The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-03-09
IIllMAN'S OPINION OF MARK HANNA.
TaE DIsGRAoE OF THE LATE
CAMPAIGN.

Ohio Statesman Is Rewarded for
the Wholesale Prostitution OF the
American People-The Need for
the lection OF Senators by a Di-
rect Vote.
b. II. Tillman in the n. Y. Sunday World.
The attitude of the World In the last
campaign was q disappointment to its
friends who had expected that 1t would
finally come out for free silver and
then give Mr.. Bryan a hearty support.
But while Democrat, were disap-
pointed that the great Democratic
daily OF New York city assumed the
attitude it did, the telling blows which
1t has dealt to trusts and ~monopolies
and the courage ind persistence with
which it leads the fight against corpo-
rations ard their high priest, Mark
Hanna, must command the admiration
of every r patriot.
We are making history very rapidly
in this closing lustrum OF b nine
teepth century and the two opposing
forces in American politics, the people
aud organized capital, are already
marsha1lipg 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 cur.
rent events must realize that the con-
dition of antagonism between man and
money Of our country is becoming more
and moro accumulated every day.
AS soon as 1t became known that
Senator Sherman would receive the
portfolio Of State In the Cabinet of Mr..
Mckinley the question OF his successor
came prominently to the front and for
two months the figure of Mark Hanna
has doomed portentionsly above the
horizon as the man who was to take
Shermau's place in the American
House of Lords.
and surmises almost daily leading the
people to believe that Governor Bush
nell and Senator Foraker would resist
the demand for MIR. Hanna's appoint
ment to fill the Senatorial vacancy.
There were patriotic Americans tain
ed In the old school Of our politics,
both Democrats and Republicans, who
hoped that official subserviency would
not stoop SO far and hat the great
State Of Ohio might have rs its repre-
sentative in the Senate one worthy to
succeed John Sherman.
But the business methods" for the
first time made familiar to the Ameri-
can people in the aeon Presidential
canvass, have been too strong. The
news came to us within a week that
Hanna is to be the next Senator from
Ohio. Organized capital haunts in the
face of American people the commits.
sion to q seat in the Senate wrung from
a reluctant executive, and the 4th Of
March, which will witness tho with.
drawal of Sherman, will be followed
swiftly by the entrance into the Senate
chamber OF o man who boldly and un-
hlushingly bought the Presidency for
his friend and patron.
l say patron, for | am not ready to
use a harsher term which, however, is
floating in the minds of the people, nor
to oe lieve that MIR. Mckinley will per-
NIT himself to become the mere puppet
and tool OF Hanna and the men he rep
r~esents.
The two men are very intimately as
sociatcd and n owes the other much,
very much, but | shall hope 10 sec the
new President perform tho duties Of
mis- high oiiico in a manner that will
L reflect credit upon himself and the mil
lions Of true Americans who voted for
him, rather than lend himself to the
scheme OF h conspiratOrs who are
pressing madly 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 q great deal about the true ma.
ture Of the issues presented in the last
campaign.
1t is fortunate for those who ha' G
not dcspaircd OF the Republic and who
bell <, "'r""i.y of men for self
sCv "l:.,' ,rk Hanna is to en-
ter 90. ou-u,. Has advent marks q
further step downward, O ''lowcr
deep" In the debeuchery OF American
politics. The election TO tho high Of
lice If his Democratic predecessor by
bribery has boon charged with much
show 81 truth, and 70 evidence to dis
prove it ever saw the light of day.
WHAT, with the fact that Ohio cast
one vote in the recen election for ev.
cry throe and th~ree-quartcr inhabi,
tants and now sees tho manipulation OF
that election traBsplanted to the SEN
ate-it is easy to see that the down.
ward course, the easy descent to
hell" is being rapidly trOd. The ''busi-
ness methods" which have brought
about these results and the reward
claimed and obtained so untlishiny!y
must mark an epoch in American bis.
tory.
The seat filled by bluff, honest old
Ben Wade and "Grand Old Man." AL
Ian Thurman, is to DO occupied by
huhhay III UuC question nJUur-
ally presents itself, what is the rea:on
for THUS LoDOripg this man Is it be-
cause he las opprCs sed and robbed
labor? That lie is in fact the en-
bOdimcnt nf modern Republicani.m
which is -uoro cruel than tho ex-
,l~archOlders OF the South and knows
no God but Mammon?
Let tue cause be what 1T may, the
American people have only themselves
TO blame Tor the conditions In which
they now find themselves. Tho strus-
gle for the control Of the government
by the trusts and corporations has
caused us to witness strange sights
! : in recent years. The Federal pat.
LiAge and the possession of the veto
% "cr are the prizes fought for in tho
Presidential election.
I ~ sea- in the Senate, which l. the
fortress OF tho wealthy classes Nnu i,.
sorcd interests, is becoming rn v,,,u..
bic that the election of a Sarn,or il,
any State, North or South, whr,c mon.
ey can be used, is no lJpear tsfs tn IT,,
people or their representatives. Par
tisan feeling runs 80 high ~ to ihi eat.
en- rioting and b!oodshed. Witnrs. t.,r
Genes In Kentucky last spring. and soc
the situation in Oregon now. T'nln tho
elections for Senator 10 Soul, Dakota,
ldabo aud North Carolina arc too no.