Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-03
New York Journal.

over but the Yelling.
These are the concessions everywhere
made by the Mckinley folk; and. sooth
said they may we'll be true. Mayhap
the world might better, for the sake or
saving time. regard Mckinley as al
ready in nomination and the campaign
begun. The Democracy on its part
may as well cry Havoc. and let slip the
d0gs Of political war.
Mckinley has permitted himself 10
be so swall0wed-he could not help it
bv Mark Hanna and his felOw-syndi-
Gators in this affair Of White House
coursiag thar he viii have TO bear their
records as well as his own. Like any
ether old dog Tray OF politics, he must
answer for the company he keeps.
And that delicate point in response
hility being adjusted TO the indorse-
ment Of all fair men, il would be we'll
Tor all, and particularly the laborirg
folk of sthis country. 70 consider how
far their hard-wOn interests in their
conservs<ion. lie in the elevation OF Nc
Kiniey.
No one doubts McKinley's subServ-
iency TO Hanna. Here is a kindergar-
ten lesson which teaches it. There is a
telephone from Hanna's Office TO Nc
KinIey's house. some seventy miles
away. Ii is rot there 70 permit Nc
Kinley TO tell Hanna what 10 do; II is
used by Hanna 10 tell Mckinley what
TO do. and frequently to tell Mckinley
what he must not do.
Chauncey I. Filey, for sample, made
a sly pilgrimage a month agOne from
st. Louis 10 Canton. His purpose was
to see Mckinley. His anxiety was TO
learn how far ne Filley) would hold
the pickering strings Of the Missouri
patronage bag should Mckinley sue
coed and Filley loaned him his inSidi-
GUS aid. Fuley couldn't get near Nc
Kinley until after HSnna mad been told
ne. telephone Of the Canton. presence
of the Missouri boss and grutiy con-
sented 10 his meeting with our coming
President.
It's as if Hanna had established the
picket posts Of his commands all about
his candidate. No one reaches the Nc
Einley eve or speaks one word to the
MCKINLEY ear without the password OF
Hanna. He has Mckinley in his clutch
as ever did hawk have chicken, and he
viii carry him whittier he chooses. That
is the pact between them; the under
standing upon which Hanna and his
syndicate is breaking and buying and
begging and bullying q road for Nc
Kiuley TO the White House. And Wnen
he's there. Hanna and the others Will
shuttle him and deal hun like a deck OF
cards.
Such being the undoU5ted and upde-
niable case. it behOOves men, and es-
,peciany the labOring element against
whose breast the lance or Hanna $
raDacity has ever been ievelled, and
whose millions axe coined CT their
blood. to know who Hanna IS and what
he has been. Like master. like man,
let US study the lesson of the Hanna
heretofore. What Hanna was Hanna
will be. And. following an election.
what Hanna Will be that will Mckinney
be also.
Hanna in person is broad, tall, care
1esslv clothed. and a red, violent visage.
His nature has all the force and lack
of scruDle OF a torrent. He has BUSH
q of brains: course they are, but strong
as o horse. One could make Two NC
i<inlevs out Of Hanna and have plenty
of Hanna left. Given an object, hanna
nursues il relentlessly. III its chase ne
will overrln anything or enybody and
nav. no more Of heed 10 the right OF an
otbsr than a COW would 20 4 cobwe0.
The question with Hanna is not What
j. ri@b- but What is wanted?' he
does not what he should, nut what ne
can and cOnsults instinct, not reason,
as ne fashions need.
Withal. Hanna. like others OF hS
+rroid tribe. has dauntless courage.
Lacking utterly in human sympathy
king for selfish egotism, void OF an I'M
.agin2t;on and the ability TO put hlm-
self tr, another's place, possessing TINS
rick of bulldOgism. Hanna IS cruel.
what others suffer is of slight weight
win him for when ne knows his ut
nos of their pain he knows but little.
his nature has bars against knowledge
or what others feel. and he oyerndes
56ern with all the rUthlessness o. lgnor-
ance
Hanna loves money. Not for ITS yell
low sake as a miser might, but Tor the
sway and power thereof; because ne
NAV make men creep and crawl ana
s,ring to do his word. This reeds ms
vanity. and he is vain with all OF the
vulgarity and osJen-atiOns strut OF a
turkey cOck-a fowl. b. the way, ne
much resembles.
Hanna is not leader; he is boss.
Rather. so far as he may be, he Is ty-
rant: drives men and ia prone to op-
press. What is weak he brushes from
The merest instinct Of destruction.
Being acquisitiye. he made money
early. Being on the rim OF the Greal
Lakes. he found them natural broad
field for his plOughing and sowing ana
roaming. Hanna is one Of the greatest
of our fresh water farmers, and none
has made more Of a harvest. Hanna
owns larger vessel interests than any
one on the lakes. The Hanna keels are
countless. and they are all sailed TO
produce the minimum for others and
the maximum for Hanna. He Will
never have riches enough, he will never
have power enough. and should luck
hold until Hanna BECOME composite
of Car and ROthschild. with all the
power Of one and the pelf Of the ether,
vet will Hanna die in the harness, tug
ging and striving for an increase of
each.
Being from his youth about the lakes,
Hanna has grown in much of his man
ner 10 be a fashion OF water ruftsn.
There is nothing sOf,ening about a ma
rine influence. II develops the courage
and. as in Haun2's case, makes men
prompt and daring. But it grows no