The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-16

great scare the country had on that
would have carried the election as it
went II there had never been a Hanna.
1t was one of those things that the
uprising of the people accomplished.
but now they are uprising against
Hanna, as the election in Ohio and
Nebraska and other states show. But
this will not deprive Ohio and the Re-
publican party Of a. Republican United
States senator
"Ohio and the country will survive
long after Hannaism is dead. But it
is apparent that Organism and Popu-
lism cannot be killed while Hannaism
survives. He is too prominent a char
acter and red rag of plutocracy, trust
ism and commercial politician to per-
init it. He has encouraged pledge and
| instruction breaking, so disreputable in
this state, as to be entitled to, and will
get some, of his own medicine. He de-
serves it. This will not hurt, but i'm
prove the Republican party, and save
it, if anything can, from his defeating
it in 1898 and 1900.
You ask if 1 think the Ohio and
other lessons will give a Democratic
majority in the next congress. 1 have
no doubt that 1t will, and that unless
Hannaism is rooted out of the policy
and action of the party that it will
bring defeat in 1900. 1t is better to look
danger in the face and facts now, than
to have Minneapolis repeated in 1900
We have no use for Mark Hannas in
the national or local politics. Ohio
proves it. How CALLING it must be to
his pride.
Nebraska has spoken with no IN
certain sound. The policy OF Thurston
has been sat upon in his own state.
Had Nebraska gone Republican in 1885,
Thurston would be in the cabinet or in
line for the supreme bench. A Pacific
railway attorney dominating the policy
and action for the national committee
and presiding over the Mckinley ma
tional convention is one Of the things
that the public has had in mind, as did
! Nebraska in her vote of 1896 and last
Tuesday 1t does not evidence that
Bryan is dead at his own home, nor
does it prove that Thurston is, either,
because were he q candidate today, the
great corporate interests OF the Union
Pacific would rally to his support re-
CARELESS of party lines or principles,
aid this influence might win again, as
1t has before. In it there is az in
structive lesson that increases the dan
ger to the government.
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"Ohio has spoken out in meeting. but
aside from the gubernatorial victory
! W lIlS Il OIdheI people, IeSOIul6iy Qe-
clines to be Hannaized. This involves
the administration and humiliates it.
The campaign has been handicapped
with this burden. There is no better
campaign manager in Ohio than
| George K. Nash, but he could not stay
the anti-Hanna tide. 1t shows how flu
tile is the disposition OF federal patron
age, and how useless its control, for
! if any man ever had the control and
! Tod
What good did it do him, or will it do
him, unless, as in this and other states,
the commercial use of it at senatorial
| election time, it be made to do multi
! plicity of promises for the same posi-
ton? But there is risk in that in Ohio,
since a senate Doodle inquiry threatens
such commerce.
eff the administration fails to heed
| the lessons of '1st Tuesday and the
same tactics develop in the national
committee and the convention as did in
/ the last, the Same results will follow as
did from the overbearance and conceit
Of the federal office holders in forcing
Harrison upon the party at Minneapo-
lis for denomination. 1t will hardly
| be believed, vet I have the proof that
McI<inley's chief manager of his nom
! inatton (not HANNAH, as early as June,
1895, was suggesting me for postmaster
| general, as one who could do so much,
and none more, for McKinley's renom-
! nation, and wanting to know if [
would take it. Just now this is as much
! as [ care to develop concerning the
days visit to Mark Hanna's house and
visit with Mckinley, Brownell and
others. l was seeking nothing, but
was sought. Subsequently Mckinley
said that he wished that Hanna and
could be closer friends. I told him
that Hanna and 1 understood each
other, and that I had said to Hanna
all that had to say. but that 1 could
not do politics Mark Hanna's way:
that he treated political matters as he
would a cargo of Lake Superior ore
how much bid-and that was not my
way. 1t is well known that the Nc
Kinley people and Mckinley then, and
until the 18th day of February. 1886,
when I declined, wanted me to take the
advisory management of his campaign
before and after nomination. 1 knew
what that involved in physical and
mental exhaustion. The Indiana cam
paign aged me ten years, and it took
me year to get over it. l did not
want any more of that.
"As late as December, and again in
February, prior to the convention, I
> advised Mckinley that he would not