The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-14
SENATOR HANNA MAKES THE RE
PUBLICAN PLATFORM

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SENATOR HANNA MAKES THE RE
PUBLICAN PLATFORM.
The platform which the Republican ma
tional convention will be directed to
adopt has been prepared by Senator Mark
Hanna and was given forth unofhcially
to a few of his influential friends at a
private dinner party given them by tie
senator last Saturday evening in Wash
ington, D. c..
OF course the little coterie accepted
Senator Hanna's platform with enthu-
siasm, They at once perceived that it
was just the thing the Republican party
needs in it's business. They swallowed
the senator's viands and they swallowed
his platform with equal readiness ana
ayidity The matter of digestion is stin
an unsettled question. but the stomachs
which have retained McKinleyism can
surely stand another desc from the same
bottle.
Among the jests contained in Senator
Hanna's platform, the choicest are the
following:
The insurrecticn in the Philippines has
been stamped out" ard civil government
is being EXTENDED to all parts of the
archipelago.
The people Of Porto Rico are congratu-
lated on their being relieved from the
Spanish yoke and on the establishment
of territorial government"
The Cubans are told that they now en-
JOY the liberty for which they fought for
SO many years.
Senator Mark Hanna denounces the
trusts and recommends government con-
troll and supervision.
Senator Hanna declares that his admin
istration through President Mckinley
has been able, patriotic and thoroughly
American.
Senator Hanna expresses his sympathy
with all wise and legitimate efforts to
lessen and prevent the evils Of intemper-
ance except such as relate to the army
canteen system.
The usual sops are to be thrown to the
old soldiers and also to the young soldiers
and the negro vote is placated by a refer
ence to Southern outrages. AS 1t comes
from Senator Hanna's typewriter this
platform, announced so prematurely ana
with all tha1 brazen effrontery for which
the senator is noted, is just what might
nave been expected from him, and it is
no better than the Republican party de
serves.
The Republican national convention will
be compelled to adopt it or else face GER
tain and honorable defeat at the polls.
Hanna and his friends control the ma
chinery of the Republican party, they
control its organization, they control its
professional politicians and its office
holders. and they hope to control the
votes of the Republican rank and file
through these agencies and agents.
OF course, the people cannot be con
trolled" as they were in 1896. They can
not be hamboozled twice in the same
manner. Other bunco games will have
to be invented and Senator Hanna might
as well understand now that his yarn
| about the pacifcation of the Filipinos is
too thin to pass muster The Chicago
Tribune in the same edition in which it
prints Hanna's platform. contains a por-
ton of letter from a United States
army officer in the Philippines in which
he says ''the war will not be ended for
the next five years at least, and God
help the remnants that are left behind
when the twenty-six regiments of volun>
teers go home next year" He declares
1t is unsafe for one man or three men To
go alone along any road five miles out
CT Manila and every officer goes armed
even in Manila itself. He says other
things and makes several lugubrious pre-
dicuor,s about uprisings of natives which
are simply his own opinions, but he is on
the spot and should know the temper OF
! the natives. His testimony, taken with
that contained In the newspaper reports
OF beleaguered garrisons in every island
in the Philippines where United States
troops have landed. except one, and the
| accounts Of battles, surprises and s!1ir-
mishes which every day are reported,
has an air of credibiiity ard Importance
which is entirely lacking in the guarded
statements OF Gen. Otis or the unsup
ported assertion of Senator Hanna
The people will judge-of tSis matter for
themselves whatever the delegates to the
Republican national convention may do.
And the people will also accept at its true
value any and all condemnation of the
trusts by Senator Hanna in the Republi-
can national platform CT elsewhere.
st. Louis is philosophical. Reports from
! that city state that the street railway
strike trouble is practically at an end
only one man was killed Yesterday