The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-02
rs HANNA BESIDE HIMSELF.

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the vulgar corruptionist who is at the
head of the Republican party in the
United States. There are able and pa
triotic men in the Republican party
who have the confidence of men of all
political parties, but the presence of
Mark Hanna as the leader of any po-
litical party is stencil in the nostrils
of the decent men of the nation. Hav-
ing bought enough election officers in
1896 to thwart the will of the people
and having since that time bought a
seat in the United States Senate, he
has no higher conception of politics
than is illustrated in the doodle"
venal political career.
Having succeeded in buying what he
wanted in politics as he would buy pig
iron or boats, this modern embodi-
ment of all that is degrading in Amer
lean politics, like Jeshuran 'waXed
fat and kicked" In his speeches in
Indiana this week he has added to his
other accomplishments as a vicious
leader that of postmaster of billings
gate and SANDER.
Has this purchaser of high offices
lost his reason in the face of impend-
ing disaster to the cause of ill-gotten
| wealth? or has he bought enough cleo
ton officers to make him feel that it
is safe to disgust decent men by fusi-
lade of villification of Mr.. Bryan?
Either he forgets himself in his des-
peration or in that abandon that fol-
lows debauchery, for the like of the
| torrent of abuse that characterized
his Indiana speeches has never before
been heard in American politics except
by the pot house politicians in the low
dives.
There are many good men in Ameri-
ca who will vote against Mr.. Bryan
upon public policies, but there is not
an honest man in America who does
not respect his manliness, his SINGER
ity, his upright character and genuine
love of all that is truly American. 1t
only remains for Mark Hanna to vent
his spleen against the honest Nebras-
kan by such bilhngsgate at would dis
grace any common fish-woman in the
lowest hole in the most wicked city ON
the continent.
AS Hanna was speaking at Fort
Wayne, some men cried out: "Hurrah
for Bryan" Mr.. H. L. West says ''the
| hostile demonstration was confined to
noisy shouts"-a character of inter-
ruption that has often met Mr.. Bryan.
Instead of meeting this interruption
| like gentleman, Hanna cried out:
| ''The men who insult citizen when
he is passing along their street are
| fit disciples of the man who breaches
anarchy, rebellion and communism"
| This was not only in bad taste, but it
is wantonly false. Mr.. Bryan stands
| for conservatism, for the policies that
make against anarchy and commun-
| ism. The trusts and their defenders
| are as much anarchists as the Herr
Mosts and bomb-throwers. The refer
ence to rebellion" of course, means
| that Mr.. Bryan is the candidate of most
| of the men of character and intelligence
of the South. 1t is infamous that
leader of any party should grossly in
suit the whole South as well as mis-
represent Mr.. Bryan.
Hanna went on to characterize Mr..
Bryan as ''the most dangerous man
in the Republic" And he is-to Han
ma, Nicely, Rathbone, Rockefeller, the
men who got rich selling rotten beet
| to brave volunteers, the trusts. the i'm
perialists and all others who use the
government for their personal enrich
ment. But in this campaign it is
Mckinley who is trying to tear down
the Republic of the fathers and Mr..
Bryan stands as the defender of the
Republic.
1t was at South Bend that this
Ohio corruptionist and agent of i'll
gotten wealth asserted that Mr.. Bryan
| had abandoned the other issues and
been reduced ''to the desperate straits
of attempting to arouse labor against
capital, by preaching doctrine
which, i successful, would plunge thi.
country into the depths of anarchy
and socialism" Is it preaching an
archy and socialism to urge all men
| to vote their own convictions and tc
stand against the modern claims OF
the trusts that when they employ
man they also buy his soul and his
vote? If that is anarchy, God give us
more anarchists.
| But, to quote Hanna again. He de
clared that Bryan has descended tc
the low level of demagogism," he is
| preaching a doctrine that leads tC