The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-24
TILLMAN ON MARK HANNA,
The DISGRACE OF THE LATE PRESl'
DENTAL

The Ohio Statesman Is Rewarded for the
Wholesale Prostitution Of the American
People-senators Should be Elected by
Direct Vote.
Senator B. r. Tillman wrote as fol-
lows recently to the New York World:
The attitude of the World in the last
campaign was disappointment to its
friends who had expected that 1t
would finally come out for free silver
and then give Mr.. Bryan hearty
support.
But while Democrats were disap-
pointed that the great Democratic
daily of New York city assumed the
attitude it did, the telling blows which
it has dealt to trusts and monopolles
and the courage and persistence with
which it leads the fight against corpo-
rations and their high priest, Mark
Hanna, must command the admlra-
ton of every true patriot.
We are making history very rapidly
in this closing lustrum of the nine
teenth century aud the two opposing
forces in American politics, the peo'
pie and organized capital, are already
marshalling their forces for the con-
test of 1900. The last election, al:
though it witnessed the triumph OF
money, is acknowledged to have set.
tied nothing, and every student OF
current events must realize that the
condition of antagonism between man
and money of our country is becom'
ing more and more accentu ated every
day.
As soon as it became known that
Senator Sherman would receive the
portfolio of State in the Cabinet OF
Mr.. Mckinley the question of his sue.
cessor came prominently to the front
and for two months the figure OF
Mark Hanna has loomed portentious-
ly above the horizon as the man who
was to take Sherman's place In the
American House of Lords.
There has been reports, intervie VS.
and surmises almost daily leading the
people to believe that Governor Bush.
nell and Senator Foraker would re-
sist the demand for Mr.. Hanna's ap-
pointment to fill the Senatorial va
cancy. There were patriotic Ameri-
cans trained in the old school OF our
politics, both Democrats and Rspubll'
cans. who hoped that official subser-
viency would not stoop SO far that the
great State of Ohio might have as its
representative in the Senate one wor'
thy to succeed John Sherman.
But the "business methods, for the
first time made familiar to the Ameri,
can people in the recsnt Presidential
Canvass, have been too strong. The
news came to us within week that
Hanna is to be The next Senator from
Ohio. Organized capital faunts IN
the face of American people the COM
mission to seat in the Senate wrung
from a reluctant executive, and the
4th of March, which will witness the
withdrawal of Sherman, will be fol
lowed swiftly by the entrance into the
Senate chamber of a man who boldly
and unblushingly bought the Presl-
dency for his friend and patron.
say patron, for am not ready to
use harsher term which, however, is
J floating in the minds of the people,
: nor to believe that Mr.. Mckinley will
permit himself to become the mere
puppet and tool of Hanna and the
: men he represents.
The two men are very intimately
} associated and one owes the other
much, very much, but shall hope to
see the new President perform the
duties of his high Office in manner
that will reflect credit upon himself
and the millions of true Americans
who voted for him, rather than lend
, himself to the scheme of the conspira.
tors who are pressing msdly onward
either to defeat or revolution.
The American people have done a
great deal of thinking since the No
| Vember election and the masses have
, learned great deal about the true ma
ture of the issues presented IN the last
campaign.
It is fortunate for those who have
not despaired of the Republic and who
believe in the capacity of men for
self-government that Mark Hanna Is
to enter the Senate. His advent
: marks a further step downward, a
lower deep" in the debauchery ol
, American politics. The election tc
the high office OF his Democratic pre-
decessor by bribery has been charged
, with much show of truth, and no evl
dence to disprove it ever saw the light
: of day.
| What, with the fact that Ohio cas-
one vote in the recent election tol
every three and three-quarter inhabl
tants and now sees the manipulation ol
that election transplanted to the Sen
, ate-it is easy to see that the down
ward course, the ''easy descent tt
hell" is being rapidly trod. The
"business methods which have
l brought about these rerults and the
4 reward claimed and obtained so un
I blushingly must mark an epoch II
American history. :.
t The seat filled by bluff, honest ole
Ben Wade and Grand Old Man,
Allan Thurman, is to be occupied BY
Mark Hanna and the question natural
L " presents itself, what is the reason
: for thus honoring this mans Is it be
? cause he has oppressed and robbed Ia
! bore That he is in fact the embodl
q ,oonY of yoodern Rannhlica niSm Which