The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-06-21
HANNA
Touches the Button, Cox
Does the Rest.
THE G. o. P.
Being Subverted and its EscuthiOn I'm
the Mud In the Interest Of the
Hanna-COx Gang.

There was never greater party in
the United States than that organic.
ed by Lincoln, Gl eely, Sumner, Gar
rison, Seward and others forty years
ago. A party of nobler and more
unselfish purposes never challenged
the administration of mankind. This
world has never seen greater or
grander men than stood by the cradle
of the Republican party and assisted
in dedicating it tc the cause of hui
manity.
While it will be admitted there
are still many men, old and young,
who adhere to that party and vote
for its candidates, it must be adj
mitted that it has fallen into the
hands of q very different class of
men than those who founded it.
There is not better test of the char
aoter and purposes of political
party than the integrity of the men
who lead it. High sounding phrases
in platforms, adopted by conventions
in which the delegates sell their
votes, and into which they have
bought their way as the agent of COR
rupt leaders, have no meaning but
to catch votes and enable dishonest
men to betray the people.
1t must be wormwood and gall to
men of high character all over the
country to see such men as T. g.
Plat, OF New York, S. B. Elkins, of
West Virginia, Matt Quay, of Penn
sylvania and M. A. Hanna, of Ohio,
now OCCUPYING the places of such men
as Benjamin F. Wade, Thaddeus
Stevens, Oliver P. Morton and Wen
dell Phillips, who generation ago
were the leaders Of the Republican
party. But In no state of the Union
has the Republican party fallen into
worse hands than in Ohio. Marcus
A. Hanna, of Cleveland, and George
b. Cox, of Cincinnati, are the unde-
sputed dictators of its platforms and
policies. These two are assisted by
such lesser lights as H &. M. Daugher-
ty, Major Dick, E. G. Rathbone and
Congressman Grosvenor, in many
respects the latter being the most
! triffiing of the whole bad lot.
While such corrupt men as these
figure as patriots and worshippers at
the shrine of Lincoln, men of high
character like General Beatty, Will
liam F. Burdell, Daniel J. Ryan, d.
X. Watson, Henry @. Taylor, r. HI.
Platt and others of like integrity and
talent are assigned to small honors
in the back ground.
Tomorrow and Wednesday in the
city Of Columbus, the Republican
party of Ohio holds Its state conven.
tion. No candid republican in the
the state will deny that whatever Is
done In that convention will be at
the dictation of George B, Cox and
M. A. Hanna. Mr.. Hanna will not
be here, because he knows he will be
denounced ON the floor of the con-
'ohsAoh1 esha AAO Soh JdoO ao Wtll
direct the movements OF the conven-
tion by wire and through his crook
ed deputy, @. w. F. Dick, who has
been taken from his regiment in
camp for this bold military service.
Is there an honest Republican in
Ohio who does not feel a sense of
shame at this spectacle? There was
D time In Ohio when men who had
grown rich In the practice of bribery
did not dictate the policies and plat
forms of the Republican party. II
old Ben Wade were living and In
the zenith of his energies, no such
men as Hanna and Cox would dare
aspire to leadership. He would have
arisen In the convention 40 years ago
and denounced them for just what
they are. But no Republican of the
present day has the courage and
character to do 1t, and so Hanna and