Evening journal., 1896-09-04
HANNA TO BROWNE
The National Chairman Dishes
Up Some Plums.
WHAT HE THINKS OF ADDICKs

LlENE THAT THE REPUBLICAN
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
WILL SOON BE LOOKING FOR A
NEW JANITOR, UNLESS THE
PRESENT ONE BECOMES MORE
CAREFUL.
The janitor of the Republican State
Central Committee must be becoming
more and more careless in the trans
mission of mail from the postoffice to
Republican headquarters It is prob
ably due to his neglect that the fol-
lowing letter from National Chairman
Mark A. Hanna to State Chairman
Hugh c. Browne becomes public prop
erty, when it should be reposing in the
innermost recesses Of the state chair
mans tire-proof and burglar-proOt safe:
Hugh c. Browne, Chairman Republi-
can State Central Committee, Will
mington, Del.
My Dear Hugh:-Your favor of re-
cent date at hand l have a multitude
of reasons to advance in excuse for
not sooner acknowledging it. / am up
to my galluses in work and sinking
deeper every day. l don't want to be
national chairman any more I'd
4
all the work, and, if it amounts to any
thing in the end, Bill Mckinley will
draw the salary. If | wanted to push
the matter ] think l would have
pretty good case in a court of equity.
Yes, Hugh, it's a thankless job. OF
course there are pickings, just as there
are in being chairman of a State Cen
trail Committee, but there are so many
/ scrambling for them that really there
is no satisfaction in making a try for
them.
If you smell anything down in Della
ware that reminds you of lard burn
/ ing, don't call out the fire department,
/ for it's only poor little me frying out
! the fat up here in New York. If these
capitalists and monopOlists wish Nc
| Kinley to protect them from foreign
| competition, they have got to protect
him from the enterprising competition
set up by William j. Bryan
I'm grease from head to foot, and
4 the work is not nearly done yet. It's
| astonishing how much fat you can
| fry out of some OF these fellows when
i you put them over a slow Bryan fire
and read our tariff and financial
| planks to them.
| / presume that you have heard the
news from Vermont It's all very well
/ as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far
enough Don't stop fighting down in
| Delaware because Vermont has gone
| Republican by an increased majority,
for remember we have the West and
South and part of the East to hear
/ from yet, and there might be enough
| Democratic votes to alter the result.
/ Ii Hung Chang has been with us
| fer several days and we enjoyed his
/ visit very much. General James Il
| Wilson was on here hobnobbing with
/ him, and, / believe, made overtures
l looking to the securement of the dis
| tinguished son OF the Flowery King
dom to stump Delaware in behalf OF
the regular Republican ticket. If the
( special train bearing the viceroy
] whizzes through Wilmington without
| stopping, you may know that Addicks
has bought the burned Chinaman off
| However, l think it would be a good
| IDEA to have General Wilson make a
| personal canvass OF the Chinese laun-
| dries in Wilmington and make him
self solid with the Chinese voters
| You've been voting the Japs ever since
the war and might just as we'll hav,
the Chinese. / hear from a cOnlden
tial source that since Ii Hung Chang
came over the general has been eat
ing his rice with chop-sticks and tha
he has been hunting through all the
hedges out in New Castle hundred fOi
edible birds nests. Can this be true
| If he has the Celestial fever that bad
you had better tie up your fox terrier
pup and set your rat-trap, for there il
no telling what he will do in som'
hungry moment.
! We had a call from J. Edv
dicks and some of his lieutenants sew
4 eral days ago. Addicks is a HI o
) a man. While he was here / didn'
. know whether / was chairman of tn
Republican National Committee o
secretary of the Executive Committe
1 of Lewes and Rehoboth hundred. H
( just had that way about him. He
one of these don't care damn sort o
: men that a national Chairman
doesn't want to meet more than ono
or twice during a campaign. / ex
pected to see him come in with
cringing sort of air and you may i'm
agine my surprise when he stepped 4
as though he paid the running ez
penses of the establishment, and said
Hello, Mark How's crops?" It kin
OF threw me off my base. Finally
asked him what we could do to restoI
harmony in Delaware. He said that "
must withdraw Mckinley and Hobar
nominate Plat and Quay, repudiai
{, Higgins and his gang down in Del;
!. ware and get out an injunction T,
/, straining them from styling then
selves Republicans or voting the r.
publican ticket. / tried to get him
talk reason, but it was no use. +
said he would have harmony his wa
or the whole country would go I,
: Addicks Just then he thought
something and made the demand tn
, | General Wilson be bounced from Il
2o | Republican National Committee. Z
ss nally / asked him how much mon,
10 he wanted from us to run his car
a paign in Delaware. He said he didr
n want a cent. That Addicks men we
NJ lighting their cigars with $40 bill
n and, to cap the climax, asked me il q
~ National Committee didn't want
~ borrow a few thousand from him. A
- dicks is a HI of a man. Final
~ we got rid of him, after having fail
an to accomplish anything, and just tn
- Committeeman Scott came in and to