The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-11-06
MARK HANNA SUMS UP.

MclSinley's Election from the First, and
 is Sure That tho Present Boom In Busi-
 ness Will be Permanent--Beginnlng of
 the End of the Silver Craze-MoT<iniey
 Sure of 277 Votes.
 New York, Nov. 5--Mark Hanna ar rived in this city at Il o'clock this morning, having come on from Cleve- land to wind up the affairs at the re- publican national committees head quarters. He first went to the Wal dorf, where he greeted his family, and then hurried down to the headquar- ters.
 When seen he was in rather talka- tive mood, and of course, expressed his profound pleasure over the outcome of the election.
 From the very start" he said, "I was confident of the outcome of the election. I never for moment doubt ed the result. The minimum vote Me Kinley can have in the electoral col lege is 277, and I think that 2S6 is a conservative estimate, Senator Jones' claim that he has carried Indiana and other of our states and that Bryan is elected is absurd. We have won a sweeping victory without a doubt. was much pleased with the result in New York city. It was tremendous. I never thought that the republican ma- jority here would reach 2o0OO."
 How do you account for the heavy vote for Mckinley in the western farm ing districts?"
 Many western farmers were misled about our attitude They confused gold monometallism and the gold stan dard, and were in many cases led to believe that the gold standard, for which we have fought, meant that we would use gold money only and that silver money would go out of use. When they learned that under the gold standard we would continue using sil- yer as we do to-day their ideas chang ed, and they deserted the free silver cause. Why, for some weeks the free silver question became a secondary is- sue in the western campaign. Neces- sarily, the currency question was the great issue. The free silver leaders were sure, however, that they had the farmers secure for their aid, that they had won them on the silver question. Then they carried the fight into the towns and cities and appealed to the laboring people, whose vote they need- ed on new issue, the masses against the classes Silver then became a sec ondary issue. We beat them on both. The honest, industrious, thinking peo- pie were in the majority, and were not tricked by their attempts to win votes.''
 Do you think that the boom in busi- ness will continue?"
 T do. I see that the market is up from to F points. I think it will stay there. Of course, there will be f1uctua- tions in speculative stocks, but the gen eral tendency is for general better ment of conditions"
 Do you regard the silver issue as | dead?"
 I've are seeing the beginning of the end. We have good sound money majority in congress, and the silver men will not be able to obstruct legis- lation. This campaign has enlightened the people on the question. They un- derstand it, and are against silver, and as time progresses will be more than ever opposed to the silver idea. Free silver is having a rapid decline" What do you think MT. Mckinley s present idea is as to tariff?"
 Major McKinley's ideas on the tar if, which may give a clue to what he will endeavor in the future to accom- plish, were best expressed by him in his speech of February 12 before the Mar Quette club of Chicago. He illustrated his views by an anecdote of Lincoln. It seems that MT. Lincoln was asked how long mans legs ought to be. He replied that he had long pondered over that question and finally concluded that a mans legs ought to be long enough to reach from his body to the ground. Major McKinley's idea of what a tariff ought to be is on a par with this. Ac- cording to his own speech he believes we should have sufficient for revenue and to protect American labor against pauper labor of Europe, and to allow capital fair remuneration MT. Hanna then reverted to the Illi- nois campaign.
 T was confident before hand that we would carry the state" he said. And I was, of course, delighted to find my confidence justified. Altgeld's defeat was particularly satisfactory. They tried their best out there to array the labor vote against us and failed. They villified me and lied about me in an effort to win the workingmen. They pictured me as a plutocrat, a bondhold- CT and a crusher of labor, and forced me to make a speech to 5000 Poles, the first speech I ever made in my life" Has anything been proposed as to a cabinet for President Mckinley" Mr Hanna 1auphad apj rapliad |.