The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10
Senator Hanna Makes His Sec
ond Speech.
RESORTS TO STORY TELLING
Says Paramount Issue is the Dinner
Pail, But His Argument Lacks
Logic-Of Course He Roasts
the Democrats

pubhcans of Ohio formally opened the cam
paisn here today with a large parade, fol-
lowed by a meeting which for enthusiasm,
eloquence and attendance has rarely been
equaled in the State.
Every thing tended to a successful demon
stration The weat Their was ideal. The trio
of oratorical stars, Senator Chauncey M.
Depew, j. B. Foraker and Marcus A. Han
ma, drew thousands of visitors from all
parts of Ohio and western Pennsylvania.
The distinguished party arrived from Cleve-
land at 10 o'clock, and was met by re-
ception committee and escorted to the res
idence of Mr.. Caleb Wick, where luncheon
was served, followed by an informal recep-
ton.
Governor George K. Nash, who presided
at the Republican campaign opening, Sena-
tors ]. B. Foraker and Mark Hanna made
speeches. Senator Hanna said:
Hanuas speech
II had been suffering six long hot weeks
in that wicked city of New York under the
very shadows of Tammany, laboring to lay
the foundation for this great campaign and
l absorbed SO much of the gloom and de-
spondency oil that neighborhood that de-
termined that If l could find reasonable
excuse to retract my decision, l would
come to Ohio and absorb a little informa-
ton from Republican gathering. Now,
my fellow citizens, you have heard great
deal of talk of late about the paramount
issue. This issue, whatever it is, is yours.
l saw it moment ago among the trees-a
full dinner pail. You may talk about ex-
pansion, antitrust, silver, government by
Injunction, the constitution following the
flag, and all the rest of it, but, fellow citi-
zens, I want to tell you that this whole Is
sue boiled down is in that dinner pail If
this is great nation, 1t is great because
of it's people, If it Is successful nation,
it is so because of the industry of it's peo-
pie.
What, my friends, is the object of the
Democratic party in bringing in these col
lateral issues except to distract your at
tention from the very fact that you are
prosperous, and that every promise OF the
Republican party made at st. Louis mas
been fulfilled; that every prophecy mas
come to pass, and that you are reaping the
benefits of those prophecies and promises?
Now it is a game of politics only to
inject into this campaign those issues tnat
are simply collateral. l cannot better
illustrate that fact in warning you against
these false issues than to tell you little
story that | heard the other day. 1t was
told of a country boy who was driving
home his COW and calf from pasture. Ihey
encountered a steer on the road ana the
calf followed the steer and left Its mother.
The boy started to run after the CALI TO
bring it back but they both ran from, and
after exhausting himself he stopped in the
middle of the road and shaking his little
fist at the runaway calf, he cried: You IT.
tie fool, you little fool, you little darn fool,
you will be sorry when supper time
SomeS.'
I f,io md VIII /
my friends, the workingmen, l mean 1t,
every word of it. l say my friends who are
working in these mills, not only In the Ma
honing Valley, but all over the State of
Ohio don't follow the steer; if you do you
will be sorry when supper time comes
Comm, Realism
1.-The progress of the United States de-
ponds upon her going forward just as we
have commonwealth straight lines, hold
ing in our view nothing but the interests
of our own people, or as some of our anti
imperialist friends call it, commercialism.
Well, l am in favor of commercialism
when 1t comes to that. l am in favor of
those conditions under which this great
country has grown and developed until we
not only can supply our population of TO-
0OO, 600 but when our productive capacity
exceeds that by 83 per cent we must have
a market for the surplus of our enterprise
or production must be checked
per cent of the productive capacity of this
country for the sake of taking the advice
of Mr.. Bryan and his so-called anti-im-
perialistic advisers or will you cast aside
all such demAgoguery and go straightfor-
ward, following the straight road that you
have learned we'll under the teachings of
William Mckinley, who has established our
protective system on which the govern
ment has reached that point that we can
send our manufactured goods into avery
foreign country on the globe.
During the present term of President Nc
Kinley's administration we have expert
enced a balance to our credit Of f1anufao-
tured goods alone of hundreds of millions
Of dollars and our total exports over i'm
ports of products IN three years amount to
a credit balance of 81 400 100000 up to the
first of last July 1 made that statement:
last month at Pittsburg and Mr.. Bryan de-
MED 1t. simply refer him to the books Of
the United States treasury, and figures
won't lie. That is the truth, but II is IN
wholesome and unsavory truth to the
Democrats, as it demoishes every argu-
ment they have made"
Senator Hanna closed with a special ap-
peal to the voters of Ohio.