Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-09-10
HANNA'S LATEST.

II is hardly necessary TO say tnat MI
Hanna and ourselves do not harmonlze'
ME-. Hanna is not our friend and we are
not MIR. Hanna's friend. We do not like
SONY Of his methods. Not to put too fine
n point on IT. we cannot reconcile some
of his methods with the generally accept
ed code of ethics. None the less-ethlcs
barred-we cannot but admire the Infinite
variety and multitudnous direction OF
his stupendous genius. We cannot but
recognize with reverence the magnitude
and comprehensiveness Of his ambition
such as 1t is.
Hanna is constantly developing; his am
hilton is constantly battening on the
meat on which it doth feed. All the
world knows the magnificent success
Hanna achieved in the last presidential
campaign, as a political financier-as col
lector-in-chief, and dispenser general OF
the Republican campaign fund. That sue
cess ASSURED his names being sent down
TO posterity as a President maker. All the
world also knows how his restless, amDi-
flous spirit, not content with this, sought
To entrench itself nearer the throne, and
that after passing through the deep
waters of one of the greatest scandals
the country has ever known, Mark
marched I'm triumph 10 the senatorial seat
of John Sherman, out Of which the latter
was cajoled and tricked in manner
which Is a standing disgrace to the ma
ton.
one would have thought that now
Marks cup OF ambition was full. Presi-
dent maker, the power behind the throne,
and the recipient OF the laudatons and
gratitude Of those to whom he had guar
anteed big interest on their investment In
his President-making scheme; what more
could he ask? One would have thought
that he would have been satisfied to rest
ON his labors, great and small, for his re-
manning days. We say great and small,
for one of the evidences Hanna had given
OF his mammoth genius was that he de-
spised not small things, as witness the lit
lie game he played in poor old Virginia IN
the presidential campaign Of 1886 one
would have thought that he would have
been disposed to keep aloof from the
mad'ning crowd.
Not so however. The news from Gin
cinnati is that Hanna has been right in
IT," Not satisfied with being President
maker. he wanted to add fresh "laurels"
10 his brow by becoming G.. A. Il. grand
commander maker. In other words, it Is
said that Hanna's happening" at Gin
cinnau was for the purpose Of devoting
+. his energies TO the end of debating the
election OF the Grand Commander of the CT.
A. n. What was behind this new and ex-
allied ambition OF Hanna's has not clear
~ developed. But considering certain re-
cent conferences in which Hanna figured
we are justified In assuming that he was
not .iu It" for the fun of the thing, SIM
= ply. We are justified in assuming that he
was not sin It" merely TO show fatherly
interest I'm the members Of the G.. A. r.,
though they do say that Mark has a
weakness for showing fatherly interest
particularly in the young electorate. They
do say. in fact, that he essayed some two
years ago to show that fatherly interest
that none need be surprised If he renews
the attempt this fall
But. this apart. and TO go back to the
main proposition. That is that whatever
we roay think Of Hannas methods, and
however we may differ with him as TO
questions OF ethics, he challenges our
rcverential admiration Whatever may
r.
al accounts OF that performance be true
to his other nonors should be added the
nonor ora monument for brazen effron-
terry.
Unfortunately. the G. A. II. is becoming
more OF Republican auxiliary every
day: stu there are thousands Of Demo-
Gratis in Its ranks. There are in. its ranks
thousands OF Republicans. also. who re-
sent the iInputation that It is political