The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-16
HANNA IS A HOODOO
Will Drag the Republican Party
Down to Ruin,
DECLARES C. l. FILLEY
MISSOURI REPUBLICAN LEADER
TELLS CAMPAIGN SECRETS.
Hanna Must be Thrown Overheard
or the Republican Party is
Dooned-Democratic Congress in
1898 Will be One of the Certain
ties-Thurston in Nebraska.

st. Louis Republic: Chauncey L.
Filley is after the scalp of Mark Hanna
and other plutocratic Republican
bosses. He says that Bryanism can
never be killed as long as Hannaism
survives. Mr.. Filley is telling cam
paign secrets these days, and Incl
dentally taking the hide off his old
enemies In McKinley's denomination
he sees the defeat of Harrison dupli-
Gated. He predicts that the next con-
gress will be Democratic. The follow
ing letter from Mr.. Filley to the Re
public is a political gem in its way:
ITO the Editor of the Republic: To
answer your several heterogeneous 1
must give answer in my own way.
They can only be punched. l can only
speak from the standpoint of Re
publican who has the interests of his
party at heart and the fidelity of IS
years, or since its birth, to prove it,
and never having scratched ticket
Of its nomination in the meantime. Of
course, Greater New York commanded
universal attention. But Greater New
York Is not, in reality, an American
city in the jbroadest sense. True, it is
cosmopolitan, but largely of persons
of foreign birth or descendants, and
not of the ordinary high type of Ger
man or French extraction the lower
types predeminating.
That the success of Tammany
through such lines will have an APP
probable effect upon the future par
ties in the state, and particularly
beneficial to the dominant Democracy
cannot be overlooked. 1t will have its
effect upon the senate of the United
States, and will thus be seriously felt
by the administration. 1t hurts. In
1895, Mark Hanna gave the cold
shoulder to Platt and his friends in the
state and allied himself and the Nc
Kinley interests with Mayor Strong
and Arson McCook. In the recent cleo
ton he reversed himself and antagon-
lied Mayor Strong and Arson Nc
Cook, and allied himself with Platt.
This was personal triumph forsPlatt
but a humiliation for Mckinley and
Hanna. 1t had better have occurred
in 1895. Then there would have been
some consistency in it.
so, too, in Ohio, Hanna turned
himself over just atythe inopportune
time in order to circumvent Foraker,
to George B. Cox, and allied himself
to that interest. again humiliating and
compromising Mckinley and encount-
ering sure defeat this year in Hamil-
ton county. 1t is ia Ohio that the
public looked for the complete en-
dorsement of Mckinley and, Hanna. Ii
cannot be said that Mckinley is in
dorsed in the election of Bushnell For
akers friend and candidate, whom
Hanna did not want. But a deal was
made, and it has not been made public.
1t was this: That the delegation of
the state should be solid for Mckinley,
and also for Bushnell, and that For
aker was to have the seat in the sem
ate and all of the federal patronage
of the state. The promotion, if it can
be called a promotion, of Sherman to
the state Department. left the short
and the long terms open, the former
of which Hanna got, and the latter-it
looks like the 10000 or As 600 popular
vote against him would deprive him
of the basis of excuse to ask for it, and
it is questionable whether he can get
it, even, with the patronage of the
whole country behind him, backed up
by the administration.
Hanna has made himself persona
non grata with the Republican masses,
not alone in Ohio, but throughout the
country. He will begin to realize it
Gf his excessive large opinion of him
self, obtained through the extraordin-
airy campaign of 1896, will permit in
which he supposed himself the chief
actor and promoter, when it was the