and
indications now rife would show that
he may send us a better and more
honest solution.
McKinleyism. which once stood for
robbery by protection, and which
stands to-day for a bold-browed raid of
a bomb of money thugs to capture the
Chief Magistracy. will, in all chance.
grab the Republican nomination only
to meet defeat at the polls
Money and mendacity may serve the
Hannaites in their conquest of a con-
vention. one-third of the black mem
- lilo anftIa
in a stock yard but ito overthrow TO-
100000 of people at the ballot box is
a different enterprise. This last is 10
fail, though the first succeed. And
mark any words, Mckinley, THAT feeble
chattel of a ring, mute with the gag of
Hanna, is never to read lhis name in
any list of American Presidents.
Tonight the Republicans delegate
and boss and hanger-on-are coming
in. Have YOU ever seen how yulture
and buzzard and raven come wingmg
10 where some red, raw carcass testers
and shines in coraline putridity upon
the plains?
If you have it may give you some
notion of these Republicans as they
come winging to the convention. each
hoping to be filed. Ii not the bid-bits.
then the very offals of office holding
is to do them.
HANNA TALKS OF HIS WORK.
The ST. Louis correspondent of the
Washington Post gives this view of the
man who is the dictator of the con-
vention ANY one who has ever seen
a picture of the great campaign mana
ger would recognize him anywhere.
He is stout almost to the point of be-
ing fat, and his face, as well as the rest
of his body, shows the effect of good
living. He wears a pair of very abbre-
waited side whiskers, which are decid-
cJ3iiy sandy, and his nose is pug. In
his style of dress upon the present
occasion no one would ever take him
for the head of one of the largest iron
manufacturing concerns in the United
States. He wore an old straw hat that
had seen better days, the rim being
turned up as though it had been slept
in. He was dressed in a suit of dark
gray, but had on an overcoat of yell
low, which had evidently done service
for several seasons. In fact, his entire
get-up was such as might be termed
seedy if seen on any one but Mark
Hanna, but it was characteristic of
the man.
talked with some of his friends
here about him. They tell me he is
worth at least $4,000 900, and that he
has made the most of it in coal and
iron They say he is in this business
for the love of it, and that he don't
expect to get an office nor cent out
of it.
When ! chatted with him ] referred
to his hard political work, and asked
him how long he had been at it. He
replied: II have been working at this
for more than a year. 1t is full of an
noyances, but / like it"
But" said /. what are you doing
it for, Mr.. Hanna? What do you eN-
pect to get out of it?"
Not a BANKED thing" was the en-
pbatic reply.
but don't you expect to be Secre-
tary Of the Treasury, Minister to Eng
land or something Of that kind?"
Not a bit of it, replied the iron