The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-04-07
HANNA REPUBLICANS WANTED.

The municipal elections held in the
West this week are, in their results,
of more than ordinary interest, and
especially the election of MIR. J. H.
Farley, Democrat, as Mayor of Cleve-
land, Ohio. He obtained the hand
some majority of some 10000 votes
over his Republican opponent, Mr..
Robert McKisson.
Cleveland, it will be remembered, is
the home of Sena tor Hanna--the man
who manages the affairs of the Repub-
lican party, and who bends or breaks
any line of action that does not ex-
actly fit the groove which his will
marks out. Mr.. McKisson, it appears,
had not only the audacity to oppose
Senator Hanna in the State Conven-
tions of this and last year, but he also,
had the temerity to think that Presi
dent Mckinley was not altogether de-
serving OF second term in the White
House. Such rash thought must
not be allowed to find expression at
the polls, and so McKisson's doom
was sealed.
Care is taken too, that a reaso n
should be assigned for the defeat other
than that of his opposing the cause
of Hanna, and so, Hanna sympa
thizers Immediately cry out that Nc
Kisson was D. boss, and with a cor
rupting force, recruited from the ranks
of political parasites, was seeking to
undermine the cause of good govern
ment. However, this may or may not
be, it certainly is an edifying sight to
see Hanna surveying the political
horizon from such an elevated station.
But will the people be led to believe,
from such statements, that Hanna
has been converted to purer methods
in politics? We doubt it. The close
political syndicate of which he is the
head is simply operating along its
accustomed lines, and keeps squeezing
out any competition that might inter
;sfere with the manipulation of the
trust it has in charge.
There were s',Iue cities, however, in
which Hannalsm did not prevail.
Canton, Ohio, the hone of Mckinley,
went Democratic, except for Mayor,
and even there, the Republican can
didate for that office barely pulled
through by the small margin of 13
majority. Chicago, we are glad to
note, gave crushing defeat to the
Republicans and elected Carter Har-
rison Mayor by plurality of some
40,0 over Carter, Republican, and
Altgeld, Independent Democrat, the
latter who has always been closeiyiden-
titled with certain dangerous elements
of the country, and whose companion
ship every careful man should shun
both in thought and action.
THE GOVERNOR AND THE MAYOR
A reporter of the Baltimore Ameri-
ca'I in a casual" conversation with
Governor Lowndes on Saturday last,
drew from him expressions OF excessive
duinii dllOh iol mdSOI III diSIcI. ne
ANNOUNCED" himself as being in the
"heartiest accord" with the Mayor,
and gave emphatic assurance" of a
''most active support ON his part in
the coming contest. In regard to the
"sympathy of Republicans in the
counties" for Master, and the 'foru
OF expression it would take" the Gov
ernor said: "Acts, not words, con-
stitute the most substantial express
sion of sympathy in any cause, and
Mayor Master will only have to make
the request, to bring to Baltimore the
most eloquent end able orators in the
p trty outside tn city"
You may say this as coming from
me-" said the Governor to the report
e., land give it IS much prominence
as you think it deserves"