The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-11


on trusts parallels McKinley's in i'm
consistency.
I HANNA OVERDTD THE BUSINESS.
/ Recently Mark Hanna had printed
100000 copies of a pamphlet showing
! that when he was in Congress Mr.. Bry-
an voted for appropriations to certain
! charities in the Indian schools. As
some of these charities and schools
receiving public money are conducted
bv Catholics, the A. +. AS. have been
very severe in their denunciation of all
who voted for them. 1t was to win the
4. p. A. vote for Mckinley that Hanna
issued his seven million circulars. 1t
seems that he stirred up a hornets nest
and that the gun kicked backwards.
Henry George writes the New York
journal that upon his recent visit to
Detroit, Mr.. w. J. II. Traynor, ex-Su-
preme President and now Information
al President of the A. =. 4. called to
see him. Let Mr.. George tell of Mr..
Traynor's information and views:
Mark Hanna, the international pres
ident of the 4. p. A. told me with
deep Indignation, was trying to use
the A. p. A. for his own purposes. Mr..
Hanna, the president said he had dis
covered, has had men at work ever
since shortly after Bryan's nominal
tion, searching the Congressional rec
! ords for such of Bryan's utterances and
votes as would be offensive to members
! of the A. p. A., and in finding out, as
/ we'll as was possible. where it's MEM
beers were located Having had seven
million copies of pamphlet contain
ing this matter printed, Hanna was
/ then sending them all over the coun-
1 try, in the hope of influencing A. p. A.
men against the Democratic candidate.
/ That this pamphlet contained any
thing that was not true, the president
said, he would not aver without making
am examina ton, which would entail
| more labor than he could give it. He
assumes it was all true. It's falsehood
| consisted in its being only half the
| truth.
To make it the whole truth-a fair
statement for the purpose for which
it was being circulated-it ought to
contain concluding line in black let
| ters saying: Mckinley did everything
that Bryan is here charged with doing,
and did it earlier and oftener."
In all with which the A. p. A. was
/ concerned, Mr.. Traynor continued, the
/ two candidates were so equally match
ed that the principles of the A. p. A.
had no bearing as between them, and
the attempt of Mark Hanna to use the
association to further his own political
ends ought to be known to all its men,
bers, and would defeat the purpose for
which the Hannacratic funds were be-
ing spent.
| The officials of the order, Mr. Tray
nor said, were using every effort to
| let its members know that the pam
| phlet against Bryan that was being
sent out, really emanated from Mark
| Hanna, and because of its wide circu-
lation over the country, he wanted the
| journal to know it, and had therefore
| come to me.
After some other conversation, ask
ed Mr.. Traynor which candidate was
likely to carry Michigan, adding, as /
usually do, that / wanted his opinion,
| not for publication, but only to aid
me in forming a correct opinion and
that he might rely on my not men
tloning his name.
"As to that" Mr.. Trayor said, sthere
is no real question or doubt, and /
would prefer that you should use my
| name, for | am indignant at Mark Ham
mas attempt to use us. Michigan is
going to give her vote to Bryan by a
big majority in November, and Mark
Hanna and the gold bugs have not
money enough to stop it. / myself, as
one of those whom Mark Hanna is try
ing to use, am going to add one to
Bryan's majority"
Two years ago Richmond Pearson
was elected to Congress by appealing
to those in sympathy with the A. p.
AS. to vote against Crawford because,
with Mckinley, Bryan and nearly ev-
erybody else, he had voted money to
these sectarian schools and charities.
Inasmuch as Pearson then thought no
body ought to vote for any man who
supported these schools and charities.
he must denounce both Mckinley and
Bryan on every stump in the Ninth
district. viii he do it?
All accounts agree upon the low
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