Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-07-13

CHAMP GLAKS LETTER
Mark Hanna Rides a Grip
pied Steed.
DECADEECE OF OHIO @. G P.
Bull Loose In the Republican
China Shop.
DEoADEECE OF OHIO g. G T.
HGVEnEYEs TELLS sOrE rBUrzs.

sugar masnafess Deeiaraiion ThAt
P~rsseetfon 10 the Mother Of Trusts
Causes canssernatisn In McKia-
ley. cAmp-whele Gazg OF Mouate-
banks Get = solar Plexus Elew.
Pap For ths spoilsneR.
Especial W~ashingsoa Le,terl
Once in a long while the esteemed
Globe- Democrat thick and thin MeKin-
ley organ. hits the bullseye and no mic
take The morning after the great har-
moay convention at Columbus where
every Republican ehieftain had q dag
ger in bis hand. a pistol in bis boot leg
and a bowie knife down his back. The
CD naiveIy remarked, MARX Hanna
is stn in the saddle. bot he ridssa Grip
pied horse" Verify Homer sometimes
mods. likewise Jupiter ditto the ereai
CD How Mark win Gus when be
reads that uttsrance from the Missouri
Republican organl But enszing win do
him no good After the November cleo
ton Marks Rosinante win not only be
crippled. hut win be as dead as Alexan-
der's famous steed BucephaluS
The Globe Democrat also announced
in the same connection that n result
Of the Columbus conclave was to pro-
mote GeorgeR Cox Of Cincinnati, alias
"Coxey. Old Boy. from the position Of
a city boss to a state and national char
acter "a Republican character, Of
course How have the mighty falleni
What a header Ohio Republicans have
taken from the leadership Of Salmon P.
Chase to George B. Coz. and yet they
claim-still claim-thst the g.. o. p
is the party Of morality. scholarship.
patriotismi That sentence from The
CD as to what Cox was and what the
Columbus convention made him Is the
saddest commentary ever written upon
the decadence Of apolitical party in the
United States II my readers desire to
know to what utter degradation the Re-
publican party Of Ohio has come under
the rule Of Mark Hanna, let them turn
back three weeks and read an editorial
about Cox and his methods which ]
quoted from the Cincinnati CONNER
eial Tribune. the leading Republican
paper Of Ohio. Unless the voters Of
Ohio are lost to al sense Of decency and
shame they win bury Hanna, Cox,
Nash q Co. 30 deep this fall that Ga
triel's trumpet viii not disturb them in
their sleep
4 BaIl In n China shop.
Another Daniel come to Judgment
This time it is Henry o. Havemeyer,
president Of the American Sugar Rein
ing company. who played the part Of
the bull in the Republican china shop,
and be did IL TO perfection. In giving
his testimony before the industrial com
mission, to the utter amazement Of ali
present. be blurted ont this great truth.
''The mother Of all the trusts is the Gus
toms tariff bill" A bolt Of lightning
from a clear SKY, a deep snow In the
middle Of August or the announcement
Of some Republican brother who does
not want an Office would hardly hevs
created more Consideration among thu
commissioners and the audience than
the foregoing simple statement Of a 20
tent fact by the great sugar magnate.
And then he added, as further prsfacs
10 his testimony, the following preg'
nant sentences: sfThe existing bill and
the preceding one have been the coca
sion for the formation Of all the larg'
trusts, with very few exceptions mas
much as they provide for an inordinats
protection to all the interests Of tbs
country. There probably is not an indus
try that requires protection Of NOR,
than 10 per cent ad valorem, and il &
to obtain what Is provided over sucl
percentage in the tariff that leads to tn,
formation Of what are commonly spokeE
Of as trusts"
Whatever else may be said of Mr.
Havemeyer's statement, il must be con
ceded by all candid persons that 1t Il
sufficiently luminous
Turned gtafe's Evidence.
I was prosecuting attorney a long
time. A man gets over the habit
of mind formed in that ONCE. One o.
the necessities sometimes arising il
criminal prosecutions is to use the testi
mony Of criminals who turn states eyi
dence. II is not a pleasure, hut FIRE
quently an absolute necessity TO do 30
It is done because they and sometime
they alone know the facts by which
conviction can be secured. Mr.. Have
meyer has turned states evidence
What motive led him to do 90 l dom
know; but. Whatever II was. be hal
rendered the cause Of truth great serv
ice by his evidence. for 1t must be con
fessed that he Is thoroughly versed il
the matter Of trusts But that he BIZ
the trusts with the force Of a pile drive
must also be confessed. II somebody
were to punch James J. Jeffries with
the same vigor that Hsvemeyer swattet
the high protection tariff system, Their,
would be a new champion of the work
in precisely ten seconds. This perform
ance Of Hayemeyer, taken in conjunc
ton with recent editorials In Mr.. Kohl
saat's Chicago Times and the Chicago
Evening Post, advocating that all arti.
cles advertised, made or sold by trust
be put upon the free list, shows that al
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