The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-12

or by employing corporations within
the last two weeks with threats that if
Bryan Is elected they cannot return to
work Mckinley prosperity is either a
fraud or b laws governing elections
should be enforced"
Ali The pious republicans Of the Nc
Kinley stripe are to import 1900 negroes
into the mining districts in southern
Kansas.
Mark Hanna, it Is said. is Britisl:
born and is no American. He is a rot
ten egg whatever his nativity. MT. c..
w Slattery, Of Dyersburg, Tenn, say
II am a railroad contractor. and at
present have a contract for building a
line OF road in Tennessee for the Ili-
nois Central railway. In my employ at
Dyersburg is an elderly E~nglishman
named Charles Green, who says he
was born in a small town IN the mining
regions Of England; that Marcus A.
Hanna was born in the same village,
his father being a mine master; that
the elder Hanna am to America a.
settled in Pennsylvania when Mark was
about seven years old; that the elder
Hanna engaged in mining and after
ward removed to Ohio. where Mark
learned the trade of an iron molder;
that Green came also to the United
States and obtained employment under
his former English playmate, who is
the present Mark Hanna"
George J. Corey is president of the
republican National Commercial and
Industrial League, headquarters in
New York. Recently at a meeting Of
the league as reported in the New York
Times, hot against Bryan, he said this:
CT should believe that We are already
defeated. The signs of defeat are in
much greater evidence now than they
were lei Harrison was defeated o..
1892, n 1 will let you into the secret
why. We are in such danger"
He tells how this is. 1t is because
there is apathy. He said:
ct have statistics right here with me
now-reliable statistics-which show
that if the election were held in Illinois
tomorrow Illinois would go demo-
cratic"
News comes, and We hope it is true,
that the entire Dutch vote of Illinois
and Michigan will be given to Bryan.
Jointly it amounts to 10000. Eleven
McKinleys, all kin to little Mac, have
announced their purpose not to vote
for the president. Only one, brother
Abner, remains loyal to the timeserver
and usurper.
got into the United States senate dis
honorably-by the use of money and
coercion. One Rathbone was his agent.
There is some evidence on file &c show
that this Mark Hanna. h vile corrup-
zionist, was elected by purchased votes.
A committee of the senate of Ohio,
Hanna's own state, recommended that
he be expelled from the q. S. senate be-
cause of bribery.
When Bryan goes to New York to
speak his escort will be 100, 600 strong
ana 134 bands will make the music. Il
is believed and reported that Bryan
men are increasing in the great city.
He will be there ON 14th inst. It will
be remembered how chilling his recep-
ton in 1896. Three fourths of the au-
dience deserted the hall while he was
speaking. A CORRESPONDENT of the Chi
cago Record writes: ''On that occasion
Banker ST. John, John Brisben Walker,
editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine;
Representative Sulzer and n or Two
others were the only friends he had in
the American metropolis. He distrust-
ed the committee hat had charge of
his campaign and believed that his fail
ure to make an impression was entirely
due to his weakness in adopting their
advice. They told him that he mus
be very moderate in his EXPIRES iiops or
the silver question and subjects relat-
ing to labor and capital and required
him to prepare his speech in adVanc
and submit the manuscript for their re-
vision before they would allow him to
speak"