The evening times., 1900-10-20
HANNA in the Campaign.

From the Democratic point of view,
nothing could be more admirably adapted
to promote the success of Mr.. Bryan IN
his own State than the campaign methods
adopted by Marcus A. Hanna in Nebraska,
to defeat it. 1t Will point the difference
between the two men to recall the fact
that when Governor Roosevelt was about
to speak in Lincoln, Mr. Bryan requested
his friends to take his portraits out OF
shop windows, and from public places dur
ing the day OF the Republican meeting, SO
that nothing should be lacking to make
the visit of the cowboy candidate pleasant.
Again it IS worth remem bering that when
campaign exigeneies made it necessary for
him to speak in Canton. Ohio, the home of
President Mckinley, Mr.. Bryan refused to
discuss political issues and did not fail to
say some pleasant things of his opponent
Hanna. on the contrary seizes the op
portunity of his presence in the home town
of the Democratic Presidential candidate
to personally abuse and villify that gen.
tleman in language which is certainly TN
usual, even on the stump. Hanna said
that A4r. Bryan had once referred to him
as Labor erusher," and added: "A man
who knowingly or unknowingfy viii circu-
late ISLANDERS about another man is not fit
TO be constable" He continued:
Il have been in business forty years; I am
employing $500 men, Pay the highest wages,
treat them ike men, and they all respect me, and
when Mr.. Bryan or any other man charges upon
ne-and | am willing to appropriate 1t all, as /
am chairman Of the board of managers OF this
Republican caTnpaign-any such methods as those.
propose as l said, to hurl It back and deRoUnee
him as a den.agogue-in his own town
Il want to remind every man that a man Who
in contest viii drag honorable name into the
Enire for the sake of making votes is not worthy
TO be considered for the high office OF President of
the United States. And believe that there are
thousands OF people IN the State OF Nebraska VINO
resert it as an insult to their intelligence ara
their ideas of fair play and Justice; because when
man has the opportunity through newspapers
or from the public rostrum TO make charges Toe
trifFing TO be denied and those charges go M
denied, and enter into the minds OF the peopI'
whom the charged has no opportunity &c
see, l say any man who VIII use these tactics u
further his own selfish ambition IS not fit TO be
constable. -
II the charges which seem to have driven
Rathbone's Columbus employer TO the
verge of homicidaI mania are ''too trifiing
TO be denied why this white and blister
ing heat? The gouty old political jobbeI
who appears to have been not exactly ''toc
ed in the same Chesterfieldian strain, tc
answer other alleged charges. He said
that Mr. Bryan had recently asserted thai
the Republican campaign managers ha(
entered upon extensive schemes Of bribery
in order TO secure the election Of theil
ticket In regard to that statement,
roared Hanna, before an audience in Lin
coin, Il want to hurl it back in his teetf
and tell him it is as false as hell,''
Perhaps it is "as false as HE'LL be-
cause according to the majority balie
among Christians there is nothing at al
about he'll which is false. 1t is an awful
fact, and especially SO to people who 81
far forget themselves as 10 influence
legislators, procure the intimidation OF
farmers and workingmen, and generally
apply methods which are solely de-
pended upon to keep the trusts in power
for four more years.
There may be people who will be
amazed to learn that the chief OF the Re
publican party could so far forget the
commonest decencies of civilized life as
to act The blackguard in Lincoln, as
Hanna has done. To any such we have
only to say that nothing better was tC
have been expected. Hanna is not a gen
tleman, has not the first instinct Of one
and is as ignorant of the most elementa-
ry proprieties and conventions observed
among gentlemen, as is a Digger Indian
He is beyond reclaim. Solomon in al
his glory referred directly to Hanna
when he said: Verify, ye cannot make
a silk purse out of a sow's earl