The age-herald., 1900-09-30

@ HE great coal miners strike in
 VI~ Pennsylvania has been settled
 The miners get ten per cent in-
 "a crease. Mark Hanna did it.
 Hanna's mission was not one of love
 for the miners, nor does he admit that
 there is any justice in their claim. It was
 a political mission on his part. Hanna
 feared the effect of this coal miners
 strike on the reelection of Mckinley. He
 went to New York. He conferred with the
 men who control the railroads and the
 mines of the anthracite region of Pennsyl-
 vania and he told them that they must
 settle the strike or Mckinley would be
 defeated and their interests would go to
 the demnition bow-wows. Hanna not only
 forced the settlement of the strike, but he
 wrung from the railroad, mining, manu-
 featuring and speculative interests of Wall
 street tremendous fund for the Republi-
 can campaign committee. l was in New
 York last week and was told that Hanna
 raised between Monday morning and
 Thursday night campaign fund reaching
 the enormous figures of five millions of
 dollars.
 Conducting a campaign Is simply mat ter of business. It takes money Money must be had or else Bryan will be elected .' So spoke Mark Hanna to the New York financiers. He raised it. He announced that it would require ten million dollars for Mckinley to win in this election, and in his conference with score of the lead ing presidents and managers of great finan- cial concerns he gave schedule of how and where this money was to be expended. Hanna is not petty highwayman; he is
 a buccaneer bold. He looks upon politics as business and he conducts a campaign
 just as he would a great business enter prise. He pays every speaker and every worker and every man he has out in the campaign a salary, and a good one, and he holds them to account for their work. He will accept no report in generalities, but demands everything in detail. When he wants a thing he demands it. as he de- manded of J. P. Morgan and others inter- ested in the Pennsylvania railroads that this coal strike be settled and be settled at once
 'Tt matters not what they demand" said Hanna, "give it to them and settle this strike at once or the effect upon the coun- try will be such that we cannot win" LhS 6ACe1t idiilOdu, IiduuldcluTlIS, IHlH- l ing and banking interests immediately did as he instructed.
 This campaign is a hard one for the Democrats. They are fighting against fearful odds. They have no campaign fund. The masses of the people have con- tributed, 1t is true, but their contributions have been petty ones. The only really gen. | erous contribution to the Democratic cam | paign fund has come from Senator Clark | Of Montana, who has contributed, up to l date, fifty thousand dollars He may con- | tribute fifty thousand more before the first l of November. If the Democrats get a | campaign fund of five hundred thousand l dollars, all told, they will do twice as much as any of the managers expect. This 1 is but little to counteract a fund of ter 1 or fifteen million dollars which the Re. publicans are sure to have.
 The Democrats however are hopeful talked with Senator Jones, chairman ot the National Campaign Committee, in New York, last week. He thinks we have ar excellent chance of carrying New York Indiana, perhaps Connecticut and possibly