The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-08-19
STANDS BY MR.. HANNA
FALSE CHARGES DENOUNCED
BY SECRETARY WARNER.
United Mine Workers Secretary Says
the Ohio Senator Has Improved the
Condition of HE Men-Fa1se Stories
Circulated About Him.
Enters q Protest.

William Warner, Secretary of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of the Pittsburg IS
trict, has entered IN earnest protest at
the manner in which the names of miners
officials are used in statements concerning
the treatment of miners by Senator Mark
A. Hanna. He says:
Al these stories published about the atti-
tude OF Mark Hanna on labor are false.
Every time you see the names Of myself or
Patrick Dolan. President of the district
coupled with these stories, it is Done with
out our knowledge. / have denied them re-
eatedly. but what can do to stop their cir
culation?
The true story of Mr.. Hanna's attitude to
MS Workmen and toward union labor. as far
vania are concerned. Is that he is the best
man in the whole district to work for.
i DO not know Senator Hanna-never saw
him In my life. Mr. Dolan and myself voted
the free silver ticket last fall and will dc
SO again II we can get chance. We have
no interest In Mr.. Hanna's candidacy for
United States Senator in Ohio. but the fact
tnat we are opposed to him In politics seems
to have given some writer's the idea that
they are licensed to use our names to tell
absolute falsehoods about him.
Mr. Hanna never to my knowledge took
an active interest In the mines here. His
general manager, Thomas E. Young, how
ever. has done more than any other man
to bring about better condition Of the
AiHc1S. ne udS WOFkou night anu Jay III
conferences and committees. pleaded with
operators, walked over the entire district.
spent MS own money, and has been veri-
table slave trying to do some good. neglect
ing his own business. and now his employer
Is rewarded with abuse and lies after hav-
Ing lost thousands of dollars in seeking to
maintain the mining price.
such proceedings are disgraceful. ! have
advised them to defeat Mr.. Hanna on a
straight silver issue II possible. but II they
want friend to miners every miner In the
United States should be for him. The work
done by Mr.. Young and the Pan Handle
Coal Company, in which Mr.. Hanna Is a
stakeholder. and Daniel Hanna. his son. Is
Hanna entered actively into politics. Long
before he was thought of In this connection
he took the stand to pay the highest wages
in the district. If Mr.. Hanna has done this
for political effect 1t has cost him several
fortunes d onot believe this. however.
To-day he is paying the highest price paid
In the Pittsburg district. He has contract
with his men whereby he cannot reduce the
price even If he desires 1t, while all his
competitors are paying their men cents
less per ton. Not only that. he Is fairer In
his dealings with his wOrkmen than nine.
tenths of the operators, and this is one OF
the greatest boons to suffering miners. who
ings.
While I cannot conscientiously support
Mr.. Hanna in his political views yet moth
ing would give me greater pleasure than to
disabuse the minds Of the people of Ohio
that Senator Mark Hanna Is tyrannical.
mean. or pays his workmen less than his
competitors. If there were a greater num-
Der Of Mark Hannas there would be less des-
titution and complaint among the coal
miners