The herald., 1896-09-07
Mark Hanna Does Turn Colonel
IielIison Down
HE WAS QUOTED CORRECTLY
A Dispatch Printed Ia the San Fran.
cisco "CaIr"
Il Goes to Show That tn, "rimes" Il Guilty Of
Base Attempt at Deception Hanna Wants
Nothing to Do With Otis or the Tins


Kinley's campaign" as he is pleased to
term them, have repudiated Colonel
Hellison Clay Otis as the Southern Cali
fornia representative of the Mckinley
interests and have given out the official
declaration that Hervey Lindley, whose
picture has for several years been turn
ed to the wall in the Times office, is the
only man in this section Of the country
who is authorized to speak for the man
from Canton, Ohio
This statement is given out by Mark
Hanna and he adds that he declined to
deal with Colonel Hellison because of
his war upon labor organizations.
The Herald printed this intelligence in
the shape of special dispatch from
Cleveland on Saturday morning. The
dispatch was printed exactly as received
although it contained an error.
1t said that Colonel Hellison COM
manded McKinley's regiment in the war
Of the rebellion. He did not. Ruther-
ford B. Hayes, once president Of the.
United States, commanded McKinley's
regiment-the Twenty third Ohio. He
was never as great man as Colonel
Hellison is and 1t is unjust to take away
from him the honor of having command
ed gallant regiment during the strug-
gle to preserve the integrity Of the re-
public. -..... >
But The Herald printed the dispatch
exactly as received, with an explana-
tory foot note correcting the error 1t con-
tained.
The Times yesterday morning claims
that the whole thing was fake and as
usual is guilty of deliberate falsehood
and wanton, willful and intentional mis-
representation
1t prints the query The Herald re-
ceived from w. H. Burkholder of Cleve-
land, asking this paper If it desired 200
words concerning Hanna's position as
regards Colonel Hellison and the Times
rat" printers. But the Times fails to
print the figures ''200," which appeared
at the close of the dispatch. Those fig
ures are known in every newspaper
office to indicate that 200 words can be
sent giving the details of the news sub
ject embodied in the query. But Colonel
Hellison failed to insert the figures 200"
but altered the dispatch in eliminating
them, thereby misleading every one who
read it. This alteration was inexcusable
as the original query" telegram was
shown to him personally.
Mr.. Burkholder, who sent the query
ard later the dispatch, did not claim to
represent the Cleveland Leader. but
asked that the reply to his dispatch be
directed "care Leader" This he had
right to do, even If it did endanger his
standing with Colonel Hellison.
The Times states that "Mr. Hanna
himself informs the Times that he has
been misquoted." But Colonel He'll
ison sgnally fails to print Mr.. Hanna's
dispatch or one word of what ,he said in
the telegram.
For the information of Colonel He'll
ison the Herald will state that Mr.. Han
ma has given to the world the intelli-
gence that he desires nothing to do with
him, In so far as McKinley's campaign
is concerned and this news was wired
all over the country Saturday morning
last. In the San Francisco Call of that
date appears telegram on the first page
second column, bearing the headline,
"Will Help Mckinley" The dispatch
in so far as it appertains to Colonel He'll
ison reads:
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 4.-M. A.
Hanna, chairman Of the national Re-
publican executive committee, spent to-
day in this city.
day in this city.
speaking of the fight in California
between Colonel Otis of the Los Angeles
Times and the Typographical union.
Mr. Hanna said in answer to the demand
Of the>union that Otis be given no recog-
milton by the Republican executive COM
mittee: Il have not recognized Colonel
Otis in any way since the st. Louis con-
vcntion. I appointed Mr.. Lindley to
take care of our interests in Southern
California because l knew he represent
ed the labor interests of that section. I
refused to make Colonel Otis conspicu-
GUS in the support of Mr.. Mckinley be-
cause of his antagonism to labor unions
] want to say that the stamp of the
Typographical union Is placed on every
piece of campaign literature that we
have sent out"
The headlines to this dispatch are ap-
propriate fos. if anything can help Nc
Kinley out in Southern California it is
the repudiation of Colonel Hellison by
the main guy" Mark Hanna.
The intelligence thsV The Herald gave
the people Of Southern California in re-
gard to this whole affair was purely as
news matter and it was "a SCOOP" 1t
was not forged interview and is borne
out by the dispatch published in the
San Francisco Call.