The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1900-09-26
MARK HANNA GETS MAD AND
TALKS THROUGH HIS HAT.


TALKS THROUGH HIS HAT.
Mark Hanna addressed several
thousand down town business men in
Chicago on the 18th, and among other
things, said:
II wish could have together on this
platform William j. Bryan and Sena-
tor George +. Hoar, that each might
tell his reasons for opposing expan-
sion or imperialism Senator Hoar
would convince you that he opposed
IL from conscientious motives, but is
on all other points a unit with the
party from which he differs in that
one respect, and that he is a supporter
of William Mckinley. With these to-
gether would tear the masks of the
face of that hypocrite. William j.
Bryan. Cheers and hisses) One
stands on the firm foundation of his
convictions of right and the other on
the fiimsy foundation of hypocrisy.
Bryan has been afraid to push the
silver issue because he wants to carry
New York and some other Eastern
States. He tried Imperialism and
made from FIVE to fifty speeches a
day. his audiences growing less and
less every day. 1t is his trump and
last card, and we will hold him down
to that issue and on every side of 1t.
If our great corporations and amalga-
mated capital are in the interest OF
the manufacturer, then are not labor
organizations and combinations Ia the
interests of the workingman? / was
the first man in Ohio to recognize or
ganized labor in 1871, and while that
organization of bituminous coal miners
existed we never had strike.
81 believe in arbitration between Ia
Dor and capital, and in 1897, when l
stood before 1900 men and women in
Cincinnati, told them that if they
would prove to me that l bad ever
wronged any man working for me Oh
urged the reduction of his pay l would
resign from the United States Senate
next day and the offer still stands.
II would like Mr.. Bryan or any other
Democrat to tell me what trust is.
believe there is not trust in the en-
tire United States. There is a national
law and in every State there is a law
against trusts. They cannot exist
and every Law against trusts, National
or State, has been the product of Re
publican lawmakers and the credit is
due the Republican party"
Next day at Leayenworth, Kans., re
ferring to Chairman Hanna's speech
Mr.. Bryan said:
II read In the morning papers q
speech made by Mr. Hanna, in which
he said there are no trusts. When
used to want humorous reading would
60 to those books which contained &
collection of the writings of humorists
but now when l want to read some
thing funny read Mr. Hanna's serious
campaign speeches. There are nc
trusts; can you expect the Republican
party to destroy the trusts when the
leader of the Republican party says
there are no trusts?"
Mr.. Bryan was also asked if he had
anything to say in reply to Mr.. Hanna's
charge that he was influenced by sin
lister motives in securing the ratifica
ton of the treaty with Spain. To this
he replied:
II have given my reasons for be.
lieving it better to ratify the treaty
and declare the nations policy, and
the voters have an opportunity to pass
judgment upon my reasons. I must
confess, however, that Mr.. Hanna is an
expert when he discusses sinister mo-
tives, but | can stand his criticism if
Senator Hoar can endure his praise"