The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-03-11
T|LLMAN'S OPINION OF MARK HANNA.
THE DISGRACE OF THE LATE
CAMPAIGN,

CAMPAIGN,
The Ohio Statesman is Rewarded for
the Wholesale Prostitution or the
American PcOple-Thc Need for
the Election OF Senators by a Ui-
rect Vote.
b. H. Tillman in the y. Y. Sunday World
The attitude OF the World in the last
campaign was a disappointment to its
friends who had expected that it would
finally come out for free silver and
then give Mr. Bryan a 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 monopolies
and the courage and persistence with
which it leads the fight against corpo.
rations and their high priest, Mark
Hanna, must command the admiration
OF every true patriot.
We are making history very rapidly
in this closing lustrum of the nine
tconth century and the two opposing
forces IN American politics, the people
and organized capital, are alrcad,
marshalling their forces for the con
test Of 1900. The last election, al
though 1T Witnessed tho triumph OF
money, is acknowledged to have set
tied nothing, and every student Of cur
rent events must realize that the con-
dltlon OF antagonism between man and
money OF our country is becoming more
and moro accentuatcd 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 successor
came prominently to the front and for
two months the figure of Mark Hanna
has lOomcd pOrtentiously above the
horizon as the man who was to take
Shcrmau's place in the American
House of Lords.
There have been reports, interviews
and surmises almost daily leading the
people to believe that Governor Bush
nell and Senator Foraker would resist
the demand for Mr. Hanna's appoint
mcnt TO fill the Senatorial vacancy
There were patriotic Americans train
cd in the old school Of our politics.
both Democrats and Republicans, whc
noped that official subserviency would
not sloop so far and that the grea,
State OF Ohio light have as its repre-
sentative in the Senate ono worthy tt
} succeed John Sherman.
But the business methods" for the
/ can people in the recent Presidential
/ canvass, have been too strong. The
I news came to us within q week tina,
y Hanna is to be the next Senator from
Ohio. Organized capital tlaunts in the
ace OF American people the commits
sion toa scat in the Senate wrung from
II reluctant executive, and the Ith o.
March, which will witness the with
drawal OF Sherman, will be followcC
/ swiftly by the entrance into the Senate
chamber Of o man who boldly and un
blushingly bought tho Presidency fol
, his friend and patron.
say patron, for | am not ready t(
use q harshcr term which, however, Il
floating in the minds of the people, nol
t to believe that MIR. Mckinley will per
, NIT himself to become the mere puppe
0 and tool of Hanna and the men he rep
f resents.
f The two mon are very intimately as
| sOciated and ono owes the other much
new President perform tho duties o
> his high Ollico in u manner that viii
Is re llect credit on himself and the mil
% lions OF true -A...rr .cailu - hJ voted fO
o him, rather than lend himself to the
"a scheme Of the conspirators who arc
- pressing ma ly onward either TO defea
/ on revolution.
. The American people have done {
great deal oi thinking since the No
II vcmber election and the masses have
l. learned II great deal about the true ma
q turc Of tho issues presented in the las
d campaign.
IF 1T is fortunate for those who haze
:, not dcspaired OF the Republic and whC
n believe in the capacity of men for self.
- government that Mark Hanna is to en-
ter the Senate. His advent marks q
. further step downward, "lowor
" deep" in the debauchcry Of American
ID politics. The election to the high OF.
k fec Of his Democratic predecessor by
= bribery has been charged with much
y show OF truth, and no evidence to dis
i prove it over saw the light Of day.
u What, with the fact that Ohio cast
, one vote In tho recent election for cv-
- cry threo and throe.quarter inhabi-
tantS and no" 'C"s . manipulation OF
U that election transpianted to the Sen
p atc--it is easy to see that the down
L ward course, the "casy descent to
, he H." is being rapidly trod. The "busi-
! ness methods" which have brought
about these results and tho reward
claimed and obtained so unblshingly
must mark an epoch in American his.
tory
The seat flied by bluT, honest old
Ben Wade and "Grand Old Man." AL
Ian Thurman, Is to be occupied by
Mark Hanna, and the question natur-
t | ally presents itself, what is the reason