People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-11-05

Mark Hanna'S golden cord, went up
nominating pole, past all the rest,
like the jumping jack he has shown
himself to be. This man who had
spent all his life talking tariff, but
whose every utterance on finance had
favored silver, suddenly lost his tongue
and delegations in the South and
West thai wOud never have endorsed
him as a gOldtLg gave him support
on account Of those utterances. The
Republican convention at st. Louis
was billed to be the greatest cOnven-
tiOu in history but as the masses Of
the party saw that Mr.. Hanna's little
man" was sure to win, boosted into
place with bought instructions, inter-
waned, and the convention went on
record as the most poorly attended,
most unenthusiastic, "cut and dried"
meeting Of its kind ever held by the
Republican party. Paid clappers, at
So much clap, and hired rOOterS that
mechanically yelled "M- c-K-i-n-lay."
furnished substitute for the hearty !
cheers and eager crowds that had |
nominated such men as Lincoln, Grant |
and Garfield. The honest men were
filled with disgust at this un.Ameri-
can meeting. The bloated manufac.
turer, the bOnd-clipper, the national
banker, with the fearful and wonder
full Hanna at their head, showed their
hands. 1t was THEIR convention.
THE PEOPLE HAD NOTHING TO DO
WITH IT. The crowd was apathetic.
They forgot to cheer when their
leaders like Foraker, and Depew, and
Sherman came on the stage. They
even forgot to cheer when LinCOln's
name was mentioned. 1t was a sorry
sight.
The only thing that relieved the
for spectators wasSena-
tor Teller'S walk out. However much
his subsequent conduct may be criti-
cised, his leave-taking of the party,
for which he had done so much, and
the rallying around him of younger
men whose future was necessarily
jeOpardized by the act, was indeed
dramatic. He went out followed by
Kisses Of rage. The delegates we're
relieved when he was gone; they
'hOwed it. 1t was in the air. The
dynamite had been removed, the slow
fuse was put out.
The rest was quickly done. The
platform, with all its un-Americanism,
It's falSeneSs, its daring espOusal OF
ruinouS financial policy was adopted.
The paid clapperS hurrahed. The
delegates sat silent almost to a man.
The farce Of nominating various
'favOrite sons" was gone through IN a
perfunctory manner. Then McKinly
was nominated ~. The "rooUers"
hOwled and marched, drank and
carOused, then piled into their cheap
coaches and were hauled back TO che ;
destinations that their furnished
transpOrtatiOuS indicated. The one
hundred and nineteen private palace
coaches that had stood ia the Union
depot shed, steamed away with a
silent ease that was but a lullaby to
their Opulent owners. They we're
They had fooled some of
The people some of the time. They
had forgotten the rest of LiucOln's
maxim. LincOln's wisdom and Lin
coins ways are nothing to the masters
in the Republican party of today.
All the world knows of the gigantic
corruption fund that Hanna had be.
gan at once to gather ur. Money
poured in upon him. Rockefeller gave
Sage $4,000, Carnegie $780,
BOO, Vanderbilt sl2O,OOO Pullman
Sl5OCOO. To give less than $4,000
was to become a target for the wrath
and ridicule Of Hanna. Thank God,
no honest dollars went into this
charnel house of liberty. No Door
man sent his dollar with his blessing.
1t has been buy-buy-intimidating,