The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-11
FIGHT IS TO 60 ON
CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION TO BE
CONTINUED BY THE NATIONAL
PARTY.
THE NATION NEEDS A REST,
BUT THE SILVER AGITATION WILL
BE NET BEFORE THE PEO-
PIE.
The NATION NEEDS A REST,
M'NINLEY PARTY HAS A RECRUIT.
Battle Past and the One to Come
Considered at luncheon Given
for Hanna.

NEW YORK, Nov. 10-A luncheon
In honor of Mark A. Hanna was given
in the banquet hall in the Equitable
building today. The host was Isaac
NJ. Seligman, of the house of J. & w.
Seligman, and the guests included a
number of the most prominent bust
ness men and financiers in the city,
Besides Mr.. Hanna and Mr.. Seligman,
the following were present: Ex-Mayor
Abram S. Hewitt, Carl Schurz, Seth
Low, Edward n. Gibbs, A. G. Paine,
j. H. Rhodes, John A Stewart, Gen.
Horace Porter, Cornelius N Bliss. Sol
ONION Loeb, Jacob Schiff. Theodore
Roosevelt, VIM. Barbour, Edward E.
Poor. David L. Einstein, Gen Louis
Fitzgerald. Edward Lauterbach, Geo.
Coppel, Edwin Einstein, James Nc
Creery, r. Fulton Cutting, D. o. Mills,
Charles Stewart Smith, j. Edward
Simmons, Edward King, David G. Leg
gett, James Speyer. Edward D. Adams,
j. Kennedy Tod and Henry H. Jeffer-
son Seligman.
When the time for speaking came.
Isaac NJ. Seligman addressed the COM
pany briefly upon the situation which
led to the gathering. He especially en-
phasized the necessity for joint action
in the future by the Republicans and
National Democrats upon currency
matters He then called upon Mr..
Hanna, who spoke at unusual length
for him
Mr.. Hanna said that he felt that he
was addressing an important body of
New York bankers, and he spoke of
the general work of the campaign.
The present organization Of the Re-
publican party and also of the Nation
al Democrat party, he understood.
would remain in the field to further the
good work so auspiciously begun. Mr..
Hanna said also that the new admin
Istration would begin it's work without
any pledges and wholly untrammeled
In the selection of a cabinet, a state
ment which was heartily appIauded.
Mr.. Hanna said he hoped they would
be able to enlist good citizens in the
cause represented by the national ban
ner.
Mr.. Hewitt said that, as one who
had had experience in conducting a
national campaign. he knew what Mr..
Hanna had gone through, and he con-
graduated him upon the generalship
which he had displayed Mr.. Hewitt
paid high compliment to Mai NC
Klnley and concluded by asking that
the banner of the national party. and
proposing as a toast the success of
the incoming administration, to which
he pledged the support of himself and
Of all patriotic Democrats. Gen Porter
Carl Scnurz and several others also
spoke. The burden of these addresses
was that, after so many stormy dis
crDsions, the country needed an abso-
lutte rest from political agitation.
The Republican club of New York,
Celebrated the election of Mckinley and
Hobart tonight. Hon. Cornelius N.
Bliss presided and Mark Hanna, Cen
Horace Porter and Gen. Tremaine were
the speakers. When Mr.. Hanna was in
trOduced he said:
Il want to tell the workingmen of this club
how they have been coerced. When the cam
paIgn opened which it did of its own ac-
cord-the first act of coercion was in forcing
me to accept the craftsmanship of the ma
tonal committee. 1t was a peculiar cam
palgn, and from the beginning | made I'D nv
mind that it should be run on business prin-
ciples. and the lines to be followed were pa
trlot1c loyalty to the country. The situation
was difficult to diagnose, and | confess nv
hand trembled when l took hold of the lines
But by proper application of the business
method | saw that the alignment would be
such as to leave the contest with the people
We had only three months to eradicate the
poison that had been instilled into the minds
of the farmers for three years We nrenared
and distributed 1000 600 documents. princi
paily on the financial question. Our task was
no easy one, because our case had been pre-
Judged, and farmers had been led to believe
that in free silver lay the cure for all dis
treSS.
After the convention at Chicago, told Mai
Mckinley thaS in my opinion Mr.. Bryan was
the hardest possible man to beat but he
said: That may be all true but my faith
is in the loyalty and intelligence of the Amer
lean people" Mr. Bryan's canvass was a
wonderful one, but as one of our spellbind-
ers, molder named Rankin, said: mark
Hanna has one hand on the Almighty
and another on Mckinley, and you cannot
beat the combination and they did not
l have soft feeling in my heart for the
sound money Democrats, for although they
wavered for long time, the word was finally
passed along the line to vote for Mckinley
and they did it. I going to say that the
Republicans will fight this battle out on the
lines of honest money, and the solution Of it
must be left to the honesty and intelligence
Of the people.