Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-12-03

The man on the rostrum continued.
He made an acrid reference to the gold
standard.
.syvell, d-n him-how did he get in
shere?" snapped Hanna, and no one
could answer.
A small boned, fat leg Topped across
its mate, and Hanna changed his weight
from one bunker to the other.
Cannon's remarks were growing more
and more luminous Hanna,s brown.
eyes began to glow in hest lightning as
the GRAFTON proceeded. Ills twitching
mouth spilled its rage in grunts. The
rhetoric of the Utah man was telling
He began to tilreatenst to leave the party
Finally he put the threat into a fam
boyant period. Then Hanna's harsh
voice blurted:
Go. go,
There was a tragic half seconds ST.
lence. Ten thousand eyes turned
toward Hanna. Evidently he could feel
their glances failing on his back for his
ilinty auburn head bobbed down like a
cork, and an instant later, when the
whole conv ton was firing s'go,s at
the rostrum, Hanna rose proudly from
the small of his back and got on the
firing line. After that the Utah man
was in the hands of a mob. Hanna de-
voted himself to the pleasurables excite
ment of the chase. He stormed and
roared with the mob; he guyed and he
cheered with the mob. He was of it,
led by it, enjoying it. whooping it up
Then, when it was all over, when he
gold-standard platform had been
adopted, Hanna climbed into his chair,
clasped his hands cornposedly behind
him. threw back his head, let out his
voice. and sang America With thu
throng. When he forgot the words. his
DAN dab de-tlah de- dums rang out with
patriotic felicity. and his smile of se-
raphic satisfaction was good sight for
sore eyes. For Mark Hanna was giving
an excellent representation of a joyous
American citizen, with his wagon
hitched to a bucking star, Jogging
peacefully down the milky way of VIC
tory.
BY this token may the gentle reader
know that Hanna is Intensely human.
There is nothing god like, nothing de-
lnuniac, nothing cherubic, nothing SER
pentine about him. He is a plain man,
who stands in the last ditch with his
friends, and fights his enemies TO the
death. He enjoys a good joke, a good
fellow, or a good dinner; and. if posi-
bic. likes all three served at the same
table. Often he wins brilliantly, some-
times losses conspicuousiy,s makes a fool
Of himself occasionally, laughs at it
good naturedly, and does IT over again.
even as YOU and L. He has on his
bones the clay of the uneNplainable old
-Aciarn-rich in weakness and Strength.
graces and foibles, and witnal he has the
PHILOSOPHY which sustained the shep-
herd8of Arden. So his strength is more
than his weakness. for he has the virili-
ty of common sense He IS NOT happy
erocheting tides and adopting ringing
resolutions. He is a man of deeds rath-
er than Of explanations.
Hanna issnot a man of exalted ideals
Between his purpose and its execution
the IA IN lies in a straight line II gem
latlemen in spectacles come along :se
lpath. stretching across strings of ethical
obstacles, and planting in ii the pots
herds OF transcendental philosophic
scruplas, Hanna pushes forward to- his
sntl kicking away the strings and
lIcfushing the pottery under his feet.
Later. If ne has time. he tevotes a fawa
iurid minutes TO the spectacled gentry
before he closes the incident with a bang
and goes about his business. Hanna Is
iperfectly willing to admit that beyond
the Alps lies Italy and that the hills
:ars. gree n afstr off but he insists on hfs
American privilege of voting for the
majority report. In politics Hanna is a
bipartisan. With him the long-n osed.
short -chinned mugwunlp is entitled ID
l,the SANE consid Grafton due to the giler-
lrilla in time of war. Hanna wauid en-
siorse a political proposition not author
lied BY his party caucus and his party
Platform about as readily as a general
would take orders from newspaper.
In his party Hanna has disputes, differ
cnces and contentious. But he knows
when he is whipped. and respects IA sim
liar knowledge in his adversary. When
a fight is over, 1t is over with Hanna.
Lille bears no malice, carries no knife
from the conflict TO use another day. and
| he has scorciaing contempt for the
contentious-and to Hanna iinpos sible-
persons who insist that a question is
never settled until it is settled right.
| From Hannass point of view the WAYS Of
1.-THE reformer and OF the serpent on the
rock are beyond understanding
| For Hanna soicitude for the people
| is as tender as that of the late William
| III Vanderbilt. Hanna believes in every
Imam for himself and the devil take the
l.hlndermost He does NOT fawn upon the
failures Of life. nor mince mat tiers in To-
lscating the blame for their condition.
Every good cause has produced its DEM
lgogues who are as dangerous to prog
lress as the opponents of the cause Ard
altho Hanna has beer. grilled in cartoons
as money devil with dollar marks for
scales; has been sizzied in public scorn
as a conscienceless boss; has been called
a crusher of labor. IN industrIal octo-
pus. a commercial Moloch, and every
manner of bird or beast on earth. in the
air above. or in the waters beneath. his
tbitterest enemies in their most interest,"
Ling flights of vitnperation have not
added TO the gayety of nations by call
ling Mark Hanna demogogue Such an
lappellation would be as grotesque as to
lcall Jay Gould a protagonist or Mr..
Toots an iconoclast.
II a large. Jagged. brown damn is
needed in a diplomatic situation. Hanna
I furnishes it. Ii a laugh is needed. Han
ma has ii and Is NOT afraid to use ii. If
an open fight Is required. Hanna makes
IT. He is man Of simple instincts and
single purposes. His relations with GER
tain of his senatorial colleagues were
arranged in their biological development