The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-08-15
MORE CRUEL Than NERO.
Such is the Record Of Mark Hanna
the rlanager of 81
ckinley.. :.ts:5. s &
WORSE THAN IRE SLAVE DRIVERS
Has an Intense Hatred Of Every Labor i
Ing Man and Would Crush
Him.

Ing Man and Would Crush
Him.
New York, Aug 10-Scene Waldorf.
Reporter-Do you expect to elect Nc
Kinley, Mr.. Hanna?
Hanna--McKinley will be the next
president If we can't win one way we
will another.
AS ruthless in politics as in business;
as careless of public as of private right;
by fair means or by foul, by hook or by
crook Mark Hanna wages his war and
proposes to land his man.
1t is well to know these things, and
world honestly. about it's destiny is
grateful to Hanna for the black warm
ing OF his words. Nor does world de-
spair. Wrong does. not always Win;
right is now and then the victor, and
satan has received setback before
now. Were a prophet in our midst to-
day he would tell our red-faced Lochiel
that Mckinley is to pluck defeat; and
in his overthrow Hanna himself is to
be crushed for the spider of politics that
he is.
This is letter to workin gmen. Their
foe is the open ground. Their warm
est enemy, Hanna, a man who for thirty
years, has torn at the tanks of labor like
a wolf, is in command. The field is
stricken. BY the pretense and openeyed
maneuverings Of money itself, this is q
war waged by the rich on the poor; wealth
against perishing flesh and blood; the is
S1I IGN fyoy ho
truly at bay are: Shall the many moil
and toll and sweat for the few? Shall
leeches suck blood? Shall widows houses
be .devoured? Shall nation become prey
and spoil to syndicate? Shall the Phar-
isees sit in the high Places? Shall the
money changers again occupy the tenn
pie? Shall there be a second crucifxion?
Shall government of the people, by the
people, for the people, perish from the
earth? If the Workmen of the country
fail at this crisis to successfully con-
serve their own they deserve the letters
now forging for them If the commons
Of America cannot buckler against at
tack, that war-won freedom the fathers
Of the nation passed down to them, their
feebleness merits it's loss. IT institutions
which washington founded and Grant
defended are to become finally the foot
stool of a Hanna, the time has ripe,y ar
rived to find it out
Mckinley is Of no present or future
consequence Hanna is casting the shad-
Dw in this campaign. The candidate is
swallowed by the manager. The Canton
mute is merely syndicate's entry for the
White house stakes. Mckinley may he
successful but he cannot win. The syn
dictate wins Mckinley may finish first in
the race But the syndicate which
groomed him, which drove him, which
put up entrance money and paid stable
charges, will pocket the prize. Make the
voiceless man of Canton president and he
will occupy the White House only as the
steward of a ring. He will hold his office
as the trustee of a. coterie. He will dis-
pense it's patronage and perform it's func-
tons at the will and word of Hanna, and
to the sole end that the members OF that
syndicate which invested it's millions in
the capture of the place may in honors
and money profits gain those rewards for
which the whole piracy was planned In
such a contest, having an original con-
Quoted by such methods, for such black
purposes, and all beneath the domineer-
ing eye and thumb of Hanna, the sole in
ariry is, "Hanna?"
What is he? Who is ne? How has his
past gone? Tell us of his deeds Hanna
is the substance Of the situation Nc
kinley is nothing but name 1t is is
Hanna to l of Canton candidate. The
syndicate is in the saddle. the candidate
Is beneath it, with the syndicate spur in
charge in his quarter.
IT,
What is the matter with the smile?
Why should its accurate excellence he
impugned or it's generosity be inveighed
against? They have bought Mckinley
bought and paid for him like horse
this syndicate. They have housed and
fed and financed him for five long wears
to ride him to the White House in 1895.
They were brought to extraordinary ex-
penditure, to an unantfcipated outlay
and forced to wipe him free of the mud
and stains of the Walker failure of 1893.
Mckinley notes Of hand to raven and
rcnd him. What was a syndicate al
ready af1oat with it's enterprise to do?
1t must pay them and it, did.
And as this is read let Hanna answer
for the whereabouts OF those S1l8,0O
worth of notes. Where are they? Safe
in the clutch Of the syndicate that paid
the money and took them up. Safe in
the vaults of the savings bank Of Cleve-
land, Ohio, the business home of Herrick,
the treasurer of the syndicate, and Incl
dentally that scheming body's money
headquarters.
Were the notes. destroyed? No. Were
they given to Mckinley by those SONS
of craft and thrifty millions who paid
them up and took their candidate out
Of the claws of his creditors? No. The
notes were not destroyed; they were not
given to Mckinley they were preserved
and exist to day that syndicates title
deeds to the candidate whose fight they
furnish and whose fortunes pretend to
push while simply fostering their own.
Those notes, $118,00O, are in force, over
due and unpaid. They could blossom to
a judgment in any count in the land. They
cotild today inspire suit and put wings
to process against this candidate whom the
ring about him assumes to love so much
By the power of those notes Of hand they
now put words in McEinley's mouth, OF
strike him dumb. BY their sway they
build a platform and he steps upon it. Nc.
Kinley is held in thrall and bond.
Free, he was for silver and his record is
O. record Of silver. Bound and bought and
owned, he is for gold. He is for nothing,
fer anything; he is here or there; he is 81
lent or finds his voice at the orders of the
syndicate. &,
Isn't 1t a dainty candidatorial dish. to get
before king before the voters and kings
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