Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1896-09-17
HANNA's METHODS EXPOSED.
Secret Political Agitators Employed
in Milwaukee Shops by the Re
publican Committee.

NEW YORK, September 10.-James
Creelman, a staff correspondent of
of the New York World, who has been
looking for Mckinley sentiment in the
west, writes to that paper from Mil
waukee:
1.-THE worst element in this campaign
is the part which Mark Hanna's fund
is playing. Candor compels me to
give the facts, without regard to
whether Mr.. Bryan's election would
be a good thing or bad thing. There
is plenty of evidence, in my opinion,
to show that this is rapidly becoming
the most corrupt and corrupting
political struggle known to the Ameri-
can people.
s'Bryan may be defeated, but the
influence of money and of Mark Han
mas method upon the voters of Wis
consin, in common with the voters of
other states, will not disappear after
election day. Let me give one ex-
ample. / speak of a matter know
and understand. The Reliance Ma
chine Works, owned by the Edward
p. Allis Company, is situated in Mil
waukee. There are employed in this
establishment something like 1880
men. Here the Bryan sentiment is
very strong. 1t is an absolute fact
that 18 workingm en- in this establish
ment are at this moment on the pay
roll of the Republican State Commit
tee as secret political agitators. Their
companions are ignorant of this
fact, and do not suspect it. The re-
suit is, that these men have an infiu-
ence which they could not possibly
WELD were the truth known.
"The Republican Committee has
also, am informed, upon its pay rolls
large number of men in another es-
tablishment, which employs about g.
600 workingmen. In several of the
factories here gold standard argu-
ments are pinned each week to the
envelopes containing wages.
s'The Republican Committee has
also sent men into the mining districts
of Wisconsin to offer IS in Mexican
silver for 1915 in American money
1t is impossible to make an honest
statement of the political situation in
Wisconsin to-day without revealing
these facts.
ssThe Republicans have an enormous
campaign fund and a political machine
the like of which has never before
been seen in fhe State. The Republi'
can Committee has already distributed
more than a million documents il
Wisconsin. The Mckinley literature
is printed in English, French, Danish
Polish, Norwegian and German ant
spread broadcast by the ton. Yester
day, in anticipation of Sunday ant
Labor Day coming together after Mr.
Bryan's visit to the city, the Republi
can managers hired every bill boar
in Milwaukee for three days, and thi
morning 1000 cartoons representing
Bryan opening the American mints t.
Europe and Asia and Mckinley open
ing the factories to American work
Iingmen were displayed. 1t take
money to do that sort of thing"
Mr.. Creelman gives the result of al
interview with MIR. Bryan in Milwau
kee a couple of days ago. f'Mr. .Bryan,'
says the correspondent, "dresse
more carefully now than he used to
and tiny diamond sparkles on hi
bosom, the sort of diamond an auster
Presbyterian might justify as an ex
tenuating circumstance in his other
wise severe dress. Mr.. Bryan wa
greatly impressed by the popula
demonstrations In New York State
He is firmly convinced that the masse
of the people in the Eastern States ar
as bitterly and unchangeably oppose
to Wall street in politics as the peo
pie of the West.
"He looks upon the Sound None
Convention Cat Indianapolis) as tn
first instance in American history @
a national convention called to nomi
nate candidates for President an
Vice President with the implied un
derstanding that its members intende
to elect other men. That convention
he believes, unmasked the men VIII
insisted upon the minority report a
Chicago, which declared for inter
: national bimetallism. At Indianapo
Lis they dropped all pretense an
boldly supported the policy of an out
right gold standard"