The Irish standard., 1896-12-05
gath TALKS OF MI']KlLl|LBYl
lie Thinks He IS Pure and Win
Not Have a Crooked sAd-
ministration.
Ones;NNho Knows Hanna Tells of
.9. His Mental Makeup and
Other Features.
Al Interview With an Old Demo-
t. crati, Editor in Hanna's
Town.

| Town.
&.sWhat makes the lamb love Mary
so ?n the little children cried.
.:Why, Mary loves the lamb, you
Know the teacher quick replied.
This is what Hanna's speech at the
BANQUET conveyed to the school, Or, as
| the wicked poet, Will Alden, who az
fected to doubt the spelling OF lamo
and insisted that it was Mary's little
limb or skin, would have written the
ballad. Wherever Hanna goes her
little limb follows and skips and
plays
'.Will you refer NE to some man who
does not like Mark Hanna: :" asked,
''for I want to hear him from the shady
side. :" L:
I"Yes, there is Tom Leoper, who
crossed Hanna in the last trolley
snap"
WHAT of Hanna?" / asked Tom
Leoper. :.
| -'He is man who always wants his
! own way in every pool, and drives ev-
erybody out who will not submit, and
who believes that money is the way to
accomplish yerything. He has real
will. not make believe will, and he has
intellect up to a certain point, ana De-
yond that point it ends. He Is not
educated, but tinstinctive, not seem
| Itific financier, but a plunger, ana on
| the main subject in the last campaign
money as an element, a measure, a
mathema tics, a prime rudiment IN Il
nance and trade, Mark Hanna is uo-
BILE savage. lie has not at TINS moment +
any prOgrarume for the conduct OF the
Treasury Department He does not
know whether he will retire the green
backs. or coin silver, or what he Will
! do. He thinks he can persuade other
nations as he forced the campaign.
His chief hacker, Pierpont Morgan,
will still be his chief backer after he
enters McKinley's Cabinet, or hanna
will try to oulldoze him. ! MI. Han,
| ma takes the Treasury portfollo IL Will
be at his own risk. Mckinley can
only sustain him If he IS sHccessfut.
sAIc Kinleystogs not know, and eXpects t;t
Hannah to know am or tire opfn-.
ion, said Tom Leoper.. that hann as
|campaign for Mckinley exactly sultea
lshis acuuirements, to spend money eff
fectiyely. but he cannot regulate the
finances without raising money by
financial wisdom -
...He spoke, however,''I said. "of the
honor he returned to McKinley's
feet"
''Oh, we all believe that Mckinley
is pure, and will not have any crooked
admins tration. BY pure process NC
Kinley will expect Hanna to De sue.
cessful''
Can Hanna succeed in that way -
stTf he cannot he had better not ac-
cent the Treasury Department..
Whether free silver goes by the board
or not, free trade is in a bad way.
After inocuiating with it both the old
parties successfully in 1872 and 1898,
the doctor has run away from that one
Of tine patients upon which the virus
took"
At the Hanna banquet, last night, l.. 70
Holden. owner of the Plaindaaler, news
paper, and the Hollenden hotel, one OF
the oldest democrats here, having left
Maine while it was still a democratic state,
and also one Of the delegates at large to
the democratic national convention, used
this language: II am opposed to any and
all combinations or efforts to obstruct the
legislation which will tend to carry out
the policy proposed by the party now In
power.
just as Mr. Holden sent this letter to the
Hanna BANQUET. was in his office, and
said: sgThere is a. rumor about the city
that you are either coming out for McAin-
ley or fora protective tariff"
aNothing in that,"said Mr.. Holden, 'sbut
lust this. The rest of them will lie, and
willnot. I know perfectly we'll that reve-
nue. has to be raised, and also that you
cannot raise revenue by a duty On imports
without assisting protection. Every 20
per centum put on a foreign import Is also
25 per centum Of projections. So protec-
ton is inevitable, and why think you get
around It by giving it some other name?
That was Mic Kinley;s war. cry, protection,
and il is very little to concede when we
are all in favor OF more revenue, to be
levied upon imports. also believe Nc
Kinley IS going TO do his conscientious
best to restore birnetallisn. He told me
that he favored the wider use Of silver.
ihaye never mentioned it to any one till
now. Never used it in my paper in the
campaign. and believe Mckinley to be
an honest man, and am confident he will
try TO promote the wider use Of silver"
24Will he succeed by an International
fconcordat ~ ?''5s
q don't believe he will. five are not
bold enough to try it ourselves. I doubt if
we can GefSudut5S iOtllcI SSdielt tSilslliOls, W
90 with us in the dark a part of the way.
Isupportcd Bryan because he offered to
lead the way to independent bimetallism,
and we could have elected him but for the
addition Of the wilder planlxs to the plat
form, which. toward the close Of the fight,
replaced silver, tari If and everything else,
and made Bryan appear as the candidate
saf revolution. Three weeks before the
election he would have beaten McKinley."
i'll Bryan be likely ySto3 get the nomina
;stiior anoth time::"
That is mere speculation now. Saying
sosMill not make it So Infinite contin-
genci will intervene. do not think
Bry All i last tour in Ohio added votes to
him: rather lost some already secured.
! The people were tagged out By his de-
Lays. s s u,
Ssss 1fe lyer u
IS ssS III Is not 80. was. but sold my
&, ore this ssripd, and have nothing
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