The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-13
DON'T WANT HANNA
The President is Begged to
Cut Loose From His
Corrupt Boss.
HE is M'kINLEY'S BllGH |
"YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY A
GANG OF THIEVES" SAID y
FRIEND TO MCKINLEY.
HE is M'KINLEYS BLIGHT
HANNA FILLS NO OHIO OFFICES

HANNA FILLS NO OHIO OFFICES
But Compels the President to Keep Them All
Open to Help His Return % the
Senate.
(Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.l
Washington, d. c., Nov. 9.-The pro-
tests against Hanna are not confined to
Ohio. Every mail which reaches the
White House is burdened with letters
TO the President to cut loose from his
boss. These come from every quarter
and serve to show the heavy load the
President carries.
The private feelings of the President
do not, of course, find public voice. Still,
Il is the fact that Mr.. Mckinley would
feel grateful indeed if Mr.. Hanna
would retire. He is the subject of keen
criticism because Hanna forced him to
forget the high dignity and station of
the Presidential office to descend to
ward politics by dragging him to Gin
cinnati to help save discredited tyrant.
No natter under what gerteel cover he
made the trip, the business banquet was
but the incident to cover the real pur-
pose. Now that the one sought to be
rescued is in the mire of defeat. dis
owned by his own party in the great
metropolis Of Ohio, the President feels
keenly the DISSEMINATION he was forced
TO undergo. He feels he has degraded
Ais office.
1t is not remarkable that here in
Washington, among men high in honors
In the Republican party, one hears on
every side tne hope that Hanna be
eliminated from public life. He is look
ed on as McKinley's blight. Some of the
Southern appointments he forced to he
made are open and notorious. The
Union Pacific steal, which the Pres:-
den, did not have the nerve to intercept.
stands as a smirch, and IS a ghost which
will revisit to be a plague. | happened
to know on the eve of its consumma-
fion an ex-Oh:o official travelled from
Columbus to this city and begged the
President, for his good name and fame,
to call a halt The President faltered.
"lf you continue to overlook such trans
actions" he was warned, "your admin
istration will be the most corrupt in his
tory. You are surrounded by a gang Of
thieves"
These were brave warning words, but
the President was powerless. Hanna
held him in his grip. Not only did he
demand that the campaign fund be
said back Mt the public expense. but
also forced him to drag the Presidential
>fYiee in the dirt, and to descend TO
ward politics IN a State which had Civ
On Republican majority of 10000. and
IN q city which had given a majority OF
eO,WDO.
Now that the reflection of the CAM
paign is on the true friends of McK:n-
lev are begging him to cut away from
Hanna. 1t is urged on him tnat Hanna
cannot be elected to the Senate, and
that he keep his hands off.
Though he has majority Of FIVE on
joint ballot, he has a constitutional ma
iOrity Of two, :nasmuch as it will re-
.quire 13 Republican votes to elect him
United States Senator. These he can
hardly expect, for tnere are not few
of those elected who were fought tooth
and nail in the primaries, and who are
on the blacklist in the book of revenge
Mr.. Hanna carries in his vest pocket,
the duplicate of which is in the custody
Of his small man-Dick.
While the campaign was on Senator
Hanna compelled the President to hold
up the Ohio appointments. This was
done in order to give him the chance to
promise each place twenty times over.
At this writing there are eighteen Pres
idential postoff.ces now held by Demo-
Gratis whose term OF four years has ex-
pred. The salaries range all the way
from s., 900 to $500 year. Mr.. Ham
ma has already telegraphed the Presi-
dent to keep them open. This means
that he wants the power Of this patron
age as club to aid him in his fruitless
chase to secure his election as Senator
In other words. Mr.. Hanna seeks to
perpptuate in office scores of Democrats
rather than by fllng them with Re
publicans his hand may be exposed. In
this way he trities with President and
with the sturdy Republicans of his own
State. at whose hands ne seeks signal
honor.
There is one distinguished personality
in Washington who is not shedding
crocodile tears. This is John Sherman
Mr.. Sherman was driven ont of the
Senate to make a vacancy because al
OF Hanna's coterie kept telling him he
could not be reelected. Rather than be
annoyed with the gadfles who thus pes
tered him he stepped aside with much
reluctance. Since his elevation 10 I'll,
Premiership he has been pursued by
the same gang. He has been surrounded
with class whose mission it is to cal
attention to his alleged imbecility. ant
annrher class who allege him a figure
head in the State Department. with nc
other public function to perform except
attach his signature to documents pre-
pared by his nnderlings and traducers
Mr.. Sherman is patient TO degree. Bn
the Emit may come. and if it ever doe
he may blow Hanna and his rptinue OF
tradmcers ont of wafer. Mr.. Sherman il
toda, the strong card in Ohio. and if IN
were rhp candidHfe for the Senate. IL
Hanna now is. with n constitutional ma
j"rity of two 10 his credit. there Womb