Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-06-19
BANKER HANNA'S HANDlWORK
Aided by Pullman, Armour and Others
of His Syndicate, He Ruled
at st. Louis.
M'KlNLEY, HOBART And GOLD STANDARD
Widespread Dissatisfaction Among Re-
publicans-Even the Gold Men
Wanted Reed-Money Plank
Unsatisfactory to Thou
sands of Republican
Bimetallists.

st. Louis, June l9.-Ihe SICK pallOr
of death is on the Republican party.
The leaders are in state of terror,
and the rank and file are depressed.
They have nominated a candidate for
whom they can not get up cheer.
They adopt a platform that two-thirds
of the party detest. They are going
into a campaign in which half of
them, in the confidence of secrecy, will
tell you they are doomed to defeat. Their
only hope is to debauch the suffrage, and
bny a majority of the American people.
This seems harsh statement, but it is
absolutely true. There is no enthusiasm.
The bands have ceased to play. The Re-
publican boys only cheer, in half-heart-
ed way, at the triumph of faction.
Reeds followers are still faithful to their
favorite. They feel that in him they have
leader worthy of the best days of the
Republican partY,a leader for whom con-
servative men could cheer, aud poets
could sing. Think of poet singing of
Mckinley and Mark Hanna.
THE LEADERS IGNORED.
There were not half as many people at
this convention as there we're at Mime.
apolis, four years ago, when Harrison was
nominated for the second time; or as
there we're at Chicago, eight years ago,
when Harrison was nominated for the
first time. The brand of Mark Hanna is
on che Republican party. Itwas thought
when the clans rallied at the convention
on Tuesday their coming together would
excite enthusiasm, and infuse some life
into the proceedings. But the convention
was wake. 1t was monotonously dull.
The speech of the temporary chairman
was more like graveyard Grafton than
a pean of victory. The distinguished
leaders of the party who, in former con-
ventions, we're cheered TO the echo when
they appeared, on Tuesday entered
scarcely noticed. Tom Platt, rebel
against Mckinley and Hanna, was the
only chieftain to elicit applause. After
the convention, the streets we're dull, the
hotels were deserted. There we're no
crowds anywhere. None of the reunions,
the rejoicings, the partisan picnics that
characterized former Republican con-
ventions were visible yesterday.
SENTIMENT FOR REED.
More than majority of the delegates,
away down in their hearts, prefer big
Tom Reed for president. If the conven-
tion had been deliberative body, and the
delegates free moral agents, Reed, not Nc
Kinley, would have been the nominee.
But the grip of Hanna is on the conven-
tion. The syndicate of Hanna, Merrick,
Day, Pullman and Armour has mortgaged
the Republican party. The leaders are
but agents. The rank and file are but
vassals. Men wearing Mckinley badges
and Mckinley buttons frown when the
name of their candidate is mentioned. 1t
is only when some Reed enthusiast men
tions the name of the man from Maine
that the average Republican lung and
tongue will perform their usual functions.
But although Mckinley creates no en-.
thusiasm and Hanna is cordially detested,
both Mckinley and Hanna could be swal-
lowed if the platform had been made to
suit the majority. Two-thirds of the
delegates to the present convention and
more than two-thirds of the Republican
party in the United States are opposed to
the single gold standard. The minority
has control of the party. The trusts, the
corporations, the manufacturers and the
bankers have bought the Republican
leadership and intend to buy sufficient
American citizens to make McKin ley
president of the United States
DEMOCRATS CHEERFUL.
The only cheerful men in this town
yesterday were Democrats. They OBJ
served the Republican countenance, they
heard the Republican walls of discomfort,
they heard the gloomy predictions of Re-
publican state chiefs regarding the frui-
tion of Mark Hanna's management. A
Republican United States senator, who is
also member of the national committee,
but not one of the five senators who re-
fused to vote for the Dingley bill in con-
gress, expressed his opinion freely.
''This is but the preliminary OF a fun
eral," said he, "and it has all the airs of
a funeral. 1t Is we'll that it should take
on that appearance, as it would be diff
cult to disguise our feelings. Defeat now
stares US in the face"
The Closing Hours.
st. Louis.-McKinley and Hobart con-
stitute the standard bearers of the Re-