Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-13
MARK uANSAs DOUBLE VICTORY.
Philadelphia Paper Says that lie Won
Ont Twice Tuesday.
philadelphia Times.

!
! Senator Hanna wen two great victories
on Tuesday. He won Ohio for Mckinley and
/ himself he won Nebraska for Bryan 10
make Bryan the candidate for presiden;
! against Mckinley.
! 1t was whispered for several weeks before
the election that the republican leaders de-
! sired Bryan to win his own state to prevent
4 the democrats from rejecting him In the
! next national convention. They want Bryan
as the democratic candidate, knowing that
| he could not carry a single electoral vote
! east of the Father of Waters and north OF
/ the Ohio and Potomac, with the certainty
| that he would lose all OF the states between
| the Mississippi and the Pacific, excepting
! Nebraska, Colorado and Nevada with wy
omng and Montana doubtful, while In ;he
south West Virginia and Kentucky would
be certain to vote republican, and Tennes-
see Alabama Virginia and North Carolina
fairly debatable.
That the republican leaders have given
| the state of Nebraska TO Bryan under the
| inspiration from Senator Hanna seems to
be we'll established. Nebraska could not
stand against the sound money and hon
est business sentiment that prevails all
around her in Kansas and Iowa amongst the
same people unless uncommon causes had
been employed to control the result.
Senator Hanna has carried Ohio by a large
majority and thus secured the renomina-
ton of Mckinley, and next to that he de-
sired the denomination OF Bryan. He knows
that with Bryan as the democratic candi-
date, and the business and industrial inter-
ests Of the country more prosperous than
ever before in our history, Mckinley VIII
sweep three -fourths of the states, while
tl,Nr, ,i,,It he dam TO MrI< ipt tnv
conservative democratic candidate.
Hanna has thus double victory. He has
won McKinleys denomination and he has
accomplished what he expected would assure
the denomination of Bryan. The republicans
of Nebraska who desired Bryans overthrow
and with him the hopeless overthrow of
the democracy, could not have more sa-
gacously directed their efforts than to give
Bryan his own state by an unnatural major
ity and thus plume him for the presidency
mex. year.
And why should not Hanna control the
democratic party as well as the republican
party? The democrats were once controlled
by great leaders, but lately they have be-
come the mere playthng of every new
political invention. They have played sec
ond fiddle to, greenbackers, to free silver
ties, to repudationists and to anarchists.
lney nave ceased 10 nave ueHoCTdtlC
ership and Hanna saw his opportunity to
make the democracy hewers OF wood and
drawers Of water TO help him in his political
aim, and he has accomplished 1t.
Nebraska stands alone Of the contested
states as supporting Bryan. New York and
New Jersey have gone republican by in
creased majorites; Ohio stands in the repub-
lican line by an extraordinary majority in
view of the serious defections in the repub-
lcan strongholds, and Kentucky has ire
vocably severed her connections with cheap
money democracy. Only in Maryland have
the democrats won and there they won by
kicking the Chicago platform out of The
party and nominating a sound money demo-
crat for governor. The business interests
Of the country could trust the democratic
ticket of Maryland and they elected 1t by
very large majority.
If the democrats shall nominate Bryan
for president next year they should follow
the scheme out to its logical end and make
Hanna chairman of the democratic national
committee. He has done his utmost to
shape the policy of the democratic party
and, next to William j. Bryan himself, there
is no man in the whole country who looks
with more solicitude to the success of Bryan
in the next democratic convention than Mar
Gus A. Hanna of Ohio. He has won double
victory by which he hopes to become master
of both the great political parties of the
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