The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-22
WHY Mr.. HANNA IS MAILING.


/ warning but il is not that exactly unless
| you would call 1t a sight demand note. II
is Macedonian wall for help from the
class of people who produce the fat" for
campaign purposes.
This great money mixer is now caus ing
great blasphcmy and crashing OF teeth 10
emanaie from tho bank parlors and count
Ing rooms OF the country. The season Of
panic for Matchmaking purposes Is on and
The proprietor of the republican party is
making the bsA OF his opportunities to
scare the goldhugs into giving down fit
There Is no sort OF doubt that the fright
is actual, but 1t is also being made to do
duty as a Doodle collector.
Mark Hanna is the srandest figure In the
history OF political green goods operators
and his methods are known and thoroughly
appreciated by an aimiring public He
dNlays grim hunor In the use Of
euphemism to express the fact that every
corporation, firm and individual in the
country that can be hoodwinked cajoled or
hulldozed In connection with patronage or
punitive legislation, Is being held up
sandbagged and made to disgorge. That
is what Mark means when he grumbles
at party apathy aud insists that every
republican must ges out and hustle harl
until the polls close In November. This
means only one kitd OF work. That is
to 90 down in their pockets and put up"
ana look pleasant Also. to exercise the
power of snspening industrial operations
and coerciDg wage earBsrs. That sort Of
help won the election in 1896. Mark Hanna
has the same coafidencs in his metho Is
that he had then. This year he has much
greater cause for desiring TO apply them.
In the last campaign the organized force In
opposition TO him was not marker" to
hat No.. s..1.
simply question OF the combined wealth
OF tho capitalist and employing class
against mass OF despairlng and hungry
farmers and laborers Now he must count
influences against him OF equal poten-
tialdy to all the millions he is raising ana
blowing in" like drunken sailor. IN
1896 he had the wealth of Alger and others
fighting Tor him. This year he has the
record Of Alger and others 1fke him TO as
sist in the destruction Of his party's hopes.
There Is Old Dodge who is lodging around
with his Alger relief commission and credit
mobilier campaign literature educating
voters to rebellion against a system of
hitherto unknown and unheard OF corrup-
ton, rascality ard murict. The canal ring
ID New York with it's colossal loot; the
gore dripping Plnlertons il Illinois with
their smoking Wholesalers: the bright and
shining sons OF their fathers, +. e.. the
young Bliines. Algcrs, Logars. ct ID genu.
cmre--tho fever camps, typhoid flies, rotten
mont contractors. camp site and transport
deals and scandals-all these and more are
working for democratic success at the polls
next month harder than il paid for it. oh,
yea, Bother Hlnnl You are dead right!
There Is excuse for republican apathy so
much complained Of aud from your stand
point there is awful reason "for every re-
publican voter N this country to get out
and work for his party until election day"
The Alger relief commission has been
hustled away from Washington at the sim
Pile suggestion OF Mark Hanna Notwith-
standing the quantity Of whtewlsh de-
veoped at the Inquiry so far It has been
noiei by the far seeing boss of the admin
isration and other shrewd observers. that
the general effect OF the testimony on the
public at large ia no way made favorable
impression and was not heptlg TO build
ladder 10 the gates of the new political
Jerusalem for the Z. o p The commission /
ms done its best TO keep the newspapers |
nom obtaining the truth regarding the de- !
ldiis or the lnVesi igatlon by excluding all J
tho regular representatives, of lhe press |
from its hearings. But there are a great |
macy newspaper men in Washington and I
they have q peculiar habit Of lnaarg ont |
Itlne3 thar 70 on in any kind OF an old /
executive session. Therefore it has been an |
lmpcssihlity Tor The commission 10 keen
la secrets dark, }y seuding the comma. |
sion away from Washj-gton il is vainly
hoped TO escape The yigiiamt attention of the
newspaper representatives and thus en-
6t9ro" % stop tho publication of unpleas-
ant facts as suddenly IS fat man falling
down stairs with 4 cock stove, at least
upu after The election, Futile desires-vain
hope.
The commission left for the South yes.
teriay in a gorgeously appointed special
train. including the private car of General
Credit Mohilier Dodge, It's distinguished
chan man. Royalty never Travelled more
iuNurously or in greater state than the
eminent citizens who have taken the con-
hact TO kalsomlae the war department and
make Alger.sm synonym for everything
Aood and true aud beautiful and as near
relieeuon a. can be hoped Tor N this drsary
o.N WORM or SIN AID red tape. The mos,
elaborate preparations were taken by the
ootuihlss on TO guard against the oontrac-
% OF yphoid fever or any other OF the
Algerian diseases that have nou5 ished in
our army camps and dec.mated the ranks
OF tho patriot bows. Dislndectants .of ali
KINGS were IN ample supply aud the train
Ven stocked with all tho creature com
iors that could be suggested by the most
-Ni.N4 hN'N NHtis VI tue country. General a,
lodges own private caterer accompanied
me party aud all meats Will be cooked and
'erNet on board the train. II any stray
microbes or other Algerian bacilli should !
finJ their way into the stom-
aehs or the distinguished relief workers ;
hen General Dodge VIII clearly have the
light 10 lay the blame on dispensaton of
Divine Providence. :
~ >
II a little more of the care that has been
aiken to preserve tho health and comfort OF
he commission had been observed by the =,
VAR department in the treatment of our
odlers much sickness, death and misery
\ ou4d nave been averted, but that's another o
tory. .
General Dodge's refusal to trust to tho j,
ommissary and medical bureaus of the war
recruitment TO pfov.de subsistence and !
medical supplies for himself and his col :
g sues, may he construed by some un- c
hinklng and perverse person as IN itself 9
ra'hsr severe reflection on the war de- c
arlment. General Dodge gave his personal !
tiention TO the commissary OF his sps- j
'al train and no requ sltlons were made 4
u writing or orally upon the depot quar- L
ermaster for supplies, n
lb cnnmissia- VIII examine al Wit /