The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-26

The Messenger called attention days
ago to the Payne movement to prac-
tically free the national republican
convention OF negro delegates. and 10
rid the party Of their power as fac
tors in nominating candidates for pres
ident and vice president. Hanna Is The
evil genius in American politics. He
has done more To lower the standard
of candidates and thoroughly itia
the whole processes of nominations
and elections than any half dozen 9TH
er corruptioniSts combined. Ii was
Hanna who made the pious fraud.
William Mckinley. "a possibility. But
for Hanna the curse now upon the
country Of McKinleyism could never
have happened. 1t was Hanna who
conceived the devilish idea OF securing
Mckinley's nomination by buying ne
gro votes in the convention. II is said
that In 1892, this little wobbler would
have been nominated but for the ne
gro delegates. So Hanna knew his
men, and resolved to buy little Macs
way into the nomination and into the
presidency. First to purchase like SO
many sheep, dumb. driven cattle" M
southern negroes as delegates. and
then TO buy enough of the white ele-
ment in the north, who like the ne
groes, had their price. TO elect McKin-
ley. But for Hanna, the moral leper,
and his ways that are dark" there
would have been no nomination OF the
corrupt Mckinley. and no such curse
upon the cour""y as now exists i'm all
OF bis potentially.
So TX was surprising to any stu.
of the times to learn that the Hanna
and Mckinley would not allow the
Payne movement to pass the national
republican committee. Mark is too keen
-of scent. IS too wiry a politician, too
shrewd a manipulation to permit any
movement to succeed that would les
sen McKinley's anc i'm the least.
Hanna still carries around that S1l5. 900
bond that Mckinley has been owing
MIN Tor 10! these many years. The
pay day must come, and Mckinley
draw $500. 600 more in salary, IL he
gets nothing else. To buy the "niggers"
IN all the south is to continue to be
the game, and ii will succeed in 1900
aSJt succeeded in 1896.
News from Washington is that what
is known as 'the Hanna syndicate" is
not to be dissolved, but will continue TO
work Its vicious plans even into 1904.
Tor Mckinley must have a republican
successor who will probably be every
way as much OF a trickster and polit-
lcal olatherskite as Mckinley has
SHOWN himself to be at every turn. The
richmond Dispatch commenting on the
report from Washington has this to
say:
Ihe management, we are told. are
looking beyond 1900 to 1904. The enor-
nous patronage they can control. and
the revenues they can for
financing primaries and state conyen-
ton, put them in position ITO secure all
the uppor they need, and break down
all opposition in their own party. And
they do say in this connection thar DOS
sibly a little bird has whipered i'm Han
mas ear that after Mckinley has serv-
ed a second term, some consideration
IN the matter OF Observation-Disclosures
perhaps by that time 1t will be emper-
or-makfng-will be due the house OF
Hanna. They do say that Hanna NAV
nave dreamed Of exchanging the dol
lar-mark-bedecke, harlequin sun in
Wnicn che ~carieaturisis have clothed
him for the presidential mantle or he
imperial purple"
mink OF i've more years Of McKin-
Ieyism from the 4th Of March next. and
then the curse of Hannaism, solus. for
Tour years more OF agony and mlsruIe.
vice and rascality run riot. And
yet these things may occur with such
to work with and such a
wide corruption OF the electorshlr.