Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-03-31
ABOUT MARK HANNA
RE APPEARS EVERY FOUR YEARS IN
 NATIONAL POLITICS.


 A Political Comet.
 M. A. Hanna is political comet. He appears every four years His pres ence in the national sky sets the country to talking for summer. He then slips under the horizon. He is now in the as- tendency. He Is discussed tho length and breadth of tho land He shares public attention with the leaders who make business of being public The people have learned to know him, to recognize his influence, and they won- der at the manner of man he is that in the distribution of the rewards of vic tory he neither gets nor seeks any DOT tiona This unique trait is su fficient to make him conspicuous. There are many other reasons why he Is one of the re- markable men of the day.
 Mir. Hanna is primarily a business man. He owns a large part of Cleve- land. He denies that he is in politics, statement which needs an explanation. He refuses to be chased with the men who are i'll politics, because the phrase suggests the brood scrambling for office. His interest i'll the affairs of state is no more than is the right and duty of all good citizens. He has never held office, save an unsalaried but trying com pliment from tho hands of President Cleveland. He mover wants another, and at tho end of this campaign he will again retire from the trials and vexa- tions of conferences, turn aside from the contests with party bosses, tempo rarily abandon the struggle with the big combinations and become a private citi- Aen in his palace on the Erie lake shore
 President Garfield and Senator Sher- man were tho first men of fame to learn the effective value of Mir. Hanna's friendship. Senator Forabor has the best appreciation of the effectiveness of his opposition Tho first two were swept into position f2eause he believed tho country needed leadership of their type Senator Foraker was compelled to wait a season, and, after waiting, he was honored. This is the sort of citizen s in terest this new power in Ohio manifests. He has no measure of good will for the candidate he regards as fitted for dis tinction. He is with him from the bot tom of his feet to the top of his head. His time, money, energy, brains, all are at his service He has nothing for the candidate in whom he lacks faith. He has no middle ground. He is all for or all against. This rule is now ill force, and there will be no rest, no peace, for him so long as his idol stands for the indorsement of the national Republican convention. Ho possesses the conviction that the commercial interests of the land demand tho election of William Mckinley to the presidency. So long as that decision remains so long will MT. Hanna be not q private citizen of Cleve- land. but one of the busiest characters from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
 Mir. Mckinley is tho last man to bring MT Hanna into the din and noise of a het campaign. They have not always been as harmonious in opinion as they arc at present. They have very often been on opposite sides of political situa- tions They were both delegates to the national convention of 1894 The major was last, first and all tho time a Blaine boomer at that meeting. Mir. Hanna was ths champion of John Sherman. They had the same room at the hotel, with beds i'll diagonal corners. Senator Ed munds had a chance of winning as compromise candidate. His cause was in the hands of George William Curtis and Theodore Roosevelt. There was great knocking at tho door of the Hanna Mckinley room late in the first night of the convention. Mir Mckinley answer ed the call and admitted the boomers of the Vermont man. They hurriedly told their plan for a combination by which the nomination should go to Edmunds or Sherman. according to the number of ballots each should receive during the first vote. The major listened to the saheme from his place under the covers, but made no comment on the elaborate plan. He heard them nearly to the end, and then said: Gentlemen, Ithink you must have made mistake. The Sher- man man is over there in the other bed {" He then rolled over and went to sleep as the visitors shook up Hanna to retell their story. 1t increased Mir. Hanna's faith i'll Mir. Mckinley that he never made use of his unwilling condolences to the benefit of his man Blaine.
 There is no doubt that Mr. Hanna is business man. He has millions. He dug some of them out of the iron and copper hills of northern Michigan. 9th ! CTS came from tho means he provided 8 for others to do the same thing. He was the pioneer in the Lake Superior ship trade, and it now takes two fleets of iron hoats to handle the ores from his holdings. A company to make boats for sale was his project, and its develop ment made Cleveland the first naval yaE4 4slong the inland seas A lot of # kindly tgfenterprises followed, the man. aging ssenius of which was Mr. Hanna. There, was municipal necessity for a new sfeet car line. He built it. His # financial tact was demanded in banking circles, and his name makes the Union # National leader in the country. He