The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-25
VII

Why do / write this of Hanna? be-
cause he owns Mckinley; stops and
starts him like a stOp-watch Pie
cause Hanna is the numeral with
whom the cypher Mckinley counts
for everything, without whom he
counts for naught. Because, while
McKinley's name is on the ticket. it
is Hanna who is, should Mckinley
succeed, to be the true President. Be
cause where a situation is plain case
of master and man, it is he part Of
wisdom in employing the latter TO
know the master we'll
1t was months ago / published a
sketch of Hanna. And because my
opinion of him has not in the interim
changed, and the paper is to-day read
by many more people. / here run it
again. 1t may aid one to better no
ton of a man who in his egotism seeks
through power of purse to become
dictator to the greatest, freest nation
of the world
Hanna in person is broad, tall care
lessly clothed, and of red, violet
visage. His nature has all the force
and lack of scruple of torrent. He
has a bushel of brains; coarse they
are, but strong as a horse. One could
make two McKinleys out of Hanna and
have plenty of Hanna left4 Given
an object, Hanna pursues it relent-
leSsly. In it's chase he viii overrun
anything or anybody, and pay no more
of heed to the right of another than
a cow would to a cobweb. The ques-
ton with Hanna is not, What is
wanted?" He does not what he should,
but what he can, and consults instinct
OF reason as he fashions a need.
Withal Hanna, like others of his
turgid tribe, has dauntless courage.
Lacking utterly in human sympathy,
a king for selfish egotism, void of i'm
agination, and the ability to put him
self in another's place, possessing this
trick of bulldogism, Hanna is cruel.
What others suffer is of slight
weight with him, for when he knows
his utmost of their pain he knows but
little. His nature has bars against
knowledge of what others feel, and
he overrides them with all the ruth
lessness of ignorance.
Hanna loves money. Not for its
yellow sake, as a miser might, but for
the sway and power thereof; because
he may make men creep and crawl
and spring to do his word. This feeds
his vanity, and he is vain with all of
the yulgarity and istentations strut
of turkey cock-a fowl, by the way,
he much resembles. Hanna is not so
much a leader as a tyrant; drives men
and is prone to Cypress. What is
weak he brushes from the merest in
stinct of destruction.
LOVES RICHES AND POWER.
Being acquisiive, he made money
early. Being on the rim of the great
lakes, he found them natural, broad
field for his ploughing and sowing
and reaping. He will never have rich
es enough, he will never have power
enough, and should luck hold until
Hanna becomes a composite of Gear
and Rothschild, with all the power of
the one and the pelf of the other, vet
will Hanna die in the harness, tugging
and striving for an increase of each.
Being from his youth about the lakes
Hanna has grown in much of his
manner to be fashion of water ruff
fan. There is nothing softening a
bout marine influence. 1t develops /
the courage, and, as in Hanna's case. !
makes men prompt and daring. But |
it grows no flowers in ones nature. Il I
has left Hanna as rude, as hungry, as |
stormy, and withal as treacherous as (
the sea itself.
In his money getting Hanna's greed I
and violence have brought him in
sharp collision with all who took a
dollar from his hands.
1t was no defence paught in their
favor THAT they had earned the dollar
Hanna's instinct was to clutch and
keep, and he growled and grinned like
a dog across a bone at every man 10
whom he gave up money Hanna has
fought with his coal miners and fought