Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-09-29
"TO-day ! say Stand Pat:'
Mark Hanna's Speech on Saturday.

I.
DRAWING" Standard Dictionary.
'HIS STAND PAT PHRASE
WAS CAUGHT UP BY THE AU-
D1ENCE IMMEDIATELY AND
CREATED THE GREATEST EN-
THUSIAsM." Cleveland Leader.
The first Of the above quotations
ia the admitted keynote of the Repub-
lican campaign in Ohio, because it
was delivered by the boss and owner
of that party.
! The second quotation shows that
when Mark Hanna uttered this choice
phrase he built better than he knew,
for by 1t he described the exact aim
and purpose of his party in dealing
with the people. 1t was quite unde-
signed on his part, because we may
be very sure that he never was guilty
of consulting Il dictionary, but he fell
back into the expression naturally
enough, or borrowed 1t from its con
nection with q game well known to
him.
The last quotation shows how read
lily the average Republican of today
Is to swallow what Is set before him.
asking no questions. and no matter
how coarsely 1t is expressed nor from
how Iowa source 1t Is derived or how
clearly it assumes that they are ready
to vote just as they shout. without
intelligent conviction and without in
quiry.
But nothing could more admira bly,
express the exact Republican policy
of this year than the three quotations,
taken together.
All right of independent political
thought and Judgment is to be denied
to. the Republican voter. He Is ito
keep and play the cards received from
the dealer" Mark Hanna), without
exercising the privilege of drawing"
thinking or investigating. He is to
accept the theory of the full dinner
pail as the gracious gift of Hanna and
his associates, without regard to the
fact that 1t is the work of the voter
himself that has earned Its contents,
anI no matter how little may be in 1t,
Or how much that little may have cost
thanks to the trusts which Mr..
Hanna says do not exist, and which
Foraker says are good things to have
about us.
The Ohio voter is expected to believe
what Hanna says about the question
OF Cuban reciprocity to the effect that
1t is "a moral question:" and that his
party is on the right side of it, when
he knows that, being IA moral ques-
tion," without protest or action on his
part the beet-sugar trust, made up of
pack of industrial highwaymen, was
''N'~
allowed to strangle 1t in Congress, and
that--still being IA moral question"
his factotum, the head of his Kitchen
Cabinet and purveyor Of his political
cold-victuals, Mr. Dick, was openly
on the wrong side of 1t in the House
caucus on the subject.
The Ohio voter is relied upon to take
without question Hannas statement
TINT 'the tariff Is good enough as 1t
is," when the voter aforesaid was Of
fercd the other day ut the Toronto
exposition a typewriter, made in the
State OF New York, protected" by the
United States good enough" tariff,
eand controlled by trust, for 500,
which canno. he bought in this country
for less than 800, and when the same
thing is known to be true OF nails,
hardware aud an hundred other tariff
protected commodities, which are
made here but are sold TO foreigners
at large reduction below what home
consulners are made to pay for them.
Mr., Hanna commands tho Ohio voter
TO stand pat' and believe him when
lie says that he Is defender of the
principle OF reciprocal trade generally.
and that to carry out that principle
"there rests upon the American people
moral responsibility. What is the
man talking about; In the light of the
treatment Of this question by the Re-
publican majority of the United States
Senate,-of which he is the controlling
and dominating member such Ian
guage could scarcely with decency
come out OF the mouth OF one of Gods
reasonable creatures. The man who
uses II thus loosely is an utter stranger
to what IA moral responsibility"
means. He knows that our govern.
ment has maintained for some years
past, at great expense, a commission.
at the head Of which is John A. Kas.
son, statesman and patriot, created
fne ttc ax,.ras. .,,.,sos.,