The evening times., 1898-03-04
HARSH WORDS FOR HANNA
Secretary Long Said to Have
Been His Tool.
GAIN VERSUS PATRIOTISM
How National Honor Was Staked
How the Former Was Buried in
Oblivion by American Government
Officials.

New York. March A-The Journal today
prints bold expose of the stock jObbing
operations of men prominent in the af-
fairs of the National Government. 1t
says:
Senator Hanna, fresh from the bar
| gain for a seat in the United States Sem
ate, probably felt the need of recouping
his Ohio expenses as we9 as OF helping
| his great financial friendsso out of the hole
when he began playing American patriot
ism and American honor against Wall
street money. .'si'
| He visited the White House. Then he
| visited New York. Whatever he learned
! at the Executive Mansion, when he
reached the metropolis he was ready to
play a great financial game. The Amer
| lean people. inflamed by the Maine TRACE
| dy. were eager for war. Stocks, money
being rabbit-like in it's timidity were go
| ing down as IL they intended to crawl in
to hole and then swallow the hole,
| Hanna saw the opportunity. Stocks
! were low. A man coming right from the
White House and declaring a policy of
peace at any price could make them high
| When the game was ready. Hanna said
! there would be no war. He spoke as one
having authority. His edict meant that
Uncle Sam might be kicked and cuffed
| from one continent to another. but that
| under no circumstances would he fight
So those stocks gave up the idea of dis
| appearing from view. and began bobbing
| up serenely. much to the pleasure and
profit of those who have occult means of
! determining Mr.. Hanna's mental pro-
cesses.
But this was not enough. Mr.: Hanna
| reiterated his White House opinion that
the Names destruction was an accident.
| But somehow or other the general pub
! lie would not have IL so. The people in
sisted that the accident" was the result
| of Spanish villainy, and the blood of the
| country would not cool. Everywhere men
| talked OF war.
| So stocks lost their gushing buoyancy,
| and began to get dun and sagsy again.
| They hadn't yet reached a point where
! the most influential spectators could sell
| out and make large fortunes.
Hanna, however. had not PLAYED his last
| card. Secretary Long was a convenient
| tool to his hand So when Wall Street
| began to get fidgety again, Long came
| airily out of a Cabinet meeting and drop
ped a few words. These words fell just
where they could be caught by the stock
! iobbers. and made to return some sixty,
| some an hundred. fold" on investments.
According to Long. Spain had no more
! to do with the Maine horror than had the
| Blarney Stone or the Bunker Hill monu-
! ment. This was taken as the Administra-
| tion view. Hanna had been backed in his
! assurance of perfect peace by the Cab
! met Of the nation.
| Wall Street at once renewed its conf
dence i'm the superiority of Doodle over
| patriotism. Stocks jumped again. those
! on the inside" fattened their bank rolls.
Now ii is proposed to ask for the i'm
peachment OF Secretary Long. and
through Impeachment proceedings to
| bring out the whole story-the story of
| how Government is manipulated TO sat
| isfy the demands OF private gain. And
| meantime the private secretary of Presi-
| dent Mckinley. is hived under an assum-
| ed name at a summer hotel, summon
| ing hnanciers to confer with him. The
| question has naturally arisen. is he
| working with Hanna. or manipulating a
| little financial game of his own?