The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-20
HANNA's ADVISORY. COMMITTEE.

HANNA'S ADVISORY" COMMITTEE.
After the ST. Louis convention it was
announced that Mr.. Hanna would
make up an executive committee for
the campaign. AS all who are familiar
with the working of party machinery
know, it is this executive committee
that is the real committee of any cam
paign of any party. The committee
formed in the convention is only fig
ure-head which has no use after the
first formal meeting, except at the
end, in selecting the site of another
convention. The executive committee
is the business part of the machine. 1t
gathers the funds, directs the cam
paign, disburses the money runs the
machine, in short. The executive COM
mittee selected was given out and with
some show of an authoritative origin.
1t embraced a number of millionaires,
mostly tariff and trust beneficiaries,
but all men Of means, or Of superior
tactical ability.
Mr.. Hanna very promptly heard
from the country. It was a very en-
phatic protest that he heard Some of
it came from his own party, but the
reception of it by the opposition con-
WINGED him that it would not do So he
made UP the committee. Of men less
prominent for their wealth and it's
source, but still associated with and
dependent on the interests that have
waxed rich and insolent through legis-
lation. Now he has taken what the
boys on the street call a sneak" and
quietly formed what he terms an "ad-
visory' committee, and it is composed
of all but two Of the men first an
nounced for his executive committee,
Cornelius Bliss, of New York. and f.
G. Niedringhaus, Of St Louis. The
advisory" committee will be what has
come to be known in congress as the
steering" committee, sitting in the
pilot house, handling the tiller and di-
recting the course.
Having these functions it is a matter
of general interest who this advisory
committee is. They will give char
acter to the campaign. They embody
the motif of the party, they indicate
what it's course will be if successful.
First comes Thomas Dolan, a silk
plush and carpet manufacturer Of Phil
adelphia, who feeced the women of the
land who could not afford sealskin
l<C nd ho 70
with plush; who levied tariff tribute on
every yard of carpet that went from
his mills to grace the homes Of the
country. He was the president of the
Manufacturers club of his city. that
raised the s40O, 900 for Wannamaker that
bought New York in 1888, and claimed
and got the right to write the sched
ules of the Mckinley bill because they
had saved the party" Then there is
Sam Allerton, of Chicago, who knows
how to "fry the fat" in politics. as
well as in business Russell. A. Alger
the originator of the Diamond match
trust, that laid mercilessly exacting
hand on every home in the country for
years, and still dominates that indus
try, is on the list of advisors" It
was he whom John Sherman accused
of buying Southern delegates and de-
feating him in 1880, and whom Johns
brother absolved because it was ''the
universal usage"
w. B. Plunkett, of Massachusetts.
president of a national hank freq surer
of several cotton mills com
panies and a tariff beneficiary. is
on the board. Redfield Proctor. of
Vermont, Harrison's secretary Of
war, now a senator, a millionaire
through a tariff on granite, who as sem
ator took good care to see that the pro-
vision of the Wilson bill that put gran
lite on the free list was changed In the
senate to put on protective tax of
seven cents for each cubic foot H
Clay Evans is the only man on it who
has the distinction of being a poor man
and he is there to help split the 'solid
South" Our own Merriam completes
the list of advisors" and he needs no
introduction to our readers. So Mr..
Hanna has his way and selects his cab
met for the campaign. 1t exemplifies
in it's makeup the spirit and animus
of the Republican party against which
the whole country is IN open revolt.