The age-herald., 1899-06-25

ed no little of that sum-is authority. No
 they didn't buy votes; they bought judges
 The pegs were all set to steal North Caro- lima had McKinley's mean need demanded it. There was open, obvious viliany on the degenerate face of the returns themselves. Take Ohio, for example; the swing-jowled Hanna's own particular state. In 1885, for ernor the Republicans-by depressing of the ca1amitous Cleveland-carried Ohio by a majority over the Democrats of 700oO votes. That was for Bushnell. It was the biggest vote ever cast for anybody in that State-this Bushnell vote. Yet one year later Bryan received 4S,00O more votes than Bushnell, while McKinley's reported vote was 10000 over Bryan's In short Mckinley had 9S,000 more votes than the Republicans cast the year before, and Bryan had 118,- 900 more than the Democratic vote of a yeaG before or total vote increase for Ohio in twelve months over 216,000. The Ohio vote was run up in 1S96 to be one in every three and three-quarter per cent of the population are foreign born, and of which last at least a round one-fourth doesn't vote. There was a situation which the gullibilty of even the village fool would have rejected! The American public accept ed it, however, gulped it down like spring water. That same condition of rank, waist deep fraud ran through the returns of every State whose name is given above. If you are anxious to see what vote should be in view of the Ohio fgureS-take the 1890 census for North Carolina. They make fair cape to steer by; the more so because North Carolina has, of all the States, the least per cent of a foreign-born element, being indeed below one per cent. That een- sus counts 1649,OOO folk in North Carolina, of which number S5O,O00-or a trihe better than one in five-are eligible to vote; while only 300, 0,OOO-about one in five and one-half do vote. Let those figures alongside of the Hannaied returns from the Buck eye State, and tell one what you think of that political hunting! An Ohio vote of in three and three-quarters An honest count won't show a vote of one in six! It was na- tional swindle! a treason! And everybody knew it. And everybody kept mum. Why? For fear of "injuring values" That is to say-for fear of shaking up the Bourse wolves of Wall street. 1t was the same old reason that extinguished Tilden in 1876, and arranged another white house full of fraud. There was scant use in 1896 to murmur. Cleveland-that stock joss-sat in the presidency. He was Hanna's tool as much as the meanest ward heeler in the land. Bryans chance of justice was the chance of a feather in furnace. One might not murmur then; one would not murmur now, were it not that the Hanna claim that his public service should win niche with Washington, with Lincoln, with Jefferson. Jackson and Grant should meet some stark Truth to lcok 1t in the eye. The puffed vanity of this vulgaran of politics-who, with some crazy linking of luck with mill lions, may dangle a president at his watch fob, and keep his private apartments in the white house-is one of the marvels of dying century! Like Kipling's Bimi, there's an overplus of ego in his red necked cosmos It's naught save natural, however Given a tree and your gorilla will climb. The unchecked lord of the re- publican jungle; with presidency and a president at call, or wink, or whistle, all his own; one might look for Gorilla Hanna, verbally at least to spend much of his time in skipping about the skyline.