The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-11-21
HANNA PETTlGREW FEUD.
WHY THE ONO SENATOR sTUMPED
SOUTu DAKOTA.
Political Nendctta-PcttiRrcw VIII
he Missed IA Washington Despite
His Nitrtolic Attacks ON His sena-
toriaI Colleagues.

tofinl Aoiieagucs.
From the New York Times.
Washington. Nov lin spite Of the
general rejoicing over Richard Franklin
fetrgrew's defeat Tor the United States
senate. The fact is generally recognized
that tho Senate viii not boz so interesting
= place when he has packed his grip ana
gone hack 20 South Dakota Even the
Republican senators Will have 20 admit
that life Is shon OF much Of iis excite
mcnt None OF the Republican leaders
ever came down Ia tho Chamber IN the
morning without feeling OF wonder
mixed with dread about what Pctugrew
was going Co ID 20 chem that day The
days were few when tho South Dakotan
had not some ambuscade carefully pre-
pared for his former friends on the Re
publican side. lie had not his equal for
Industry and portnacity. His attacks
Were like those OF q mosquito. and his
energy was rs ureless and his activity
sect
Pet'igrew's defeat IS one 81 tho most Gu
T.ons things IN politics. He had prodded
am stung Republican senators an tho
session. irritating them beyond measure.
ana a. last 81 The closing hours he un-
tNpcctedly swooped down on Mark Hanna
ana drew blood The big Republican. who
ma borne assaults from other quarters
"lihoht opening his mouth was aroused
uN Friugf"w. attack and there was a
senatorial fracas FOR half an hour Han
ma then first entered the arena as a sem
atoral speechmaker The incident appar-
enty ended. and Pettigrew certainly ex
Prct'd 40 worse results from IL than had
IolloWfd hts n1gginF Of other senators
bui Marx Hanna WIS aroused u was
"a personal matter with him now All
the other personal attacks Of tho last
-FOUR years had drawn from htn nothing
hAl on occasional protest But ne now
vowed vengeance on tho man who had
carried the attacks on his character into
the senate and had rubbed them in 10
had been accused Of dishonesty tn his
ince and IN the Senate II was this lat
yer ihct that aroused Hanna most 81 an
II may not he generally known. but there
- no man la the Senate-not even NJ
todr-who has such an appre-lat on %
me dignity and majesty Of that bo4v as
MI Hanna His conception OF u IL even
higher than the fact Ha could hardly,
consider himself "A member or a more
august body II he were "a Justice Of the
supreme Court He oven has an ,aea
the newspapers should hesitate 70 crit
else member Of o. though he would not
apply the idea 70 any other Legislative
BODY And here. in this sacred chamber
itself ne was assaiied with n partisan viz
ulence which had never been SURPASSED
and hardly ever oqualed In editorials ana
cartoons.
Political Vendetta.
The campaign came M Just then. ana
Mt Hanua's vow OF vengeance was frr-
gotten. Probably those who remembered
~ thought when the Republican chair
man threw himself heart aud soul into
,he fray for Mckinley that he himself
hAd forgotten 81 In tho pursuit Of more
important matters or that his anger hal
cooled. That betrayed an ignorance OF
Mark Hanna As soon as he fslt ah.o.
lutcly confident that Mckinley was sure
TO be- elected Mr. Hanna dropped every
thing. left the national campaign in the
hands 81 subordinate ana began .he
carrying out OF mis- l1ng-cherished pro-
)ect for vengeance against his personal
enemy i was vendetta Of politics
During the remainder OF the campaign
Hanna camped on the TRAIN 81 his enemy
He went through South Dakota from end
10 end. speaking and working. and LEFT no
stone unturned 20 undo Petticrew As ft
kota would give her electoral vote 20 NJ
kiniey. Hanna devotion 10 that state
became ineXplicable Tho fat was that
the political prophets conceded the sena-
torship 10 Peitigrew. while giving the
electoral vote 70 Mckinley and until the
very eve Of election this was the sate.
Hanna's work undid that Hc came back
from South Dakota uot only with the
electoral vote for his chief but with the
a A.. 81
II was a curious and interesting feud.
No two men could be- more unlike than
Hanna and Pettlgrew. and yet there Is
similarity IA the positions they occupy.
Hanna IS the business man In politics 30
o. PcftigreW. Both are or We're financial
nagnates. Hanna e. the type Of the
business man Ia politics who upholds sys-
TENS as they are; Pettigrew il the mue n
rarer type 81 the business man IN phi
tics who would tear down ami destroy
or. as ne would prefer to put a. TO re
form and regenerate
petiirrcw IS said TO have met with
financial losses lately. but he entered the
Senate as a Iich man. lie was the best
known capitalist in his state. occupying
in that respect the same position that
Hanna I'D IN Ohio. His own community
was covered with Pettigrew's business
enterprises. Hanna started a. an ems
ploye OF a wholesale grocery house: Pet
tigrew started as laborcr Both men
made their way IN tho world by indomit-
able energy and business ability Both
were educated in Western colleges. Both
were Republicans. but Hannas bent was
In the direction OF extreme conservatism
and Pettlgrew's in the direction Of cX-
tremitv Of his views when they met as
antagonists In the United States Senate.
The radical was unhorsed and thrown out
OF public life. and the conservative can
say with truth that u was he who did
g. Nor would he be slow 10 acknowledge
that he did 1t as a punishment for the
radicals daring 20 assail him personally
ana publicly. In fact. the Impression pre-
walls that Hanna II rather proud OF the
feat.
Traps for Republicans.
From the time that Pett.grew tied him
self up TO the Silver Republican Party
he has devoted himself 20 making lie I'M
pleasant for the Republicans. but he never
developed this faculty 80 fully and com
pletely as In the last session. No man
on the opposition side was so dreaded and
traps for tho Administration Senators.
some Of them were serious pitfalls and
tho Republicans only avoided them By
great aRlh,y. as when he introduced a
resolution that the Republicans could
hardly avoid passing without being put
ia n bad light but drew % so cunuingly
that 70 pass II would be an official ac-
Acknowledgements OF Aguinaldo's Government.