The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-02
OHIO FGH|NG SENATORS.

organized, but Hanna knows more
about organization in day than For
al<er does in a month Of Sundays. For
aker has friends who manipulate the
machine for him. One OF these is
Charles Kurtz, Of Columbus. Gov.
Bushnell is another and George Cox,
the big liquor dealer Of Cincinnati, was
until recently the third. All these men,
however, cannot compare with Hanna
in this respect. I doubt whether he has
his equal in the world. 1 spent some
time at his headquarters here and look
ed over the books showing how he ran
this last senatorial campaign. The
whole state was divided up into sec
tons. Every man OF Importance was
known. Every vote was counted. Every
newspaper editor had been lined up,
and the wires reaching from the Perry
Payne building extended to every ham
let of Ohio. Scores Of clerks were kept
constantly busy. Two hundred and
fourteen daily papers and all Of the
Weeklies published in Ohio came to the
headquarters. A corps Of readers clip
ped these summarized their matter and
presented it to Hanna's lieutenants. A
close touch was kept with every coun-
ty, and the correspondence was such
that it amounted to hundreds of letters
q day.
CAMPAIGN FOR M'KINLEY.
Hanna's presidential campaign for
Mckinley was managed as no cam
paign was ever managed before. The
whole United States was divided up
just as he divided up Ohio. He knew
as much about any one Of the counties
Of Lower California or Of Upper Maine
as he did about the different parts Of
Northern Ohio. He not only knew in
diViduals, but he knew public senti-
ment. and he spent vast sums to
change it. His correspondence was SO
enormous that for a time it was said
he spent as much as $4,000 a week for
postage, and have seen 1t stated that
so, 900 documents were sent out il
one week by mail. All told, the amount
Of money at his command is said to
have been more than $1,000000, and [
have no doubt that this money, as far
as Mr.. Hanna was concerned, was spent
legitimately. He slximped nothing. A
letter was never sent whare telegram
would bring the news more quickly,
and much of the business was done
by special wires and long-distance tele-
phones. In tbs work he was aided very
largely by President Mckinley. The
president is one Of the shrewdest Of
politicians. By means Of the telephone
he and Hanna were side by side, though
one was in Cleveland and the other in
Canton. Every day or so Hanna would
get on the train, taking a lot of p3pers
with him, and go down to Canton. The
ride is not more than an hour or so.
During the journey he would have two
seats to himself and would sort over
these papers, so that he had them just
in the shape in which Mckinley would
understand them most quickly. He
would proceed at once to business, and
together the two in a couple of hours
would go over the whole field, ard by
evening Hanna would be back in Gle e.
land with a new set of directions for his
subordinates. He picked out a force of
organizers which needed only his gen
eral direction. He does not believe
in doing things he can get other men
to do. In this way he saved himself
for the big things and was able to
throw all his force where it would do
the most good.
MARK HANNA'S ILLNESS.
Still Hanna did too much. His illness
today is the result Of over work. Dur