Evening journal., 1897-07-19
NOW oHANNA THE GREATER.

people got a notion in their heads that
the greatest Republican had fallen from
the pedestal OF his brilliant greatness.
Far and wide the belief was spread that
Mr. Hanna had no following in his
state and that at the end of his service
in Shcrman's short unfinished term in
the Senate, he would sink into the
great groove Of political Oblivion. Bush
nell was then supposed to "own" the
favors Of the State of Ohio, but when
the Spring conventions were held Your
Uncle" Marcus was again the boss-in
fact so eclipsed were all his would-be
rivals that he has now become known
as Hanna the Greater"
As a result 1t is now pretty well set
tied that whoever else may be cold to-
ward Mark Hanna, he is first in the
hearts of his fellow Republicans of
Ohio and that he will be his party's all
but unanimous choice for the Senate.
Is this not a rare instance of merit
recognized? No man in Ohio-no man,
indeed. in the United States--personl-
as does Mr.. Hanna. He is its spirit in
carnate and that spirit in its most ag-
gressive and confident guise II is At,
therefore, that the Republicans of
Ohio should rally round Mark Hanna.
In doing this they rally round the Nc
Kinley administration, of which he is
the superintendent, and convey renew
ed inspiration and solace to the inter
ests and elements which created that
administration.
Mr. Hanna, it is clear, will succeed
himself in the Senate, should his party
elect the Ohio Legislature. The issue
presented to the people of great state
by his candidacy is clear-so very clear
that only fools can be deceived as to
what 1t really is. Mr.. Hanna, himself
a millionaire of the new kind stands
for property. Were Mr.. Carnegie, or
Mr. Huntington, or Mr.. Pullman, or
Mr. Rockefeller, or Mr.. Havemeyer to
become politically ambitious and put
himself forward for the Senate
he could not more emphatically
than Mr. Hanna typify the cause OF
which the Ohioan is the champion. He
needs no written platform, being him
self the most eloquent declaration Of
principles and policies that can be de-
vised. With his party in state and ma
tion, he embodies the doctrine that
property is entitled to rule the repub-
lie, by fair means If convenient, but by
any means that may be necessary. To
procure presidential and other elections
by systematic bribery and coercion; to
procure and prevent legislation by cor
ruption in the interest of property; to
control courts by the power OF the
purse; by the use of money to secure
trusts in their robbers privilege of tax
ing the people for private profit; to
advance steadily the movement for
transforming the government into a
mere agency for the pecuniary benefit
OF the predatory rich-that is HANNA
ism: that is McKinleyism; that is Re
publicanism.
The more a rich man deserves to be
in jail the more confidently can he now
count upon the sympathy and support
OF the party Of which Lincoln was once
the head, and of which Hanna has be-
come the truest representative. His ap-
pointment to the Senate was a legiti-
mate consequence of the triumph
achieved by property in the election of
Mckinley, and the touching proofs OF
his partys trust and affection that he
is receiving in loyal Ohio, coming con-
temporaneOusly with the Republican
Senate's obedience to the orders of the
trusts, give evidence that the same love
for the national honor which swept
over large part Of the country in No
vember still glows with undiminishet
ardor in spots Had Hanna lived in the
time of the Roman Empire Caesar
would have been out-Ceasared.